cynick

I like to swear. A Lot. If you don't like it, you know where the unfollow button is. Questions welcome, answers not guaranteed. PS fuck tRump

[lost-carcosa]

[helenvaughans]

[tarzandelajungla]

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Buxian Bridge in Huangshan

This short pedestrian span is also known as the "Fairy Walking Bridge" because it looks almost magical.

[smbc-comics]

Things will never again be so beautiful.

Check out the bonus panel on the site.

Upcoming book signings this summer.

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SMBC ◆ PATREON ◆ INSTAGRAM ◆ BLUESKY ◆ STORE

Buy this comic as a print.

[meetmeinthesandbox]

RIP Jennifer Finch

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Jennifer Finch, L7 Bassist, Dead at 59

Jennifer Finch, the longtime bassist for influential rock group L7, has died at age 59.

[thereyouarewhereveryougo]

[reynard61]

Arrest people for touching grass algae...

6 people arrested in connection with alleged vandalism of the Reflecting Pool, Trump says

The president also said seven people have been cited, but he has provided no evidence so far of the alleged vandalism.

Ex-Olympian pleads not guilty to Reflecting Pool vandalism charges

A former US Olympian canoeist denies accusations that he deliberately damaged the lining of the refurbished Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

[ramavoite]

Puppet History: History Contingency Tapes - "The Long History of Failed Flight Attempts"

[fuckyeahreligionpigeon]

[liberalsarecool]

'Special kind of stupid' is the definition of white supremacy.

[lost-carcosa]

Morons Are Governing America

[oneheadtoanother]

#gotem

[phantomrose96]

I think Elon Musk has done irreparable damage to the tech industry.

[phantomrose96]

Elon bought twitter in late 2022, fired 75% of the employees, and 'proved' the platform could limp along under the 'wear 4 hats at once' efforts of the remaining employees, and the rest of big tech got big ideas.

[phantomrose96]

There are many intersecting elements at play between the tech market downturn in late 2022 and the interest rates hikes and the reduced need for online infrastructure post-quarantine and the advent of AI. But big tech are a bunch of homework-copying lemmings and that Reddit-brained manchild kicked over the first 6,000 dominos.

[lost-carcosa]

I think Elon Musk has done irreparable damage to the gene pool.

[bowlby4]

[todays-xkcd]

NGS and IERS are complaining that they left CLEAR instructions to set the washing machine to WGS84 (G2296) instead of WGS84 (G730).

Latitude and Longitude [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[An image of the Earth showing most of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Indian Ocean, with horizontal latitude lines and vertical longitude lines looking like a balloon tied tightly with string - like the lines are squeezed down into the surface.]

[Caption below the panel:] Bad news: NASA accidentally shrank Earth's latitude and longitude lines in the wash.

[weantuniverse]

(via Facebook)

[tikisam66]

[helenvaughans]

[evidently-endless]

the odyssey (2026)

[anyboli]

(I’ve seen this criticism a lot on tumblr, I promise I’m not picking on OP or the person who put this on my dash). I also went into the movie expecting the “Nobody” moment, but I feel like this criticism, is, in a vacuum, missing a lot of context.

The sequence with the Cyclops as it appears in the film isn’t out of the Odyssey, it’s out of the Aeneid. More specifically, it’s exactly how Achaemenides, a starving man abandoned on the island by Odysseus, describes it.

Nolan pulls a lot from the Aeneid. Virgil condemn’s Odysseus’s/Ulixes’s “guile” and description in the Trojan Horse scheme in a similar way that Nolan does. He also more or less invents Sinon as a character, but makes him a complicit schemer, unlike the tragic innocent Nolan writes him as. Nolan also pulls elements from later writers, like Dante, but shifts their framing again.

Nolan’s Odyssey is fundamentally syncretic. He cares about how the Odyssey has been reinterpreted and mythologized throughout history.* He has layers of influences outside of Homer that he’s playing with. Theres a great conversation to be had drawing out those influences, talking about what they’re doing and saying, and where they might fall flat, etc. But if you’re not bringing up points like this in the context of that conversation, you’ve made a customer service complaint and not a criticism.

*side note: I think you can see this too in the much-derided Roman aesthetics. I almost wish Nolan had gone a lot further with this, almost like Taymor’s Titus, and layered in a lot of different aesthetics, but I can see how that would have been too divisive.

[digitaldiscipline]

This is the 85 year old creator of Roger Rabbit:

[sanestlunaticyouevermet]

Throwback to when I cosplayed Jessica. I was deeply insecure but something about dressing up as her gave me confidence! She really is a state of mind.