RIP Otto Rank, you would have loved analyzing vore fetishes. (From The Trauma of Birth, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1929, p. 35)

Prince of Persia was an experiment in rotoscoping. It put lifelike animation on '80s home computers. Designer Jordan Mechner converted VHS tapes and movie footage into pixels -- and went way beyond the tech of his time. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-the-li...

*yeets a golden apple engraved with "To The Least Problematic" into your group chat*

sounds exactly like what a therapist would say to distract me from incoming threats

Every now and then I see a post and think ‘oh no, you don’t do your thinking with those concepts do you? Those are posting concepts, not thinking concepts’ and I think this tracks a meaningful distinction.

tumblr still has it, despite everything. social media platforms are really almost impossible to kill.

I can't believe "arrowy" is a real word. That's it, I'm never feeling guilty about inventing new adjectives by sticking "y" on the end of them again.

The existence of live snake traps in ancient tombs implies the existence of snake-supporting ecosystems within such traps that can endure, self-sustaining, for centuries.

Instead of leaving it unmarked, we could just decide to start pluralizing "species" as "specieses." We have that power, we could make it happen.

Just heard a streamer refer to heffalumps as the SCPs of the Winnie the Pooh world.

Who up pondering the immortality of the crab?

If a person says something happened "in the tenth year of my life," does that mean at age 9 or age 10? Your first year is age 0-1 (not inclusive of the 1), right? So presumably it should be mean age 9.

*Me to me, examining the contents of my own mind*: Damn, bitch, you live like this??

This is one of my favorite optical illusions, because even when you know specifically HOW IT WORKS, it's still hard to make your brain believe it. The image below is real-world video, but you're being tricked into believing it's an elaborate miniature by the DIORAMA EFFECT. Let's talk about it.

Comedy is legal again

New sci-hub just dropped.

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

Epiphenomenalists dni

You: you're just making up a guy to be mad at Me: it's called writing a philosophical dialogue. Look it up, Simplicio

Oh wow nice flower crown you got there; shame if the sadness inherent to all things, transient in the samsara as they must necessarily be, were to scatter your petals into an indifferent wind leaving only a lingering sense that something beautiful and meaningful once happened here. Nerd.

Update, no earthquakes in my area since then. Score another point for skepticism.

Refuting Anselm by arguing that a non-existent "greatest conceivable being" is actually greater than an existing one, because the universe is better off without such an entity.

The "we must liberate the poor oppressed people of Greenland" propaganda directed by der Fuhrer has started, exactly as my article from two days ago predicted.

microdosing homeopathy by consuming medically recommended doses

Foreshadowing is just an author-approved spoiler

No matter how often I encounter such phrases, I suspect I will always have to briefly pause and mentally correct like, "Okay, 17th century means the 1600s, not the 1700s, right?"

the meeting of the Society for Inexact Philosophy will be held some time in 2026 at an university

🎵 I've got walls... that crinkle crankle crinkle 🎵

Writing "void" on a check feels like it should do something much cooler and more eldritch than what it actually does.

Someone should invent a book that's as fun to read as it is to acquire and fantasize about reading.

"i've got eight slugs in me, one's lead and the rest are bourbon" is one of the all-time greatest noir lines in history

Bill Watterson could do Sin City but Frank Miller could not do Calvin and Hobbes

Bring back "bumbershoot" as another word for umbrella #JusticeForBumbershoots

There's something vaguely unholy or perverse about the idea of eating Cheerios with oat milk. Smacks of boiling a kid in its mother's milk.

How did we end up in the situation where you can encounter the written name Louis in the wild and not know whether to pronounce the S or not. Who let this happen??

Ok team, we can bring these words back into usage! 💪 Overmorrow = the day after tomorrow Ereyesterday = the day before yesterday We ahould have been using such excellent words ereyesterday, but if we start now we’ll be glad overmorrow!

If an initialism is a abbreviation where you pronounce each letter (like FBI) and an acronym is like an initialism but you pronounce it as a word (like LASER), what do you call abbreviations with both types of readings, like CPAP and DRAM?

The number of books and articles I wish I were interested in reading always vastly dwarfs the number of things I'm actually interested in reading.

No one can stop you from pronouncing diereses as umlauts. It's not a punishable crime.

The Steve Miller Band was so right, time really DOES keep on slippin', slippin' into the future.

everywhere I look I see hidden agendas, secret alliances, and shadowy figures. except for my mysterious benefactor, who is beyond reproach

"What troubles you Theseus?" "Oh I'm thinking about all the things we've seen and experienced, and how they've changed us. I worry — are we truly still the same men who hunted the Calydonian Boar together so long ago? The same men who..." Pirithous stepped closer. "Perhaps this will convince you?"

Solid "science diagram that looks like a shitpost". @gro-tsen.bsky.social

The Second-Order Streisand Effect is a social phenomenon where if a party makes an effort to censor information, discussion and news about the censorship paradoxically leads to an increased awareness of Barbara Streisand, a musician whom most "Zoomers" would probably have otherwise never heard of

it’s a Cretan sign, all cretans are liars

my opinion is that you should start out with citizenships for every country on earth but then be able to renounce them for whichever countries you want to make fun of online

the pound? oh you mean britcoin