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Imperial porphyry sarcophagi at Istanbul Archaeological Museums.

Imperial porphyry sarcophagi at Istanbul Archaeological Museums, originally at the Church of the Holy Apostles. In 1461, the remains of the Church of the Holy Apostles were demolished by the Ottomans to make way for the Fatih Mosque.
📸 me 🏺🗃️ #SarcophagusSaturday

Everyone’s embarrassing Facebook uncle has now been succeeded by everyone’s embarrassing AI uncle, who believes everything spewed out by ChatGPT or Grok is true

Can't emphasize enough how much I appreciate @archive.org more and more as time passes. Increasingly rely on being able to go back and read things that have otherwise since rotted off the internet.

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: "Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."

Kurt Vonnegut man

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Slowly becoming a gentle mist seems like a perfectly reasonable reaction to *gestures at world*.

Mid 1930s, crimson silk evening gown.

#vintage #vintagestyle #vintagefashion #historicalfashion #historicaldress #historicalclothing #dresshistory #fashionhistory #historyoffashion #1930s #1930sfashion #vintagesilk #1930sdress #historyofdress

Russian prima ballerina Anna Pavlova was born #OnThisDay in 1881. She was photographed in India in 1922 wearing this woven purple and ivory striped silk gauze sari. Pavlova was fascinated by Indian culture and collaborated with dancer Uday Shankar. Sold by Kerry Taylor Auctions. #fashionhistory

So pretty! 😍 I even love the puffy organza shoulders. The whole dress design is stunning. The colours. The embroidery. The transparent, mesh sleeves. The beads on the hem. The bow waist. It's just early 1900s perfection. 🤩

#Fashion #Dresses #History #FashionHistory

Yeah the old link for the Full Frame version of The AristoCats (1970) that I posted on twitter last year is no longer working so here's a new one:
gofile.io/d/0Nx4v4

W.S. Merwin

"taking pleasure in the little things" like tasty food or a comfy cartoon as if I'm a raggedy post-apocalyptic wastelander crouched in the corner of a ruined basement, obsessively reading tattered paperbacks salvaged from a bombed-out Barnes & Noble by the light of a grey sun

one day i'll write a thesis on how Restorative Floor Time is different from lying in bed

Go read a book.

In the midst of this unsureness, we are trying to tell a personal story. This story, the story of we, is of our loss and our loving. It is the story between deeply sleeping, dreaming, and waking. It is the story of what is crooked and loving that crooked.

going back to Juliana Spahr, always

Ahem

as a historian i gotta say

dont like living through history

feels bad

Every day I get closer to understanding how it must have felt when the incoming Senator was Caligula's horse.

An image showing what I describe

Fun fact: If someone quotes a post of yours in a way that is unwelcome (as is commonplace on Twitter/X) there is a tool to combat the unwanted attention. Simply click the three dot menu on the quote post & click "Detach quote". This removes your post from their quote post. Useful to know, do share!

Mathiya (Mathia) Recipe | Special Gugarati Mathiya for Diwali | Crispy & Flavorful Mathia Papad This special diwali papad recipe is called Mathiya (or mathia). A crispy and crunch Gujarati snack that the whole family will love - perfect for Diwali celebrations. View calories and nutrition inform...

Mathia / Mathiya is a type of puri made using math (moong) dal flour. They come in two varieties - small ones are crispy and big ones have a texture similar to vade. Like so - www.patelbros.com/indian-recip...

Do I get a contributor credit in the book now? 😜

nothing left now but to form an alliance with the crows

Tintin strikes again.

I'm never going to have a better use for this meme.

I'm from India and I'm Zoroastrian. Vultures are key not just ecologically but to the spiritual practices of my community in funeral rites. It's a vital issue for us.

when wikipedia launched, the idea that an encyclopedia could be reliably maintained by the public was a joke. now, it's a marvel, a remarkable resource, virtually the only website that remotely delivers on its potential and practically the last pleasant browsing experience on the internet.

It is unhinged but in the best way

What a coincidence as I’m watching the Interview with a Vampire series atm

"ai is making it so everyone can make art"
everyone can make art dumbass it came free with your fucking humanity