thestudyofbasements
PhD in Basementology
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thestudyofbasements Β· 4 hours ago
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Hey! I customized some sunless-themed handwritten pieces from a agate piece handwriting artist @Thus to burn the sun by a fire! I designed the layout and elements and she helped me reproduce it on agates!
This one is the red honey!The text comes from the original text of Sunless Sea!
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thestudyofbasements Β· 4 hours ago
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this is what being twenty five is like btw
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thestudyofbasements Β· 4 hours ago
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Caught webster trying to get scritches on his fave scritch place lol
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thestudyofbasements Β· 4 hours ago
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I'm thinking of Symphony of the Sixth Blast Furnace by Evgeny Sedukhin again...
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thestudyofbasements Β· 6 hours ago
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rare insta comments W
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thestudyofbasements Β· 6 hours ago
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you know how people say soup is round and so it's messed up to put it in a square tupperware? that's how I feel every time I see a square watch
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thestudyofbasements Β· 6 hours ago
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DONT SKIPπŸš¨πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ
Hello, my name is Jaber Mohammad Al-Dahdouh. I’m 13 years old, and I’m sharing my story of how war has taken everything from my family and me πŸ’”πŸ˜”.
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I grew up in northern Gaza, where we lived a life of comfort and love πŸ’–πŸ , all thanks to my mother, Maysaa ❀️, who has a heart condition πŸ’”, and my father, who worked hard to provide a bright future for us πŸŒŸοΏ½οΏ½β€πŸ‘©β€πŸ‘§β€πŸ‘¦. My siblingsβ€”Shabaan, Hanan, Ahmed, and my youngest sister Ameera, our little darling πŸ‘§πŸ’–β€”were my closest friends, and we shared dreams 🌈, laughter πŸ˜‚, and plans for a life full of hope πŸŒ…βœ¨.
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I was a student πŸ“š at the Rosary Sisters School, part of the Union of Churches. My school meant so much to me; it was more than a building 🏫. It was my second home 🏑, a place where I felt safe and happy πŸ˜ŠπŸ’›, surrounded by friends and childhood laughter πŸ‘¦πŸ‘§πŸ’«.
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But in a single moment, our lives were turned upside down πŸ’”πŸ˜’. The war destroyed our home 🏠πŸ’₯ and my beloved school πŸ«πŸ’”, and we were forced to flee south under heavy bombing πŸ’£πŸ’₯πŸ’¨. We took refuge in the Nuseirat area, hoping to find safety 🀲. Yet even there, we were not spared; fighter jets bombed ✈️πŸ’₯ the very place where we had sought shelter. I witnessed family members being taken from us in that attack πŸ•ŠοΈπŸ˜­.
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I share my story today as a child who has lost almost everything: my home πŸ πŸ’”, my school 🏫πŸŒͺ️, family members πŸ‘¨β€πŸ‘©β€πŸ‘§β€πŸ‘¦πŸ•ŠοΈ, and even my dreams 🌠. I am reaching out not only to share the pain πŸ’” but to search for a glimmer of hope πŸŒ„ to help rebuild our lives.
I humbly ask for your support πŸ€²πŸ’– to help me and my family through this tragedy πŸ•ŠοΈ. My mother, Maysaa, is unwell with a heart condition πŸ’”, and my remaining siblings and I need your support to rebuild from the devastation 🌈🌟. Your donations could be the only chance to restore a part of our hope πŸ•―οΈπŸ’– and enable me to build a new future from the rubble 🏑✨.
Thank you for your kindness and support β€οΈπŸ™πŸŒ·.
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thestudyofbasements Β· 8 hours ago
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After nearly 20 years of trying to increase the red-headed vulture population, this endangered baby vulture was born in March at the Nakhon Ratchasima Zoo in northeast Thailand. The endangered bird is the first red-headed - also known as Asian king vulture - to be bred in the continent and only the second in the world. X
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thestudyofbasements Β· 8 hours ago
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those funny tumblr comics weren't lying, senshi dungeonmeshi DOES materialize in your brain to encourage you to practice basic self care
me (tired, walking back to car from airport): i'm kinda hungry but ehhh, i'll just wait til i get home. no need spending money when i have food at home i can cook. besides, i ate well this past week, i can afford to skip just one meal.
the senshi that lives in the shared singular brain cell of every dungeon meshi fan: it's been nearly 6 hours since you last ate, and it'll take at least another hour and a half for you to get home. if you wait that long to eat, you'll get sick with hunger!
me: hmmm, yeah. i think i've got a baggie with like a handful of crisps at the bottom of my backpack. and a few pieces of candy in my purse. i could probably eat those to tide me over?
self care senshi: that's no good, you need way more than that. you can afford to pay for a restaurant; you CAN'T afford to risk putting yourself and everyone else out there in danger by driving while distracted by hunger.
me: you're right... i'll find a diner nearby to stop at.
(also the diner food was good + when i sat down to eat i realized i was starting to get a hunger headache that could have progressed into a migraine if i left it unmanaged. thank you imaginary senshi.)
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thestudyofbasements Β· 9 hours ago
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perfect headline. no notes
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thestudyofbasements Β· 9 hours ago
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book from the sky (tianshu) xu bing, 1989-91
I was so excited to see a copy of this in real life bc it's something I studied in art history. this is a book that was typeset and printed by hand using wooden blocks but every one of the characters was invented for the sake of the piece and does not correspond to any word in the Chinese language
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thestudyofbasements Β· 9 hours ago
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thestudyofbasements Β· 9 hours ago
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I don't think "Let people enjoy things" is a position anybody would really argue with, I just think for a lot of people "enjoyment" ends where "the faintest suspicion that someone, somewhere, might not be rapturously in love with the same thing" begins
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thestudyofbasements Β· 10 hours ago
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i have no patience for people talking about violent rhetoric on the left really because every day i read the news and every politician in this country and in most others is saying 'we gotta kill more people'. they use different words to say it. obviously you're not supposed to just say 'we gotta kill more people'. but there's all kinds of polite and okay ways to say it.
'we need to control our borders' is a phrase which here means 'we gotta kill more people, we gotta drown more refugees in boats, we gotta send more people back to warzones and governments that want them dead, we gotta make more camps and we gotta make the camps more fatal'.
'we need to be tougher on welfare fraud' is a phrase which here means 'we gotta kill more people, we gotta make disabled people do more song and dance routines to convince some indifferent bureaucrat that they deserve to eat and we gotta make sure that the bureaucrats say 'no', we gotta starve those kids more, we gotta make sure families and kids and old people are freezing in the winter'.
'we need to tackle violent crime' is a phrase which here means 'we gotta kill more people, specifically Black people, unless we said Terrorism instead of Crime, in which case it's specifically muslims, shoot them, imprison them, surveil them, disappear them, brutalize them, whatever.'
and of course none of this is Violent Speech. this is Sensible Political Discourse. these are Common-Sense Policy Goals. we gotta kill more people: that's an electable policy. you can always count on we gotta kill more people as a platform. we gotta kill more people is gonna sweep the nation baby. we gotta kill more people 2024 -- vote now on your phones. now slow down. hold your horses. did that guy just say we gotta kill more people? well that just wont do. thats why im running on a platform of we gotta kill more people for cheaper, to stop this wasteful madness. and the people just keep dying but seems like there's still some of them left so i guess we're just circling back around to our main thing which is: we gotta kill more people
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