Not to get morbid - I'm in good spirits, I want to stress that - but hearing about those roman gravestones that address whoever pauses to read them makes me want to have one too once I'm done. But I don't think I want one that's sweetly thanking people for pausing to remember. I want to grab people by the throat from beyond the grave and put them into existential contemplations of their own life. Something along the lines of
In this moment we are both here - you there, aboveground, I here, below. Come tomorrow, I will still be here. Where will you be?
tired of science and love being poised as opposites or science being painted as cold/unfeeling there is literally nothing more loving than wanting to understand something
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Fairies looking through Gothic Arch, c. 1864 by John Anster Fitzgerald (English, c. 1819β1906)
Piotr Stachiewicz
I hate linguistic anthropology. Why? One of the most influential experiments in linguistic anthropology involved teaching a chimp asl. One of the most influential linguistics is named Noam Chomsky. You know what the chimpβs name was?
Nim Chimpsky.
Fucking monkey pun.
And this is in textbooks, in documentaries, everywhere. And everyone just IGNORES THIS GOD AWFUL PUN cause of how important the experiment was. But
BUT LOOK AT THIS SHIT. FUCKING NIM CHIMPSKY. I HATE THIS WHOLE FIELD.
There's no mobility in a job like court wizard, regulations and whatever they're never going to promote you. Quit and become an evil warlock and terrorise the townsfolk.
be your own boss!
colorjellyfish
I see you've noticed my overhead mural of mushrooms. That's myceiling.