#david wisdom

[oldshowbiz]

In the 1990s, late night CBC Radio was just about the hippest thing going.

Best as I recall, Brave New Waves aired from 12am to 5am every Sunday through Thursday.

Nightlines aired from 10pm to 5am on Friday and Saturday nights.

Like so many of my generation, I'd slap a 90 minute cassette tape into the ghetto blaster and hit the record button before going to sleep.

By the time you woke up, you had an automatic mixed tape of some of the coolest sounds around.

[philosophybits]

How insufficient is all wisdom without love.

Henry David Thoreau, Journals

[fuwbuki]

The sun and son of Arabia

Watched "Lawrence of Arabia" for the first time and i had to make something. I had a vision but dont know if i executed it correctly

[eezdalf]

Individual houses were typically in use for between fifty and 100 years, after which they were carefully dismantled and filled in to make foundations for superseding houses. Clay wall went up on clay wall, in the same location, for century after century, over periods reaching up to a full millennium. Still more astounding, smaller features such as mud-built hearths, ovens, storage bins and platforms often follow the same repetitive patterns of construction, over similarly long periods. Even particular images and ritual installations come back, again and again, in different renderings but the same locations, often widely separated in time.... as individual houses built up histories, they also appear to have acquired a degree of cumulative prestige. This is reflected in a certain density of hunting trophies, burial platforms and obsidian - a dark volcanic glass, obtained from sources in the highlands of Cappadocia, some 125 miles north. The authority of long-lived houses seems consistent with the idea that elders, and perhaps elder women in particular, held positions of influence. But the more prestigious households are distributed among the less, and do not appear to coalesce into elite neighborhoods.

a description of Çatalhöyük, a neolithic city from 7,400 bc. from the dawn of everything, by davids: graeber and wengrow.

this city remained settled for 1,500 years - "roughly the same period of time that separates us from amalafrida, queen of the vandals in .. ad 523"

[elixir]

“Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really are. That there is some sort of truth to the whole thing, if you could just get to that point where you could see it, and live it, and feel it … I think it is a long, long, way off. In the meantime there’s suffering and darkness and confusion and absurdities, and it’s people kind of going in circles. It’s fantastic. It’s like a strange carnival: it’s a lot of fun, but it’s a lot of pain.”

— David Lynch

[fellow-fandom-fruitifier]

Told myself not to give the Alive DBD AU middle names and then did it anyways

Edwin Hellia Payne

The Old Saxon word Hellia means "the underworld", but it can also mean sun or "casting away shadows", cause his lantern y'know. Bro absolutely got bullied for having a "feminine" middle name.

Charles Ambhu Rowland

Ambhu can mean "water" or "essence of life", it comes from the Sanskrit word "amb" which literally just means "water".

Niko Ai Sasaki

"Ai" (愛) is the Japanese word for love. I can't envision a better word for her tbh.

Crystal Palace Valentina Surname-Von Hoverkraft

"Isn't her name long enough?" NO‼️‼️🗣️🗣️🗣️ Valentina means "strong" and is associated with health and love.

Thomas Leo King

Nicknames include Tomcat and Cat King. "Leo" is the latin word for "lion" AND it can mean "fierce one".

Montgomery Corvus Finch

Monty is what he goes by. "Corvus" is both the Latin word for "crow" and a small constellation!!

These guys only get last names but uuaateverr:

Simon Papier

Papier means "paper maker" basically and, well. Y'know. 💀💀

David Daymon

Daymon means "the one who tames" or "subdues". Also it looks like "demon".

[charming-celestial]

Syfy Dominion season 1 gag reel 💖

(Chris Egan giggling nonstop while Tom Wisdom whips him is ridiculously funny 😭)

[athenascrows]

when life gets hard, I simply rewatch that one tv show from the 2010s with 5+ seasons and 20+ episodes per season

[orlaite]

So meshed in nerves and hesitation, it could not be a thing to be afraid of; yet it was a real beast, and this book its mangy skin, dried, stuffed and set up squarely for men to stare at.

