[paintedout]

"The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo and Apollo spoke to him. 'You must change your life.' When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life." - Ursula K. Le Guin

[ringthembells]

god israel's destruction of tyre is like especially depressing tbh like thats one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world. people have lived there since the bronze age. there is so, so so much history and world heritage there that's being blown up and destroyed forever because its existence doesn't fit israel's nationalist vision of history.

[ringthembells]

lots to say about israel's politicized and propagandized use of history and archaeology to further their narrative tbh. here's a good article about it.

'It comes with the territory': How Israel's archaeologists legitimize annexation

Weaponizing antiquities is part of Israel's colonial legacy, says Rafi Greenberg, whose colleagues have largely remained silent about Gaza's

[processedlives]

“Tact, like empathy, is based on a certain form of mutual understanding. But while empathy implies the idea of entering someone else’s mind inasmuch as it is linked to the presumption that ‘I know how you feel’, tact exists to create a form of bonding between individuals that is not based on the idea of intrusion but, conversely, on the respect for existing boundaries, and on a willingness not always to assume that one knows. While empathy requires resonance and proximity, tact is there to restore distance, and to accept the difference between the individuals involved in order to protect and preserve their dignity. Tact is based on an attention towards otherness.”

— Katja Haustein, “How to Be Alone with Others: Plessner, Adorno, and Barthes on Tact” (via mehreenkasana)

[blushingbloom]

horse bridle made from watsonia leaves by Hannah Thornhill

[kannibalkarl]

David Lynch on the set of Twin Peaks (1990)

[scavengedluxury]

Deep level OG techwear badman

[magicgoose123]

sorry but columbo movie starring jake johnson

[northstareclipse]

There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.

[ghostofava]

god i need something so bad. but what is it

[centuriespast]

2000-year-old green serpentine stone mask found at the base of the pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan, Mexico.

[smsomah]

Cormorant fishing in Yangshuo near Guilin, Guangxi, China. Christian Vaisse

Cormorant fishing is an old tradition in which fishermen use trained cormorants to catch fish.

[threedollarsdotcom]

every time i try to check whats inside eggs stupid goop comes out

[cloudswamp]

love and death in the american novel, leslie fiedler

[chavdog]

[armchairarchivist]

Nancy Spero, Painting

[neoyorzapoteca]

In 1938, the German Jewish artist and master weaver Anni Albers declared: ‘Today life is very bewildering… It is no accident that nervous breakdowns occur more often in our civilization than in those where creative power had a natural outlet in daily activities. And this fact leads to a suggestion: we must come down to earth from the clouds where we live in vagueness and experience the most real thing there is: material.’

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The Other Side (Jennifer Higgie)

[mutant-distraction]

📷 Sheryl Hester

Arizona

[scorchroots]

I've never loved anyone as much as I love Ursula Le Guin