People don’t want to be losers anymore and in return they end up actually becoming super losers because they can’t swallow their pride and admit that failure is part of the plot! AHHHH

Illustration for "The Little Mermaid" by Helen Stratton (1867-1961)

Rob Pointon.

ObtainerOfRareAntiquities This is unironically my fave poem

I’m really passionate about having fun. I think hard work is mostly fulfilling as an path to more rareified forms of fun. like, it’s motivating to think that I don’t even *know* how much fun I could be having yet

okay

Slammed on the brakes and immediately pulled over to photograph this.

Drawtober day 17

conflict is the art of checking underneath the rocks

In the Chinese context, this sentence should be translated as:The world preaches me to be calm and peaceful, yet I insist on living a blazing, scorching hot life.

sorry for harping on this but the problem of “knowing what you want to say but not how to say it” often means you haven’t yet figured out what you want to say. if you turn to an LLM to help organize loose thoughts into prose, you’re outsourcing your cognition to a machine

Ewin Tang, 2025 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize laureate, speaks about mathematics as an artistic practice that can be challenging and, at times, unrewarding. She reflects on the collaborative nature of the work, describing moments of intense idea-sharing and how, in those

Leonard Koscianski (b.1952)

me in uni :)

my contribution to the discourse