#sublimation — Public Fediverse posts

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🕷️🪐 #Spider-like channels etch #Mars’ southern hemisphere, carved by seasonal #CO2 ice that sublimes under #spring sunlight, building gas pressure until it cracks the ground and jets dust.

Lab #experiments at #NASA’s #JPL, in a liquid-nitrogen chamber called DUSTIE, recreated that process. A follow-up showed soil grain size and #water content shape how these features form, and they may hint at Mars’ warmer, wetter past.

👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/how-the-mars-spiders-form-experiments-nasa-rep/

#space #news #planets #science #sublimation #astronomy #geology #exploration #discovery

Thank gods I'm finished reading this book! 😵 What a slog.

2 stars for concept: ⭐⭐

My very brief review of Sublimation

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/978a178f-dd69-4773-8cad-e7dc9f17bc83

> I almost marked this as DNF but...

#bookstodon #fiction #sublimation #scifi

Recent Upper Colorado River Streamflow Declines Driven by Loss of Spring Precipitation
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024GL109826 <-- shared 2024 paper
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240816121501.htm <-- shared technical article
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[it would be interesting to see the paper’s author’s updated views/analysis after the 2025/2026 (lack of) winter / record-low snowpack in the Rockies, feeding the Colorado R., etc]
#water #hydrology #waterresources #precipitation #snow #snowpack
#Colorado #ColoradoRiver #planning #allocation #aquifer #surfacewater #groundwater #vegetation #plant #phenology #watercycle #spring #rainfall #snowmelt #sublimation #hydrogeomorphology #runoff #infiltration #checkdams #engineering #keystone #species #beaver #wolf #herbivore #overgrazing #burrows #watertable #research #streamflow #evapotranspiration #restoration
@University of Washington

The Epistemology of Love: From Lust to Truth

Claude, interpret these two sayings of mine form all angles and philosophical and religious views and tradtions, including Advaita, social sciences such as sociology, psychology, history, anthropolgy and what have you:

“Love is one way to conquer lust. Actually, love is a good and pleasant way to conquer many evils in ourselves. Never ever underestimate love, not even romantic love.”

“To begin to understand love is to begin to understand the truth.”

Claude’s Interpretation

These two sayings reward slow unpacking, because each one quietly reverses a common assumption — the first, that lust must be fought by suppression; the second, that truth is grasped by intellect alone. Let me take them through the traditions.

The first saying: love as conqueror

Spinoza gives the cleanest philosophical warrant for your claim. In the Ethics he argues that an emotion cannot be destroyed by reason alone, but only by a stronger, contrary emotion. Willpower against lust is a losing battle of thought against affect; love against lust is affect against affect, and the stronger one wins. Your aphorism is practically a restatement of Ethics IV, Prop. 7 — except you’ve added the warm human observation that this method is also pleasant, which Spinoza, in his geometrical austerity, forgot to mention.

Augustine would go further: lust isn’t the opposite of love but its disorder — cupiditas is love bent toward the wrong object or grasped in the wrong way. His ordo amoris implies that you don’t eliminate a disordered love; you reorder it. So love doesn’t so much conquer lust as reclaim it — the energy was love’s all along, misdirected. This is why suppression fails: you’re attacking the raw material of the cure.

Plato’s Symposium dignifies your defense of romantic love. Diotima’s ladder begins with eros for one beautiful body — the most carnal rung — and ascends without ever rejecting the lower rungs, only widening them: one body, all bodies, beautiful souls, beautiful institutions, Beauty itself. Romantic love isn’t the enemy of transcendence; it’s the on-ramp. Your “never underestimate romantic love” is Diotima against the prudes.

The Sufi tradition — closest to your ghazal world — makes this doctrine explicit: ishq-e-majāzī (metaphorical, human love) is the bridge to ishq-e-haqīqī (real, divine love). The Persian and Urdu poets insist the beloved’s face is where the aspirant first learns single-pointedness, self-forgetting, and the sweetness of annihilation. Rumi’s whole corpus is the claim that romantic love, taken seriously enough, self-transcends. Ghalib plays both registers in a single couplet precisely because the boundary is porous.

