When I first started writing novels, I had a notion that one if the things that made badness in the world was “professionalisation”. By which I meant that many entities had a kind of fuzzy cloud of functions in the world beyond their pure ostensible function.

128 years ago today rest in piss, idiot

Paleontologists will be like "big news!" and then you read the paper and it turns out dinosaurs had slightly larger cheeks than we thought. (Big fan of Holtz, and this is a neat paper)