Thursday:

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""I am not responsible", says the kapo. "I am not responsible", says the officer. "I am not responsible". Who is responsible then?"

My favorite Darwin Incident story is that the library I used to work at bought the manga and it was the only time in 300 years we actually got complaints about a book, people gave us the full thumb down because it was too bad

youtu.be/3ojltaQys7w?... One of the most iconic scenes in cinema imo

There's an amazing film called Kumiko the Treasure Hunter where the main character digs up a mysterious VHS tape of Fargo in a cave and tries to decipher it at home - it ends up so broken that she just has to go to a supermarket to buy the DVD. It's the same film! But the VHS was magical.

Someday I'll have to write a whole thing about the appeal of uncovering a mystery vs learning something in a straightforward manner. When I posted something on tumblr eons ago it would always do better if someone removed the source or added that it was from "an old manuscript" (for 1970s art!)

I remember fighting a famous science youtuber about this (10 years ago!) when he declared we needed to remove any language class in school because google translated existed. He was a math teacher and thought there should be more math because it's "useful". I did not mention calculators.

Yaaay happy birthday!!

It's hard for me to watch this and not think that Hosoda's films haven't been the same since they've stopped working together. I found in Kokuho the same subtlety, the same bittersweet moments that I saw in Wolf Children.
Regardless, I'm happy that Okudera found such success here. She deserves it.

It's already quite lucky when what someone has been looking for has been cataloged! I've seen entire *buildings* of archives that hadn't been described yet. I get a bit worried when history students think we've digitized everything and write stuff like "there's no available info on so and so".

Most pictures online fail to capture the level of detail Merian would put into each illustration, they're truly breathtaking:

That one student was very skilled - they did have serious art classes (to be able to draw anatomy properly) but his quick portraits are way better than others

From my experience at work (from 16th century to 19th) birds/insects have the best early doodles and most accurate taxidermy and cats and dogs are anthropomorphized a lot

(I know mind blowing realistic illustrations of animals existed like the King's Vellums en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_V%C... but I'm not sure how shared they were - I also know photography changed the way we perceived how animals moved, like the horse or the pigeon)