Beast of Bourbon 🥃

@jenleepa.bsky.social

Hot philosopher diplomat

How we treat women in general. There’s still a billion miles ahead of us, but there’s been so much progress in terms of harassment in the workplace, women leaders treated like secretaries, rampant and open misogyny and sexism. Also we can have our own credit cards and bank accounts now. 🙃

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 22h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

dorian

@doriantaylor.com

air travel is one of those experiences that has gotten monotonically worse over my entire lifetime

question though: has *anything* in the last 40+ years genuinely gotten *better*?

like, there's *more* stuff, sure, but is any of it *better*?

2:58 PM Aug 4, 2026

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn landscape from above. It shows a forest on the right, a line of fire and charred ground with smoke on the left. The smoke is felted wool.

“I am happy. I am very happy. This morning when I woke up I felt good because the sun was shining. I felt good because I was a frog. And I felt good because I have you as a friend. I wanted to be alone. I wanted to think about how fine everything is.”

Eric Adams going around the country trying to sell marching band equipment to small towns while warning of the dangers of pool halls would be the most on-brand thing for him possible.

40 YEAR OLD MEN OF MY DADS GENERATION EXPERIENCING EMOTION DISTRESS: ah... time to start a secret family across town 40 YEAR OLD MEN OF MY GENERATION EXPERIENCING EMOTION DISTRESS: i just need to get my pen situation figured out once and for all!

TIL that at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin has two taxidermied ocelots. One was done by a man who knew what an ocelot looked like. The other was done by a man who had never seen an ocelot in his life. I’ll let you figure out which is which.

Screencap reads, “As from the 20th century, taxidermists began to create preparations for museum visitors that were as similar as possible to the living animal. This required detailed knowledge of the anatomy and behaviour of the corresponding animals.
A great example for that are the two ocelot preparations on display. The taxidermist who prepared the lower ocelot had never seen a living ocelot in his life. He only had fur and some sketches of the animal at his disposal. In contrast, for Gerhard Schröder, who prepared the upper ocelot in 1934 as a dermoplastic after studying live animals at the Berlin Zoo, the complete animal was available.” The picture below is of one normal-looking ocelot, while the other looks like the derpiest derp that ever derped. 
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