"You should always make time for books."
―The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick
I am becoming aware of the effect a lack of trust in the media has had on people, paired with a dearth of research skills.
Your daily dose of cat memes
#yes please
The only acceptable ads should be shit like "groceries on sale" and "free event at the local library"
zoro was so funny during the arlong park arc. 1 day after getting sliced in half by mihawk and almost dying and he’s like alright who do I get to fuck up next. getting tied to the ship by usopp n johnny because he’s ready to go in swords a blazing. throwing himself into the water with his hands and legs tied forcing nami to save him. decimating half of arlong’s crew and then sitting on arlong’s throne complaining out loud about how bored he was and how he hoped luffy would get there soon. messing with hachi. falling asleep immediately after telling nojiko he’d listen to her story. actively bleeding out / getting his shit rocked and still being more concerned about luffy. all while wearing a hawaiian shirt
Also apparently Galileo didn’t get put on trial by the Catholic Church just because of heliocentrism, apparently he got put on trial because he was an asshole about heliocentrism, didn’t have all of the evidence he needed to actually really prove heliocentrism (apparently one of the big hangups at the time was “why are the stars so small if the heliocentric math says they should be big?”, and they didn’t have the tech yet to explain “it’s because the stars are really goddamn far away”). Apparently one of the Popes at the time, who was actually Galileo’s friend, actually did let him write about heliocentrism on the condition that he talked about the pros and cons of the theory instead of the aggressive “this is real and you’re all dumb!!!!” he’d been doing. And Galileo, high intelligence/negative wisdom/negative charisma dumbass he was, doubled down on his arguments and also insulted his friend the Pope by representing the Pope’s arguments via a character named “the Simpleton”. And it was this idiot move of shittalking his now ex-friend the Pope that got him on the big bad trial we all know now, not helped by the fact that he apparently burned all his fucking bridges with everybody else who could’ve saved his bacon too (apparently one of the people in charge of his trial was a guy he plagiarized too). It was never about actual religious faith or heresy, it was always just. The stupidest, pettiest politics fight.
Concrete proof that a centaur’s greatest enemy is a big cat
Stunning mosaic from the floor of the triclinium (dining room) of Hadrian's Villa, residence of Emperor Hadrian outside Rome
Altes Museum, Berlin
I really hate the secularization/tumblrifying of Saint Joan of Arc. like y’all really do not understand her at all
Sculpture with rooster head, was found in a tomb at Gaochang, a Tang city on the edge of the Taklamakan Desert, 7th-10th century, Tang Dynasty, China.
Deer season is upon us.
1.) Wear your seatbelt.
2.) If your choice is swerve at high speed or hit the deer you plow Bambis mom like you’re an IT specialist with a secret Twitter account and it’s anthrocon weekend.
Deer are softer than trees. Deer are softer than rolling your car 8 times.