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John Atkinson Grimshaw - Nocturnal harbor scenes

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

My cartoon for this week’s New Scientist

i appreciate that everyone is having a good time w the stabbing memes but every year im a bit like

fuck terry pulling no punches in this one

I eagerly await the moment when Tumblr introduces ranked voting. It's the feature no-one but me asks for (and therefore has a chance of being implemented), and I can only hope it would generate some deeply niche discourse about the true meaning of Arrow's impossibility theorem.

WIP of Jayce and Viktor levitation

WIP of Jayce and Viktor levitation

Clean version of a comic I drew in history class

Lukewarm take: it's not bad but it's not as good as the first season, and a lot of the reasons why can be traced to the fact that the only character that had political convictions died at the end of season 1.

Whyyyyyyy do people think that arcane s2 is good? It’s like comedically bad and so many people are talking like it’s awesome. Red what is your take on why people think it’s good

tune in on friday for my two-hour video about why I think it's good

”Hey Kellin, your mother was a whore!” is still one of the funniest and most batshit lines in Malevolent because it comes directly out of left field. Whores are literally never referenced again (except as a callback to that line, which happens the very same episode). John nor Yellow nor the King ever make reference to any other hypothetical whores or slutshaming in any regard. The Entity just decided to be a bitch like that. It’s like a preteen who learned precisely one swear and is trying to shock you by saying it as loudly and as clearly as possible to get a reaction out of you. Who taught him those words. Where is his mother.

Describing Terry Pratchett’s books is difficult. Someone asked me what the book I was reading was about, and I had to tell them it was about banking and the gold standard, but like in a cool way with golems and action. 

 I don’t think they believed me.

I love people at grocery stores.

I have been looking for ground coriander for an embarrassingly long time. I have moved my cart out of the way 7 times for people who actually know where stuff is. I move to the side, looking thoughtful so people know that they should say “excuse me” and grab what they need instead of waiting.

Someone stands beside me. They stand beside me for a couple of minutes, which is 10,000 years in grocery store time. “What are you looking for?” I ask. “I’ll look for yours if you’ll look for mine, we’ve been standing here long enough to look at everything except what we’re looking for.” They almost immediately find my ground coriander, and I find them their ground whit poor.

I go up to two young women. “Excuse me, I know this is weird,” immediate suspicion, “I know you don’t work here,” relaxation, “but do you have any idea where the crushed tomatoes would be? It’s not in with all the other canned tomatoes.” Relief. And I’ll be damned but it was in the pasta aisle like they said - turns out, there’s more overlap between “tomato” and “tomato sauce” than you would think.

I am 5’5”, looking at something on the top shelf. A man about my height stands next to me, looking up. I ask him which one he needs. He knows more English than I know Spanish, but we end up mostly doing charades. I scoop our [cereal, soup? can’t remember] off the top shelf using a packet of spaghetti I picked up earlier as leverage.

I love you, everyone I’ve met at the grocery store.

oh to be a pup being painted - by William Henry Hamilton Trood (1848-1899). 

This meme is inescapable on French insta so I'm posting it here for all to enjoy

- Timothy Snyder. The first and perhaps most important lesson from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons for the Twentieth Century (2017)

Snyder's new book, On Freedom, was published in 2024.

"tiktok has massive problems that even if you don't agree with a complete ban have to be addressed for all social media platforms" and "the Chinese government is doing pretty awful things" and "there is a lot of sinophobic fearmongering and double standards in the conversation about tiktok" and "people should exercise basic caution signing up to foreign or domestic social media" and "most Chinese citizens like US citizens are just people living their life and cultural exchange between them can be beneficial for both sides" and "some people being on the same social media site isn't going to solve everything " and "I want to study the linguistics happening there under a microscope" are opinions that can coexist

Jean-Marie Le Pen est mort 💖

LE PEN EST MORT!!!

(Source)

It is unclear where that leaves France's government for the immediate future — because of President Macron's odd decision to call snap elections that led to the current nearly-three-way-split legislature, no further elections can be called until the summer.

according to time period, arthur lester and bertram wilberforce wooster could meet. they could very much interact.