“I am sorry,” said Frog. “That hat is much too big for you. I will give you something else.”
“No,” said Toad. “This hat is your present to me. I like it. I will wear it the way it is.”
Shortly before his death, Camus had a production deal to film a one-man dramatization of La Chute for television, starring himself as Clamence.
Photo of the BlueSky user with a hospital sign in the background. It’s a sunny, warm Southern California afternoon, just like so many others.
Back in a familiar locale.
“He thought he’d better be up and doing things so as not to sigh quite as much.” (Denis Johnson)
oh wow really no way?!
As I recently heard a young person say after a screening of THX 1138: “This is about Amazon warehouses!”
bsky.app/profile/mr00...
“An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.”
Pegasus striking his hoof on the ground of Mount Helicon and creating the Hippocrene
BL Royal MS 6 E IX; Convenevole da Prato, Carmina regia; c. 1335 CE; Italy (Tuscany); f.28v
@blmedieval.bsky.social
Jewish/Muslim segregation in Israel is unlike anything seen anywhere in the US within living memory.
Israeli Jews are ~7x more likely to have zero Muslim neighbors than white Americans are to have zero Black neighbors — for Israeli Muslims vs Black Americans, it's ~78x.
This is ghoulish, given that Tehran has for months been in the midst of its most severe water supply crisis of modern times.
In his early twenties, Camus got a summer job at the equivalent of the DMV, issuing auto permits and registrations. He was fired before the summer was out. According to Camus, he was told it was because “he did not know how to write.”
Our new DHS head
It’s touching how so many people immediately stood up to defend Tuberville’s claim to being the dumbest man in Congress. And now, I guess it’s undisputed.
Orwell was talking about men defending the peace against the literal Nazis.
La eterna dicotomía entre madrugar para hacer ejercicio y cuidar la salud mental y perder la salud mental por madrugar para hacer ejercicio
Young Bertrand seems as fragile as his godfather was in his youth
Tolle Lego?
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
Makes it a definition that includes everybody
Schools, water treatment plants, electrical infrastructure, hospitals, roads, airports, ports, you name it, we bombed it. Seeing the suffering caused by that, even 30 years later, up close does something to you.
Or at least it should.
Here's a striking visual illusion - the 9 purple dots.
Focus your eyes on the top left dot. That one is more purple than the others, right? Now try another dot... that one becomes the purple one! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41744429/
I found the longer speech, the whole speech is so heartfelt inappropriate now as well. youtu.be/HfXmpJRZPYI?...
The most influential explanation of a recent surge in allergies is the hygiene hypothesis
go.nature.com/40woBkB
The 1953 coup destroyed Iran's most promising conditions for organic democratization and poisoned the well for American-backed democracy for generations.
The US created the very problem it now claims to want to solve.
Ironic doesn't quite cover it.
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“It also seemed to funnel children to potentially dangerous adults with whom they wouldn’t otherwise be connected. “We are recommending nearly 4X as many minors to groomers (nearly 2 million minors in the last 3 months),” the report read, according to an internal document we viewed. According to this test, 27 percent of the recommendations shown to these “groomer-esque” accounts belonged to minors, compared with 7 percent of the accounts recommended to everyday adults”
“The report continues: “22% of those recommendations resulted in a follow request”—meaning that potential groomers attempted to interact with these minors nearly a quarter of the time. Even so, Instagram waited years before locking down accounts belonging to its youngest users.”
This company should not exist.
You can find small-scale versions in online forums where conspiracy theorists fight to diminish and crowd out (by downvotes and upvotes) defenders of sane views, until the latter give up and leave.
This has always bothered me. Even if they destroy the chip after their Robin Hoodery, then at the very least, everything they bargained out of James Earl Jones (such as clearing Bishop’s record) will be nullified.
The Bridge is explicitly described as ‘an ancient defence’: most traffic went through the west.
Yes: a master of a craft will see things unnoticed by an untrained eye.
