McKinley Valentine

yeah but they would still think it was normal and not shocking that a guy like that is president. They don't expect the president NOT to be a narcissistic liar.
Like how we tell everyone their whole lives to drive safely, but that doesn't mean we see car accidents as weird or abnormal

Museum-style photo of an bust of Cleopatra with one boob out. The caption reads "Bust of Cleopatra (one of a pair)" (also says French, Rouen, ca. 1720-30)

The caption 👌

[via The Met Museum open access image library]

just remembered that wikipedia has a list of fish named after other fish

honestly, i think that's reductive. it's about all the usual reasons for war, occupation and resistance (resources, strategic positioning, domestic politics, civil rights, etc etc). I think religion is a bit of a distraction, a way to make people overlook the actual facts of what's happening

5-Star Amazon book review. "The book, The Field, was mind-expanding, confirming what I "knew" to be true."

Sort of expanding while remaining the same size

slate @PleaseBeGneiss you can't just abbreviate phrases all william nilliam

It's not that it hasn't figured out how to depict gravity - it's that it hasn't tried. It doesn't work by learning the rules that govern movement, it works by looking at a bunch of gymnastics videos and trying to follow the pattern of pixel placement - it's like your phone's autocomplete, but visual

This is very unfair; if I travel to Berlin, and hook up with someone while I'm there, that doesn't mean I travelled 14,700 kilometres for sex. That whale might have been going to the cool artistic part of the ocean.

Screenshot of the Australia Post app Greece 19 November 2024: Items sent to and from Greece may experience delays due to planned union strikes on 20 November, which will impact postal operations and delivery services. Ireland 10 November 2024: Items sent to and from Ireland may experience delays, as Storm Darragh is affecting delivery services and postal operations. Italy 4 December 2024: Items sent to and from Italy may experience delays due to cyber attacks impacting the IT systems at Italy Post.

So sick of mainstream media; I get all my news from the Australia Post parcel tracker app

OH THAT'S GOOD

I appreciate that while you're skeptical about your memory, you're happy to accept my claim that it's lifesaving information

(I have ADHD as well and terrible episodic memory - like i remember practically nothing from overseas trips, but very good for facts. Brains, man!)

nonono you will remember and this knowledge will save your life one day, definitely

oh my god. yeah one thing I didn't mention about how llamas see sheep as just short llamas, is you can't set intact males to guard sheep.

oh yeah, that's definitely a thing! I sometimes still stumble over who's/whose, and have to de-contract it (read the sentence to myself as "who is" and see if it makes sense that way)

(I can imagine a kid not really understanding why an animal wasn't responsive to being pet, it would seem cold. I'm speculating wildly!)

Another fact about llamas is, their tongues are too short to groom their babies. This means a) they always give birth during the day, so the babies have time to dry off before it gets cold, and b) llamas do not like being pet the way a cat does, because it's not part of parent/baby interactions

You'll never not be able to tell the difference again! It's a gift for life!

I think that's fine/better? unless the emotional reactions are surprising? (like if you're moved by the poignancy of something goofy, that's interesting). "show don't tell" stuff, I guess

I mean, there's obviously a big YA market for describing big emotions, but it's a matter of taste imo

Screenshot from Bible Gateway. 5. He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”

Revelations 21:5 - "This is good shit, is someone getting this down?"

#occultsky

I'm reading that as "pros: if i get another cat, i won't have to wrestle with the decision of whether to get another cat for at least 3, 4 months"

Cohost was nice! It's a shame cohost couldn't happen

I think the quote marks are meant to imply the OP doesn't really believe it was loaded (she wasn't really in danger and she's just trying to get attention)

Again like, these people are friends with Joe Rogan. They've heard his show, they know what he's like.
You and me think it's wrong to vote for Trump, so if we did it, we might lie about it. But Trump voters DON'T, they think they're doing the right thing, and why lie about doing the right thing?

Do you really think he's lying about his reasoning? Why would he lie about it? He wouldn't get criticised by his fanbase so I'm not sure what the motivation would be. (He's being dumb obviously, but it doesn't make any sense to me that he would be covering up his real reasoning)

People have "one thing" brain disease. Did Kamala lose because she was a Black woman or because of her policy positions? YOU'RE ONLY ALLOWED ONE

oh yeah, this is why you see popgrips everywhere, they're just legitimately really good. they shift the weight / balance point from the third joint of your pinky to the base of your centre fingers

at which point it becomes horrendously addictive, i'm not saying you should. But it's like judging Old Twitter by the baseline feed that follows the Kardashians and Jeff Bezos. that's not the experience that people who liked twitter were having

it takes a day's use to calibrate, and then it shows you stuff you had no idea you wanted to see to a degree that feels spooky (eg, I got: videos of old lichen being power-washed off headstones, so you can now read the epitaphs. okay, yep, I love that!)

Screenshot of Chesterton quote: Tradition means giving a vote to most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man’s opinion, even if he is our groom; tradition asks us not to neglect a good man’s opinion, even if he is our father.”

You're probably thinking of GK Chesterton. As far as I can tell, he was serious though, he thought tradition was important

Always seemed so bizarre to me!! they're YOUR friends. If they don't post anything that's interesting to you, maybe you just don't like your friends?