“Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.” ― Euripides

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi on malnutrition

"As in Rome, the war season must have been opened in Mar/Apr (Aries) and ended in Oct/Nov (Scorpio), two months consecrated to the god of war"... This specific pen drawing dates back to 1540 and is attributed to the artist Erhard Schön...

Big light is a machinic betrayal of Dionysian luminous darkness.

No, Mario is a Christian socialist working-class hero who battles the Bataillean archeo-futurist dog-dragons to save the 'mushroom kingdom' of rhizomatic capitalism. It is rather Sonic the Hedgehog who is the Right Accelerationist 'Gotta Go Fast' edge-lord simp for the

holy fuck, a hair dryer at a Paris airport broke Polymarket weather markets & made someone $34,000 richer - polymarket was settling Paris temperature bets on a single Météo France sensor sitting near the Charles de Gaulle runway perimeter - basically unguarded - the guy bought

I’m skeptical but at the same time the possibility of an actual honest to god kraken having been real at some point is so fun.

BREAKING: Trump has said: The whole world has become somewhat of a casino

Tomáš Moravec, 'Pallet', 2008

LMAO who made this extremely based 😭😂🤣

"Animals walk around in a state of permanent religious intoxication."

An unexpected side effect that travelling abroad in Greece had for my knowledge of the Classics was a better understanding of Aristophanes. Famously he used the onomatopoeia Βρεκεκέξ ("brekekekex") for the chorus of "The Frogs". In the ruins of ancient Dion, I heard them:

It’s cool that the tech the CIA used to kill Michael Hastings and Ellen used to kill Anne Heche is gonna be mandatory for every driver in America now

Matrix becoming so unglued it's ridiculous. x.com/HenryMa7956189…

A striking example that, as Lawrence Berman, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has pointed out, Egyptian artists were perfectly capable of making naturalistic art.

This is extremely funny to do to the quite elderly avatar of White Anglo-Saxon Protestantism

Self-declared King of Switzerland Jonas Lauwiner, 31, is living his best medieval fantasy by claiming 148 scraps of "ownerless" land and building himself a 117,000 square metre empire, the IT specialist has been quietly snapping up abandoned plots and even stretches of road that