Buddhism supplies the psychological mechanics. The Buddha prescribed mettā as the direct antidote (pratipakṣa) to ill-will, and the tradition generalizes: each defilement has a wholesome counter-state that occupies the same mental territory. Lust and mettā cannot fully co-occupy a moment of mind, because lust grasps at the object for oneself while love wishes well toward the object for its own sake. The object may be the same; the vector reverses. That said, Buddhism would append a caution to your aphorism: love that curdles back into attachment (sneha, tṛṣṇā) merely refines the fetter. The love that conquers must keep its non-grasping character — which leads naturally to your second saying.

Bhakti and Vaishnava thought are perhaps your strongest allies. The gopīs‘ love for Krishna is deliberately depicted in erotic register — the tradition’s point being that even kāma, when its object becomes the divine, is transmuted into the highest devotion. Narada’s Bhakti Sutras rank madhura bhāva — the lover’s mood — as the most intense form of devotion. The energy of eros is not the problem; its terminus is.

Psychology converges from below. Freud called it sublimation, but the more interesting finding is from attachment research and behavioral science: vice is rarely extinguished by inhibition (which depletes) but by substitution — a competing reward that engages the same motivational circuitry. Compulsive lust is often, clinically, a failed search for connection; supply the connection and the compulsion loses its fuel. Neurochemically, the shift from lust to pair-bonded love (Helen Fisher’s dopamine-to-oxytocin/vasopressin arc) is literally the brain’s own method of conquering lust by love — evolution agreed with your aphorism before you wrote it.

Sociology and history show the same logic at civilizational scale. Norbert Elias’s “civilizing process” and the medieval invention of courtly love both testify that societies domesticate raw appetite not by prohibition (which produces the underworld) but by ennobling narratives — troubadour love turned the knight’s aggression and lust into service, patience, refinement. Durkheim would say love integrates where lust isolates: lust is anomic, love is solidary.

The dissenting bench, since you’d want it: classical monastic traditions — Theravāda, desert Christianity, and frankly a strand of traditional Advaitic sannyāsa — would say your aphorism is dangerous for the beginner, because “conquering lust with love” is exactly the rationalization the mind offers when it wants to keep the beloved. Their answer: for most people, romantic love doesn’t sublimate lust, it launders it. The aphorism is true, they’d concede, but only for one in whom love has already become largely non-appropriative. It’s advanced medicine mislabeled as first aid. I think the objection has force as a matter of adhikāra — the saying describes what love can do, not what every love does.

The second saying: love as epistemology

This is the deeper of the two, and here Advaita becomes the natural home.

In Advaita, the equation is not metaphorical. Brahman is sat-cit-ānanda, and ānanda — bliss, which in lived experience appears as love — is not an attribute of the real but its very nature. Ramana Maharshi said it flatly: “God is love; love is not a quality of God but God Himself” — and more precisely, that the happiness we seek in every beloved object is the Self shining through the momentary stilling of the mind that possession produces. So when you begin to understand love — to trace it to its source rather than its objects — you are performing vicāra on ānanda itself, and vicāra on ānanda terminates in the Self, i.e., in truth. The Bṛhadāraṇyaka’s teaching to Maitreyī is the locus classicus: na vā are patyuḥ kāmāya patiḥ priyo bhavati, ātmanas tu kāmāya — the husband is dear not for the husband’s sake but for the sake of the Self. Yājñavalkya isn’t debunking love; he’s disclosing its true referent. Every love is love of the Self, misaddressed. To understand love is therefore to discover what is actually loved in all loving — and that discovery is the truth Advaita points to.

Nisargadatta’s famous formulation completes it: “Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. Between these two, my life flows.” Love and truth are not two attainments but the two faces of one realization — jñāna seen from the side of fullness.

