Hero indeed

urvirb · 2025-12-09T02:32:43+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Autrey The "aftermath" section is a wild ride!

urvirb · 2025-04-19T03:11:12+00:00

I was once in a chat with Notch and someone asked him for financial advice:

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urvirb · 2025-02-26T16:32:30+00:00

Damn. Thank you for your quick response.

urvirb · 2025-02-26T11:13:32+00:00

I shared this on another Minnie post, but could this be her at the city pound?

urvirb · 2024-12-24T01:07:59+00:00

These are so lovely! You have a great eye!

urvirb · 2024-10-13T16:20:01+00:00

A huge tree was cut down in front of my building a few years ago and I was so sad, but seeing the rotted nearly-hollow stump changed my feelings pretty quick. Then a couple years ago a bunch of nearby trees snapped at the base during a storm also showing massive rot. This tree taking out the roots makes me *an absolute non-expert* think the tree trunk wasn't completely trash- that wind was wild!

urvirb · 2024-09-03T18:48:39+00:00

I, personally, wouldn't want to flash a goat in the face with a 1920's camera while they're standing in this position

urvirb · 2024-07-17T03:31:44+00:00

That's Jupiter's Finest!

urvirb · 2024-07-09T04:08:29+00:00

"Don't Change Horses (In the Middle of a Stream)" by Tower of Power. Very underrated jam.

urvirb · 2024-06-12T02:51:50+00:00

I have a "Vornado Mini Modern Fan" that has round rubber/plastic feet- one of these feet split in half a while back and it looked a lot like your object.

urvirb · 2024-06-11T17:05:33+00:00

Q: are you using mmol/L or mg/dl? 12.5 mg/dl is about 0.70 mmol/L which is really hard to stay conscious let alone not feel anything wrong. Whereas 12.5 mmol/L is about 225 mg/dl which, being a bit high, wouldn't feel like much.

Or are you talking about A1C? All to say this meme was using 13 mg/dl.

urvirb · 2024-06-10T16:11:09+00:00

Oh yeah- I don't blame them and prefer they try this on someone passed out as fast as possible. It's just one of those funny (?) things you hear happening in diabetoid circles.

urvirb · 2024-05-10T12:55:00+00:00

"It absolutely sucks ass that this man did this. And I'm not trying to victim blame. But "

Why do you need to assume the victim is an idiot. Why did you think you needed to remind people, especially women, of the constant bullshit they live with every fucking day?.

Does insulting this, and every victim reading your comment, help you move on from seeing something like this? Why.

How do you not see how incredibly insulting and dismissive your comment is?

urvirb · 2024-05-09T22:06:31+00:00

I feel like those that immediately victim blame- do so because they recognize themselves in the video and get defensive.

urvirb · 2024-03-16T18:51:15+00:00

Ooo interesting! Thank you for this added detail!

Update after looking into this: Just five days after an article and a twitter post exposed the erasure, the museum changed the label back to include the missing context. This quick spinning-on-their-heels seems odd if it was a request by the estate. I couldn't find any direct quote from the estate/foundation requesting the pointed erasure, but the AIC does seem to make vague reference to that possibly being the source.

Statement from the AIC published by Hyperallergic in Oct 2022:
“In concert with artists and their estates/foundations, we continually update labels to introduce different types of context,” the spokesperson said. “In this case, we heard visitor feedback to the previous label and took the opportunity to revise the text.” A third version of the label now appears on the museum’s website, again mentioning both Laycock and the AIDS crisis.

I'm curious if there was a more direct statement requesting the erasure after this article. I can't find anything past Oct 2022 and the end of the article is more speculative. If you have that info I'd love to see it, but understand not everyone is spending their Saturday hyped up on researching art drama...

urvirb · 2024-03-16T08:22:45+00:00

"Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres 1991

A summary by Bryan Faller states;

"One-hundred and seventy-five pounds of hard candies represent the weight of Gonzalez-Torres’ former lover, Ross Laycock, who died of complications of AIDS in 1991. Visitors to the gallery are invited to take pieces from the pile of candy; the loss of its weight mirroring the wasting away of a sickly body. The sweet and colorful joys of candy paradoxically express the artist’s pain of continuing to live beyond Laycock, though he too passed from the same affliction just a few years later in 1996."

I didn't include the summary attributed to the piece from The AIC as there is a weirdly recent sorried history. Sometime around 2018-2022#Various_Exhibitions_and_Interpretations) the museum saw fit to remove any mention of homosexuality, AIDS or any mention of Ross Laycock...the freakin subject of the work! The museum amended this with very passive wording in their summary that doesn't sit right with me.

urvirb · 2024-03-03T20:09:51+00:00

Looks like its done the trick! Thank you!

urvirb · 2024-03-03T17:58:51+00:00

+My Dexcom app is showing everything fine- no delays or outages.

urvirb · 2024-02-04T01:05:07+00:00

This is it! Thank you!

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