I'm Talking To The Walls

genuinely I try very hard not to succumb to doomerism and selective nostalgia because humans have been complaining about the mind-destroying effects of That New Technology since the beginning of recorded history. but at risk of sounding like a humanities academic, I do think the drop off in engagement with long-form literature and (especially in the US/wider Anglophobe world) in enrollments in second language courses is deeply alarming

and at least in the US this is a heavily gendered phenomenon, and I think much about our current political moment can be tied to the fact that overwhelmingly American men (both young and not) are not reading and are not learning other languages

ancient greek word of the day: κακοθερής (kakotherēs), unfitted to endure summer heat

this literally means “bad at summer” pass it on

Reblog if you, too, are bad at summer

World Heritage Post

Kara never once had Krypto in a cape in Supergirl which means in Superman Clark not only made a dog-sized cape, but also managed to put it on that hellion

(to the tone of creep by radiohead) but i'm asleep. on mypillow

the ruler is hosting festivities in the capital while the nation collapses, and heretics have caused a schism in the catholic church. i love living in the middle ages.

we even have a The Plague

i think everyone in the whole world forgot that mystery doesn’t have to equal crime

sometimes it’s just like. what happent ?

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