[antlered-vixen]

"A civilization will die tonight", huh.

We permanently settled there in 10.000 BCE and had built organised state polities as early as 3200 BCE. We survived the Macedonian sack of Persepolis, we survived the blaze of the Mongol Empire, we survived the countless ups and downs of history, and we'll outlive Trump, too. And rebuild our bridges, as we always have.

[antlered-vixen]

And before someone jumps in to read this in the worst faith possible, it's not a nationalist sentiment whatsoever, nor in defense of the IRI.

"We" refers to Baloch people as much as Persians, Assyrians as much as Kurds and Türkmenler, and all others who came to make a home in the Iranian plateau.

[ezuzi]

no, the bombing and deaths of thousands of palestinians, lebanese, yemenis, iranians, iraqis and people in west asia and africa are not 'distractions' for the epstein files. we get it you see our lives as less but it's just not. we matter.

[argumate]

young people please do not ape this mode of speech I am begging you, just say "I think so" or "that seems more likely"

[amberglennslikeaprayerdress]

if you accuse Israel and Mossad and the CIA and the US being behind the protests in Iran, go fuck yourself.

[notenoughdramaaa]

This one is for you Khamenei. Go fuck yourself.

[denimecho]

There's Aphrodite discourse on twitter, but now I've fixed her so we can all calm down

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

stop deactivating

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

i thought we all agreed we were here forever

[skluug]

fucking bizarre that computers heat up while operating. like dude it’s just math

[official-kircheis]

i too heat up doing math. They're not special

[tanadrin]

it’s worse than that. the laws of physics require doing math to produce waste heat.

[ceausescue]

it's bonkers that the answer to "can i make a more efficient steam engine" is "no, and btw all good is temporary", but it's objectively even funnier that the answer to "can my fucking cpu stop throttling" is "no, bc otherwise you could make more efficient steam engines"

[tanadrin]

rolf landauer, looking at a steam engine: “this is just a very bad computer.”

[catasters]

[carys-the-ninth]

The problem with commercial F/M romance is that it's written by the most heterosexual women alive and reading it you feel yourself slowly suffocating from the Gender of it all like a fish in a eutrophying lake. And what we actually need as a culture is F/M written by insane bisexuals violently allergic to heteronormativity

[elspethdixon]

As a bi woman who has read both a lot of commercial romance and a lot of F/M fic written by queer het fans that was every bit as suffocatingly Gender as the very worst of the published Harlequin stuff: Bisexuality alone is not enough because something about F/M can make even the queerest queer people start regurgitating heteronormative gender-stereotyping “she was a tiny girly submissive innocent feminine girl and he was a big manly dominant alpha male man” content indistinguishable from the stuff written by the straightest women alive.

[maxknightley]

Crusader Kings dev diary: You asked for them, and here they are: Mechanics to distinguish the dynastic and political structure of the early medieval HRE from that of the late medieval HRE! This free update will also include enhanced trade mechanics, a greater focus on dueling, and the new "Murder Fuck" scheme, which lets you simultaneously kill a rival while impregnating his or her wife.

Hearts of Iron dev diary: Okay we just got back from the dartboard room. The next update will focus on... Indonesia! Get ready for sixteen new types of gun, five new types of tank, and three focus trees - two of which actually work most of the time!

Victoria 3 dev diary: But what must be understood is that the worker is not only bound by wage labor and state violence, but by their understanding of the world around them. History, tradition, religion and philosophy, art, and a thousand other things - these shape the way that every human being moves through the world. In turn, these ideas and institutions are shaped by class struggle, creating a feedback loop that may either undermine or reinforce the status quo. As Debord said in his seminal work Society of the Spectacle,

Europa Universalis dev diary: Please for the love of god buy our game and all the DLC. We put POPs in it this time. You like POPs, right? We'll do anything. Fuck. I need this so bad, man.

[general-cerberus]

[ashstfu]

“we often have to explain to young people why study is useful. it’s pointless telling them that it’s for the sake of knowledge, if they don’t care about knowledge. nor is there any point in telling them that an educated person gets through life better than an ignoramus, because they can always point to some genius who, from their standpoint, leads a wretched life. and so the only answer is that the exercise of knowledge creates relationships, continuity, and emotional attachments. it introduces us to parents other than our biological ones. it allows us to live longer, because we don’t just remember our own life but also those of others. it creates an unbroken thread that runs from our adolescence (and sometimes from infancy) to the present day. and all this is very beautiful.”

Umberto Eco

[uroko]

A train ride in Kyoto

[cryptotheism]

The unsavvy talk about furries like they're some hypersexual excretion of modernity, but drawing animal-people is one of the top 10 neolithic human activities. It's up there with collecting berries and producing clay figures of fat women.

[moths-in-the-window]

The word "ma'am" should have an [ʕ] or at least a [ʔ] in it.

[aestheticjunkyard]

Alek Deng by Lesha Lich for Schön Magazine July 2025

[linecoveredinjellyfish]

i am some sort of fey creature and my cat is the human who i have arbitrarily decided is my favorite human.

[linecoveredinjellyfish]

i live, to him, an unfathomably long life

i have access to powers and locations that he cannot access independently; he needs my help to navigate the world i've brought him to

i simply found him outside and abducted him one day

there are many cats in the world, but this one is the best and my most favorite. why? because he was available to abduct that morning and for very little other reason.

i have a much greater understanding of this world than him, but he has unshakable confidence in his ability to figure it out and i find that really cute

the power dynamic is fundamentally unbalanced, but i let him have a little audacity. a little combativeness and sass. as a treat.

some humans are needlessly cruel to cats or take them in for a short time before neglecting or abandoning them. but i have chosen to love and guard this one with my life. because i think he's neat.

he is very well-treated and has pretty much everything he could possibly want or need, but he is my prisoner.

[wolveswolves]

Twenty weeks old Gray wolf pups (Canis lupus) from the Sawtooth pack

Pictures by Jim and Jamie Dutcher