Gratuitous Language

Random stuff. What did you expect? Probably older than you. She/her. More than common tall.

[academicssay]

[bareniabirkin]

The Science Is Extremely Clear: You Need to Prioritize Sleep

The more scientists learn about the slumbering brain, the more they realize how vital sleep actually is. Now some researchers hope to develo

[treylane]

The blackened skull of Mary Magdalene in its reliquary at the Basilica Saint Maximin la Sainte Baume in southern France. Baume as in cave. In one legend she fled home with other disciples in a magic boat and landed on the shores of France. She stayed there, made it her new home and supposedly died there.

 In the late 1200s renovations started on the basilica and a Gallo-Roman crypt was uncovered. A man opened the lid of an ossuary of bones and claimed he smelled sweet perfume and had a holy vision revealing the remains belonged to Mary Magdalene. The remains have been housed on display at St Maximin ever since and the basilica and nearby town became a place of pilgrimage and worship of the Magdalene. The basilica (a cathedral blessed by a pope) is currently part of a larger commune devoted entirely to the continuing cult of Mary Magdalene.

Recently genetic tests were performed on the remains and they were revealed to belong to a woman of Middle Eastern descent, possibly Jewish, around the right time period. The tests don’t tell us conclusively who she was, but still, those results are a bit spooky after the relics have been venerated and used for folk magic and folk healing for over 700 years beforehand and rested at the site in a hidden tomb for centuries before that.

[catasters]

[redlipstickresurrected]

Boris Eldagsen (German, b. 1970, Pirmasens, Germany, based Berlin, Germany) - Poem #98, 2013 from The Poems, How to Disappear Completely series, Photography

[softwaring]

[fuzzynecromancer]

[video description: a lovely snake coiled around a wind chime as rainbow light dapples the wall and sweet tinkling sounds play]

[warrenellis-deactivated20200730]

On The Sobering Uses Of Literature

On The Sobering Uses Of Literature

Jean-Paul Sartre was working furiously on his second play, Les Mouches (The Flies), while finishing his major philosophy treatise, L’Être et le néant (Being and Nothingness). Jean Paulhan had convinced Gallimard to publish the 700-page essay even if the commercial prospects were extremely limited. However, three weeks after it came out in early August, sales took off. Gallimard was intrigued to…

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[toadsandtiels]

Any time someone tells me birds aren’t descended from dinosaurs, I show them this.

[keleren]

Yeah, I’m just hearing the Chamberlain go MMMmmm mmmMMm.

[glumshoe]

I’m doing laundry before a roadtrip and pulled aside a few items that I want to bring but don’t need to wash, looked in the mirror, and...

I don’t know what this Is but it’s definitely something.... possibly something very evil.

[hyrude]

why were prezis ever a thing. who was like “i wish this powerpoint could give me motion sickness”

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[blondiepoison]

Gwendoline Christie attends the 71st Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California (September 22, 2019)

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gay pride cat

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omg

[boingmann]

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[everythingtigers]

How many tigers do you have?

dude like, not enough