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i keep referencing this stupid image when talking about tsfs so i made a proper edit
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Meditations (170-180 AD) by Marcus Aurelius, xii. 24 (via Philosophy as a Way of Life, by Pierre Hadot) // The Nebra Sky Disc, c. 1600 BCE, via Wikimedia Commons // Naturales Questiones (c. AD 65) by Seneca, i. 8 (via Philosophy as a Way of Life, by Pierre Hadot) // Galileo's "Two Drawings of Waxing Moon," from "Siderius Nuncius" (1610). Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington, D.C. (modified by me) // "Earth Quotes," as sourced from seasky . org // William Anders' "Earthrise" (1968), via Wikimedia Commons // Transcript of communications from Integrity to Earth, from NASA broadcast, image created by me // Reid Wiseman's "Earthset" (2026), via NASA
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This was on a post discussing shit parents doing a new satanic panic. Valid points all around but. But I’m crying. This is the funniest lie ever, no parody I could come up with this will be this funny. Nonbinary Julius Cesar
It's him, Julius xi/xir
Under the Net
Under the Net is a classic English novel by Iris Murdoch. In the story, one of the main characters has the manuscript of a novel he had been translating from French go missing. The fictional novel-within-a-novel is called Le Rossignol de Bois-- in English: The Wooden Nightingale.
Equally important is that Murdoch entitled her novel Under the Net as a reference to a passage from philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, more commonly known as the Tractatus, or TLP. The "net" in question that people are under is "the net of discourse"-- primarily, the structures of language and other systems, such as scientific theory and philosophy, that people use to make sense of the world.
So, we have a visual reference in S1 to Under the Net, a novel that has a novel within it that has Nightingale in its title, which is what Crowley and Aziraphale call the cant, or cryptolect/hidden language, that masks their speech from outsiders, and this novel to which Good Omens visually referred? It also references Wittgenstein, whose writing on language in the Tractatus is the most enduring of his work, to a point that if you are referring to this then what you are also really referring to is this particular, famous quotation:
"The limits of my language means the limits of my world."
To many, what Wittgenstein was saying here are two truths that can very much co-exist: that there are limits to language when it comes to its ability to express the full range of human emotion and experience-- that it cannot ever fully succeed in doing that-- but, also, at the same time?
That the more adept a person becomes with words-- the more a person works to deepen their knowledge of language, to expand their vocabulary and broaden their understanding of etymology? The more their world opens up and the more full their experience of life will be.
Wittgenstein's quote is about how words are nowhere near sufficient to fully explain the human experience but, at the same time? Words are also everything, and a person with limited understanding of words? Is a person with a limited life. Not a surprising thing for a story about the human experience that is as in love with language as Good Omens is to reference-- especially alongside a reference to the Nightingales.
In the late 1960s, Wittgenstein's quote was part of a famous art exhibition series at The Smithsonian called Great Ideas of Western Man. The artist Herbert Bayer made a painting inspired by the quote that became the signature piece of the exhibition and a very famous work in its own right. Good Omens definitely took inspiration from this painting and, within its story? It definitely has a big fan in logophile Crowley-- as it inspired the design of his old flat.
While we wait for things to get a little easier :)
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"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked grok" well i asked the group of witches on the heath and they told me to beware Macduff! Beware the Thane of Fife! Dismiss me. Enough.
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I don't know how Terry managed it. There's just nothing on this earth like a Discworld book. I'll be listening to a book I've read countless times over and suddenly, a single line I've never even really noticed before will tear me open. They just reach right inside me and open my ribcage to expose my very heart.
Tonight, it was Hat Full of Sky and Granny Weatherwax saying, "The world is unfair. Be grateful you have friends." On their own, the words are unremarkable. But juxtaposed together, with the context they are operating in....they had tears flowing down my face before I knew what was happening. The world is unfair; sometimes, the wonderful happens when it shouldn't (and/or when you feel you deserve a divinely wrathful torment) because you have friends. The world is unfair. That doesn't just mean that the horrible happens when it shouldn't. It means that the beautiful does too. Be grateful you have friends. They are the hub on which that beauty spins, turning the theft into gold.
A lot of people I've introduced to these books haven't liked them — they find them too silly, or preachy, or nonsensical, or even puerile. I am never upset or really disappointed when they don't like them. To each their own. But I will never understand it. They are baked into my being in a way that few things are and I am better to myself, to other people, and to the world because of it.
Sir Terry, you were a gift nonpareil. Thank you for your words and for shaping my world.
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Thank you for writing this so much more clearly than I ever could. Terry Pratchett's books are a reflection on our own society but wrapped up in hilarious observational humour that means they don't feel preachy.
Few authors have made me laugh out loud so frequently and freely.
I feel so insane about ai. I've had face-to-face conversations with people who use it for therapy, who use it to calculate the safety of pill interactions, who use it for all their emails and grant applications and legal documents and academic papers and finance sheets and for every single question they have about the world, and if you tell them about the ecological costs they just laugh and say "I guess I've used a lot of water." and I've been in multiple gatherings of 10+ people where I'm THE ONLY PERSON who doesn't use chatgpt. it's turning me into a ranting raving pariah, because how don't you people see??? why don't you understand??????? this bullshit didn't exist five years ago, you absolutely do not need it, and it is destroying everything
so how am I ever supposed to quit this stupid website when there's just casual shakespeare jokes on the reg
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oh this is absolutely beautiful
I saw some James Webb Telescope scientists give a talk and one of them said this was her favorite image because she had waited and worked 25 years to see this.
200k notes is insane who the hell are u people
I think I should start bragging about my adopted son’s achievements when people around me start bragging about their kids. Ooooh your child can count to 10 in mandarin? Well, my child found 110 landmines! And he’s only 6 years old!
a lot of my autism masking is just making myself more palatable for other people and my therapist said "does spock make himself 'more palatable' for others?" and had me promise to keep unmasking like: