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I feel like politicians' insults about each other have really gone down hill. These days it's all "moron" and "loser", so childish. Think what you will of Paul Keating, but he gave us such gems as "he's a shiver waiting for a spine", "debating him is like being flogged with warm lettuce", "he's like a lizard on a rock: alive but looking dead", "he's all tip and no iceberg".
Where's the creativity these days?!
House drugged that coffee btw
It’s even better than that. He didn’t drug that coffee, but the other one, the one he isn’t offering to Wilson. He did this because he (rightfully) assumed Wilson would not trust him and ask for House’s coffee instead.
Also noteworthy is that when Wilson drugs House through coffee this very same episode, he does it by drugging the offered cup, because he knows House would never even think to suspect him.
They are insane.
House was sort of like Death Note if there was no death note and Light and L were just coworkers and best friends with sexual tension
Time for some new years resolutions!
I didn't do much of this last year but I'm at a point where I think I actually need some direction in life to keep moving forward. So, goals it is. Resolution 1: Read a book every month.
You know what, here's the thing. I'm not not a reader, but I do have dearths of time where I don't read, and then small amounts of time where I read voraciously. I wanna be more balanced and read more consistently, and I think by committing to getting through at least one book per month, that'll help a lot. It'll definitely help reduce my tsundoku (to let books pile up and not be read) stack.
I've got some Oliver Sacks books I want to get through, so I think in January I'll start with The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.
Resolution 2: Pass JLPT N4 in July and N3 in December.
This involves the same boom-bust cycle of studying Japanese that I'm already used to. My listening skills are thankfully getting a lot better. Now that I'm taking some time off uni before I start my masters degree, I actually have some serious time to dedicate to it.
I'm fairly sure the N4 is well within reach, we'll see about the N3. I'm hoping so. I'd love to do the N2 eventually in 2027.
Resolution 3: Save and invest $10,000.
Also actually in reach in 2026, considering I now have good, stable income and some well-paid cat sitting opportunities. I completely fucked myself up financially the last few years, and now that I'm back in the black, I kinda wanna kick things back into gear as quick as I can. I'm going to start with these resolutions and see where they take me. :)
Imagine being named Bobby McDonald or some shit and then living so long that both “Bobby” and “McDonald” enter the public lexicon as naughty words until you are essentially named “Penis Homosexual” and kids are afraid to write it down
And it could happen to any of us next
My mum knew a guy named Richard Head.
Understandably he didn’t like being called Dick.
There was this woman poet in 4th century China called Su Hui (蘇蕙), a child genius who had reportedly mastered Chinese characters by age 3.
At 21 years old, heartbroken by her husband who left her for another woman, she decided to encode her feelings in a structure so intricate, so beautiful, so intellectually staggering that it still baffles scholars to this day.
Came to be known as the Xuanji Tu (璇璣圖) - the "Star Gauge" or "Map of the Armillary Sphere" - it's a 29 by 29 grid of 841 characters that can produce over 4,000 different poems.
Read it forward. Read it backward. Read it horizontally, vertically, diagonally. Read it spiraling outward from the center. Read it in circles around the outer edge. Each path through the grid produces a different poem - all of them coherent, all of them beautiful, all of them rhyming, all of them expressing variations on the same themes of longing, betrayal, regret, and undying love.
The outer ring of 112 characters forms a single circular poem - believed to be both the first and longest of its kind ever written. The interior grid produces 2,848 different four-line poems of seven characters each. In addition, there are hundreds of other smaller and longer poems, depending on the reading method.
At the center a single character she left implied but unwritten: 心 (xin) - "heart." Later copyists would add it explicitly, but in Su Hui's original the meaning was even more beautiful: 4,000 poems, all orbiting the space where her heart used to be.
Take for instance the outer red grid of the Star Gauge. Starting from the top right corner and reading down, you get this seven-character quatrain:
仁智懷德聖虞唐，
貞志篤終誓穹蒼，
欽所感想妄淫荒，
心憂增慕懷慘傷。
In pinyin, it is:
Rén zhì huái dé shèng yú táng,
zhēnzhì dǔ zhōng shì qióng cāng,
qīn suǒ gǎnxiǎng wàng yín huāng,
xīn yōu zēng mù huái cǎn shāng.
Notice how it rhymes? táng / cāng / huāng / shāng
The rough translation in English is: "The benevolent and wise cherish virtue, like the sage-kings Yao and Shun, With steadfast will I swear to the heavens above, What I revere and feel - how could it be wanton or dissolute? My heart's sorrow grows, longing brings only grief."
