[i-am-the-oyster]

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

we're at the stage of the exponential where Anthropic employees randomly tweet out counterexamples to famous conjectures

[anywhoozles]

[redescription]

i'm partway through brian k. vaughan & pia guerra's y: the last man, and just last week i was reading the part of the storyline where the wives of dead republican senators argue that they are entitled to their husbands' seats (and then try to seize them by force), so the apointment of darline graham has really been hitting different for me rn

[redescription]

i have never once felt even the slightest bit tempted to read a rachel cusk book, but the busybody side of me that once avidly consumed the weird jonathan safran foer/natalie portman emails may eventually be called to read life of m

[nohoperadio]

Menial chores and drudgery get a bad rap, but really there's something to be said for work that merely demands the application of time and straightforward unglamorous effort and has simple unambiguous parameters for completion. If the only way to unlock the state of having achieved something worthwhile was by doing things that express your values, virtues and personality, well that would soon become a heavy burden I think.

[snarp]

Only when global IP law is fairly reformed will audiences be able to experience my challenging cinematic masterpiece, Spiderman 0: He's Not In This. Where you go into the theater and it screens a randomly-selected entry from the database of all films in existence that never mention or depict Spiderman in any form. We literally can't even build the database until we fix the legal situation, I fucking checked.

[redescription]

petty irritation aside, i'm actually really sad that with the current administration in power, there is literally zero chance of creating a cross-border task force to tackle wildfire mitigation. massive forest fires are going to continue to be a problem on both sides of the border and would be best addressed with substantial international cooperation (like the bilateral '91 canada-us air quality agreement, which even fucking bush sr. and mulroney could cooperate on). there is the opportunity for so, so much more damage before we make it to 2029

[redescription]

cannot help but roll my eyes at republican lawmakers throwing hissy fits over the canadian forest fires while actively blocking any useful action on climate change. unlike some other jurisdictions i might name, we don't burn coal for electricity in this province. please electrify your vehicles and come up with a coal exit strategy

[redescription]

i have no idea whether to attribute this to normal age-related taste bud changes or whether it's a side effect of going vegan or a combination of both, but in the last 2-3 years i went from having a pretty major sweet tooth to pretty much never wanting anything sweeter than a clementine. i don't even like the taste of cookies anymore! it find it a deeply weird development, especially since i've made exactly zero deliberate moves to reduce my sugar consumption. i still have pleasant psychological associations with a lot of sweet foods, which has often led me to buy things out of habit that i no longer enjoy eating. like, i've frequently bought some candy that i used to love when i was a kid or maybe a frappucino or a previously-loved pastry or something, and then realized only in the process of eating it that i wasn't actually into it. but on the flip side, i have never been more obsessed with salty foods. i need to keep salted peanuts and almonds and sunflower seeds around so i don't just eat chips literally constantly

[redescription]

i generally do not suffer from "this meeting could have been an email", but i do routinely suffer acutely from "this 84-email thread could have been a meeting"

[redescription]

fully accepting that at age 35 i have no choice but to stretch and strength train if i want to stay uninjured is so annoying

[redescription]

seems like i may have a touch of the achilles tendonitis in the right ankle (the one i sprained two years ago). the singular positive aspect of the outdoor air being too toxic to breathe right now is that it is enforcing a couple rest days for me, during which i have been calf raising for my life

[hyperions-fate]

Qajar era painting of a lady playing a tar, Iran, c. early 19th century.

[nobrashfestivity]

Via amandapourlesintimes

[hustlerose]

give a man a NEW LAMBORGHINI and he'll SLEEP for a day. teach a man KNOWLEDGE and he'll DRIVE UP HERE IN THE HOLLYWOOD HILLS

[hideback]

Cicada, Stages of Conventionalization

Hugo Froelich, Keramic Studio Magazine, 1905