#mirrors — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mirrors, aggregated by home.social.
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🎉 Fantastic! Another 'groundbreaking' #tool so you can finally ship "faster, #safer, and more reliably"—because before vlt 1.0, everyone was just using carrier pigeons and blindfolds. 🚀🤦♂️ Thank goodness for those "ecosystem #mirrors," because who doesn't love a good reflection on their #package #management choices? 😂
https://www.vlt.io/blog/1-0 #groundbreaking #shipping #faster #ecosystem #HackerNews #ngated -
#klampenborg #beach #volley #dive #bike #reading #sports #music #games #conversation #park #urbex #mussels #barbecue #frisbee #archery #not getting hurt #injury #ice #bath #plunge #share #drink #walk #spark #sit #find #food #dogs #fishing #fruit #peaches #milk #sauce #football #haircut #mirrors #exercise #pale #squishy #business #school #degree #dropout #fuckit #makeitbig #jetoff #youknowtheway #bring what you need. #forget again #pale figure sweat #party til you're #dead you've seen before now is your chance #impress #print #stay #take #capture #value #inquire #take note #take a safe route. under the #furniture if you need you know the #spot. #trees #climbing #wild #houses #encampment #gypsy #car #caravan #wheels #camper #travel #distance #sleep #lock #electronic #spark #cuffs #key #remote #radio #shock #novelty #wide eyes #squeeze by #fill #page #novel #keyboard #led #window #reflection #etch #glare #dream #pray #jehova #show up. #tea kettle #feet washed #dare #gamble #betting #kiss
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Mirror Mirror on the Wall
The current call for submissions on my Poets Online poetry journal is about mirrors. Mirrors have a long and evolving history, moving from natural reflection to carefully engineered objects. They start with surfaces like still water, then polished dark volcanic glass, and metal mirrors from 3000 BCE onward. The modern process was invented in 1835 by applying a thin layer of silver to glass. This is the basis of today’s mirrors, though aluminum is often used instead of silver.
Mirrors have carried rich symbolic and mythological meanings across cultures. They are often tied to identity, truth, illusion, and the boundary between worlds. One of the most enduring meanings of mirrors is self-recognition. That’s a good thing, but there is also the danger of becoming trapped in it. In Greek mythology, Narcissus falls in love with his own reflection in water, unable to distinguish self from image. The mirror image here becomes a symbol of vanity, illusion, and self-obsession.
Getting philosophical about mirrors, they might get us to ask, “Do we truly know ourselves, or only our reflection?” Mirrors are seen as revealing truth, but also as distorting it.
In European folklore, mirrors can show hidden realities, exposing lies or disguises. Do you remember in the fairy tale of Snow White that the “magic mirror” speaks truth to the queen? That truth fuels her jealousy and insecurity.
Many traditions treat mirrors as thresholds between realms. In East Asian folklore, mirrors can repel or reveal spirits. In Japan, the sacred mirror Yata no Kagami represents divine wisdom and is tied to the sun goddess Amaterasu. And what about Lewis Carroll’s Alice going through the “looking glass” to Wonderland?
A Western superstition causes mirrors to be sometimes covered after death to prevent the soul from becoming trapped or wandering.
Mirrors have long been used as protective objects. In some traditions, they reflect evil back at its source and so are used in amulets or architecture. Feng shui is an ancient Chinese practice that harmonizes human environments with the flow of energy, or qi, to promote balance, well-being, and prosperity. A mirror can “bounce back” harm, connecting to the belief that reflections carry power.
A reflection has often been seen as more than just an image. Some cultures believed mirrors could capture or hold part of the soul. This was later true of photographs, which are a kind of reflection. Stories of “mirror doubles” or shadow selves center on an uncanny version of oneself that exists in another realm.
You have probably heard of the familiar belief that breaking a mirror brings seven years of bad luck. That comes from ancient Rome, where mirrors were thought to reflect the soul. It was believed that the soul could renew every seven years. Damaging the mirror meant damaging the self.
In more modern interpretations, especially in literature, art, and psychology, mirrors symbolize self-awareness, fragmentation, or an identity crisis. They do get us to think about how we see ourselves and how others see us.
