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t4nku

I legit needed to hear this

nonpsychotic

I love the amount of hatred the 2021 car is drawn with. because I agree

#accurate

mapsontheweb

Passenger trains in US vs Europe (image is making the rounds among U.S. transit advocates today)

rumbustious-backhander

High speed rail in China on 2008 VS 2020

somethingusefulfromflorida

currentlycryingaboutlancelot

i do think a lot of implausible medieval plot devices make more sense when considering the fact that these people simply did not have glasses

currentlycryingaboutlancelot

like the king arthur problem of how were these people always accidentally sleeping with the wrong person? well 1) no glasses 2) no lights and candles are so expensive 3) royal couples didn’t even sleep in the same bed a lot of the time anyway 4) arranged marriage how much do you really know your spouse anyway? maybe not very well a lot of the time 5) people are drinking a lot idk. maybe not as absurd as one might think

currentlycryingaboutlancelot

this post is brought to you by the one time i woke up at a sleepover and realized that without my glasses i could not distinguish one friend from the other. haunting. all of arthurian literature was unlocked to me at that moment

enricorig

Medical Center Mother Theresa - Skopje 2025

lizardsfromspace

Hello, welcome to 2050, our gallery - oh, no, that art is not done with AI, the industry collapsed decades ago, but human artists have rediscovered the aesthetic and are using it ironically. Yeah they call it Neo-Modern AI Chic, they've been trying to recover surviving slop and put it in the archives. Oh, we're very into 2020s aesthetics now. You remember, Hyperlink Unburbia? Rustic Pseudo-Cryptid? Self-Care Shadowscape? You don't...know any of those? That's weird. They really define your time, is all, uh, and we're into it

earlgraytay

That china dog that ornaments the bedroom of my furnished lodgings. ...I do not admire it myself. Considered as a work of art, I may say it irritates me. Thoughtless friends jeer at it, and even my landlady herself has no admiration for it, and excuses its presence by the circumstance that her aunt gave it to her.

But in 200 years’ time it is more than probable that that dog will be dug up from somewhere or other, minus its legs, and with its tail broken, and will be sold for old china, and put in a glass cabinet. And people will pass it round, and admire it. They will be struck by the wonderful depth of the colour on the nose, and speculate as to how beautiful the bit of the tail that is lost no doubt was.

We, in this age, do not see the beauty of that dog. We are too familiar with it. It is like the sunset and the stars: we are not awed by their loveliness because they are common to our eyes. So it is with that china dog. In 2288 people will gush over it. The making of such dogs will have become a lost art. Our descendants will wonder how we did it, and say how clever we were. We shall be referred to lovingly as “those grand old artists that flourished in the nineteenth century, and produced those china dogs.”

-- Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome, 1889

headspace-hotel

Unburbia...

lustingupon

tomfoolerytotality

Looking back on 2020, I think it's hilarious that Wellerman of all shanties is the one that blew up online. It's not a song about life on the high seas or adventuring

It's the "Where the fuck is my delivery" song

stevishabitat

389

by Oleg A. Korolev

sceptixfakemon

this heatwave fucking sucks how am I going to serve my liege like this

sceptixfakemon

im never leaving this hellsite

sceptixfakemon

i swear if this is the second stupid sword picture post i make that gets to 10k i'll just go kill someone

sceptixfakemon

FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!!!!

hupperts

bluebeetletedkord

lastnightspants

saint-batrick

that photo is one of the sexiest things i have ever seen.

acutely-unaware

Tall women don’t you ever feel insecure, you hold so much power with just a simple stance, I love youuuuuuuuu

aichu-dechu

sistersorrow

The discussion around prediction markets (see: betting apps) is getting weirder as time goes on

Like, I can understand people using the data from that to gauge public opinion on which outcomes are more likely, but now some people seem to be treating betting apps as predictive models or digital oracles

The discussion is shifting from "according to this app, X% of people think Y will happen" to "according to this app, there is an X% chance of Y happening"