T.E Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom + David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia

[alexmey-does-an-arts]

[haleyincarnate]

What a powerful tool growth can be if only you are patient. • Quote by David Wehmeyer (@da.wb) • 📸: “Girl at the Mirror” by Norman Rockwell

[demigod-of-the-agni]

THAT POST WAS FROM ANOTHER SHOW?? I THOUGHT IT WAS A LEGIT JERMA STREAM HELPPPPP

DJLUDKGEGH for real though, in his little prance-about killing people he does give off jerma energy..

WAIT WHY ARE ALL THE COMMENTS ABOUT JERMA

I'M SCREAMING

[philosophybits]

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

[citrusai]

gareth david-lloyd is such a wonderful voice actor. i keep rethinking of his reading of the line "i will always go where you go." and it sounds so resigned and pained, like already solas knows he is going down a path that will lead to death and horror but his friend needs him, the people need him. they need his wisdom and guidance, and he knows taking on a physical form will not only be his undoing, but that of the world as he knows it. but still he goes, because duty comes above all.

[eezdalf]

We should also consider if the inhabitants of the mega-sites consciously managed their ecosystem to avoid large-scale deforestation... Archaeological studies of their economy suggest a pattern of small-scale gardening, often taking place within the bounds of the settlement, combined with the keeping of livestock, cultivation of orchards, and a wide spectrum of hunting and foraging activities. The diversity is actually remarkable, as is its sustainability. As well as wheat, barley, and pulses, the citizens' plant diet included apples, pears, cherries, sloes, acorns, hazelnuts and apricots. Mega-site dwellers were hunters of red deer, roe deer, and wild boar as well as farmers and foresters. It was 'play farming' on a grand scale: an urban populous supporting itself through small-scale cultivation and herding, combined with an extraordinary array of wild foods. This way of life was by no means 'simple'. As well as managing orchards, gardens, livestock and woodlands, the inhabitants of these cities imported salt in bulk from springs in the eastern Carpathians and the Black Sea littoral. Flint extraction by the ton took place in the Dniestr valley, furnishing material for tools. A household potting industry flourished, its products considered among the finest ceramics of the prehistoric world; and regular supplies of copper flowed in from the Balkans. There is no firm consensus from archaeologists about what sort of social arrangements all this required, but most would agree the logistical challenges were daunting. A surplus was definitely produced, and with it ample potential for some to seize control of the stocks and supplies, to lord it over others or battle for the spoils; but over the eight centuries we find little evidence for warfare or the rise of social elites.

a description of talianki (located in modern day ukraine), a neolithic site from 5,700 years ago (inhabited from roughly 4100 to 3300 bc) from the dawn of everything by davids: graeber and wengrow

once again this book is fantastic - and one of its main theses is that "the agricultural revolution" and some of the conclusions we draw from it are, largely, not true.

the development of farming in human societies is a much much longer and more "playful" process than popular narratives would have us believe. 'agricultural revolution' suggests an on/off switch almost. and the way it's usually taught sees agriculture being "invented" and then spreading like wildfire to take over the globe - only then allowing for true cities and the "necessary evils" they entail. this simply isn't true. an urban, farming society is not automatically doomed to bureaucracy, inequality, and exploitation.

all across the world the archaeological evidence points to the domestication of plants taking literal thousands of years longer than it "ought to." and then, even when the domestication of a wild plant was complete there isn't an immediate rise of huge fields and class stratification (as the popular narrative goes). again - in the magnitude of multiple thousands of years. we have generations upon generations of humans with farming know-how who don't immediately begin a march of politics and inequality precipitated by farming.

agriculture isn't humanity's curse no matter what the memes and capitalists say. we are not doomed to our current ways - we can imagine, we can build, we can create new ways of being. the past is the present is the past. and fuck you capitalism and doomed "human nature" debates. and read the dawn of everything <3

[david-goldrock]

HOW THE FUCK DOES A CHARACTER WITH A FEW LINES + HALF A SONG TEAR ME ASUNDER LIKE THIS EVERY TIME?