[kafk-a]

"Is the beauty for you or for everyone?" Environmental poster from the Belarusian SSR, 1986

[ourobores]

l.m. montgomery / sir george clausen, a frosty march morning / john ateinbeck, east of eden / claude monet, la pluie, 1886 / charles dickens, great expectations / nina volkova, spring / emily dickinson, march is the month of expectation / dale marsh, tales of true romance / v.e. schwab , the invisible life of addie larue

[zvezdanabrokenindustries-blog]

Sanja Iveković, SOS Nada Dimić, 2000.

Nada Dimić textile factory from Zagreb was employing 1700 workers, among which 95% were women. In the independent Croatia the factory was taken over by entrepreneur and mayor of Split, Željko Kerum, who battered down the factory, the pearl of the industrial heritage from 1909., despite the indignation of the Croatian cultural public. Kerum sold the lot, and the new owner of the demolished factory complex became the private company “Institut IGH”, owned by Jure Radić.

[florescentlcvesickness]

[aeide-thea]

Christian Francis Roth, “Pencil Shavings,” Fall 1990. Vest and skirt in wool gabardine with wool jersey top. Pencil bag in leather and nubuck by Carey Adina. Photo by Nathaniel Kramer for New York Magazine (source).

[colinfirth]

You're petrified by your own fucking standards - and your fear of failure! This is the truth. ANATOMY OF A FALL (2023) | dir. Justine Triet

[royalhandmaidens]

sometimes i think about the history of coffee culture in islam and how it spread like it’s so funny

discovered by sufis who decided it was a miracle from Allah since it allowed them to stay up late into the night for night worship

miracle beans = UNLIMITED DHIKR

cue scholars debating for years about whether it’s haram or halal and if it should be classified as an ‘intoxicant’ or not

fast forward to 16th century ottoman empire, where a woman had the legal right to divorce her husband if he failed to provide her with enough coffee

europeans called it the “mohammaden gruel” or “devil’s drink” bc they believed it to be a “bitter invention of satan and his followers”

fast forward to pope clement viii finally giving in and tasting it to see what the hype is about and then stating: “This Satan’s drink is so delicious that it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it.”

pope clement viii then proceeds to BAPTIZE THE COFFEE BEANS

[royalhandmaidens]

the tags on this post are some of the funniest i’ve ever seen in my notifications but this one made me choke on my Mohammedan Gruel

[royalhandmaidens]

GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE

[mcromwell]

Talking about wax pastels and drawing this guy in the Trash Book 2024

[dostoyevsky-official]

«Тело разлагается».

[dostoyevsky-official]

"The body [Navalny's] is decomposing," told to his mother, is one of those short sentences, like "Bombs dropped on refugee camp [Rafah, Khan Younis]," "The location of [Ukrainian] children is unknown," containing unimaginable cruelty, inhumanity, and suffering, a world of violence in a few, short words

[escuerzoresucitado]

[kermitlesbian]

fuck i can’t believe i wasted my entire life being moved by art and beauty and the indomitable human spirit ugh i should’ve been making money through internet scams

[imogen-mangle]

In case you lost it - a link to the eSIM donation guide. Even if you feel sick and powerless, you can at least do this. And even if you really, really can't donate, you can always at least share this and remind others.

https://gazaesims.com/esim-purchase-tutorial/

[livedinthecastle]

the particular grief of losing a piece of graffiti that was part of your everyday routes through the city. congratulations "anti-vandalism initiatives" you painted over my dear friend and neighbor

[lydiogames]

[lydiogames]

this reply made me laugh harder than any reply I think I've ever gotten

[aleshakills]

How did they find the worst audio ever made

[teaboot]

"surely an exaggeration" i thought, before hearing the worst audio ever made

[nathanielthecurious]

one of my professors, a historian who has been interviewed as an expert in various documentaries, said that the secret to documentaries is saying something very obvious, as slowly as possible. for example, if you say “the romans…….. enjoyed their dinner parties” or "being a gladiator... was... very... dangerous" then the filmmakers can get that clip and immediately pan over some cool pictures of mosaics or something. this has forever changed the way i view documentaries

[dreg-heap]

God could you imagine how mad geologists must have been to slowly watch the "hey all the continents kinda fit like puzzle pieces :)" guy get proven right

[madnessofmen]

It was a woman that did it!

[talldarkandautistic-deactivated]

I love girl talk, especially when it’s complex geological theory

[nickeldoodler]

This Barbie is an ancient Slavic witch

[polyglot-sock]

A1-A2: man, there're so many words I need to know in order to say literally anything

B1-B2: wow, what I know is enough now

C1-C2: man, there're so many weirdly specific words I need to know in order to describe these weirdly specific things I've only seen once in my life. Also I forgot how to say ceiling.