Cabin crew: Is there a Dr on board?
Me: I am a Dr
Cabin crew: Thank God. We have a question about the 18th century textile trade in Northern Africa
Me: Ah. I'm afraid my PhD is in the ceramics of Northern Europe, 1672 - 1701
Damning report by Clifford Ando on financial mismanagement at the University of Chicago and its negative impact on the humanities uchicago.app.box.com/s/siblbp8s6z...
A weighted blanket isn't enough. I need to be compressed into a zip file
Apparently the non-genocide discourse right now is “NaNoWriMo is biased against women and caregivers because it happens in November which is the start of the holidays” and honestly I could weep with joy, a flawless internet casus belli
I just posted this on twt so apologies if you follow me there too but if I started some sort of writing accountability stream on like twitch or something would anyone want to join? I’m thinking Tuesdays/Thursdays if that helps I am getting desperate to find any way to actually get my work done
Yeah okay I think that your reply actually proves my point lol
I just watched a documentary about the solar system that framed climate change as “the logical result of overpopulation” rather than due to the Industrial Revolution and oil companies and this is why we must force every stem student to take a humanities course (at gun point if necessary)
It was literally an autistic special interest PvP (derogatory)
(I was right)
Me and my professor just had a tense debate that on the surface was about what a distaff is but also was clearly both of us feeling like our knowledge of our special interests were being challenged and so neither of us could let it go for the entire class
my cats when anyone who doesn't live here comes over
you're laughing? an inept politician who ceded most of his power and suffered through 15 mortifying of rounds of voting to become speaker has now been removed as a result of those concessions, and you're laughing?
do you think anderson cooper regrets asking lady gaga about her hog
(me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao
Me in 20,000 BC:
Forbidden drink
It should be illegal to cover Running up that hill at this point, like do you really think you’ll do better than The Kate Bush???
Humans of New York © •. • X 3h. © "He doesn't love me, that's for sure. You can project human qualities onto these things until they bite your ass cheek. He bit my ass cheek. Middle of the night, wife asleep in the bed, I bend over to pick something up, and he bites me right on the ass. He's very dangerous if he doesn't get his way. If you aren't accommodating his wishes, he can screech you right into the ground. He won't go in his cage. Our entire apartment is filled with driftwood from the Hudson. He likes to sit on the driftwood when he watches TV. He'll take food off our plates. If anyone is talking, he has to be there. He wants to be part of everything. And the worst part is they won't die. They live to be 80 or 100. You know the saying: 'This too shall pass'? Not the umbrella cockatoo. This too, shall not pass. There's no hope. That's the horror of it. I told this to a nine-year old girl in the park. This girl was a genius. She says: 'You'll never have to say goodbye. You have an infinite pet.' It was the darkest thing l've ever heard."
remember the lady from New York who was cursed forever by ass-biting cockatoo ownership
A screenshot of a chapter of the book “From Samarkand to Sardis”, the relevant, underlined bit reads “his third name is a pet, or family, name, common in most human societies”
Obsessed with this scholar who felt the need to explain how nicknames are “common in most human societies” feels like something an alien studying humans would say
I just mean I'm standing in a supermarket right now and coming to the realization that "texas tea," "english tea," and "arizona tea" are all very different understandings of what boiling leaves create.
like part of the fun of enjoying lovecraft's style of horror is making jokes about how the unknowable evil of forbidden geometry and weird fishpeople was just him being afraid of guys from Long Island
I miss the old classics twitter in the sense that I miss back when I was young enough, enthusiastic enough, and felt safe and happy and engaged enough to post long, winding threads full of my own interpretations of ancient texts. Those were good days.
it’s sad reading like 14th century Christian theologians who spent an inordinate amount of time writing “OK there are exactly 3,892 demons and these are their names and these are their powers”… man, you would have loved Dragonball Z
The Senate's dress code should be those Nascar driving suits where you can see everyone who gave buddy money
everything in my life could be going wrong and this fucker will always have my back
Me and all my online friends
Photo of a rolled-up and folded lead curse tablet, found at the Roman hippodrome (circus) at Antioch on the Orontes, one of the major Hellenistic cities of the Mediterranean. In the 5th century. CE, it was part of the eastern Roman empire, but its glory was fading rapidly. The Greek lettering can't be seen here, as the photo was taken before the curse tablet was unrolled. Discovered during the 1934 excavations of the circus of Antioch. Princeton University Art Museum
*Somebody* was a sore loser! This rolled-up 5th c. CE curse tablet, found at the circus in Antioch, calls on a whole pantheon of gods to curse the imperially-sponsored blue faction (chariot team).
'... bind, destroy, and utterly subdue the horses of the Blue faction.' 😱🐴💀 1/
Painting of a young person pondering an orb by Legh Mulhall Kilpin
Pondering My Orb wizard meme
Celebrating 544 yrs on T today!! First pic is me at 6 months.
Happy Wizard Wednesday, trust the process!!!! 🔮