it will pass ..

it’s crazy to me that every seed in existence is a little chemical computer taking readings of temperature and moisture and minerals and all that to see if it’s able to grow yet and they’re doing crazy stuff like going into full dormancy and waiting for species-specific conditions etc etc and some seeds will do this in the size of a dust particle (see: orobanche) and some will pack in extra starch and food and do it in the size of a coconut or something… just dissected this flower seed at work that was a woody two-compartment capsule with one embryo per compartment, the whole seed a little smaller than a dime, and I swear to god it had a full soybean’s worth of embryo and food packed in there. it’s just unfathomable to me

ctrl+f is one of the greatest things to happen to academia and indeed this world

every time i see someone call kirk and spock the oldest ship, i'm filled with the urge to go "hmm actually the holmes and watson girlies have been here for a hundred years now", and i refrain because i know the natural conclusion of this game is gilgamesh and enkidu

snoopy says libraries are cool !

The night gardener once asked me if I knew how citrus trees died: when they reach old age, if they are not cut down and they manage to survive drought, disease and innumerable attacks of pests, fungi and plagues, they succumb from overabundance. When they come to the end of their life cycle, they put out a final, massive crop of lemons. In their last spring their flowers bud and blossom in enormous bunches and fill the air with a smell so sweet that it stings your nostrils from two blocks away; then their fruits ripen all at once, whole limbs break off due to their excessive weight, and after a few weeks the ground is covered with rotting lemons. It is a strange sight, he said, to see such exuberance before death.

When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamín Labatut

thank you for the insight

Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura), family Cathartidae, order Cathartiformes, FL, USA

photograph by Kathryn Young

this is where i post from btw

great films available on youtube for free

• but i'm a cheerleader (2000) dir. by jamie babbit
• swing girls (2004) dir. by shinobu yaguchi
• as young as you feel (1951) dir. by harmon jones
• elvira: mistress of the dark (1988) dir. by james singorelli
• kamikaze girls (2004) dir. by tetsuya nakashima
• donnie darko (2001) dir. by richard kelly
• manic (2001) dir. by jordan melamed
• che: part one (2008) dir. by steven soderbergh
• omar (2014) dir. by hany abu assad
• the incredible story of two girls in love (1995) dir. by maria maggenti
• american hollow (1999) by rory kennedy
• an american crime (2007) dir. by tommy o'haver
• the taqwacores (2010) dir by eyad zahra
• perfect blue, dir (1997) by satoshi khan
• fantastic planet (1977) dir. by rené laloux
• the battle of algiers (1966) dir, by gillo pontecorvo
• paris is burning (1990) dir. by jennie livingston
• black panthers (1968) dir. by agnes varda
• the texas chainsaw massacre (1977) dir. by tobe hooper
• fire (1996) dir. by deepa mehta

the letterboxd list

Spin the wheel.

You have been offered a full-ride scholarship to get a four-year degree in this field, specifically. Upon graduation, you will be guaranteed a job in this field at the 75th percentile of average salary for the field, with the possibility of further advancement as the years go on.

However, you will never be able to get a job in any other field.

you literally just have to go outside.

Stairway to the Sea  - Joseba Sánchez Zabaleta , 2021.

Spanish, b. 1970 -

Oil on panel , 97 x 97 cm.

Martin Scorsese, to the New York Times, after they published an article shortly after Federico Fellini passed away calling his movies- and other 'foreign' movies of the same ilk- 'hard work'

Martin Scorsese should roast the NYT on a regular basis.

thinking about how when you experience a lot of shame in your formative years (indirectly, directly, as abuse or just as an extant part of your environment) it becomes really difficult to be perceived by other people in general. the mere concept of someone watching me do anything, whether it's a totally normal activity or something unfamiliar of embarrassing, whether I'm working in an excel spreadsheet or being horny on main, it just makes my skin crawl and my brain turn to static because I cannot convince myself that it's okay to be seen and experienced. because to exist is to be ashamed and embarrassed of myself, whether I'm failing at something or not, because my instinctive reaction to anyone commenting on ANYTHING I'm doing is to crawl into a hole and die. it's such a bizarre and dehumanizing feeling to just not be able to exist without constantly thinking about how you are being Perceived. ceaseless watcher give me a god damn break.

sorry to put your tags on blast on this insane breach containment post I have since muted, but you're right and you should say it.

It is defeatable. Go for the throat.