hannah

last universal common ancestor

[cowboylikecahir]

our expedition of franklin is collapsing

[papayajuan2019]

but that's beyond the scope of this post

[jellco]

RIHANNA Grand Kadooment Day in Barbados (August 2026)

[madeleineengland]

Olga Karlatos as Dido in "Aeneid" (1971)

[boringkate]

When I was a kid watching tv was idiot coded and nerds read books, but now scrolling shortform videos is considered braindead behavior and watching tv means you're some kinda intellectual. You might think this shifting assessment of media's consumers might make readers into absolute super geniuses, but no. Only perverts read now.

[iphigeniacomplex]

fuuuuuuck💔💔💔

[kedreeva]

I think that part of what irks me about AI being used even for "small" stuff like meme graphics (aside from all the larger problems obviously) is like.... the time spent on it was part of the humor. "this is a silly inconsequential joke but I had to stop everything and spend 5 minutes making it" was, at least for me, part of the joke. Someone really took time out of their day to make me look at something silly they took time out of their day to make. Now it's like someone took time out of my day to make me look at something no one even made. Stop wasting my time if you aren't wasting yours too.

[navigatorsnorth]

Phenomenal spare wheel cover I walked past the other day

[caesarsaladinn]

the medieval peasant is a sort of mythological archetype that mostly exists to win arguments about the problems with modern society

[caesarsaladinn]

a very, very rough sketch but you see my general point

[iphigeniacomplex]

“our age of bronze is collapsing” is this beautiful random burst of monty python dialogue amidst the drudgery of nolan’s vision and i think it should win the first-ever oscar for best solitary line

[iphigeniacomplex]

[wringing my hands as i look out my window directly overlooking wall street, watching the sun rise on october 29, 1929] aw fuck it’s the great depression

[industrial-humping-mutilation]

the ancient romans also had the backrooms but they thought it was normal so they didnt write it down

[creasecrashing]

Always trust a newspaper's Letters to the Editor section to contain someone with Extremely Specific Grievances

[gizromana]

Let’s hope I will actually finish this one and not just leave it as it is

[yvesdot]

I have seen a young lady with her table loaded with volumes loaded of fictitious trash, poring day after day and night after night over highly wrought scenes and skillfully portrayed pictures of romance, until her cheeks grew pale, her eyes became wild and reckless, and her mind wandered and was lost — the light of intelligence passed behind a cloud, and her soul was forever benighted. She was insane, incurably insane from reading novels.

-- an anonymous pastor in 1864, on the greatest threat to young women

[catilinas]

every time someone incorrectly says julius caesar was the first roman emperor i come up with a new annoying take on who was and wasn't a roman emperor. so far i'm at (and these are all exclusive of one another)

the first emperor was pompey

the second emperor was mark antony

the second emperor was agrippa

the first emperor was tiberius

dolabella. can we get him in there

[p-clodius-pulcher]

Late republican history always reads like:

In the consulship of whovius giveus ashittus, a plebeian tribune* proposed a law to stop setting poor people on fire to heat the homes of the senators. This sparked weeks of bloody fighting in the streets at the end of which the tribune was exploded badstyle and the law was unanimously voted down

* it is speculated that the tribune was seeking praetorship which is why the law was presented to the senate

[seracadash]

(goverment voice) we need to protect the children from pornography so our plan is to remove their eyes so they would never see something so traumatic. if you are against removing children's eyes you are basically a pedophile