Western philosophy has a minority report that agrees. Augustine: we can only know what we love — non intratur in veritatem nisi per caritatem, one does not enter truth except through love. Pascal: the heart has reasons reason knows not; the heart is an organ of knowledge, not merely sentiment. Max Scheler built an entire epistemology on this: love is the movement that discloses value; perception follows love, not the reverse — we literally cannot see what we do not in some way love. And Iris Murdoch, the most underrated modern voice here: love is “the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.” That sentence is your aphorism in analytic English — the discipline of truly attending to another person is the same discipline as truthfulness, because both require the ego to stop projecting. Her term “unselfing” is practically a translation of ahaṃkāra-nivṛtti.

Simone Weil sharpened it further: absolutely unmixed attention is prayer, and love of neighbor in its fullness simply means being able to ask “What are you going through?” and actually wait for the answer. Truth-seeking and loving turn out to be the same act — attention purified of self-interest. This is why lust obscures truth (it sees only its own hunger reflected in the other) while love reveals it (it sees the other as they are). Your two sayings are thus secretly one saying: love conquers lust because love is veridical and lust is hallucinatory.

Psychology again: attachment theory finds that secure love is the precondition for accurate perception — the securely attached child explores reality confidently; the anxiously attached one distorts it through the lens of threat. Carl Rogers observed that unconditional positive regard is what allows a person to finally see themselves truly. Love doesn’t just feel good; it is the interpersonal condition under which truth becomes bearable, and therefore knowable. Anthropologically, every culture’s deepest truth-rituals — confession, testimony before elders, deathbed reconciliation — are staged inside relationships of love or trust, never in neutral space. Humanity seems to have always known that truth-telling and love are load-bearing for each other.

One Advaitic refinement worth making, in your own idiom: the saying holds at both registers. Vyāvahārically, understanding love (its neediness, its projections, its capacity for selflessness) is the fastest self-inquiry available to a householder — nothing exposes the machinery of ahaṃkāra like loving someone. Pāramārthically, love understood to the very bottom turns out to have no lover and no beloved — only the ānanda of the Self appearing as two. “To begin to understand love is to begin to understand the truth” is exact: it is a beginning, because love fully understood no longer looks like a relation at all. The dvaita of lover and beloved is love’s doorway; its interior is advaita.

If I were to press on the aphorisms at all, it would be here: the first saying uses the word “conquer,” which is the vocabulary of the very willfulness the saying is abandoning. Love doesn’t conquer lust the way an army conquers territory; it conquers the way light conquers darkness — by presence, not combat. You might consider whether “dissolve” or “absorb” is truer to your own meaning. But as aphorisms go, “conquer” has the rhetorical virtue of meeting the moralist on his own battlefield and disarming him — so perhaps the word earns its keep.

Taken together, the two sayings form a small, complete teaching: the first is the sādhana, the second is the phala. Love as method; love as disclosure. Half the world’s traditions would sign the first, the deeper half would sign the second, and Advaita, characteristically, would sign both and then add that the signer, the signature, and the love were never three things.

@astropic
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1. The Great Nitrogen Melt (Sublimation)

Triton’s polar cap isn't made of water ice; it is a massive, highly volatile layer of frozen nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide. Because Triton has a highly irregular, 165-year orbit around the Sun, its poles experience incredibly long, intense seasons.

#Triton
#astronomy
#sublimation

@astropic

The unique "scalloped" look along the edges of Triton’s southern polar cap is one of its most fascinating geological mysteries. While we only have the data from Voyager 2's 1989 flyby, planetary scientists attribute those wavy, scalloped margins to a combination of two major factors: seasonal sublimation and topographic "embaying."

