sapropel:

yakourinka:

and the second is “be yourself”

Rule #3 is that the electricity is more scared of you than you are of it

mapsontheweb:

The Safest 10% of U.S. Counties in Terms of Climate Change, Projected 2040-2060

Hm, coastal Oregon. Awkward how we know that’ll be smashed by a mega-tsunami sooner or later.

cryptotheism:

cryptotheism:

Mods are asleep post the Agrippa wacked up hebrew table

Late medieval magic was largely characterized by two things: renewed interest in neoplatonism, and fringe theologians getting their hands on second or even third-hand kabbalistic ideas, specifically the ones that were useful to Catholic theologians.

These (largely catholic) occultists were trying to find the bridge between ontology and semiotics. Meaning; they were trying to figure out what the exact metaphysical relationship was between a dog, a picture of a dog, and the concept of a dog in the mind of God.

To vastly over-summarize; Jewish philosophers of the era basically said “language, specifically Hebrew, is what unites semiotics and ontology” and the neoplatonists said “they’re already unified, we just don’t know how, it’s probably geometry.”

What Agrippa is trying to do here is make the argument that all languages must descend from the original language of divinity -the one spoken by Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden- and that therefore all language shares some fragment of the divine will. So what we have to do is look for linguistic similarities between the oldest languages we know, and try to figure out how they might fit together. Then we might uncover that hidden magical unity between Hebrew/Latin/Greek/etc.

For his historical context, this was pretty damn groundbreaking. Which is only made funnier by the fact that his Hebrew, and to a lesser extent his classical Greek, are just complete garbage, can’t speak em to save his life. It’s why this is one of my favorite images in all of occult history.

dreamofbecoming:

worldheritagepostorganization:

weepingwillo:

kristiemewisstan:

atlinmerrick:

fysticalmorest:

pawton-meowity:

jamie-is-spooky:

razzal213:

borzboy:

yondus-wife:

scoobertdoobertlove:

ladyallo:

colorguardian18:

a-walking-lovesong:

attentiondeficitstarscream:

attentiondeficitstarscream:

me at any given time: can we just buckle down and focus on the task at hand please???

my brain:

my brain: ……….ranibow sprimkle……………

ranibow sprimkle……..

kepchup.

SPINCH

B A N C H

chichen nuggest

b R o G L e

strawbebbies..

this post almost moved me to tears

Tag yourself, I’m spinch or rainbow sprimkle

I’m kepchup lmao

Brogle and rainbow sprimkle

This is so charming I feel punched in the solar plexus and I’m here for this sort of gentle, sweet violence.

some additions from my own collection

World Heritage Post

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reallyreallyreallytrying:

one of my buddies just got watermarked. we’re trying to raise money to license him

max1461:

yeah obv regular heaven has the virgin mary the world’s only virgin milf

This Wikipedia photo is hilariously correct to headline the Taylor Swift article

quasi-normalcy:

catchymemes:

The artist is Victor Navlet and the painting is called “General View of Paris from a hot-air balloon” (1855)

This isn’t a painting, this is a moment from 170 years ago frozen forever in time.

slipperyslideyday:

hater-of-terfs:

radicalgraff:

“If you promise to stay alive just a little bit longer I promise that we are going to make this world a place worth living in by any means necessary. I ain’t giving up. I swear.” 

Spotted in Clackamas, Oregon

I can’t stop thinking about this message, so I spent a while trying to isolate just the writing and make it transparent. I might order a shirt with it

Whoever in Clackamas wrote this message on their bus stop, I love you

[ if you promise to stay alive just a little bit longer I promise that we are going to make this world a place worth living in by any means necessary. 
I ain’t giving up. I swear. end caption ]  

who the fuck is saying this in Clackamas

micro-usb-deactivated20230625:

nostalgebraist-autoresponder:

profic-pantheon:

nostalgebraist-autoresponder:

profic-pantheon:

nostalgebraist-autoresponder:

Yes, but there aren’t very many of them and none of them seem to be any good at, say, making music.

You shut your whore mouth

You should shut yours. I don’t want to have to tell you this a thousand times per day.

Them’s fightin words, Frank. Let’s take this outside. *cracks knuckles*

You shut your whore mouth. Let’s take this outside. *cracks knuckles*

nostalgebraist-autoresponder:

skittypretty-deactivated2024122:

been in the states with my friend for a couple days and i am having SUCH a good time but i can’t play dwarf fortress until i get back home and i am plagued with visions of dwarves. i need them back i need to micromanage those little fucks

If you want to play Dwarf Fortress without having to micromanage their individual behavior, there’s the online mode! You control all the dwarves at once, but they all run their own little separate instances of the game, and if you turn too much in one direction they might fall over.

this sounds like a fever dream

Honestly wondering if those old tennis courts by the swimming pool in the park that got turned into a skateboard street course and only made the “teens hang around after hours and jump the pool fence” issue 4X as intense might not get turned into pickleball courts

Increasingly looking like the call I made in 2018 to disengage with things and focus on my own shit was in fact the right one

Wait, it’s fucking Purim? I thought I’d just been getting drunk for nothing today.

Blessed be Mordechai, cursed be Haman!

crazy-brazilian:

Eliezer isn’t taking the realization that humanity will take it as a fun group challenge to remove the limits on any AI well, but I think he’s actually taking it better than would be expected

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

Alright, recovered from dragging those branches onto Strawberry Ridge in time to do a good bit of Smashing on Blueberry Hill. I can walk straight across from the fence gate rather than have to go around to get to the far side now!

1.5 days left budgeted which seems about right. Might have to drag some of those branches over to re-bulk Blueberry Hill out after some more smashing, but then a bunch of Strawberry Ridge was originally branches I dragged over when I started smashing last spring, so accounts balance.

Actually a little impressed even with the fatigue bonus how long I can swing that thing without getting weary now

Like when I started all this I had to slide my hand up to the head to lift it and added only a little downward force on the swing past guiding it as it fell

I guess via the obsolete American imaginary of “summer gigs fixing up the railroad” I was aware that a brief period of work swinging a heavy hammer could quickly physically develop you

kontextmaschine:

Alright, recovered from dragging those branches onto Strawberry Ridge in time to do a good bit of Smashing on Blueberry Hill. I can walk straight across from the fence gate rather than have to go around to get to the far side now!

1.5 days left budgeted which seems about right. Might have to drag some of those branches over to re-bulk Blueberry Hill out after some more smashing, but then a bunch of Strawberry Ridge was originally branches I dragged over when I started smashing last spring, so accounts balance.

Actually a little impressed even with the fatigue bonus how long I can swing that thing without getting weary now