radiodark

[radiodark]

hooked rugs, c. 1860.

[radiodark]

Going through the pile of books to go to charity shops and there’s this amazing kids history one that’s literally like

Give your friend a neolithic burial

[radiodark]

Fanciest Feast

[radiodark]

“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

[radiodark]

[radiodark]

Herman Menzel (American, 1904-1988)

[radiodark]

"This is a Blue Button or Porpita porpita.

Although it is superficially similar to a jellyfish, each apparent individual is actually a colony of hydrozoan polyps  They each performing specialised roles – stinging and preying, defending the colony from predators, and producing more of their kind. Porpita porpita are also hermaphrodites, that is, they have both male and female reproductive apparatus.Do you think it is beautiful?"

Beautiful find by @snorkeldownunder

Information from Wildlife Conservation Trust

⠀

[radiodark]

waitaminute that's john rhys-davies

i am out sick and thought i'd revisit my old friend Dune 2/ Dune 2000, only I didn't feel like downloading dosbox again this time so I found another version, and. let me just say. somehow i'd missed the cutscenes before.

[radiodark]

[radiodark]

Aldous Huxley in The San Francisco Examiner, September 3, 1932

[radiodark]

just a head up that snopes calls this unproven, and points out that the "bomb" looks a lot like an aircraft float light.

[radiodark]

i am out sick and thought i'd revisit my old friend Dune 2/ Dune 2000, only I didn't feel like downloading dosbox again this time so I found another version, and. let me just say. somehow i'd missed the cutscenes before.

[radiodark]

"on the one hand," i tell the late medieval monk i hang out with sometimes, "each age reconfigures the great events of history in the way that makes them most meaningful for their own time. like how you keep drawing alexander in full plate."

"he's a knight, what else would he wear"

"on the other," i continue, ignoring him, "it does make me feel like i've gone a little bit crazy when people applaud caesar's assassins as restoring power to the people. at best they wanted a different dictator for life."

"was your 1st century ad stoic friend busy or something"

"yes. anyway the point is applauding action taken for action's sake without looking at the consequences is silly. it's not like killing caesar restored the Res Publica anyway -"

"because all Caesar did was knock over its rotted corpse," he says along with me. "can i play Dark Souls in peace now?"

[radiodark]

[radiodark]

[radiodark]

comes to mind

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture, in the sense that it’s perfectly possible and interesting to do