so so sooooo sexy when tv shows end when they're supposed to. so sexy to have a thematically coherent & significant narrative and follow it to its natural conclusion. I'm salivating

Joe Rogan is a stupid person’s idea of what a smart person is.

A lot of people don’t think that you exist. They only think of you as a part of an invisible monolith known as Everybody/Else.

When you’re horny, your mind tells you sex feels better than normal.

Anyone else totally desensitized to the delta variant with a side of futility or is it just me. Im wearing my mask and stuff but the scale of the horror of it is just lost on me now

I heard “delta spreads as fast as smallpox” and felt nothing

Yeah yeah, it’s a plague, we get it, we know the drill.

Never thought I’d be so used to crippling, blinding existential fear

It’s the mental exhaustion! We’ve been so scared, for so long, that we all just can’t anymore.

Battery ran out.

someone, reading my writing: wow great story!

me, sticking my hands in the plotholes: thanks it has pockets :)

Plot holes are merely the pockets in which your audience keeps their fanfiction ideas.

@yeahitsak

There will likely eventually come a point in medicine where the rich are immortal but the poor still have to die.

Marijuana isn’t a performance-enhancing drug unless you use it before seeing a concert

When you’re in a relationship with someone more attractive and higher earning than yourself, chances are good that they are with you for the right reasons. Don’t take that for granted.

~second week of June 🧡 what are you up to?

maybe if we, as a society, spent more time in gardens things wouldn’t be like this

— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

talking about species that are “useful to humans”—as opposed to species that are not—is like calling a steering wheel “useful to driving” because it’s the part of the car you personally see and interact with most

Nature education is a complete disaster in so many ways—it’s good at getting people to care about “nature” in an individual, hands-on way, but ecologically it’s a failure.

It’s easy to convince people that opossums and butterflies and snakes are cool. You can get an extreme arachnophobe cooing over jumping spiders or gently shutting tarantulas out of the house in a matter of months—don’t get me wrong, it’s hard work compared to selling them on kitten, but living things have innate charisma.

But how do you sell them on systems? On relationship webs? On largely invisible, interconnected, interdependent cycles that you can’t meaningfully display in a terrarium or on a food web poster? Ecology is like an enormous game of non-Euclidean, fourth-dimensional Jenga in which some of the pieces have gone missing and others have been replaced with tubes of chapstick or sticks of half-melted butter.

But you have to, because inconvenient scientists are ignored and widespred ecological ignorance is all the permission slip that corporate and political actors need to keep poking at the unholy geometry of that Jenga tower.

(via Saturday Morning Cartoons: Baopu #15) by Yao Xiao

words to remember

yeah yeah yeah mortifying ordeal of being known and all that but sometimes a friend mentions something about you that you didn’t think was noticeable and it feels like your heart is being cradled in their hands