Books and Ghosts

“I asked chatgpt-“ well, I asked Piranesi and he told me that the Beauty of the House is immeasurable and its Kindness infinite.

ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to deny location sharing and turn off personalized ads and reject all non-essential cookies and not set up siri and face ID

your cat was an honor to see in the window

It’s all well and good to tempt people into military service by promising them that they can get a free farm when they’re done but the problem is that you’ve actually gotta give all of them a farm afterwards or else you have a bunch of very angry and combat hardened mass of people with zero farming chores to distract them away from cutting off your face.

When reading about ancient Roman politics you wouldn’t believe just how much of it revolves around this exact thing happening over and over again.

When you're unable to solve an IT problem at work, there really is nothing quite like having it escalated all the way up the ladder. With every step, there is a degree of smugness about how real my problem is, and that yes, I was right to have trouble with this.

You can get a minor version of this if one IT person solves it but they spend a bunch of time repeating things you’ve already tried and when they eventually solve it it’s by doing something you wanted to try but didn’t have the requisite permissions to do

Was in a situation where neither I, nor my boss knew what was causing the problem, so we ended up calling one of the head engineers, and ive never experienced anything quite as validating as the moment where said head engineer, after spending several minutes just staring at the problem, quietly said "what the fuck"

the thing about nonfiction is you come out of it with several more books to put on your to be read list and it's only gonna branch out from there so really the only solution is to read every book in human history starting at the beginning

complain, complain against the dying of the light

liking a ship but disliking the distinct set of stock fanon that they have been assigned is like one of those punishments dante came up with when he wrote the worldbuilding for hell in inferno

It's iconic.