Why does this Vitruvian Man by Francesco di Giorgio Martini looks so... flirty Got a bit of a sassy tilt in the hips, no?

guitar hero but dance pole instead of guitar

(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne

Where we send you if we catch you inferring future events on the basis of resemblance to past occurrences. Or, at least, where we've sent people so far.

Digestion, sensory perception, and motor control. These were the ingredients used to make the perfect little organism. But Professor Evolution accidentally added an extra ingredient to the concoction: SELF-AWARENESS!

Googling images of 19th century European coats and saying "lmao someone made Bloodborne into a real thing!"

In ch. 3 of Moby Dick, Melville uses the phrase "Hyperborean winter scene" as one of the possible interpretations of a painting. I take it this is meant to invoke the frigid far north; and indeed Etymonline lists "Hyperborean" as invoking polar extremes in English...

We should bring back "squitchy" (soggy, boggy).

"Copestone" is an architectural/masonry term referring to the top stone placed upon a structure. I can't help wondering if the word could/should be repurposed somehow given the current popularity of "cope" in online spaces.

People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind Actual academics:

*walking in a winter wonderland* ME: where's bluebird? BIRD: gone ME: w... who are you? *bird looks around shiftily* BIRD: I'm new bird

I am but a sideshow Bob and every day a rake

Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.

I will never stop sharing X Files memes

Tired of people jerking you around? Try this ancient Greek technique for social success! (The technique is oiling your body, donning a garland of leaves, draping a lion skin on your shoulder, and carrying a club. Presumably nude aside from the lion skin.)

The same people who think we need to bring back real standards to academia also want to give all students a “suspend my professor” button if they don’t like how things are going

me to grad students: share your work with each other, talk, exchange ideas! me to me: no one can ever see this draft it's garbage and they'll think i'm garbage and then i'll have to move into a dumpster where i belong

They should invent a brain capable of being happy

Nice argument, kid, but I have labelled my set of beliefs "Great Vehicle" (Mahayana) and yours "Lesser Vehicle" (Hinayana).

Because gender is a social construct, if it's posthumously decided that you are a different gender you'll be sent to a different heaven (Boy Heaven is a big grill to comment on, Girl Heaven is where you have sex with Dracula).

Can I play Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 if I haven't played the first 32 games?

stealth games be like "we need you to install this bug in the enemy base, but you cant get detected because then they might get suspicious. but if you systematically knock out every single person on the base while never being seen thats fine, i dont see why they would find that odd"

New Björk lyric just dropped

Man Proposes, God Disposes (1864) Sir Edwin Landseer

Incredible piece on Oliver Sacks. If you were ever awed at his supposedly true stories (I remember being stunned by the account of the autistic twins who rattled off large prime numbers), read this. He told wonderful stories, but they were in large part fiction. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

major tom implies the existence of minor tom and major minor seventh tom

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These boxes are not moving. A mind-bending optical illusion by Japanese artist Jagarikin.

let the one who never drew the Cool S on their notebook cast the first stone

Carl Jung isn't exactly LESS full of shit than Freud, but he's admittedly full of shit in a much more entertaining way. "Guy who's basically a practising wizard but gets super annoyed if you point that out and loudly insists he's a Man of Science" is a type of guy you don't see much of these days.

the theseus ship is when you replace every part of a boat and then reassemble the replaced parts and then make the two kiss

Genuinely love whoever in aincient Mesopotamia decided that the correct shape for weights was ducks. RETVRN

What if you could become God, but the price was that your mind had to become "God-like" in the process, so that you accepted all this bullshit and suffering "must" exist in the world, and you would no longer feel driven to change it? Sounds like a terrible deal to me.

Discovered recently that I didn't actually know the literal meaning of "dabble." I could guess from its figurative use that it was vaguely like "dipping," but when an author described someone as "dabbling" in liquid I still couldn't really picture it precisely.

Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches For Grandkids

"I like standing up and saying things."

Not sure if any single part of academia felt more like a weird cheat code than Interlibrary Loan. Like, I just say a book I want, basically any book, and this crack team of experts just *get it*????

example of lazy worldbuilding: why is there a country named "turkey" right next to a country named "grease"? did the writer design the map on thanksgiving

Pop girlies face a choice between nostalgia (Sabrina Carpenter, Tate Mccrae, Doja Cat, Chappell) and accelerationism (Charli, fka twigs, Grimes). Only Dua Lipa has managed Hegelian synthesis on the album Future Nostalgia

the only problem with having a bird feeder is you will eventually attract a bird with a sinister aura that the other birds start to worship

It was the best of all possible worlds, it was the worst of all possible worlds

instead of everything being Bad what I propose is that things be Good instead who's with me

I feel like this screencap might get some good use in the next decade or so

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social yeah fuck that moon: goddamn brutalist nonsense

"why did you create me? just to suffer, to toil?" "lol idk youve already put more thought into it than i did"

Because there are no facts but only interpretations, all interpretations must be equally valid (because an interpretation "being better" or "being worse" would be a fact), including the facile interpretation of Nietzsche contained in this shitpost.