twocubes:

the debate is just a smokescreen to hide the truth

Me: This ain't my first Rodeo

wise guardian wizard: so you see, young heroes, the REAL magic was inside you all along.
sagacious mentor wizard: no, heroes, don't listen! it's the friends you made along the way!
wise guardian wizard: damn your eyes, this again-
main villain: prattling FOOLS! the only power in this world comes from what Hell offers to those with the will to seize it!
sagacious mentor wizard: well yes, OBVIOUSLY, which is what happens when you make friends along the way with Hell.
wise guardian wizard: no, it's what happens when there's a Hell inside you all along!

I bet the flag makers are gearing up production runs of the French tricolor.

I wonder if anyone’s running the Oriflamme?

(I guarantee you no one’s running the EU flag)

The author is cheating the reader as soon as he writes for the sake of filling up paper; because his pretext for writing is that he has something to impart. Writing for money [is], at bottom, the ruin of literature. It is only the man who writes absolutely for the sake of the subject that writes anything worth writing. What an inestimable advantage it would be, if, in every branch of literature, there existed only a few but excellent books! This can never come to pass so long as money is to be made by writing. It seems as if money lay under a curse, for every author deteriorates directly [whenever] he writes in any way for the sake of money. The best works of great men all come from the time when they had to write either for nothing or for very little pay.

Hello, Buzzfeed… 

19th-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer presages the economics of the web and modern publishing – linkbait, content farming, unnecessary pagination, endless slideshows, and other moral failures of publishing, examined in a whole new-old light.

(via explore-blog)

youzicha:

I also like how there is apparently a split between Asbestos Removal Memes and Asbestos removal memes 2.0.

xeppeli:

i was supposed to take a picture of this a while ago but i bought a clay pot at the thrift store and for some inexplicable reason it says “Computer Viruses” on it and i think this is the best thing i have in my possession

explodingbat:

there is no way this photo is not from russia

denisebefore:

Times Square; the Camel Smoking Billboard 1940s-60s

Back of my head: Rousseau's ~Amélie~
Front of my head: Heh.
Back of my head: Well is it really impossible that the theme of targeted interventions into–
Front of my head: THIS IS A SHITPOST NOT AN EFFORTPOST

Interesting, might give off enough heat to make popcorn, who knows.

The pullquote:

So it’s hard to be mad at anyone specific, because these men who are nurtured within a system of wildly pervasive but wholly tacit male favoritism get the best of both worlds. They get to make a show of being progressive and they also get to reap the benefits of a system they’re supposedly fighting against.”

Here’s a thought: a year ago, circa Gamergate, I predicted that while Gawker wouldn’t apologize they would quietly back off the culture war stuff now that they were taking lumps for it, and said Pareene would be a better custodian of the brand voice.

So reading this I discover they installed Pareene last month, and then this:

In January, a black senior editor at Gawker.com, Jason Parham, wrote a post on his personal blog called Gawker Media’s Responsibility to Diversity, one that later inspired Cook’s release of Gawker’s diversity statistics. He was concerned in part by the creation of a new executive editorial team — cheekily called the Politburo, and featuring five male editors and two women editors — reflected a waning interest in editorial diversity. Nick Denton responded in a comment on Parham’s post with this:

“Let’s welcome, if not out-and-out racists, then at least the wide array of people with whom a conversation is possible: national greatness conservatives, Burkean Tories and business pragmatists, for instance; Christians and other spiritual people; economic liberals, libertarians and techno-utopians; and black and other social conservatives.”

Instead of focusing on a simple request, one familiar to any self-aware media company in 2015 — a commitment to “publishing and hiring more Latina voices, queer voices, black voices, and marginalized voices across its core sites” — Denton waved his hand and advocated for more or less the opposite.

So, was I wrong?

sosbrutalism:

Julian Elliott / Anthony Chitty: University of Zambia, 1965–1968
Photo: © Dr. Ruth Craggs 2011

http://sosbrutalism.org/cms/15888811

The wonderfully brutalist University of Zambia is in bad condition and has a special story. The campus was planned and partly executed by Israel. However, for political reasons the Israelis abandoned the building site in 1973, taking all plans with them. Zambia was never able to obtain these plans, so the project remains unfinished to this day.

freiherr-von-ofterdingen:

sexpigeon:

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Notes on Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s “Children’s Games.”

rip the many wonders of the mystical life-affirming peasant commons ; (

punkdbygod:

when they cooked up the notifications shade in iOS 7 did they dream of it ever bringing me, an average consumer, this much unbridled joy?

nightpool42:

triatic:

aesthetic blog

follow for more soft world on fire aesthetic

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