Now read it from the bottom to the top and you get this entirely different seven-character quatrain:
傷慘懷慕增憂心，
荒淫妄想感所欽，
蒼穹誓終篤志貞，
唐虞聖德懷智仁。
The pinyin:
Shāng cǎn huái mù zēng yōu xīn,
huāngyín wàngxiǎng gǎn suǒ qīn,
cāngqióng shì zhōng dǔzhì zhēn,
táng yúshèngdé huái zhì rén.
It rhymes too: xīn and qīn, zhēn and rén
And the meaning is just as beautiful and coherent: "Grief and sorrow, longing fills my worried heart, Wanton and dissolute fantasies - is that what you revere? I swear to the heavens my constancy is true, May we embody the sage-kings' virtue, wisdom, and benevolence."
That's just 2 poems out of the over 4,000 you can construct from the Xuanji Tu!
At the very center of the grid, the 8 red characters wrapped around the central heart, she "signed" her poem with a hidden message:
詩圖璇玑，始平蘇氏。 "The poem-picture of the Armillary Sphere, by Su of Shiping."
Or reversed:
蘇氏詩圖，璇玑始平。 "Su's poem-picture - the Armillary Sphere begins in peace."
Many scholars, and even emperors, throughout Chinese history have been completely obsessed by Su Hui's puzzle.
For instance, in the Ming dynasty, a scholar named Kang Wanmin (康萬民) devoted his entire life to the poems (kangshiw.com/contents/461/2…), ending up documenting twelve different reading methods - forward, backward, diagonal, radiating, corner-to-corner, spiraling - and extracting 4,206 poems. His book on the subject ("Reading Methods for the Xuanji Tu Poems", 璇璣圖詩讀法) runs to hundreds of pages.
Empress Wu Zetian herself, the legendary woman emperor of the Tang dynasty, wrote a preface to the Xuanji Tu around 692 CE (baike.baidu.com/item/%E7%BB%87…).
Incredibly, there's even far more complexity to the Xuanji Tu than just the poems:
- The name 璇玑 (Xuanji) - Armillary Sphere - is astronomical in meaning and the way the poems can be read mirrors the way celestial bodies orbit around a fixed center. It's a model of the heavens.
- Her original work, with the characters woven on silk brocade, was in five colors (red, black, blue/green, purple, and yellow) which correspond to the Five Elements (五行) - the foundational Chinese philosophical system that explains how the universe operates. So it's also a model of the entire cosmic order according to ancient Chinese philosophy.
- It's also of course deeply mathematical with this 29 x 29 perfect square grid, with sub-squares, lines and rectangles, and a structure which allows for symmetrical reading patterns in all directions
- Last but not least, the content of the poems themselves contain multiple registers. On top of expressing her personal grief and longing for her husband, it's also filled with accusations against the concubine (Zhao Yangtai) he left her for, reflections on politics (with many references to sage-kings) and philosophical reflections.
So the Star Gauge is simultaneously:
- A love letter (expressing personal longing)
- A legal brief (arguing her case against her rival)
- A cosmological model (structured like the heavens)
- A Five Element diagram (encoding the fundamental structure of the world according to ancient Chinese philosophy)
- A mathematical construction with perfect symmetry and precision
And yet, for all this complexity, we should not forget this was all ultimately in service of the simplest human message imaginable: a 21-year-old woman asking the love of her life "come back to me".
Her husband did, eventually. According to what empress Wu Zetian herself wrote in her preface to the Xuanji Tu, when he received Su's brocade he was so "moved by its supreme beauty" that he sent away his concubine and returned to his wife. As the story goes, they lived together until old age.
The heart at the center was filled after all.
normalise being bad at roofs in minecraft. normalise not being able to make an aesthetically pleasing roof to save your life in minecraft.
Normalize just digging into the side of a mountain to avoid making roofs in Minecraft
yall need me to tap the sign?
here’s a roof guide that i use because i used to be shit
i dont remember the source, b/c ive had this for like years, but i suggest messing around with these roofs with different shapes/sizes of buildings
in fact, you can mix and match and have one roof with a side room with a different roof on it
honestly, have fun
I’ve had these saved for a long time and unfortunately don’t know the source either, but here are the other tutorials from this artist if anybody is interested!
Oh! These are super cool!
These were made by PixelandPoly they have an entire 40 page eBook with various design guides, alongside the ones they’ve released for free.
