Aiun Gives You Wings

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"Become plural like the universe" -Pessoa. (they/them) Elf; computer toucher. https://bsky.app/profile/effinvicta.bsky.social 💖

Reading Midnight Spiderman I was thinking about how the only way to get a Rich People Are Bad story in front of a lot of people is to let rich people control that story. And then Digger just tweeted it out

Goddess of Spring: fertility incarnate, that means huge tits. Goddess of Summer: bikini season, that means huge tits. Goddess of Autumn: bountiful harvest, that means huge tits. Goddess of Winter: comforting warmth when all else is cold? You're not gonna believe this, but that also means huge tits.

I love my email being full of garb company adds. They feel like a translation across time. "Hot & Back in Stock: Red Florentine Wool!" "Free Barbute Helmet with Purchase of Maciejowski Chopping Blade!" "Boring Spearheads Getting You Down? Try Damascus Steel!" "Are Your Hoes Ready for Harvest?"

I have never seen a map like this one in an academic book. It's from from Derek Hoyos' CARTHAGE: A BIOGRAPHY, and I am intensely jealous that I never thought of putting placenames on slips of paper rather than trying to type them all onto an image of a map.

A map of ancient Carthage in which every named place has its name typed on a slip of paper glued to the map rather than printed onto the map itself.

People just think science is bigger than it is because science has such unreal outcomes for our lives. There just aren't enough scientists, there isn't enough funding, there isn't enough time and there isn't enough resource for our needs. People think their countries fund it much more than they do

Iñárritu kinda hates himself, kinda hates you, hates society, but really hates Republicans, and most of all hates Adam McKay. And while this makes it sound miserable. It's actually funny, eminently watchable, and the reason to see it in theaters is weirdly enough: the foley work