L.

[thememedaddy]

[russiawave]

[pururin]

[funeral]

In today's state of hyperactivity, where boredom is not allowed to emerge, we never reach the state of deep mental relaxation. The information society is an age of heightened mental tension, because the essence of information is surprise and the stimulus it provides. The tsunami of information means that our perceptual apparatus is permanently stimulated. It can no longer enter into contemplation. The tsunami of information fragments our attention. It prevents the contemplative lingering that is essential to narrating and careful listening . . . In the process of digitalization, . . . information acquires an altogether different status. Reality itself takes on the form of information and data. For the most part, we perceive reality in terms of information or through the lens of information. Information is an idea—that is, a re-representation. When reality takes the form of information, the immediate experience of presence withers. When digitalization gives everything the form of information, reality is flattened.

Byung-Chul Han, The Crisis of Narration

[swagvo1d]

doomed

[adv3nturelust]

May all of you find jobs and careers to support yourselves, your families, your pets, and may you never spend a single night dreading going to work the next day. May your jobs be fulfilling, safe, rewarding, prosperous, and healthy for you and your goals.

[shisasan]

Do not expect a final answer, For in this life it won’t be found; But on his way the poet clearly Detects a far-off roaring sound.

19 July, 1901 Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921), Selected Poems

[rrondo]

[holohedral]

wildflowers thriving on the side of the road i see you i love you girls

[loveridden1999]

[petaltexturedskies]

Virginia Woolf, in a letter to Edward Sackville-West, written c. September 1926, from The letters of Virginia Woolf : Vol. III, 1923-1928

[petaltexturedskies]

Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago (originally published in 1957)

[aurorasholy]

Mhairi McFarlane, Last Night

[merely-a-fool]

What really gets me is when you're reading a book and the chapter labels have, like, vines or floral details around them or something. it makes me so soft - just- the fact that someone was like 'ooh we can add beauty here, we totally should' and they did it

[feytouched]

sampling another white tea cake from fuding, this one from 2018. ☁️

[theotherkingdoms]

—Olivia Gatwood, “We All Got Burnt that Summer” from Life of the Party

[underwelmed]

jamie song