Screw Everything

Probably the most random things you will see!

[bigandretired-deactivated202501]

[weltenwellen]

“Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.”

— José Saramago, tr. by Tim Crosfield, from his nobel speech c. 1998

[hairtusk]

Simone Weil, 'Void and Compensation' (in Gravity and Grace, trans. Emma Craufurd)

[123k789y-deactivated20181011]

[gypsyastronaut]

[osabishi-yama]

[calicofae]

social media has really warped our perception of creativity and hobbies. Stop doing things to post them. Just write. Just journal. Just sketch. Just read. Just annotate. Just sing. Just crochet. Just do the thing you’re going to do with the assumption no one will ever see or know you did it. Stop performing. Just enjoy it.

[itstimetogo]

the only “data centers” we need are public libraries

[somethoughtseeds]

[perequiste]

go on more walks. walk for no reason. walk to solve a problem. walk to blow off steam. walk to get outside. walk to listen, read, and learn. walk to escape distractions. walk to improve your health. walk to think. a simple walking habit can change absolutely everything.

[mofohngo]

La Perla, San Juan, Puerto Rico

[anorthsidestory]

[antidisneyinc]

when hayao miyazaki said that true love was two people inspiring each other to live…recognizing just how hard living is, putting one foot in front of the other every day, how easy it is to lose our passion for it…… that’s the real shit

[smsomah]

Afghanistan. Kim Landgraf: The photos of Afghanistan were taken by my father in the years 1968 to 1972 when he was living in Kabul with his young family.

[1five1two]

Temple of the Sun. Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico.

[ryan-sometimes]

Tumblr I need everyone to log in rn because the most important, quotable, instantly iconic celebrity post of the century just dropped

[ryan-sometimes]

A ship — a magnificent ship — full of gay men. And me.

I am furious, but I am sailing.

[thepanaculty]

And what is the charge?! A ship??? A magnificent ship full of gay men and me?!

[darlingofdots]

at a conference I attended recently, a researcher pointed to the difficulty of finding material in archives because so much depends on the metadata and the terminology used to describe things changes over time. "it would be so helpful," the researcher said, "if I typed 'lesbian' into the library of congress database, it would also show me results that were categorised in the 50s, when the materials were interpreted as 'intimate female friendships'"

which is what tag wrangles at Archive Of Our Own do incredibly effectively: searching for "omegaverse" also leads to "alpha/beta/omega dynamics" and "alternate universe: a/b/o" and so on. but ao3 achieves this frankly incredible categorisation and indexing system by the power of countless volunteers putting in hours and hours of unpaid and unthanked free time, and it's completely understandable that most archives do not have that kind of infrastructure, but also how incredible that a fan-run website has better searchability, classification, and accessibility than the library of congress