non amo te sabidi

queer as in a horrible amalgamation of weird greek shit, latin epigram, and paleography/epigraphy

[eilooxara]

[doppleganger-rental]

[jkottke]

How to Make Rope the Old-Fashioned Way, using a very simple hand-cranked machine. “It’s amazing what you can do with just a simple machine that cleverly leverages the laws of physics.”

[hissingfawn]

“flagging,” 2025

[orcbara]

i know most leftists agree that everybody should have a right to food, water, shelter, and healthcare but i think a vitally important fifth pillar is privacy. people should not be compelled to be tracked, monitored, or to share personal space with others to access their other essential rights

[charl0ttan]

of course you have blue curtains and subtext

[elucubrare]

the most important lesson we can learn from the fall of the western roman empire is pay 👏 your 👏 contractors 👏

[victusinveritas]

It's almost like something happened in 2020-now that is causing these problems.

[the-composite-doll]

And something still happening. Like it never ended but we pretended it did.

[ashstfu]

“we often have to explain to young people why study is useful. it’s pointless telling them that it’s for the sake of knowledge, if they don’t care about knowledge. nor is there any point in telling them that an educated person gets through life better than an ignoramus, because they can always point to some genius who, from their standpoint, leads a wretched life. and so the only answer is that the exercise of knowledge creates relationships, continuity, and emotional attachments. it introduces us to parents other than our biological ones. it allows us to live longer, because we don’t just remember our own life but also those of others. it creates an unbroken thread that runs from our adolescence (and sometimes from infancy) to the present day. and all this is very beautiful.”

Umberto Eco

[charl0ttan]

pope francwas

[hjartasalt]

Not now kitten daddy's googling his symptoms

[hjartasalt]

Daddy has five days left to live

[hjartasalt]

Daddy wishes to be cremated

[hjartasalt]

It's what daddy would have wanted

[hjartasalt]

Hi. Everyone else go home this is the only tag that matters to me

[jkottke]

Clickens! Judge paintings of chickens based on characteristics like persistence, altruism, petulance, clairvoyance, and friendliness.

[timplatt]

Exclusive Merch with all proceeds going to the Transgender Law Center

[wizardarchetypes]

i am so serious when i say dark and quiet are both human rights.

i don't mean like absolute silence. obviously in an ideal community, there would still be sound and noise from people and music and work etc. but it haunts me that when i camp in the forest i can hear the howl of semi trucks on the interstate miles away. and the people who live beside it never know quiet. it haunts me that many people will live their whole lives never seeing the stars in the sky that were fully visible with NO electric light pollution as recently as my great-grandparents' childhoods.

so much of our lives is bright bright unnecessary noise. neon mcdonalds signs 200 feet in the air so we can see it from the road. led lights over billboards. parking lots lit up like sports stadiums at closed office buildings. advertisements playing at gasoline pumps. streets lined with led porch lights and decorative garden lights that genuinely threaten entire species of wildlife. music blaring outside pharmacies to deter homeless people. everything always shining and wailing for no purpose but profit and cruelty.

obviously not everything can be turned off or made quiet and i wouldn't want it to be anyway and there is a lot of nuance and room for "but what about" here, but MANY things HAVE to change because none of us are supposed to live like this and we shouldn't have to!!!

[mogblin]

the thing about job searching is i see all these job postings and im like i dont wanna do any of this for any of you

[jkottke]

JD Vance cut his Vermont vacation short, perhaps because of the cold or because he felt unwelcome. Protesters lined his route all the way back to the airport in Burlington (about a 50-minute drive). Reports are that he didn’t even say thank you.

[jkottke]

I’ve been updating this post about JD Vance’s ski vacation to Vermont with new information in the comments, including a video of Vance skiing and being called “Putin’s puppet” as he skips the lift line. Best sign: VANCE SKIS IN JEANS.