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[capricorn cunt 🎀 @celesitial]

hey so this can’t be allowed to ever happen irl

[Mads @europemaxxed]

How life feels after successfully digging yourself out the hole nobody knew you were in

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Went down the rabbit hole on this one. The answer is actually wild.

5,000 years ago, Sumerian merchants in modern-day Iraq needed a number that's easy to divide. They picked 60. It has 12 divisors (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 60). Base-10 only has four. That's 3x as many ways to split something evenly, which matters when you're dividing grain and wages and can't handle repeating decimals.

The counting method is the best part. They used their thumb as a pointer on the three bone segments of each finger. Four fingers, three segments, that's 12 per hand. Track multiples of 12, on the other hand, and you hit 60. No pen needed. Merchants in parts of Asia still count this way today.

The system spread from Sumer to the Babylonians, then eastward to Persia, India, and China, and westward to Egypt and Rome. By 1800 BC, Babylonian students were using base-60 to calculate the square root of 2 to six decimal places on clay tablets. One student's homework from 4,000 years ago, now at Yale, holds the most accurate computation found anywhere in the ancient world. The Greeks adopted it for astronomy, which locked it into navigation, cartography, and eventually clocks in the 14th century.

People have tried to kill it. During the French Revolution in 1793, France mandated decimal time: 10 hours per day, 100 minutes per hour, 100 seconds per minute. New clocks, new laws, the whole thing. Lasted 17 months. Workers hated getting one day off every ten days instead of one every seven. They tried again in 1897. Scrapped by 1900. The metric system replaced feet and pounds across most of the world. But 60 minutes in an hour? Untouchable.

60 is just too good at being divided. You can split an hour into halves, thirds, quarters, fifths, sixths, tenths, twelfths, or twentieths and land on a whole number every time. Try that with 100, and you get ugly decimals for thirds, sixths, and most common splits. 5,000 years of civilizations looked at that math and came to the same conclusion: 60 wins.

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

Free agent forward Jeremy Sochan plans to sign with the New York Knicks after he clears waivers, his agent Deirunas Visockas of Gersh Sports tells ESPN. Sochan had 10 interested suitors after being released from the Spurs on Wednesday and landed on the Knicks as his new team.

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

The Charlotte Hornets are signing forward Tosan Evbuomwan to a two-way NBA deal, his agent George S. Langberg of GSL Sports Group tells ESPN. Evbuomwan has averaged 7.4 points and 3.6 rebounds in 50 career NBA games.

[Sarah @Sarah_pdx]

when you start to read don quixote you wonder how a book from 400 years ago could possibly be comprehensible much less meaningful or funny, and then you realize you are reading one of the most important and beautiful things ever written

[1st Prize @OnestPrize]

I’m crying just go to a random part of this movie and some bullshit is happening

[Ethan Lee @ethanleeart]

I turned 24 today!

This year I started trying to sketch everyday and rediscovered my love for analog

[Caroline @carolinekwan]

Cannot overstate how deeply insidious this is, especially considering that we recently lost D’Angelo (a true artist who revolutionized the very genres that “Sienna Rose” is a stolen generic ass patchwork of)

“Sienna Rose” is a modern iteration in a long history of Black artists being economically exploited and discriminated against, in addition to exemplifying the cultural scourge that is “ai art”

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

People are mocking him but this is boss moves and he’s being a way better role model for kids than 99.99% of his previous stuff.

-Trying to improve himself
-Admitting when he doesn’t understand
-Seeking out an answer to improve
-Being unashamed

Young men need more of that example!

[Noa Dalzell 🏀 @NoaDalzell]

Enough 😭

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

"We noticed some people were watching the fireworks without paying so we have spent a vast amount of resources to stop that"

[🤠 @heavensbvnny]

No babe your 10 minute incremental alarms starting a full hour before you actually get up only make me love you more

[Bev 🇨🇦 @Garnet_2203]

I was born in 1961 too.
And this version of the past is a myth.

Kids did have food allergies we just didn’t have the science to name them.
I lost a brother before he was two because medicine didn’t yet understand what allergy killed him.

Trans kids didn’t “not exist.”
They hid. They were shamed. Many never survived adolescence.

Violence didn’t start with social media.
Bullying, racism, misogyny, and abuse were simply normalized and ignored.

Families didn’t stay together because things were better
they stayed together because women and children had fewer choices.

And no, it wasn’t just “Merry Christmas.”
We said Happy Holidays. Season’s Greetings. Yuletide.
Nobody lost their mind. Nobody felt threatened. We just… lived.

I rode buses and subways too
they weren’t magically safer.
We just didn’t talk about what happened on them.

What really changed wasn’t people.
It was visibility.

Data replaced denial.
Voices replaced silence.
And accountability replaced nostalgia.

The past wasn’t safer.
It was quieter because suffering had nowhere to go.

I don’t want a time machine.
I want a future where we stop confusing silence with peace.

Stop being such a boomer.

[J…. @yehblitzed]

Again this is literally The Boys, this is a Vought event

[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

Australia enacted gun control laws in 1996 after 35 people were killed in a shooting. It only took ONE shooting for politicians to protect their citizens and implement gun control. They immediately saw a sharp decline in homicide and suicide rates via guns. This is the first mass shooting Australia has had in decades.

Since 2014 almost SIX THOUSAND people have died from mass shootings in the US. Don’t you dare use this tragedy to try and insinuate gun control does not work. More guns is never the solution.

[demi adejuyigbe @electrolemon]

if u see a streaming service forming a monopoly at da cost of da theatrical experience warn a brother

[K.Diallo ☭ @nyeusi_waasi]

The problem with many Americans, even PhDs, is not their ignorance itself but how they respond to it. When faced with what they do not know, they immediately explain it as the result of some uniquely American disadvantage. They say schools do not teach them anything meaningful about the world, they are bombarded with propaganda from birth, curiosity is punished instead of encouraged, they are overworked and underpaid, or traveling abroad is out of reach so they cannot learn about other cultures as if people elsewhere are constantly traveling internationally.

In truth, their ignorance is a product of privilege, the fact that they can go through life without ever needing to understand the world beyond their borders. Few others anywhere have this luxury. Even citizens of other wealthy countries experience it less, because in terms of cultural influence the United States dominates the global narrative like no other first world nation.

It becomes frustrating when Americans immediately blame their education system whenever someone points out basic geographic mistakes, like not knowing which continent Niger is on, while acting as if consulting a map or Wikipedia is impossible. Nobody expects you to identify every country on a blank map, memorize all capitals,bname multiple cities, or confusing Egypt with Eastern Europe is basic awareness. If your geography knowledge is weak, you do not need to broadcast excuses. You can easily look up countries on Wikipedia, use online maps, or play simple online games. Saying it was not taught in school comes across as laziness rather than oppression.

[Ville Kid @TheKodakChris]

Soulja boy made crank dat in a pirated FL studio. Chance the Rapper recorded his first mixtape “10 day” on his 10 day suspension AT THE LIBRARY. Ed Sheeran recorded his first album in his bedroom. Ego death by the internet was made on garage band.
SKILL ISSUE!!!

[jack friks @jackfriks]

i have a folder on my computer named "keep going"

here are some of the images inside of it: (part 2)