Why is everything in America like this. You walk into a grocery store in this country and it has a banner proclaiming it's more than a grocery store, it's a vision of a better future for everyone. Why do we have to lie like this

learned from this thread that dentists see tongues as somewhat autonomous, like a cat's tail

bubble tea shops should be mandatory in malls. shoppers need a cool refreshment to recover from the mall's compounded indoor energy and bubble tea is the precise halfway point between substance and product. it pairs perfectly with shopping

snapped a photo through the bus window and this surreal 1990s CGI-looking composition is what my phone spat out. does anyone have a technical explanation

the hydraulic metaphor of the psyche (focused on neurotransmitters) seems to be ceding to an electrical metaphor (focused on the nervous system). if the metaphor continues to trace society's technological ages maybe we'll eventually conceive of the psyche as an algorithm or an ai

Great Blue Heron

does everyone also butcher their oranges like this? if not how do you do it

vegetarians making anything from the nyt cooking section

the onslaught of overly cute le creuset stuff feels manic and pandering to me, like when philosophy took their scented body washes too far (circa 2010?) and it all came crashing down. you must never saturate the consumer's desires

shoveling dirt is such an iconic sound. the blade sliding in like a sword, the scrape of dirt against metal, the thump of dirt dumped onto the ground etc. too bad it's so strongly associated with burying or digging up a person

accidentally took a bunch of photos as I weeded my way through a crowd and they came out oddly editorial

the computer chapel

I think a lot about the story from one of the last days that Lou Reed was alive, where he’s floating on his back in a swimming pool, and he says to his friends: “I am so susceptible to beauty right now.”

my sibling showed me that if you place a single water droplet amongst mites – those tiny benign insects you tend to see on park benches, running around in random trajectories – they will all immediately run over to it and start thirstily drinking

poppy theatrics

as someone prone to rotting – just as you have to walk before you can run, you have to stand before you can walk. for me the first step was to practice getting up. like – when you're lying around, suddenly stand up for a second before lying back down. repeat to rev up momentum

Beauty is not liberation. Attention is not power. You have to value being free more than being desired

the difference is cocksucking vs breastfeeding

cormation

holy shit he's right