It's A Shame You Can't Cool, Silent, And Mysterious Your Way To Being Very Close To People. We Are Unfortunately

don't like trivia games. they're a test on everything you could possibly know (that is useless). don't respect a test that rewards breadth of life experience rather than ability to take a canonical set of materials and study the shit out of it. philosophically opposed to that

Guy in front of me at the store talking about how some words should be illegal. Didn't have it in me to explain how things work. Guess he may never know.

Hate speech isn't real. Please stop making stuff up and go touch grass

September. "Septem" ... as in the number seven. Yes, it is the ninth month of the year. Romans, smh.

Cladonia sp. / Begerlav sp.

People in their thirties remember the olden days, when it was just you, your Windows 95/98/me desktop with floppy disks, and Nokia 5110 versus the universe.

I saw a man this morning going from tree to tree, painstakingly painting each leaf of every tree yellow, red, and gold, one by one. I always wondered how they got that way.

“On the use of the phrase ‘on the’ and the colon-delimited subtitle in academic papers: A meta-analysis”

(…) It will easily be seen in what consists the difference between a man who is led by emotion or opinion alone and one who is led by reason. The former, whether he wills it or not, does those things of which he is entirely ignorant, but the latter does the will of no one but himself, and does those things only which he knows are of greatest importance in life, and which he therefore desires above all things. I call the former, therefore, a slave, and the latter free.

Spinoza, Ethics (via fatenumber1)

I fucking love snowclones. They are resilient. They happen everywhere. You can enjoy them. Snowclones are the best.

I fucking love dandelions. They are resilient. They grow everywhere. You can eat them. Dandelions are the best.

Isn't it cool that the fundamental group of ℝℙ² is ℤ/2 cause removing a disc leaves you with a Möbius strip?