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sub specie aeternitatis

[dragon-in-a-fez]

keep thinking about how I wrote in my dissertation about how every time a new form of public/social space emerges it's immediately popular with kids and teenagers who see it as a chance at freedom and then adults colonise it and kick them out. this happened with malls in the 80s and diners in the 50s and pool halls in the 20s. my dad was doing research on this trend in like 1975. and I was like "yeah so this is going to happen to the internet" and then five years later every government suddenly decided to ban kids from everywhere online. I hate being right especially when I don't even get paid for it

[uhode]

some of the tables i’ve encountered this summer

[uhode]

an additon, since you seem to love it

[uhode]

here you go, have some more <3

[frecht]

the penguin logo on angela carter’s books (heroes and villains, saints and strangers, fireworks, the bloody chamber)

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[evilsoup]

the cultural object of the black hole is kind of remarkable. It's almost an anti-God in a sense, a negative infinity. Yeah there's this kind of dead sun that's collapsed into an infinitely dense point, and if you fall past its event horizon you're fucked. Every schoolchild knows this. A black hole can be introduced in a superhero blockbuster without any explanation except for its established look and the name "black hole", and this will be understood as the ultimate natural disaster, which even superman could not hope to defeat. truly S-tier cosmic object

[not-terezi-pyrope]

If there's any proof we need that our reality is made of math, it's that graph function singularities exist as physical features of our world. Undefined algebraic points exist, we can see them, they float around space touching things and fucking them up beyond all recognition, and they look like marauding black death wrapped in a spherical gradient of tortured spacetime.

Like, words literally cannot describe how cool black holes are. If they did not actually exist, I doubt that the world's 100 top rated sci-fi writers locked in a room for a month brainstorming could come up with anything nearly as good. When do you ever get something that is as top tier psychologically impactful as it is so deeply rooted in fundamental scientific truth about reality?

[charyou-tree]

A billion and a half years ago, 2 black holes in a suicide pact of a too-tight orbit finally collided and merged into an even larger black hole.

This event produced a shuddering in the fabric of reality that spread out through the universe at the speed of light. During the brief milliseconds of the merger, these two black holes were radiating 50X more power than all of the fusion in all of the stars in the entire observable universe, and turning all of that radiated energy directly into distortions of the coordinate system of the universe.

Eventually, we detected the first such event in 2015. Two mathematical abominations of gravity collided on the other side of the universe, and it rattled spacetime so hard that we felt it quake here on Earth billions of light years away.

Black holes are genuine cosmic horrors.

[ghibli-collector]

Studio Ghibli Museum Happy New Year 2025 illustration by Hayao Miyazaki (year of the snake).

[ghibli-collector]

[ghibli-collector]

[unsubconscious]

‘Novel Coat-hangers’  from The Australian Womans Weekly, Toys and Gifts, 1972 

[beardedmrbean]

[theman]

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

[tattooedzombigirl]

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

[secondlina]

Reblogging because it’s a damn potato and I want to encourage people to assume potatoes are magical.

[soviet-union-deactivated19911226]

I love you mathematical objects I love you logic I love you algebra I love you analysis I love you rigorous definitions I love you beautiful equations that may not necessarily have applications I love you mathematical proofs I love you pure mathematics I love you I love you I love you

[sop-soap]

love the new ghibli protagonist. what a little freak (affectionate). he has NO chill. a kid shoves him at the start of the movie and he instantly tackles them and proceeds to fight his entire class. he bashed his head in with a rock and tried to walk it off. the bird in his garden was doing funny things and he instantly starts making plans to murder it. was ready to beat the shit out of that pelican. i just know if he was allowed to curse he would have called that heron a bitch ass mother fucker. mahito was NOT fucking around.

[st4rm41d]

wow! that was a fun accidental 2 hour session of video's game. now to go to the kitchen to check on my pet Pot Of Boiling Water...

[d1nosaurpower]

One thing about researching world around you is that it becomes a bit friendlier once you know it better. If you see a random spider- you get scared. You see plants and consider them just weeds. You look at night sky and see a bunch of stars.

And then, you learn names.

Now, it is an orbweaver, and you consider them a friend. The greenery around is a laurel, or an alium, or osmanthus, and you know which of them to keep away from, and which of them are great herbs for tea. Now, you look up and see a whole parade of Venus, Ursa Major, or Orion. You now know their names, and, if you respect them- they become allies of yours.

[caesarsaladinn]

romanticizing your life is such a powerful tool and it’s a shame that it’s mostly used by people on tiktok to justify the purchase of expensive breakfast smoothies when there are few better ways to force oneself through unpleasant shit than imagining a cinematic backstory for your extremely quotidian suffering

[caesarsaladinn]

finding the strength to walk home from the library at 3am in the freezing rain by imagining yourself as a Napoleonic soldier hightailing it from Moscow in 1813

[boymiffy]

summer is for loneliness and eating fruit and warm rain at night

[boymiffy]

summer is for loneliness and eating fruit and warm rain at night

[girlbossed-too-close-to-the-sun]

donna tartt: literally writes an entire 600 page book about how it can be dangerous to do things just for the aesthetic

us, already making pinterest boards: oh to be a classics student in vermont in the 80s drinking whiskey from a teacup and occasionally murdering people 

[dolerme]

“one wild summer“ by edwin zhang for nylon china aug 22