Quarterpastquotes

Quotes I've found in my readings and connect to or just plain like

[edderkopper]

Today I learned that cuttlefish experience REM sleep, and that it makes their skin flash random colors. This is the cutest thing ever.

[blackbearmagic]

The electric eel at my aquarium has a voltmeter attached to his tank, and whenever he pumps out a burst of electricity–either when he’s navigating his tank or getting fed–the meter lights up and makes noise. Sometimes, I’ll walk past him when he’s snuggled up and totally motionless on his log, and see the voltmeter going crazy.

I am left to assume that he is dreaming, and is sleep-zapping at the things in his dreams.

[arachnospooky]

I am absolutely delighted to learn that electric eels dream of kicking ass.

[targuzzler-deactivated20180224]

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Melissa Cox

[remindertoclick]

Here's your reminder to Click for Palestine today!

If you have time, open the website in different browsers and on different devices as well! 💙💚

[quarterpasttired]

How can I support the No Kings movement if I can't attend in person?

For those unable to attend a protest: this reddit thread outlines and links to dozens of background support you can participate in. It doesn't matter if you are disabled, working, or unable to attend for safety reasons, your voice and your time matter. Some of these links only take minutes to complete and allow us all so show these dipshits our disdain.

[twinicegiantorbiters]

i don’t know why but i’m really amused by the winner of some ‘new kanji’ contest:

compare with the real kanji

座 (seat/gathering), but the two 人 (person) radicals have been moved from next to each other within the 土 (earth) radical to diagonally from each other, making this “social distance(d seating/gathering)”

[jadethest0ne]

This is hilarious, but to further the hilarity, I’d like to point to the fact that half of the “A rank” (runners up) for this contest also are related to 2020 epidemic jokes

First up we have:

Compare with 太

The original kanji means “to gain weight”. But it adds the コ “ko” and ロ  “ro” katakana symbols at the top to represent the weight you gain while staying home due to the corona virus.

Then we have:

Compare with 会 

The original kanjij means “meeting”, but the lower radical is changed to look more like a “Z” to represent Zoom meetings. Thus, the new kanji means “web meetings” or “zoom calls”

And of course another social distancing one:

Compare with 話 

This means “to talk” or “chat”, but it’s changed simply to show the two radicals social distancing from one another as we should also while holding conversations nowadays.

At least we can have some fun language humor despite all of this!

[niuniente]

@goromonkjima

[kirbyfanneox]

That’s really neat! 

Anyway, here’s Loss kanji again.

[firstfullmoon]

Terrance Hayes, from “The Same City” [ID in ALT]

[chillpotato]

- A.R Asher

[metamorphesque]

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice

[perfectfeelings]

“For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.”

— Franz Kafka

[dailykafka]

- July 1, 1913

- The diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1913

[ID: July 1. The wish for an unthinking, reckless solitude. To be face to face only with myself. End ID]

[mysharona1987]

[goreprofonde]

- Ollie Schminkey, My Father.

[muhtesemz]

“Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commercials. Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking someone else in the eye and realizing you could be them, and that all that separates you is luck.”

— Dennis Lehane (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[ryebreadgf]

[serratedpens]

Eden Robinson, “Writing Prompts for the Broken-hearted”

[lousydrawingsforgoodpeople]

worst kind of lonely

[anisangel-deactivated20230307]

commission i did for @lethbians <3