Guy Who Sees The Gorilla The First Time On The Gorilla Test

God giving humans both a conscious and unconscious mind, hiding your true nature from yourself as a running gag.

It's still so strange to me how apparently taboo it is to like a post on someone's Instagram from a month ago when there are posts still circulating on Tumblr from 1550 BCE

The economics of the band-aid industry hinges almost entirely on the suffering of small children

If you're aware of an annoying pattern you keep doing, you've already won half the battle.

being self aware suuuucks like yeah this thought pattern/behavior is stupid and pointless and a symptom. i know this. [does it anyways

have you considered that it's you who is old, and not the email draft?

While I was typing up some documents this afternoon, I needed a throwaway email address to receive some information.

So I logged into an older account I have, then clicked the drafts folder. I found a draft of an email from 2017.

The body read, "This email will have to wait." I guess I must have been hyperliteral at the time, since it's now been waiting for eight years.

yeah, many such cases. but there doesn't seem to be a clear solution. just... the inevitability of the void, consuming the souls of the damned. unfortunately this means innocents will also ... *gestures vaguely at the horror*

People often assume that states like Texas, North, or South Carolina are conservative. But they're not at all like people assume.

For example, I live in the Carolinas. And there's a lot of progressive culture. I mean, a dose of healthy liberalism isn't such a bad thing.

Yet sometimes, it's surprising. Like, there's a lot of sex work culture here. That's maybe the most ancient profession of all time, right?

But almost every time I hear from people who are involved in it, it's genuinely horrifying.

It seems like every story goes, "I got into sex work. Then I started using drugs. Then one day I got pregnant. Then I kept doing drugs while I was pregnant. Then I learned my child and I both have [HIV/hepatitis/preventable disease] and my child now has [lifelong condition related to drugs or disease]."

And this is just a super unfortunate and heart breaking set of affairs. Unfortunately it's a super common pattern in the city I currently reside in.

Maybe it's not like this everywhere. But I sort of can't help but view it as an indictment on certain overlapping cultures.

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

Beautiful Pit Viper (Trimeresurus venustis), family Viperidae, Thailand

Venomous.

photograph by Justin Coburn

TFW when people try to remove information from Wikipedia but it just gets put back up with ten extra citations.