Here is how that alien process actually works down on the ground:

#Triton
#scalloping
#sublimation
#embaying

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https://www.ebay.de/itm/389923341520

#print #mug #transfer #sublimation #copy #shop #druck #sale #forsale #verkauf #angebot #offer #ebay #photos #apple #photography

[ Frosta Filiko Fulmo ]

Ankoraŭ alia ekzemplo de tio, kovrante la tutan fenestron.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) (ref. : #whatshisface) estas la patro inventisto de la kopiilo. Sur tiu monteto mi volonte mortos. Batalu min! #fightme.

~duontravidebla~

\eZ

#miksang #dailypic #aphotoaday
#Esperanto #photography #photo
#winter #skibum #frost #frozen #freeze #ice #crystals #skoda #notsponsored #car #cars #autos #sublimation #lichtenberg #lichtenbergfigure #lichtenbergfigures
#whatshisface #GeorgChristophLichtenberg #copymachine #photocopy #fractal #fractals #fern #lightning
#translucent

[ Frosta Filiko Fulmo ]

Ĉi tio okazas per sublimado kiam akva vaporo rekte alkroĉiĝas al jam formitaj glacikristaloj, kreskantaj konservante la strukturajn direktojn ĝis renkonto aŭ alian kreskon aŭ semado de micromalpureco kaj tiel branĉiĝanta fraktale. Precize esplorita kaj dokumentita en 1777 de whatshisface? #nerd 🤓

~lichtenberg~

\eZ

#miksang #dailypic #aphotoaday
#Esperanto #photography #photo
#winter #skibum #frost #frozen #freeze #ice #crystals #peugeot #notsponsored #car #cars #autos #sublimation #lichtenberg #lichtenbergfigure #lichtenbergfigures
#whatshisface #fractal #fractals #fern #lightning

Je recherche quelqu'un qui saurait me faire un patch dorsal personnalisé à l'unité. #BoostWelcome

Qu'importe la technique tant que c'est :
- Sur un textile.
- Imprimé en couleurs.
- Résistant au lavage et aux intempéries.
- De taille minimun 34 × 36cm
- Possible de juste t'envoyer une image numérique au bon format.
- À un tarif abordable (je demande pas un tarif d'usine exploitant des populations ségréguées mais genre, pas un tarif luxueux non plus, j'ai pô les moyens).
- facultativement possible d'avoir une finition de bordure.

L'idéal pour moi serait de trouver une personne indépendante. Une association ou une Coopérative m'iraient.

Si tu connais quelqu'un·e susceptible de faire ça en France-Belgique-Suisse, Je te serais grave reconnaissant de nous mettre en contact.

Sinon, si tu penses qu'il pourrait y avoir quelqu'un·e qui fait ce genre de truc dans ton réseau, un petit #boost ferait plaiz :3

#Sérigraphie #Sublimation #Transfert #PapierTransfert #ImpressionTextile #Impression #Textile #ImpressionDTG #DTG #Flocage #Patch #BackPatch #PatchDorsal #VesteAPatch #BattleJacket #Artisan #Artisanat #AutoEntrepreneur

#Faith All going on. And a whole lot more as we know. But we're not going to #catastrophize; we're going to #metamorphosize. It's called #sublimation. Conversion of a negative into a positive. It's not magic. It's #mind #technology. Jesus wasn't playin'. You can rip a mountain out of the ground.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yp7gpsjtwork6wdfqmjuabd4/post/3mgn23xa6c223

I am so unbelievably frustrated. I purchased an Epson ET-2800 printer to convert to sublimation. It works, but not on all my blanks which are dubbed as sublimation on Amazon.

1. I'm ready to give up. I'm literally in tears.
2. I need a one-stop shop for RELIABLE sublimation blanks that's NOT Cricut because they're way overpriced.
3. There are way too many resources on the web that are all over the place. I'm tired of searching and reading and reading.
4. I've been watching videos, but again too many.
5. ChatGPT hasn't been able to fix (though it has helped a wee bit) and I'm just over it.