I’ve had this in my drafts for ages and just forgot what I was going to say-
So late reblog of this a-may-zing post!
ooOoo :0
Does anyone have a color blind accessible version? Please help I cannot SEE
If I fostered that cat it would be the absolute fastest foster failure
Props to my roomie with inattentive ADHD who today decided to start slow cooking in 32C (90F) weather.
UC or ER?
HONESTLY THOUGH
THIS IS BOTH ACCURATE AND EFFECTIVE
Urgent Care is for your "Oh no!" accidents.
Emergency Care is for your "Oh fuck!" accidents.
yeah okay ill reblog that!
idk who needs to hear this, but I know that someone has been making red sauce for their pasta and can't figure out why it doesn't taste right and why it doesn't stick to the pasta
It doesn't taste right because you need a spoon or two of sugar. That bright metallic flavor that cuts through the sauce and keeps if from tasting right is tamed by a little bit of sugar. You want enough to mellow down and round out the flavor profile, but not enough that the sauce turns sweet.
It doesn't stick to the pasta because you need to add a ladle of the water from the pot you cooked your pasta in. There's starch in that water and it will thicken your sauce up and make it gluey so it sticks to the pasta
extra tip: if you only cook the pasta about halfway in the water and then finish cooking it in the sauce, the pasta will pull water out of the sauce and thicken it. But you still need some of the pasta water in the sauce, for the starch. And don't put raw pasta in the sauce and try to cook it that way, it won't work right.
Took me like ten years to catch on to the sugar thing, and now my red sauces are top notch.
really hate the framing "ultraprocessed food is leading to increased colon cancer in young people". it's not technically incorrect, but the average person can gain next to nothing from reading that. what should be specified is lack of fiber. you'd be fine eating ultraprocessed food if you ate enough fiber, it just so happens that a lot of ultraprocessed food doesn't contain much fiber due to how the food is processed (to enhance taste and extend shelf life), which is why this correlation exists.
I really want a category of ultra processed foods that are deliberately fortified with more Good Stuff. I’d even be prepared to pay a premium for it. I know there’s a few here and there that might count, but think how much better so many foods could be!
That said, people going on about how the middle of the supermarket is evil—maybe inspect the ingredients list? My coworker was saying how ready made pasta sauce wasn’t as good as the stuff you make yourself health wise, but when I looked at my go-to jar sauce, there was only one suspect number ingredient and the rest was just normal things like actual tomatoes and onions and “real” food all the way though. Not too much added salt or sugar, even, and it tastes delicious too.
I’m sure there are many more hidden gems in the aisles, and I will be looking out for them. We deserve foods that make food prep easy but are also very good for us.
So I was wondering why I recently had a two day migraine. The length of time and its sheer pain level was very uncharacteristic for me and I suspected my doctor, when I got around to seeing him, would want scans. Lighter headaches persisted over the next few days.
In the meantime, went and got my regular two monthly Chinese massage. Every single one of my shoulder and upper back muscles crunched like great big wads of uncracked glowsticks. The masseuse kept making concerned noises as muscles made sounds that could have kept HP Lovecraft up at night. I joked that this is what Christmas does to westerners. She possibly got the sort of workout bodybuilders dream of.
I am now headache free.
Lesson learned. Sometimes you’re just THAT FUCKING TENSE
I HAVE BEEN LAUGHING AT THIS FOR LIKE 10 MINUTES STRAIGHT OH MY GODD
Except I can never NOT parse the “hieroglyphs” on the far right as reading “I dig that ass.” Which still works, TBH.
I would like to put down my argument that Vlad is wearing eyeliner, and this is not just tired eyes/eye-bags. This doesn't negate that he might have dark under-eyes as well, but this is definitely eyeliner.
Exhibit A:
The line around Vlad's eyes are thick and solid black.
We know for a fact that they can and will animate dark under-eyes, as we see with Danny in Control Freaks here:
See! That's not eyeliner, that is the tired eyes look. This is shading, rather than a thick solid line.
Freakshow clearly has eyeliner, and this is not a leap of judgment, seeing as he is explicitly goth.
So when you compare Freakshow's obviously meant to be eyeliner, and look at Vlad, it is very clear that he's wearing eyeliner.
Now his isn't as thick as Freakshow's and the thickness depends on the frame, but it's clearly thicker than other adult characters. See Maddie in this same scene:
So there. This is my submission. Vlad is an edgelord and he's wearing eyeliner and we love that for him.
Do you think Vlad and Sam use the same brand?
I'm so sorry for adding more to this but some of these tags just slap too damn hard
Bonus:
but i'm also not sorry at all
