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Ok but like. What the fuck is there to do on the internet anymore?

Idk when I was younger, you could just go and go and find exciting new websites full of whatever cool things you wanted to explore. An overabundance of ways to occupy your time online.

Now, it's just... Social media. That's it. Social media and news sites. And I'm tired of social media and I'm tired of the news.

Am I just like completely inept at finding new things or has the internet just fallen apart that much with the problems of SEO and web 3.0 turning everything into a same-site prison?

Long collection of resources under the cut.

ALSO you should consider browsing Virtual Pet List and seeing if there are any pet sites you might be interested in playing. There is a whole genre of browser games right under your nose

Archive.org has free book lending world-wide (if you make a free account), and free software library of old games! Also a lot of weird public domain video materials.

@roisesb

Railroad Crows (2015) by American artist, Joan Becker

Watercolour, 152 x 102 cm, 60 x 40 in approx

by Ito Jakuchu, 18th c, Japan

I was gonna draw something more serious but sometimes u just gotta draw memes

We all know the Zoomies, but there's also the Cuddles, which is that time when your cat is, for a very specific time, extremely needy and absolutely has to get their fuzzy little head right up in your face and purr at top volume

And often five minutes later they're done and not interested in any more affection

But don't you dare try to get anything done while they have to be cuddled

Do you like vintage scientific illustrations?

Do you like not spending huge amounts of money on them?

This website has a huge collection of high quality vintage illustrations that you can download FOR FREE

They got pretty much everything!! Vintage maps, mushrooms, flowers, trees, bugs, birds, corals, fish, palm trees, feathers, tropical fruits, you name it!!

They even got some works of my dude Ernst Haeckel on there!!!!

I could go on and on but I suggest you check it out yourself. Personally, I will be covering my entire apartment with these once copyshops are open again. But even if you don’t want to do that, just browsing all these beautiful illustrations is a great way to spend your time. 

Have fun and stay save!

@antiquesfreaks

I made another thing.

With apologies to Neil Gaiman.

No apologies needed.

Commuting to my job at the Abelian Group Company.

Logging on to my work-from-home job at the Non-Abelian Group Company.

Commuting to my job at the Centre for Non-Abelian Groups.

The centre of a group is the set of elements of the group which commute with all the other elements. So even though the Non-Abelian Group Company themselves are non-commutative, employees who work in the centre have to commute ;)

I've heard that the company as a whole isn't a simple place to work, but the Centre is relatively normal.

lmao just saw someone say that they were 20 pages into gtn for the first time and felt a totally reasonable violent surge of envy. like imagine getting to read tlt for the first time again. hey ive got an idea why don’t we just kill the section of my brain that r

@ptolemia stop being funnier than me on my own post

First of all, absolutely incredible movie.

Secondly, I think she should have been able to flip people off.

Hey OP? What the FUCK does this mean?

decay exists as an extant form of life

That’s a terrifying answer, have a nice day

Being a mathematician does irreparable damage to you vocabulary. I have on more than one occasion forgotten that certain words have normal every day meanings

Normal meanings as in, what, they're orthogonal?

You’re thinking of a normal vector! Normal meanings are meanings that are invariant under conjugation.

That's a normal subgroup! Normal meanings are those where any two disjoint closed subconcepts have disjoint open neighbourhoods.

That’s a normal space!  Normal meanings are meanings whose third- and higher-order cumulants are zero.

hm no that's a normal distribution! normal meanings are local meanings obtained by exponentiating the tangent space at a point

ah, you've gotten it mixed up with normal coordinates. normal meanings are those such that, when written in a base b, their digits are uniformly distributed between 0 and b-1.

I'm pretty sure that's normal numbers. A meaning is normal iff it's continuous and is entirely strictly increasing.

Ah, that's a common misconception, but that's actually a normal function. A normal meaning is a meaning that commutes with its Hermitian conjugate.

Noo that's a normal matrix! A normal meaning is where every irreducible polynomial splits into linear factors.

Earlier I talked about people who don't neatly fit within a cis/nonbinary/trans paradigm. It's an expensive, sensitive topic a lot of academics and activists are already talking about. Here's an inconclusive list of people to whom this may apply:

-Lesbians with no particular affinity to womanhood beyond being lesbians

-Same but for gay men

-Same as the first two points but with a big emphasis on butch lesbians and drag queens

-Cis people who have trauma, even dysphoria, with their AGAB, but can't find another gender or label they'd like any better

-Cis people of color who are excluded from eurocentric norms of what it means to look, act, and be cisgender

-Immigrants who had different gender norms in their country or origin who no longer fit in

-Neurodivedvent people for whom gender is just another set of confusing social cues

-Nonbinary people who refer to themselves as their AGAB as shorthand in day to day interaction (similar to choosing a "Starbucks name")

-Nonbinary people who partially identify with their AGAB

-People who view their gender, not as something essential to them, but as imperfect language to refer to a complex range of expressions and experiences

-People who change labels over time but have overlying experiences that transcend these changes

-People who grew up before nonbinary identity really proliferated and still use the nomenclature theyre used to (even if they're not considered cis by contemporary standards)

-People questioning their identity

-People who don't relate to western philosophical notions of "the self."

-People for whom their gender is, well, kind of hard to explain.

Cis is still an important term when denoting power dynamics, especially on a broad sociological level. But on a personal level, this category very often falls apart. Language can only do so much. Anyway, there's a lot I still don't know but I just listened to an excellent episode of the Gender Reveal podcast with trans historian Jules Gill-Peterson where they discuss they question what it means to be cis (and how it applies to institutions vs individuals), along with so many other topics that I found fascinating. Give them a listen!