Liminal-disaster - I Go Brr

One of these things is not like the other…

The bindings of the books pictured in plastic bags contain arsenic, while the un-bagged books do not.

Copper arsenic compounds were used as a green pigment in textiles and home furnishings during the 19th century. In 2019, Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation embarked on a study of green cloth-covered book bindings from the 19th century and continues to lead the way on research regarding these compounds in library materials. Their current findings suggest that the publication date range for volumes containing arsenic is 1830 to 1880 and that such books are bound in green cloth or green leather. Most green book covers from this period do not contain arsenic. (While books containing arsenic are green, not all green books contain arsenic.) Our best current estimate based on the testing we have done is that less than .03% of the print titles in our collection contain arsenic. As we identify print titles that contain arsenic, we will take measures to provide other options to make the content available wherever possible.

Read more about how the University of Chicago Library is handling these rare green bindings.

I love places like this. They have this beautiful old kind of charm, y’know?

Incorruptible

my mom just had a 7cm brain tumor removed and since she's woken up she's been talking nonstop about this dream she had about going to an art gallery full of colourful paintings by a 'homosexual artist' named klimsdorf who was ethereal and wise, both young and old... at first she was convinced he was a real person but after failing to find him online she's accepted he was a figment of her subconscious mind and is now determined to bring him to life via painting his portrait herself. she's 67 and has never drawn in her life. and now this. blorbo from her tumor

As an engineering major (undergrad) who actually does my work properly and would rather fail than cheat, people who do this piss me off on so many levels. Like, there’s a REASON this is hard. There’s a reason you need to learn it. That reason is that if you don’t learn it, and you fuck up your job, the consequences WILL be disasterous. Not can be. WILL BE. People WILL die. And their blood will be on your hands for the rest of your goddamn life because you were too lazy to actually do the work that you signed up for.

If you want to go into a field where your education doesn’t matter and you can be as stupid as you want, go into business or something. Jesus.

ur future nurse is using chapgpt to glide thru school u better take care of urself

it's a new day + the sun rose + you're alive + you're alive + you're alive + your heart is beating + you're breathing + you're alive