zynjamin edward

[willy 🌜💧 @willystaley]

Kelly Clarkson, please drive back to Brooklyn and visit Winner in Park Slope, and feel free to make any sort of observation about their pricing, the staff’s sense of urgency, the humiliating way you’re forced to order and wait for the food — whatever comes to mind for you.

[HeritageBulwark @hbulwark1]

Pensacola, Florida, 1884.

The city was then a busy Gulf lumber and shipping port. Sailing vessels crowd the Pensacola Bay beyond the storefronts, dirt street and signs for a bar & billiards hall and an express office.

[Tweedy Pubs @TweedyPubs]

Midday pint of Sam Smith's Dark Mild at YOCC.

[Evolve @EvolveWildlife]

Descending from Heaven. In Florida’s Homosassa River, a manatee appears suddenly in the sun’s rays, like a vision.

📷 Sylvie Ayer

[One Proud Bavarian @ProudBavaria]

The AI in a CIVILIZATION game when you have a couple of military units near its border

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

"Old Salty" by artist Steve Diossy

[Ren @gothicjungian]

How it feels to drink white wine as a man

[𝗚𝘂𝗻𝘀𝗺𝘆𝘁𝗵 @LogannGames]

I think about King Clovis on Easter

[でっかいカエル @mushi_frog]

でっかいカエル
挨拶のクオリティ上がってきたな笑

[swaghitler @reactionair]

In de trein
“Yo kan je me wakker maken in Utrecht?”
“Tuurlijk gap”
Lmao veel plezier in Groningen retard

[Ryan Higginson🔻🇵🇸 @r_higginson]

You are an Anglo-Saxon. Act like it. Abandon the cities because they're haunted. Pay half your yearly income in ransom to the Danes. Refuse to develop a military based around the twin innovations of the stirrup and the castle. Write really emo poetry. Stop using rhyme.

[Buffalo Dan @BuffaloByGodDan]

Know your state’s Southern Live Oak range.

[ShakeyD @ShakeDrizzle]

been moving different ever since I got a beautiful girlfriend that is reallynice to me

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

The neural queue never made sense to me. Why would animal life on Pandora evolve an open, cross-species connection that enables one organism to invade the central nervous system of another? What possible advantage does this confer? The downsides - infection pathway, loss of autonomy to predatory or parasitic organisms - are obvious.

Now that we know that it's because Eywa is a planetary-scale fungal parasite it makes a lot more sense.

It also points towards an obvious endgame for the series. Jake Sully and his merry band of alien bioterrorists hijack a starship and return to Earth, carrying Eywa spores. They smuggle these into the solar system and past the planetary defenses, landing on the planet to plant the seeds that will infect Earth with a new Mother. The spores take root, humans and other life forms begin to mutate as the infection takes hold, and a new Gaian Golden Age of ecological harmony takes hold as humanity is enslaved by the alien parasite, which asks only that the species give up its autonomy and renounce high technology, to be trapped for the rest of time in a state of hallucinatory primitivism.

It's possible that this is the Eywa parasite's entire purpose: a biotechnological Inhibitor that infects biospheres in order to prevent technological civilization from spreading beyond its home planet, designed as a weapon by some ancient race of engineers who didn't feel like sharing the Galaxy with competitors.

[The sunny side of Franz Kafka @AmschelKavka]

The longed-for Christmas vacation is now here, and I am about to waste it shamefully.

Franz Kafka, 1912.

[tabitha arnold @thetolerantweft]

yet another thanksgiving where my Marxist-Leninist-Maoist mom is begging me not to start an argument witj my post-Trotskyist uncle

[dane 🚩 @buckadeath]

> The Qing Empire collapsing under the weight of modernity

The Hong Xiuquan subplot:

[Variety @Variety]

EXCLUSIVE: “Mad Men” is coming to HBO Max on Dec. 1.

The beloved series starring Jon Hamm will also be available in 4K for the first time ever, for premium subscribers.
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