Ghost in the Mechanisms

Red. 30. They/Them. Ace

[nymphfrill]

[ivebeensetonfire]

[lustcannibalism]

they should invent a way for me to do tasks without the mind torture

[lustcannibalism]

there is a world out there I can’t comprehend

[typecasto]

behold, context

[toweringclam]

[lamignonette]

[ratsquinks]

just one moment let me have a quick little sippy before we continue fighting

[depsidase]

[do-not-u-dare]

Stole this from somewhere but i think it’s appropriate

[natoraptor]

“Tour Guides”

-2026

[ensalada-de-lengua-de-pajaritos]

[crabs-and-bongos]

[puddox]

saw someone including "Mandate of Heaven" as one of those christian terms tumblr likes to use to sound profound. which i get where you're coming from but t☝️hat one is chinese

[yuriinullification]

holdon

what the fuck is going on in this site's backend

[mrsandman42069]

[bfscr]

You are describing a hero BBC, he just wasn't a cartoon saint:

"[Robin Hood] wasn't noble at all, but a yeoman, a rung above a peasant...and while he was perfectly nice to the poor, helping them was not his main purpose. His enemies were the corrupt clergy and the land-owning nobles who took advantage of their underlings."

'He was not a hero': How the dark, violent medieval origins of Robin Hood were erased

Robin Hood began as an oral tradition in the 12th Century before morphing into a heroic, family-friendly stereotype – here's how new takes a

[rabbitindisguise]

"he wasn't a rich person stealing from other rich people for charity, he was poor and attacking the people who kept people in poverty!" okay so basedbasedbased

[treecitysessions]

[simplyghosting]

Me, pointing to the mirror: Do NOT become The Joker about this. This isn’t even a Condiment Man situation.

[betterisbest]

[glamwisegamgee]

obsessed with this search result for “yearning stock photo”

[laterkiss]

everything is about grief except grief which is about love

[cantmakeyouloveme]

[weepingchoir]

When a book is bad, oh well, the failed artistry of one rube, maybe co-authors. But when a movie is bad, and you consider the military-like scale of production, man-hours, the money involved: you must understand, it feels like I’ve been at war with the world for 29 years.

[thiswasachoice]

This is a spreadsheet from Old Kingdom Egypt, written about 4500 years ago. It was part of the diary and logbook of Merer, an inspector responsible for the transportation of materials to Giza for the construction of Khufu's pyramid. There's something beautiful about the organization here, how his rows and columns would fit in just as well in Excel as any modern spreadsheet of delivery records. Across the yawning gulf of ages, we're united by this mundane and incredibly human task. I love reading things like this. They remind me of the fundamental similarity of humans across time. They were no less intelligent or skilled than we, and oftentimes had to be moreso, to account for the many technological aids they lacked.

I often hear people talk about how showing a smartphone to a medieval peasant would shock him, but I want to show Merer Excel. I think pivot tables would make him cry tears of joy.

[fiumeikikotoben]

@copperbadge, could Merer be a distant ancestor of yours?

[copperbadge]

I mean I feel like, spiritually, Merer is an ancestor to all of those who kneel at the altar of Rows And Columns.