CelebrationOfTheLizard

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[James @exhaustdata]

Ten thousand dissertations all called “the American novel since 1945” reduced to a single sentence

[Christian TeBordo @xtebordo]

this looks like a yearbook for a school where all the students are kafka.

[CelebrationOfTheLizard @GoldstarWBClub]

@growing_daniel CloudHiker is good, it's a stumbleupon clone that serves you random websites. Way better than content holes like Xitter or Tok. Refreshing tbh

[CelebrationOfTheLizard @GoldstarWBClub]

@H1TWOM4N I always thought that Palpatine, the necromancer sith, siphoned her life force into Anakin and then said, "oh yah she died of a broken heart"

[CelebrationOfTheLizard @GoldstarWBClub]

@ThreatNotation That's not what Lavender town sounds like

[Benny Feldman @Feldfrog]

They should have a thing called Cool Libraries where you can talk really loud, and maybe have a few beers.

Reading out loud to your homies sitting pretzel style in a circle, they each have a 6 pack. Doing fun voices and sound effects. The homies are chiming in, riffing, laughing

[hope hopes hoping @hopes_revenge]

Most men live lives of quiet retardation

[Daniel Trubman @dmtrubman]

Suburban homeowners when you propose a small apartment building near the commuter train station:

[Ben Landau-Taylor @benlandautaylor]

Of course orcs have menus. Restaurants are the tip of the iceberg. Think about it. Mordor sends out gigantic armies with well-drilled formations and excellent discipline, which clearly require a sophisticated logistical operation to keep them fed and supplied, and with a terrific siege train to boot. This means at least the officer class is highly literate, you absolutely cannot use that strategy at that scale otherwise. Any civilization that can produce armies like Mordor’s will necessarily have extremely sophisticated art and culture, and may well be on a trajectory towards decadence. Of course you won’t see most of this by looking at an army in the field—you won’t see the heights of American culture at a forward operating base either—but we do get a few glimpses. We see their monumental architecture at Barad-dur and the Black Gate, which are ornamented in a well-developed style which is clearly distinct from the artistic tradition of Numenor. These are massive undertakings requiring a well-organized workforce, not to mention a tremendous logistic capacity as Gorgoroth is far too barren to supply the laborers so food must have been brought from elsewhere (probably Nurn), and even so the laborers may well have suffered casualties comparable to the Qin Emperor’s levees for building the Great Wall. Mordor’s turn towards decadence is visible in the splendid and impractical armor of commanders with political functions, like the Witch-King of Angmar or the Mouth of Sauron, even if it hasn’t yet reached so far as to affect the dress of purely military field commanders, whose gear is still utilitarian. To produce these sites and artifacts, Mordor must have a large and competent artisan class. They must have an urbanized and highly stratified population. The Nurnen slave plantations are entirely capable of supporting a society like this—compare the latifundia of Rome. In any case we can be confident that the cities of Nurn are on par with the great cities of premodern Earth. Mordor is more than sophisticated enough for restaurants, and wealthy enough, and cosmopolitan to boot—just going by the fragments we see through the lens of war, we can safely assume that Mordor gets the finest spices from the Corsairs of Umbar, expert chefs from the Haradrim, exotic recipes from the Easterlings, and who knows what else. The restaurants must be incredible, and that’s the least of it. Mordor probably has, like, great novelists writing comic adventure stories about an orcish explorer who gets lost among the hobbits. Astounding poets who will make you weep with despair as they describe being trampled by Sauron. Grand and incredibly racist operas about the crimes of the elves.

[owen cyclops @owenbroadcast]

long ago when i was into lucid dreaming, i found a guy who made a device that you wear over your face. the idea was: it detected, via your eyes, when you were in REM sleep. it then makes a soft noise. you recognize this noise (while dreaming), and then realize youre dreaming.

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[CelebrationOfTheLizard @GoldstarWBClub]

@rulesdisobeyer How much did big hotel pay u to post this??

[nude gingrich @JarJarFan69]

The year is 2070. My kids and grandkids surround me. "We love you, dad/grandpa," they say. "Blink 182 Titanic submarine step-son," I reply, as the doctor pronounces me dead before I even stop breathing.

[Ben Avery @benaveryisgood]

I’m assembling pieces for the greatest mini-golf course of all time

[crisp mattman @cushbomb]

In the Civil War field hospital, taking the sticks out of the mouths of the guys having their legs sawn off and replacing them with harmonicas.

[You Know Who @MuskTillDawn]

Me in three months

[Eleonora 𓆩♡𓆪 @hempu5]

yea okay dude, i realize now that an "autism mommy" refers to the mother of an autistic person and not what i thought it meant, but it's been 4 hours at this point and i think i need to see a doctor.

[Brooks Otterlake @i_zzzzzz]

This is why baseball is the most Dune sport... a highly regimented system that would logically be governed by machines if they weren't seen as an affront to sacred beliefs