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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • It’s effectively your brain doing automatic white balance, it sees everything being tinted cyan so it just sorta subtracts cyan from the area, which results in white being reddish

    you can do this physically (by tiring out the colour-sensing cells in your eyes) if you stare at a colour for about 30 seconds then quickly look at a white surface, you should see the inverse of the first colour.







  • the world we live in seems unfixably fucked, but our ancestors lived through feudalism and kings for way longer and even made it through the black death without society crumbling to pieces, things even got better afterward!

    The united workers of the 1920’s gave us this absolute gem of a verse:

    "In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold,  
    Greater than the might of armies, multiplied a thousand-fold.  
    We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old  
    For the union makes us strong."