let's celebrate the end of colonialism, rule by war, and the enslavement of earth, even if it will only end in collapse.

 opal and, you guessed it, cupcake. opal and i crashed avi's 5 1/2 birthday party down the street and i got a chocolate chip cookie and a chocolate m&m you guessed it, cupcake.

 found a bear i knew before. when she saw me turned and tilted her head and circled and once she had confirmation she went crazy. her paw prints are all over my cicada shirt. it was a sweet reunion but i wasn't sad we stopped. she's fun but she's still a wild thing like her dad.

 waiting for dogot.

 hans suckles lulu.

 bonjour maddie going and coming round again.  some nervosity about maddie socially. she was in a fenced yard a long time on bark patrol. but she doesn't bark at lulu.

 silent as dog. catastrophic overpopulation in animal shelters.

 we have all these incentives to pour pavement onto the landscape, but too few incentives to restore it.

eric sanderson

 whosoever thinks they know? they don't know shit.

everybody's equal and we should treat everybody fairly. -obama

without the green space parks provide, areas are more vulnerable to flooding, severe heat, and the effects of the climate crisis. without places to gather, residents miss out on opportunities to connect and grow stronger. these are some of the reasons we deliberately focus our work in communities where parks and public lands are needed most.

trust for public land

before today is over, we’ll lose another 6,000 acres of land to real estate development.

trust for public land

#obamapresidentialcenter

 it's not easy to remember (but a little i do).

 it's a brand new barfy day, so relax duggles, it's not the end of the world.

 it's a brand new day.

 it's a brand new day.

 a body could get penalized for that.

 the way is fraught with illusion, my friend.

tons of concrete a-pumping 

into the obamachron.

 to the victorious renegade go the spoils of the public good.

 

benny hoggin the wawa. a parched road worker was trying to fill his bottles but benny kept butting in. 

 

you know, i was i was wondering, you know if you could keep on because the force it's got a lot of power and it make me feel like, ah it make me feel like, ooh 

keep on, with the full force, 

don't stop til you get enough.

 

nato expands, responding to war caused by nato expansion. 

(the domino effect).

-consortium news

 everyone knows this american project is illegitimate.

 however, considerations about the ecology of light lead us also to expect greater subjective expansions when the central region appears black than any other color. 

that is, when an observer moves into a dark place, this is invariably associated to the experience of an absence of light and necessarily of color. 

this illusion, new to science

 haha, i love the immersive monet trash cans. 

when the central region is black, the pupil will show a dilation response, from an equiluminant baseline, that is proportional to the subjective degree of expansion.

this illusion, new to science

just as glare can dazzle, being plunged into darkness is likely risky when navigating into the darkened environment (e.g., by possible collisions into objects and/or instability on uneven grounds). 

this illusion, new to science

there's a neural to retinal delay. by the time the retinal information reaches the higher regions either the world or the observer's position has changed.

the full extent of democratic party treachery was exposed when the roe v. wade decision was overturned. 

only right wing americans have any expectation of getting what they want from the electoral process.

margaret kimberly

in this case, the illusory motion of the dark central region in figure 1 evokes the opposite illusory effect of the white central region in figure 2. observers experience a decrease in perceived brightness or a growing sense of darkness, as if entering a space voided of light.

frontiers 

the eye pupil adjusts to illusory expanding holes

although the psychophysiological adjustments of the eye pupil to illusory patterns may seem useless, 

according to this perspective, these changes in diameter could be more adaptive 

than pupil responses based on a more precise scaling of the physical features of visual stimuli. 

specifically, a preparatory constriction to illusory light could 

have an important function by promoting behavior to avoid 

being “dazzled” by physical (real) light. 

in fact, glare can temporarily incapacitate sight and lead to life-threatening situations (e.g., it is a common cause of lethal traffic accidents.

frontiers

the eye pupil adjusts to illusory expanding holes

given that the above type of illusion also implies an illusory change in luminance, since it implies expanding darkness, it is possible to probe the impact of the illusion not only via an observer’s phenomenology, consisting of conscious verbal reports, but also by examining a concurrent, involuntary, physiological index: the diameter of the eye pupil.

at the root of these bright/dark illusions is the fact that, in general, the perception of light is not straightforwardly related to physical parameters; hence, the visual system relies on ecological regularities or constraints to generate perceptual hypotheses that, in most instances, achieve pragmatically the behavioral success of vision. 

frontiers science news

this illusion, new to science, is strong enough to trick our reflexes

 this article talks about how the eye sees change in a static pattern in anticipation of the change. i think we also may see a static pattern in change as it happens, in anticipation or imagination of the culmination of the change and the static pattern of the built environment where we still, having observed it before the hole existed and watched the hole grow into buildings, see the fallen trees and the growing hole. 

 there's something about a hole. your mind is drawn to look. while you look the hole seems to grow, as if your looking is digging the hole. if you were allowed, you could climb in and make pictures of yourself hiding in little pockets of dirt your mind hiding and expanding in the built spaces of the hole.

 the pupil receives more light as the darkness grows.