Emil Cioran, On The Heights Of Despair

Félix-Hilaire Buhot (1847–1898) - Les Esprits des Villes Mortes (Spirits from the Cities of the Dead), 1885

it wild to me that there are people out there who aren't interested in history

like wdym you don't think about the fact that women would tell stories as they made butter in the same way we listen to podcasts today? wdym you don't think about that one Chinese poet who wrote about how much he loved his cats hundreds of years ago? wdym you don't think about the fact that we found a gravesite of a young child surrounded by flowers from THOUSANDS of years ago? wdym you don't think about how people wrote "i was here" into the walls in Pompeii? wdym you don't think about the little egyptian boy who drew little doodles at the top of his school works more then a thousand years ago?

wdym you don't think about the fact that people, no matter the place, time, social status, are fundamentally no different from you. that they loved the same as you, enjoyed the same things you did, dreamed about a better life the same way you did. that despite how seemingly detached you are from these people, in time, place, and culture, the things you do and the thing u are, are so undeniably human that it transcends time and space

Claiming epiphanies just seem to come to him when he sits by an orca tank, local man Troy Morales told reporters Friday that he always gets his best ideas in the splash zone. “Something about a 10-foot wall of water crashing onto me really gets the brain juices flowing,” said Morales, who described a phenomenon in which his mind is able to ideate freely given the lack of distractions at the edge of the orca pool, allowing inspiration to strike while he is drenched by a whale-induced tsunami. 

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"Apple Blossom Twig" by Mikhail Kugach (1971)

'Witches dancing around fire' by Julia Sidorenko.

Learned a bit about lead-cooled fission reactors the other day. Apparently you can like. Brick a lead-cooled nuclear reactor. If your core cools down or you spring a leak to air, the lead can solidify and Sorry but your reactor is now a solid brick. Of lead. Lol

Andrei Rublev (1966) Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

sorry i didn’t text back i was busy thinking about nothing for 5 hours straight