really, what is the cycle of samsara but the original roguelite

This 5-part 1989 lecture series on acoustics and music instruments from the physicist Charles Taylor (not to be confused with the philosopher Charles Taylor) is quite good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-96...

Interesting article about aphantasia in the New Yorker, by Larissa MacFarquhar

Guys I've come up with a great new strategy for coping with loss: just deny that you ever cared about the missing thing in the first place. I predict that applying this technique widely throughout my life will produce a robust and healthy psyche with absolutely no downsides.

“Men are from Hesperus, Women are from Phosphorus”

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Morning plebs xx

If I found myself in an Alien type situation, I would simply decline to participate in the xenomorph's shenanigans. Be the adult in the room. Set boundries.

Morning.

This filter doesn’t seem so great to me

If you say "for all x" quickly, it kinda loosely sounds like "frolics." I don't know what to do with this information.

guy who says "footnote" to refer to an endnote because it's unthinkable that anyone would choose to use endnotes over the superior footnotes

feel like aristotle probably said something wacky about this

how come whenever something is "just the way things are" it's always something that sucks. why isn't just-the-way-things-are ever good

i think this pizza dough holds me in contempt. but it's also possible it's just suffering, and lashing out in a state of confusion

Turns out babies do not automatically update when the clocks change. Who programmed these things?

It's time for a timeline cleanse! A small Corinthian aryballos in the shape of an owl (circa 630 BC). It served as a perfume container. On display at Antikensammlung München A lovely Sunday to all of you 🌞 📷 me

The brain is the stupidest object in the universe. Every misunderstanding and bad idea in history came from a brain. Before brains, no one was wrong about anything.

Does Jabba the Hutt actually have any sexual interest in the humanoid slave girls he owns or is having a harem of conventionally attractive women a power and status symbol type thing only if you are a hermaphroditic gigantic slug who presumably is more biologically inclined towards its own kind?

are you okay babe you’ve barely touched the novel your author bio says you’ve been working on for years

Trying to learn some functional programming, this monad shit is confusing

Number of times the Wikipedia entry about the ship of Theseus has been edited since it was published in 2003 : 2,052 Number of sentences from the original entry that remain today : 0 October 2025 • Source: Harper's research

Well well well

Quick reminder that if hating yourself actually changed who you are in the ways you want, it would’ve worked by now

How do you know what it's like to be you?

treat yo self!!!

never do business with family. or friends. or acquaintances or strangers. just lie still in a dewy glade until the screeching of locusts drives unto you the foretold ecstasies.

She enantiodromia on my pharmakon till I jouissance

Apparently the term "shower mat" (and similarly "bath mat") is completely ambiguous about whether it refers to the absorbent mat outside the shower or the grippy mat placed inside a shower to improve traction. How did we, as English speakers, let this happen?!

I remember when I first started reading novels as a youth, I disliked the convention of adding another quotation mark when speech from the same character continues to a new paragraph. It felt redundant and "unbalanced" (because you get more start quotes than end quotes).

Do you remember, remember The 21st/5th night of Septovember Okay I thought I could make this hybrid work, but now I see it was a mistake and I'm bailing out, bye

Suppose you decide to mentally repeat a mantra during meditation. So you start mentally "saying" some word/phrase again and again. But then you decide to start stretching out the interval in between "utterances" while still holding the meaning in your mind as an object of focus.

Real talk, is there a reason we're all cool with just rinsing to clean off a soft, absorbent brush (i.e. great bacteria environment) that we rub around in our mouths several times a day for months at a time, but we get uneasy about reusing a water glass for more than a day or so?

My Reddit account got banned because someone got access to it, started using it for NSFW promotion, and then apparently engaged in "voter manipulation" on a subreddit I've never visited. I changed the account password and appealed the ban, but the appeal was rejected.

Somehow I made it to adulthood thinking black panthers were their own particular species, instead of a label that applies to either jaguars or leopards who happen to have melanism.

Biblically-accurate Wittgenstein

This was my Sistine Chapel

editing an academic journal for the past three years has been such a humbling experience and a profound exercise in seeing and understanding the other

I think more bad things should stop being bad and start being good. To be clear, I want this to be achieved by changing their descriptive properties such that they change their evaluative status, the meaning of the moral terminology is being held fixed here. Seen as such I'd like these changes. Ty.

If otherwise rational and mentally healthy individuals can occasionally convince themselves they're seeing something anomalous (ghosts, UFOs, cryptids, faeries..), surely it must also be possible for me to persistently convince myself I am no longer perceiving tinnitus.

The Scary Door >>>> Night Springs

A stranger in a parking lot informed me today that there will be an earthquake 3 months from now, and I should be in church on the Saturday when it will happen. (I guess Jan 10, then?) She didn't stick around long to chat after delivering her warning, but she did imply...

i've got over 70k kills in the "meeting buddha on the road" minigame. it's tough at first but once you master the spin kick you can get the hammer you need to break the wheel of samsara pretty quick

Alright, you've persuaded me dialetheism is false, but that doesn't mean it can't also be true at the same time.