A great example from film comes in Orson Welles’ The Lady From Shanghai. The whole film is about deception with fake murders, fake alibis, and fake romance. The famous funhouse mirror maze scene makes that literal. Bullets hit glass instead of people. You can’t tell where the real person ends, and the reflection begins. The “lady” is obsessed with her own image. She’s first seen gazing at herself in a mirror, and she dies surrounded by broken mirror versions of herself. The mirrors are her world, which is a place where surface is everything. When Michael shoots, the glass shatters and kills the illusions first. It’s Welles showing that vanity and deception consume themselves.
https://youtu.be/F-BqDWG72iM?si=CbVcg5xcar_LCrEe
#film #folklore #illusion #literature #mirrors #psychology #reality #symbolism -
📬 YTS offline: Beliebtes Torrent-Portal kämpft mit Ausfall
#Filesharing #Szene #Cloudflare #DomainWechsel #Mirrors #Offline #TorrentPortal #YIFY #YTS https://sc.tarnkappe.info/95812e -
fun #writing #poems about (#metaphorical) assholes #poetry doesn’t matter, it #mirrors :) https://rant.li/atmercurialatrant-li/ready-to-write-ready-set-go
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Mirror, mirror at the crossroads!
Tell me, which is the fairest land!Hopefully one of the five will answer!
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NOIRLab image of the week
Moons and Mirrors at Cerro Tololo
Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/H. Stockebrand
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2617a/
#NOIRLab #CerroTololo #telescopes #BlancoTelescope #astronomy #astrodon #science #Moon #mirrors #photography #astrophotography
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/05/satellite-mirror-plans-could-disrupt-sleep-and-ecosystems-worldwide-scientists-say; https://www.bioclocks.uk/news/bambos-. "Proposals to deploy reflective #mirrors & up to 1m more #satellites in low #Earth #orbit could have far-reaching #consequences for #human #health & #ecosystems, leading #sleep & #circadian #rhythm #researchers have said."
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#DIY Seasonal Mirror-Based #WindowExtender for Heat and Light
via @LabB
"The core concept is that, by mounting a mirror roughly perpendicular to the bottom of a south-facing window, it reflects sunlight that would have fallen on the insulated exterior of the building through the window instead. With the right sized mirror and mounting hardware, the functional 'size' of the window for solar gain calculations could be increased by almost 50%, potentially providing Burlington, Vermont windows with Boulder, Colorado performance!"
https://www.laboratoryb.org/diy-seasonal-mirror-based-window-extender/
#SolarPunkSunday #Heliostats #Extenders #Reflectors #Sunlight #SalvagedMaterials #AppropriateTechnology #AncientEgypt #AncientTechnology #Mirrors #ThermalGain
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What now?
"[Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu's] greatest work came later, when she devised a mind-blowing experiment that showed the world we see in the mirror doesn't obey the same laws of physics."
https://spore.social/@minouette/114602418316375119
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Just every now and then, Ollie is an introvert. Unless he is two introverts. #CatsOfMastodon #mirrors #JillAndOllie
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#photography #photographer #portrait #pride #malemodel #thedeadlysins #modelswanted #jewellery #photomodel #photomodels #mirror #mirrors
From my series The Deadly Sins (Pride)
Model: Stefan-K
Location: on location
Photo and edit: The Blotch 666 -
Aynalar Neden Ters Çevirir? Feynman'ın Yanıtı SİZİ ŞOKE EDECEK
#physics #mirror #mirrors #mirrorreflection #psychology #universe #RichardPhillipsFeynman #Feynman #science
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Guy uses a Ziploc bag to show why some things look backwards in mirrors while others don't
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/heres-how-mirrors-work-ex1
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Welcome to the laser pointer jungle, where we pretend to understand which shiny toy helps your car see 👀. Instead of admitting we're all just guessing, here's 10,000 words on why #mirrors spin in a circle 🌀. Spoiler: it's a lot of acronyms and fancy words to say "light goes brrr." 💡
https://mainstreetautonomy.com/blog/2025-08-29-all-about-automotive-lidar/ #laserpointerjungle #cartechnology #lighttheory #spinningacronyms #shinytoys #HackerNews #ngated
