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If you haven't watched AT LEAST two youtube videos about how to make bricks... you might be in the wrong place.
None of the dating apps have a space where I can tell potential partners that my “sex playlist” consists only of Runaway Horses by Philip Glass. From the Mishima soundtrack. What gives?
January 3, 2026 at 5:54 AM
None of the dating apps have a space where I can tell potential partners that my “sex playlist” consists only of Runaway Horses by Philip Glass. From the Mishima soundtrack. What gives?
Mary Shelley also wrote Mathilde which is a psychosexual incest melodrama based on her own dad (who was also her publisher). He didn't publish it and she was like "What? Why?" and it was re-discovered in the 20th Century. She was so intense. V messy. Respect.
#booksky #gothic
#booksky #gothic
#OTD in 1818, Mary Shelley's 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯; 𝘰𝘳, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘶𝘴 was first published.
The title compares the monster's creator, Victor Frankenstein, to the mythological character Prometheus, who fashioned humans out of clay.
#literature #litsky #booksky #scifi #gothic #HappyNewYear
The title compares the monster's creator, Victor Frankenstein, to the mythological character Prometheus, who fashioned humans out of clay.
#literature #litsky #booksky #scifi #gothic #HappyNewYear
January 3, 2026 at 12:31 AM
All your "classics" were once the popular literature of their day. Dickens would have been huge on BookTok. Get over it you babies. Read a book. Jeesh.
January 3, 2026 at 12:25 AM
All your "classics" were once the popular literature of their day. Dickens would have been huge on BookTok. Get over it you babies. Read a book. Jeesh.
Centuries ago, Aesop proved the "what if animals could talk and hung out and stuff" genre was certified gold winner. Every once in a while someone gets smart and runs it back. Somebody give me a new book about a talking animal goddamn it.
January 3, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Centuries ago, Aesop proved the "what if animals could talk and hung out and stuff" genre was certified gold winner. Every once in a while someone gets smart and runs it back. Somebody give me a new book about a talking animal goddamn it.
Godel is my favorite mathematician. He was brilliant. But maybe there doesn't need to be a logistical inconstancy in the US Constitution that allows the republic to legally turn to fascism. Maybe it can just be people saying "Fuck it. Let's do fascism."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6...
Gödel's Loophole - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel%27s_Loophole
September 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Godel is my favorite mathematician. He was brilliant. But maybe there doesn't need to be a logistical inconstancy in the US Constitution that allows the republic to legally turn to fascism. Maybe it can just be people saying "Fuck it. Let's do fascism."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6...
Euclid, nodding while a time-traveling Phil Jackson explain the Bulls' triangle offense: "Yeah, that's fucking tight."
July 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Euclid, nodding while a time-traveling Phil Jackson explain the Bulls' triangle offense: "Yeah, that's fucking tight."
The arrogance of the ruling class really is amazing. Nothing he says is wrong. I agree with him. BUT if I was a person whose whole life has been shaped/blessed because who my daddy was... I hope I'd have enough awareness not to throw stones about qualifications?
July 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The arrogance of the ruling class really is amazing. Nothing he says is wrong. I agree with him. BUT if I was a person whose whole life has been shaped/blessed because who my daddy was... I hope I'd have enough awareness not to throw stones about qualifications?
Went to Dave and Busters for the first time and had a great time. It's just been sat there above the parking garage downtown all these years. Like finding a slightly sweaty and even more slightly sticky Narnia. #gaming
July 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Went to Dave and Busters for the first time and had a great time. It's just been sat there above the parking garage downtown all these years. Like finding a slightly sweaty and even more slightly sticky Narnia. #gaming
If you're anything like me, you used to get Panera Bread way more than you wanted to. Then, you had a life change and now you don't get Panera Bread at all.
July 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
If you're anything like me, you used to get Panera Bread way more than you wanted to. Then, you had a life change and now you don't get Panera Bread at all.
June 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
June 18, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Akwaeke Emezi is one of the best writers doing the thing right now. Full stop. Read their books! Pet is THE perfect book to listen to on a long drive!
When you just want to see all your Black authored YA fantasy books in all their glory! If only these had existed when I was a teen in the nineties…
June 18, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Akwaeke Emezi is one of the best writers doing the thing right now. Full stop. Read their books! Pet is THE perfect book to listen to on a long drive!
This winter in New Orleans it snowed. 8 inches and it shattered all the records. My rescued street dog has never lived outside Louisiana. He hated it. #dogs
June 18, 2025 at 3:25 AM
This winter in New Orleans it snowed. 8 inches and it shattered all the records. My rescued street dog has never lived outside Louisiana. He hated it. #dogs
Pepin the Short is underrated? Undersized but able to facilitate for a contending team. Chris Paul coded. The Carolingian Dynasty is the mid 2010s Rockets. No further questions. #NBA #history
Regarding Kings of the Franks: Every person on the planet either talks about Charlemagne too much, or not enough. There has never been a person who talks about Charlemagne the right amount. #history
June 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Regarding Kings of the Franks: Every person on the planet either talks about Charlemagne too much, or not enough. There has never been a person who talks about Charlemagne the right amount. #history
June 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Regarding Kings of the Franks: Every person on the planet either talks about Charlemagne too much, or not enough. There has never been a person who talks about Charlemagne the right amount. #history
Shoot Slack into the fucking sun. It's like a video game where "winning" is defeating your work/life balance.
June 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Shoot Slack into the fucking sun. It's like a video game where "winning" is defeating your work/life balance.
You gotta feel bad for kids that have to learn about politics in the age of Trump. It's like having to learn about mycology while watching The Last of Us.
He's super mad about this
June 18, 2025 at 1:56 AM
You gotta feel bad for kids that have to learn about politics in the age of Trump. It's like having to learn about mycology while watching The Last of Us.
Medieval travel books give you intense details on how to get from one impossibly far city to another. "You'll see this village and this church etc". They mention trees that are still in Syria. Then it's like "oh yeah a river that cures baldness and makes your wishes come true". What gives? #booksky
June 18, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Medieval travel books give you intense details on how to get from one impossibly far city to another. "You'll see this village and this church etc". They mention trees that are still in Syria. Then it's like "oh yeah a river that cures baldness and makes your wishes come true". What gives? #booksky
"Where are the bones?"
A bunch of Renaissance builders looking guilty. Sideways glances at the canal: "Which bones was that?"
A bunch of Renaissance builders looking guilty. Sideways glances at the canal: "Which bones was that?"
My Marco Polo trivia is that his tomb in the Venetian church of San Lorenzo was lost when the church was rebuilt in the late 1500’s. How do you lose an entire tomb?
June 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
"Where are the bones?"
A bunch of Renaissance builders looking guilty. Sideways glances at the canal: "Which bones was that?"
A bunch of Renaissance builders looking guilty. Sideways glances at the canal: "Which bones was that?"
Just finding out that Marco Polo left home and traveled for 24 YEARS!?!!?! And then he just showed back up at his house. I sort of thought it was more a semester abroad sort of deal? #booksky
June 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Just finding out that Marco Polo left home and traveled for 24 YEARS!?!!?! And then he just showed back up at his house. I sort of thought it was more a semester abroad sort of deal? #booksky
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Heads up....
Two more members of the Public Defender Oversight Board - Chairman Gerard Caswell and Ernestine Gray (retired judges) - resigned.
So 5 of 9 board members have resigned in the last three weeks.
I'm on vacation but here's some background info:
lailluminator.com/2025/06/16/p...
Two more members of the Public Defender Oversight Board - Chairman Gerard Caswell and Ernestine Gray (retired judges) - resigned.
So 5 of 9 board members have resigned in the last three weeks.
I'm on vacation but here's some background info:
lailluminator.com/2025/06/16/p...
Public defenders facing termination accuse Louisiana official of discriminating against women • Louisiana Illuminator
Five attorneys at risk of losing their jobs running local public defense offices accused State Public Defender Rémy Starns of discriminating against the women who have run those offices.
lailluminator.com
June 17, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Heads up....
Two more members of the Public Defender Oversight Board - Chairman Gerard Caswell and Ernestine Gray (retired judges) - resigned.
So 5 of 9 board members have resigned in the last three weeks.
I'm on vacation but here's some background info:
lailluminator.com/2025/06/16/p...
Two more members of the Public Defender Oversight Board - Chairman Gerard Caswell and Ernestine Gray (retired judges) - resigned.
So 5 of 9 board members have resigned in the last three weeks.
I'm on vacation but here's some background info:
lailluminator.com/2025/06/16/p...
Western print culture began in the 1400s when Guttenberg printed his Bible. Under 200 were made and only 21 still exist. Western print culture peaked in 1988 when the first Uncle John's Bathroom Reader was printed. Books meant to be read while taking a shit. 12 million have been sold. #booksky
June 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Western print culture began in the 1400s when Guttenberg printed his Bible. Under 200 were made and only 21 still exist. Western print culture peaked in 1988 when the first Uncle John's Bathroom Reader was printed. Books meant to be read while taking a shit. 12 million have been sold. #booksky