Founder of European Graphic Novels+, Aug '23 on Lemm.ee. With super-gratitude towards some ‘Blazing & Rimming’ Dudes for enabling our move, in which now we can abide. :D

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  • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialtoartporn@piefed.social•La Primevere by Alphonse Mucha (1899)English
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    2 hours ago

    I think it’s indeed a dress we’re seeing, which seems to have an interesting under-garment (salmon) component, as well as a white & yellow-green ‘over-garment’ component.

    Meanwhile, the rump/thigh area color seems to be a surprisingly close match in color to her upper arm color, hence creating an optical illusion of sorts.

    Anyway, I’m not aware that Mucha did much in the way of nudes or near-nudes, but that’s certainly one of the most unique dress arrangements I’ve ever seen… whether it was based on reality or not(!)

  • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why are some so-called “safe spaces” so toxic?English
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    3 hours ago

    I don’t know that I would personally make so many specific conclusions or necessarily group individuals together like that, but… as individual points I’ve no doubt that they do accurately describe various types of thinking and character.

    I would also tend to think that if that whole package of characteristics does indeed describe lots of people in academia who happened to want to teach, then they’d either have to work to become better human beings, or get sort of ‘locked-in’ to being shitty, unpopular professors. Which could of course greatly impact their career upsides. *shrug*

  • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why are some so-called “safe spaces” so toxic?English
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    3 hours ago

    @[email protected]

    Apparently I was not qualified to have ideas because I’m not a professional scientist, so it’s guaranteed that my theories are trash right out the gate.

    I sometimes get the sense that so much of the harshness of such replies come from active students in academia, not so much from professors and TA’s, etc. Probably multiple reasons for that, but one of them might be that they’re smack in the middle of a ‘this is the right way to learn and do things!’ process and mindset.

    Whereas most teachers would probably be much more inclined to say something like “okay, let’s break those ideas down, shall we?” But already being teachers, they’re probably plenty occupied with such, and not as much of a regular online presence. Or something like that, haha…

  • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialtoFediverse@lemmy.world•Farewell to the fediverseEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I agree with some of that kvetching, and no doubt ActivityPub and the FV still have much to achieve, but I still feel good about the overall model of the FV, and that I’m not being monetized nor exploited as with F------k, R----t, T-----r, and other social media platforms.

    Indeed, there’s a fundamental truth about us naked apes that consistently leads us down one slipshod path after another, and that has to do with our chronic discomfort upon uncertainty, and our aching need for surety across all things possible. Unfortunately (or fortunately as it were), reality tends to be a little more complicated than merely meeting our existential needs in such ways. Still, I can understand the sentiment, haha.

    Or as an inciteful American once said: “Number One, I order you to take a Number Two!”
    https://skipcut.com/watch/r2Y8RUGFlK4

  • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialtoFediverse@lemmy.world•A Fediverse PermacultureEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Fair enough, and I think I’m mostly in agreement with you.

    I think people almost always mean well - and of course those public instances were needed to get things off the ground but I’m going to say that I’d rather see that they eventually die off as smaller servers become easier to run and people actually have personal connections with whoever runs the server they are using (ideally themselves)

    I’ve seen it speculated (or opined) that this tends to be where things are headed, based on the state of coming tech, ease of use, and current models. Something like that, anyway.

  • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialtoFediverse@lemmy.world•A Fediverse PermacultureEnglish
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    19 days ago

    “Savior complex” seems way over the top when talking about what you’re describing, which to me is a perfectly normal, healthy reaction for instance-runners and /c-runners.

    While true that such thoughts must still bow to reality, in many cases these instance-runners really are doing an incredible, multi-faceted job, and it’s true to at least some extent that they deserve to be thanked in various ways.

    Meanwhile, my former instance (Lemm.ee, the 3rd largest at the time) went down essentially due to too many headaches created by asshole users. It’s a real problem everywhere, and I think the average user here does owe some thanks for projects like this which are trying to serve their interests and not monetise them. In which threads like this are perfectly useful & appropriate IMO.