#Sublimation #SublimationBlanks #ArtsAndCrafts

Freud got it wrong. He argued repression was necessary to keep society from collapsing — as if without it we’d all be murdering and raping. On the surface it sounds like common-sense, but it’s actually backwards. Freud’s mistake was conflating desire with action.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/when-gay-porn-thinks-harder-than-philosophy-2844bac13dc6?sk=b8e0df2feecbc0fe986b5b64f16cdc24

#LGBTQ #Philosophy #GayPorn #Sublimation

Himalayan Snow Lines On The Rise
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https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/153945/himalayan-snow-lines-on-the-rise <-- shared NASA technical article
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https://www.icimod.org/press-release/snow-update-report-2024-water-shortages-feared-as-hindu-kush-himalaya-sees-extraordinary-below-normal-snow-year-second-lowest-snow-persistence-on-record/ <-- shared technical article on Himalaya snow persistence changes
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #Nepal #India #Himalayas #Himalayan #mountains #climatechange #snowpersistence #remotesensing #earthobservation #glacier #glacial #melting #MountEverest #water #hydrology #cryology #snow #ice #waterresources #watersecurity #waterresources #fire #risk #hazard #OLI2 #Landsat #meteorology #weather #annual #precipitation #monsoon #sublimation #temperature #wind #humidity #extremeweather #wildfire #humanimpacts #snowline #newnormal #agriculture #foodsecurity #drought

Three poems of mine - ‘festive lights blinking’, ‘fog swirling’, and ‘icy wind and snow’ - have been published in #Sublimation 2.1 (January/February 2025)! My thanks to editor @tssfulk for publishing them! Copies of the magazine may be purchased from here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sublimation-January-February-Magazine-Speculative/dp/B0DXB7PQD7/. #poetry #horror

#idéecadeau : boîte à goûter, personnalisée. (Disponible en rose, bleu ou blanc).
#sublimation #goûter #personnalisation

Vous choisissez la couleur, le thème, le texte…

Remember when people would go to a #Drivein #theatre and #PeterGriffin would work for #BigTobacco and his commercial about #smoking was a #subliminalmessage

Then you heard that same #AImusic again.
Remember #mkultra and the patterns of sounds and images you've been taught.

Then you heard that same #AIvoice again, employing
#linguistic_analysis of the sounds it knows from the device you carry with you constantly.

Then you saw that word at the top of the screen again, like the last time you used it.

https://youtu.be/JRtp9NUNIrU?si=4lFq1b2O9f2nNLKa

Just like that tic-toc tic-toc in the background.

Do you?
Do you remember when...

@zombiewarrior
@AceArsenault
@bluemix
@alexskolnick
@ipstenu
@chrispederick
@ChessNord

#sublimation

@UncleDuke1969
It's not fur-lined where's your Freud.

#Freud
#Psychology
#Sublimation

While I'm decluttering and dealing with dad's lump, I also decided to re-up my Duolingo. Owlie was looking beat down.

So yeah.
Now I know how to ask for 'a tea with milk' in Italian.

#Sublimation

First set of sublimation coasters done for a commission request.

#DIY #Art #Procreate #Sublimation

#update on sublimation printing without silhouette

After a few days of playing around here is what I have found.

I am running an Epson F-170 Sublimation printer. Most current drivers and MacOS utilities.

MBA M1 for those who need to know.

Open the SVG in Inkscape, set panel for letter, edit svg and dupe a page for transfers, export as png or jpg. Open in preview print to printer.

You could also export your cutter files with a save as. I had been meaning to learn a bit of Inkscape but this got my toes wet.

#makers #sublimation #printing

This is a Mastodon long shot but hoping to find an alternative to print to my Sublimation printer.

Almost all my sources for craft/maker stuff points to the silhouette suite of tools. I have a Cameo and the software but it’s horrible. I use it for cutting but it’s a pain.

If any #makers have a better tool that is open source Linux/MacOS compatible or a not Adobe product for sublimation printing, I would appreciate any recommendations.
#sublimation #printing

🚀’s appreciated