INGENIUM SUPERAT VIRES

Specialising in insouciance as riposte to a world that can seem intrusive, pandemonic and daunting at times. • INFJ 5w6 sx/so 512 •

[pearlcaddy]

The Expanse 4.05

[alderain-moved-deactivated20160]

August 4, 1914

“I very much regret to announce that we are now at war with Germany.”

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[beeftea78-deactivated20200113]

oh! I have to tell you guys a great story one of my professors told me. So he has a friend who is involved in these Shakespeare outreach programs where they try to bring Shakespeare and live theatre to poor and underprivileged groups and teach them about English literature and performing arts and such. On one of their tours they stopped at a young offenders institute for women and they put on a performance of Romeo and Juliet for a group of 16-17 year old girls. It was all going really well and the girls were enjoying and laughing through the first half - because really, the first half is pretty much a comedy - but as the play went on, things started to get quiet. Real quiet. Then it got up to the suicide scene and mutterings broke out and all the girls were nudging each other and looking distressed, and as this teacher observed them, he realised - they didn’t know how the play ended. These girls had never been exposed to the story of Romeo and Juliet before, something which he thought was impossible given how ubiquitous it is in our culture. I mean, the prologue even gives the ending away, but of course it doesn’t specify exactly how the whole “take their life” thing goes down, so these poor girls had no idea what to expect and were sitting there clinging to hope that Romeo would maybe sit down for a damn minute instead of murdering Paris and chugging poison - but BAM he died and they all cried out - and then Juliet WOKE UP and they SCREAMED and by the end of the play they were so upset that a brawl nearly broke out, and that’s the story of how Shakespeare nearly started a riot at a juvenile detention centre

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

Apparently something similar happened during a production of Much Ado at Rikers Island because a bunch of inmates wanted to beat the shit out of Claudio, which is more than fair tbh

[let-the-awful-song-be-heard]

honestly Shakespeare would be so pleased to know his plays were nearly starting brawls centuries into the future

[theabigailthorn]

I played Claudio once and I fully support this

[bemusedlybespectacled]

“When we took Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure” into a maximum security woman’s prison on the West Side…there’s a scene there where a young woman is told by a very powerful official that “If you sleep with me, I will pardon your brother. And if you don’t sleep with me, I’ll execute him.” And he leaves the stage. And this character, Isabel, turned out to the audience and said: “To whom should I complain?” And a woman in the audience shouted: “The Police!” And then she looked right at that woman and said: “If I did relate this, who would believe me?” And the woman answered back, “No one, girl.” And it was astonishing because not only was it an amazing sense of connection between the audience and the actress, but you also realized that this was a kind of an historical lesson in theater reception. That’s what must have happened at The Globe. These soliloquies were not simply monologues that people spoke, they were call and response to the audience. And you realized that vibrancy, that that sense of connectedness is not only what makes theater great in prisons, it’s what makes theater great, period.”

Oskar Eustis

[beckywiththegoodhijab]

Dear kids: sometimes, self-care is ridiculously unsexy. It's cleaning your filthy bathroom after weeks of ignoring it. It's washing your bedsheets and vacuuming your floors. It's forcing yourself to take a shower and brush your teeth. When that temporary motivation strikes, RIDE THAT WAVE as far as you possibly can. It's the kindest thing you can do for yourself sometimes.

[only-tiktoks]

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

I think if there was a chance of seeing a drag queen hanging off a mountain lip syncing to backstreet boys, that would actually be enough to make me take up hiking

[sottopressione1]

Aquatar Water Park, Qatar

[lowmeninyellowcoats]

People enter and the only thing that comes out the bottom is gelatinized gore

[elparra]

this looks like a PS1 Final Fantasy background

[redshifting]

You enter the top and come out the bottom in 2-3 business days

[kinodraws]

howl’s moving large hadron collider

[6qubed]

TorboTubeaTron

[anaja-theratbird]

Imagine realizing a few seconds in that you don’t want to do this

[6qubed]

your compliance is no longer a factor

[reality-detective]

How an Armadillo gathers foliage for its nest.

[cipheramnesia]

When I'm carrying all the bags of groceries inside in one trip.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Prof says he'll grade students on a curve, so they organize a boycott of the exams and all get As

Johns Hopkins Computer Science prof Professor Peter Fröhlich grades his students on a curve: the highest score on the final gets an A and everyone else is graded accordingly.

Clever students in Fröhlich’s “Intermediate Programming”, “Computer System Fundamentals,” and “Introduction to Programming for Scientists and Engineers” figured out that this meant that if they all boycotted the exam, they’d all get As.

So they organized a boycott, milling around the hall outside the class where the exams were being sat, sternly reminding each other that if no one sat the exam they’d all get straight As, ignoring Fröhlich’s pleas to come and sit the exam.

Fröhlich praised his students’ solidarity: “The students learned that by coming together, they can achieve something that individually they could never have done. At a school that is known (perhaps unjustly) for competitiveness I didn’t expect that reaching such an agreement was possible.”

https://boingboing.net/2018/04/24/hang-together-or-hang-separate-2.html

[saysomethinghuman-deactivated20]

Who will ride or die with me this hard

[anexperimentallife]

I love that even the professor was like, “YES! They did good!”

[ferrous-princess]

He told a bunch of PROGRAMMING students that he was going to grade on a curve.

PROGRAMING.

Like half of programming is looking at sorting algorithms and asking “what could break this?” They looked at the grading algorithm (curve grading) and noticed “if every grade is the same, everything is at the top of the list” and “the easiest way to get all the grades to be the same is to set them all to zero.”

Of course the professor praised them. He may have taught them the exact type of logic that had them organize the boycott in the first place. They found a bug in his grading system and loudly exploited it.

[cityrun]

i like to run and jump in my own home just for the hell of it. i will sprint from the kitchen to my bedroom for no reason whatsoever. is it necessary? no. will i do it anyway? absolutely

[ace-bestos]

op is a cat

[cityrun]

mind your business

[killyourselvesihateyou-deactiva]

go crazy go stupid

[violetsandshrikes]

no…the way this was posted like an hour before the announcement…the pine martin- no. no he couldn’t have…

[fluffy-top]

Funniest and worst thing about the soulsborne/Elden Ring series is just that when something kills you it doesn’t stop trying to kill you. It just keeps violently hitting you like DIEDIEDIE 

[mestruazioni]

the queen dying is taking attention away from the true great loss of the last few days: thurston waffles' passing. fuck dusty old monarchs, at 15 years my baby just wanted to yell and eat shrimps and he still had a positive impact on more lives than the royal family ever did

rest in peace sweet prince ❤️❤️❤️

[weaver-z]

[kitsune-kaos]

[jakemorph]

now quickly. landback

[jakemorph]

let your hopes for a better future be with the palawa, koori, murri, yolŋu, aṉangu, first south australians, nyoongah, torres strait, murray and mer island peoples, and all other first peoples of australia and oceania who might be one step closer to sovereignty of their own land with the passing of one more false sovereign 🖤💛❤

[soberscientistlife]

THIS ☝🏼☝🏼☝🏼☝🏼☝🏼

Anything else is child abuse.