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洲上有大山，形似人鳥之象，因名之為神鳥山。山多大樹，與楓木相類，而花葉香聞數百裏，名為反魂樹。扣其樹，亦能自作聲，聲如群牛吼，聞之者，皆心震神駭。伐其木根心，於玉釜中煮，取汁，更微火煎，如黑餳狀，令可丸之。名曰驚精香，或名之為震靈丸，或名之為反生香，或名之為震檀香，或名之為人鳥精，或名之為卻死香。一種六名，斯靈物也。香氣聞數百裏，死者在地，聞香氣乃卻活，不復亡也。以香薰死人，更加神驗。~《海內十洲記》

In Chinese #folklore, the Returning Soul Incense (返魂香) is no ordinary fragrance. It is a black, tar-like pill distilled from the roots of the Returning Soul Tree, found only on Divine Bird Mountain. This tree, with maple-like leaves and flowers fragrant across vast distances, 1/2
🎨 Li Shengfeng

Bonus art: Angelo meets Mowu 🐶

Is that an ART??! 🥨🥨🥨

It's crazy how many kooky conspiracy theories about aliens or whatever obscure a much sadder reality and how often they are awfully convenient in letting some very real very bad people off the hook in favour of focusing on some blatantly false bullshit.

would you buy a doughnut from Kuchisake Nina?

I googled your symptoms and it turns out you need an escape trip to a fantasy world. 🌿🧙🏼‍♂️

Congrats! Can’t wait

Beyond the obvious bad of the Vice President directly monitoring museums for ideological compliance, I'm trying to imagine what kind of person spends his time getting upset at a portrait painting. It's just emphasizing that this work is important, making it higher profile than otherwise. It's weird!

In ancient Chinese #mythology, Changxi (常羲) is the moon goddess and celestial mother of time. As the wife of Di Jun and sister to Xihe, the sun goddess, she gave birth to twelve moons—each representing a lunar month. Changxi doesn't simply light the night sky; she 1/2
🎨 Mo Shengyu

I wanted to do a Lamma’s mari for this year. Shes a bit rushed as am tired

In ancient China, dreams were seen as glimpses into the future, and cats played a unique role in dream interpretation. Here’s how feline visions were once interpreted: 1/4 👇
#caturday
Source in ALT.

Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises “AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite” lead to more debugging work.

It is so alienating to see the overwhelming evidence that this technology barely works (certainly not as promised), that it grievously harms society, that people dislike using it for things they know, and then watch the entire CEO class fire thousands while spending billions to get more of it.

Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.

Under pressure from the White House, the Smithsonian has removed Trump from the impeachment exhibit at the History Museum.

The exhibit now says that “only three presidents have seriously faced removal,” referring to Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton.

The exhibit now looks the way it did in 2008.

happy thursday enjoy jinkx monsoon dragging jk rowling to the depths of hell and back

Ohara Koson - Dancing Fox, 1910

In Chinese mythology, the Hou (犼) is a vigilant beast—one of the dragon’s sons—known for its watchful nature. At Tiananmen Gate, four stone Hou serve a silent duty. Two face south: “Watching for the Emperor’s Return,” guarding the gate and longing for the emperor’s swift return 1/3
#mythology

We are in year ten of the entire mainstream of our public sphere denying that this was coming and I am sick of begging people who know better to stop denying it.

Kate Bush in a suit and tie squatting on the balls of her feet captioned I wish everyone running up that hill a very pleasant deal with god

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Cartoon crow sad over a bowl of soup because all he has is a fork.

Another crow runs to the sad crow shouting "Dude! Hey! Buddy! LOOK!". The running crow is holding a spoon.

Fork crow and spoon crow meet! Spoon will resolve the soup predicament!

Another crow runs to the other two. He found a straw!

SOUP! [Part 1 of 3]

You want free and cheap TTRPG RESOURCES?

一人でも

📌 🧵 " early humans were human. They took care of the sick and loved art & saturated fat. Thinking that everything they did was a grim survival tactic? That's usually us projecting our issues onto the past. Not what their own lives were actually about." 👇🏽

There is absolutely no excuse for any Democrat asked about trans athletes to ever respond with anything but “why are you wasting my time asking about FEWER THAN FIFTEEN CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY WHO WANT TO PLAY GAMES WITH THEIR FRIENDS. What is wrong with you?”

Got a spam email to my work address inviting me to join the Illuminati. Gotta say, weirdly on point spam email for a folklorist to get

This is a legend! I’ve heard my own father tell a variant of it, with a positive spin: young man graduated summa cum laude from Harvard but always wanted to drive a taxi, so—decided to drive a taxi!

thanks anne—and we're not done.

if you're considering subscribing to WIRED and still on the fence, this year, we also dropped paywalls for FOIA-based reporting (and some guides).

so, here is a 🧵 of some unpaywalled articles (which includes some of our most important work)!

Illustration of a shark living inside a shirt pocket. Have you ever wondered why sometimes you would find crumbs, sand, maybe even pebbles in your pocket? The answer is sharks

pocket shark 🦈
#art #sharks

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

According to POLITICO reporter @kyledcheney.bsky.social, a federal judge has blocked the cancellation of NEH awards by DOGE.

The gay urge to buy old video game strategy guides for collection purposes.