Jacob Siefring

"none of my ring camera footage is recorded because I don't pay for that"

mmhmm. yeah. uh huh.

jordan catalano was so mysterious

A section of hadrosaur tail at the San Diego Natural History Museum, scaly skin impressions clinging tightly to bone.

Close up of dinosaur skin impressions clinging right to tail bones.

Paleontologists used to think that dino skin impressions required rapid burial, soon after death, to be preserved.

But now we know there’s not a single pathway to exceptional preservation, and desiccation often plays a role. Look at this chunk of hadrosaur tail, so dried the skin shrunk to bone. 🧪

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more choreographed insanity from SRL, with V1 rocket engine

YouTube video by Genuine Survival Research Labs An Epidemic of Fear...SF Ft. Mason 1984 Survival Research labs

do the younger generations even know about Survival Research Laboratories? I don’t think they do
youtu.be/bRl1Z3-gkZA?...

—What should we call our translation of "Grundrisse der Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie" in English?
—Who cares just send the file
please find attached grundrisse.doc

The person who wrote a novel that got turned into a movie is commissioned to write a novelization of a sequel in the movie series his novel inspired. Ramboroboros.

Advice from Austen's "Love and Freindship." As valid as it ever was, 236 years later:

Beware of the insipid Vanities and idle Dissipations of the Metropolis of England, Beware of the unmeaning Luxuries of Bath and of the Stinking fish of Southampton.

But some people just won't take good Advice:

Journey into the distant past: Newton’s Brain by Jakub Arbes G. Wells’ first novel The Time Machine, published in 1895, has long been considered not only one of the earliest works of science fiction, but the popularizer of the notion of time travel. It was a…

here is @roughghosts.bsky.social’s review of the 2024 translation from Jantar Publishing roughghosts.com/2024/01/18/j...

"Newton's Brain" by Czech author Jakub Arbes (1877). It features possibly the first time-travel machine in literature. It’s an engine for travelling faster than light thru the galaxy and seeing centuries into Earth’s past.

We pub’d it in the Empyrean Series in 2021 but it is OOP! Can be found tho

New dinosaur Haolong dongi looks like it would have felt itchy to bite. I like that strategy. Not spikes or armor but “Your mouth is going to feel real uncomfortable if you chomp on me.”

you know this wasn't always a skeleton crew. most of us had a decent amount of meat on us actually. till the rats

this works too if you have squandered yr cultural capital or accidentally burned the roast

missed an opportunity? made a costly mistake? try saying “my goat has sailed for byzantium.” everyone is saying it

And so, forever is buried
in this light

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well, february is abt 25% over

Le Centenaire (1926-2026) - Archipel Butor 1926-2026 : Centenaire de Michel Butor

The Centenary of the Birth of Michel Butor-
Merci @cecilerl.bsky.social

www.archipel-butor.fr/centenaire-1...

The best part of Mansfield Park is when Fanny leaves well-to-do Mansfield Park, goes home, looks at her poor, working-class family, and declares them "dirty and gross" and "under-bred"

a nice piece of writing abt a killer album

Panoramic view of Tours by Pierre-Antoine Demachy

While helping out at a class trip I learned about this painting in which the artist, who had never actually set foot in Tours, decided to include some mountains in the background (there are no mountains) Honestly I'd be raging, the 1700s version of GenAI

'Pilot Boat, Moelfre, Anglesey.' (c1970) Writing about why he started to paint, Kyffin Williams said it was record the land, the people and natural history. I never intended to produce works of art but if this did happen by chance, it was all to the good.'

AI cannot embarrass itself. s’humilier, c’est le propre de l’homme

whenever i have to do something potentially embarrassing, i just
think, “i have humiliated & embarrassed myself so many times, very well then!”

i definitely would have thought AK knew better than to go down that path! (i don’t know his work well, only have read one of his books but, alas)

Antike trifft auf KI: Kluge im Atelierhaus Sind Techmilliardäre die neuen Kaiser? Filmemacher und Schriftsteller Alexander Kluge, maßgeblicher Wegbereiter des deutschen Autorenkinos, zeigt sich in einer neuen Ausstellung im Atelierhaus der Aka...

Alexander Kluge apparently uses "AI" for his latest exhibition, what a huge disappointment:

nice work!

book cover: In the World of Chaos Selected Early Works, 1925-1937 by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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to my mild surprise my 14-year-old is playing “no surprises” on electric guitar. kind of impressive nonetheless