i never expected to have such a literal application of romeo’s tweet

“you better not be spreading yourself too thin when i get there” me:

In Western cultures men tend to be more competition-seeking than women. Is this nature or nurture? This study tries to tease these apart using a craaaazy setting

Seldom mentioned that that Eastern Bloc buildings are not grey. They are only grey to us. To feral pigeons, brutalism is basically a neon cathedral

Banksy's calling card is transgressive, in-your-face art that speaks truth to Power in a country with heavy-handed laws about speech and public display regularly enforced. Yet, for some reason, Power has never used these laws against him.

This video makes me unreasonably happy I want to clap like a baby seal

Before: A beaten up mirror up for grabs on the sidewalk After: A piece of art in memory of a rowan tree I used to pass on my walking route

I bought a $35 cut-saw from Harbor Freight and left it in my car for a couple days. Someone seems to have stolen it, but not the lovely wool blanket it was under.

i get that u probably just mean the romantic aesthetic medievalism but it’s a little funny because in the left painting, the fairy woman is luring that knight off to fuck so nasty that when she leaves him, he’s just going to lay around missing her until he starves to death

if you manage to push there will be baby said the midwife i sure hope this has lifelong consequences, thought the mother, doing her best to physically tense her core into the higher baby probability space

When AI uses the "it's not X, it's Y" construction, it would often be more accurate to just say "it's X and Y." I wonder if that is true of how human writers use it...

We have a record of Cleopatra's handrwiting: γινέσθωι "make it happen", appending a tax exemption.

Stained glass window pattern I am working on, 12" by 22", reckoning with the actual glass to use. If you have color/palette suggestions, feel free to share them.

At the IEEE conference: "our joy is resistance." All nod solemnly.

thursday night is pasta night. i'm particular on the penne. it's from italy. husband buys new kind. i object. he says it's also from italy. fine. i wash the pot. pasta's good. we both go: wow. so lemony. next week same new penne. not lemony. it dawns on us. maybe it was the dawn

Suffering is amoral and part of life. Immoral acts often cause suffering, but that is not why they are bad. To suffer is to strive, show grace, sacrifice, make love, soothe a child.

Tom Steyer wants people to drive trucks rather than employ them to take care of our most vulnerable citizens.

Sending the boy to planet sand hell to hide him from a known sand hater seems pretty solid to me

A few minutes ago I put the last stitch in the last pomegranate

in seven days I will acquire a pair of Siberian kittens, brother and sister. I am open to suggestions as to what to give them, besides love.