But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.
Medieval marijuana, from a 12th-century medical and herbal collection: publicdomainreview.org/collection/m...
The Latin at the bottom reads: "Grows but in waste places, and at roadsides, and along hedges. The very best medicine for healing."
#Happy420 #fourtwenty #420day
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Illustration of a wombat with a rounded, stout body covered in dense fur. The wombat is shown in profile, with short ears, small dark eyes, a broad nose, and prominent claws on its front paws. It appears to be resting on the ground near grass and low vegetation. The detailed, textured shading emphasizes the animal’s thick fur and muscular build. The title "THE WOMBAT (Phascolomys Wombat)" is printed beside the image, indicating its scientific classification. The style reflects 19th-century natural history prints, focusing on anatomical accuracy and natural habitat.
🦝 The mammals of Australia: .
Sydney: Thomas Richards, government printer, 1871..
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“In China bats have long been considered lucky creatures because the written symbol for bat has the same pronunciation as that for happiness. Consequently, bats are frequently featured in textile patterns and porcelain designs in both China and Japan. Since the perfection of the full moon is also viewed as an auspicious occurrence, the combination of a bat and the moon suggests exponential happiness.” color woodblock print of a black bat flying in front of a full moon
Happy International #BatAppreciationDay 🦇!
Takahashi Bihō (Japan, b.1873)
#Bat and Moon, c. 1928–30
Woodblock print (shin hanga / kachō-e), ink & color on paper
Sheet 10 3/4 x 11 3/16 in. (27.3 x 28.4 cm)
MIA P.77.28.46 collections.artsmia.org/art/91665/ba...
#JapaneseArt
I bring a sort of Forbidden Vibe to InternalServerError that Rate Limit Exceeded don't really like
trying to post through it rn
These fuckin chuds
Naming your biology LLM after Rosalind Franklin is… hell is not hot enough
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...
Parisian Brutalism r/brutalism
People often posit that the future is dependent on what we do today. And that may be the case.
But I am thinking more and more that what we do today actually depends on our image of the future.
When I apply this to our current library fight, this crystallizes.
Brutalism in South Korea feels incredibly modern. r/brutalism
#OtD 9 Apr 1914 Basque anarchist, feminist and Civil War fighter Casilda Hernaez was born. Jailed for striking and again for radical activity, she then fought Franco and later helped the French and Spanish anti-fascist resistance movements stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1087...
A McDonald’s where the sign has been reduced to McDo.
There is no McTry.
A very stocky Exmoor Horn ram.
Happy 8th anniversary to the tweet that changed us forever. Look at this absolute unit.
A very interesting episode of Red Medicine with Joana Masó, author of Healing Institutions (MIT Press) about the life and work psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles.
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/r...
Col·lectius pel dret a la salut impulsen una ILP que "blindi" la gestió pública de la sanitat: "La sindicatura de comptes reconeix que el sistema de pagament de serveis és un desastre"
left: Strange Fruit. Billie Holiday, Café Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights by David Margolick. Foreword by Hilton Als Right: Lady Sings the Blues. The Searing Autobiography of an American Musical Legend by Billie Holiday with William Dufty
Whether you know her as Eleanora Fagan or Lady Day, you can't say you don't know her.
This included a man named Harry Anslinger, a rabid racist by even his era's standard. His deadly vendetta against her hinged on a song that helped define her.
Billie Holiday was born 111 years ago today
J. D. Vance is... bell hooks' Wario?
