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[babylon and beyond @babelandbeyond]

Guys who drink morning beers built the Pyramids

[Carlos That Notices Things @QuetzalPhoenix]

The entire western world developed while drinking wine and beer pretty much through the entire day, it makes sense that it would develop a culture where people feel socially anxious all the time and are susceptible to drugs, sobriety was never in the cards

[Yesterday's Print @yesterdaysprint]

Chicago Tribune, Illinois, October 15, 1905

[J. J. Ellis @jjellisart]

I said this about AI well over a year ago. Using it to diagnose and fire people with medical conditions so they lose their insurance AND their income is somehow even more heartless and evil than I’d predicted.

[babylon and beyond @babelandbeyond]

Alright where’s my Pulitzer

[babylon and beyond @babelandbeyond]

Everyone wants to bike across America until they drive across Nevada

[babylon and beyond @babelandbeyond]

What would make this especially crazy is hallways didn’t exist in the Middle Ages. These buildings would be one room after another. The earliest known hallway is from the 1590s. There are cities in Florida older than that. There is a THEME PARK older than that

[machine yearning engineer @confusionm8trix]

I want a backrooms set in the backgrounds of medieval paintings because what were they on? don’t you want to run around in there?

[babylon and beyond @babelandbeyond]

Alright here’s my 20 favorite vocal melodies. I excluded all the songs I forgot about

[babylon and beyond @babelandbeyond]

Lynchian this, lynchian that… the corn palace (which looks like a school gym on the inside??) is Vonnegutian

[babylon and beyond @babelandbeyond]

@IAMASCIENTIST_ I do love the La’s. Son of a Gun might be #21

[babylon and beyond @babelandbeyond]

Jangle pop is the best genre. here are my favorite jangle songs. #13 is not a joke.

[Nutty2112_ @nutty2112_]

had to do one of this in jangle pop (the best genre) (there were too many good songs i had to make it a top 25)

[babylon and beyond @babelandbeyond]

Leaving a longtime job is surprisingly eerie. It’s like 1% of what dying must feel like. You get to watch yourself become a nonentity, witness a post-you world becoming real, and on the very last day you get to be a ghost

[babylon and beyond @babelandbeyond]

This week i’ve learned that being annoyed at neighbors’ fireworks at 1 am is an excellent state of being in which to read Gravity’s Rainbow

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

Trump is older than microwaves, cassette tapes, the polio vaccine, McDonald’s franchising, credit cards, the USAF, the transistor, pocket calculators, ATMs, cable television, velcro, atomic clocks, and the LP record.

But he's not older than Cheez-Its. They were invented in 1921.

[Amelia™ @RealiaAmelia]

massive PR win for buddhism that the version of it that made it to the west is the “jesus had one commandment: to be vaguely nice to each other” version

[babylon and beyond @babelandbeyond]

@housefulloftime No Depression by Uncle Tupelo

[James @exhaustdata]

The Kafka museum in Prague should have one of those cutout things where you stick your face in a hole and it makes you look like a giant bug, but you’re not allowed to take a photo unless you filled out the paperwork at the beginning of the tour, which they don’t tell you

[babylon and beyond @babelandbeyond]

Paul Celan - Mandorla (translated from German)

[alaska @145k4]

everyone wants to say "this poem sucks" that poem sucks"" etc but very few brave enough to say Helllo, here is a poem i LIKE!! This is my taste!

[babylon and beyond @babelandbeyond]

@thinkiamsad The center cannot hold, mere anarchy is loosed upon the world

[babylon and beyond @babelandbeyond]

@staticbluebat Song 2 by Blur, for grunge

[Fatty Patty @FattyPatty37043]

The earth that God gave us all is the same age.