serenity

Concept: a mermaid who collects human artifacts, but, like, exclusively objects that humans have dramatically cast into the sea in moments of high emotion, catharsis, or personal revelation. Each item is carefully mounted above a little index card that outlines the circumstances of its hurling in terse, clinical prose.

How many outdated cellphones does she have from businessmen who realize that Family is more important?

Fewer than you’d think. For a variety of fascinating demographic and cultural reasons, importance-of-family cell phones are considerably more likely to be hurled into lakes than oceans. She’s co-authored a paper on the subject that’s due to be published next month.

I hope it’s been pier reviewed

this explains so much

doomed by the narrative AND haunted by the narrative AND a secret third thing (mourned by the narrative)

onto better things thursday

Wikipedia…still the best of the content platforms.

News from twitter. Today Elon musk tweeted a link to a homophobic conspiracy theory from a website that once said that hillary clinton was dead (as a reply to hillary clinton herself) and then it got leaked that twitter is going to charge people $20 a month to keep their blue check marks and now everyone is just laughing.