#article tag

[porciaenjoyer]

In the theatre, for example, the puella hides her beautiful legs with [a pallium]. The amorous dandy, however, finds way and means to remove it, turning his insolence into an unambiguous compliment.

this is making me chuckle.. the puella hides her beautiful legs... the amorous dandy....

[irate-iguana]

For those who don’t know, Elon Musk has recently been directing his assholery towards Wikipedia — calling them ‘Wokepedia’ due to the amount they spend on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and calling for people to stop giving them money “until they restore balance to their editing authority” —, now is a great time to consider donating to Wikipedia!

[newsingit]

‘We Can Bury Anyone’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine

[throesofincreasingwonder]

"A story doesn't need a theme in order to be good" I'm only saying this once but a theme isn't some secret coded message an author weaves into a piece so that your English teacher can talk about Death or Family. A theme is a summary of an idea in the work. If the story is "Susan went grocery shopping and saw a weird bird" then it might have themes like 'birds don't belong in grocery stores' or 'nature is interesting and worth paying attention to' or 'small things can be worth hearing about.' Those could be the themes of the work. It doesn't matter if the author intended them or not, because reading is collaborative and the text gets its meaning from the reader (this is what "death of the author" means).

Every work has themes in it, and not just the ones your teachers made you read in high school. Stories that are bad or clearly not intended to have deep messages still have themes. It is inherent in being a story. All stories have themes, even if those themes are shallow, because stories are sentences connected together for the purpose of expressing ideas, and ideas are all that themes are.

[luminarai]

hey, hi, I was just on the former bird app and came across this info from a brand new study and now I cannot stop screaming internally??? what the actual fuckkkk

theres' an article from the guardian here and here is the actual study:

[strawberridrops]

It’s simply not the case that our ideas of technology and humanity interact so neatly, with the former serving as a neat counterpoint to the latter by showing us what we are not. Instead, our perception of ourselves is often refracted through our mechanical inventions, and comparisons to technology can just as easily mechanize us as they can reinforce our humanity.

[dozydawn]

[ghoulbats]

well….it finally happened

[terribleinfluence-tour]

READ HERE

[why-the-heck-not]

me, a responsible being, working on the coding project as I should vs. me, a dysfunctional shithead, getting distracted by reading about brains (once aGAIN damnit (it's my favorite "I need to study my field but bc I should do that it's an impossible unthinkable feat now, so I'm reading about something else to fool my brain I'm still being productive"-topic))

[gammaraydeath]

on space wikipedia, reading about space things

[porciaenjoyer]

Participants’ comments about rice and potatoes suggest that they did not view these foods to be exciting in any way.

riveting study btw

[bertie-w-wooster]

if I had (hypothetically) made a reading list of 55 works about the Franklin Expedition and related areas, including the pdfs of most of the articles and a couple of the books on it, would anyone be interested in it? pls lmk in the comments or tags!

update: I have posted it, check the reblogs or my blog to find it

[newsingit]

Narrative economics robert shiller

[cockyhorror]

[dreamings-free]

18/10/24

PLEASE CONSIDER SAVING THIS TO READ FOR LATER ESPECIALLY IF YOUR ARE FEELING VERY UPSET AND AFFECTED BY THIS RIGHT NOW. 🖤

very well said from Dazed. glad someone’s saying it, but sad and angry that it’s necessary.