And There Are Eight Billion Of Them!

My copy agrees with blatherby's.

I.i.5 Que Monseigneur Bienvenu Faisait Durer Trop Longtemps Ses Soutanes

How Monseigneur Bienvenu Made His Cassock Last So Long: Wilbour, FMA

Monseigneur's Cassocks Last Too Long: Wraxall

Monseigneur Bienvenu Made His Cassocks Last Too Long: Hapgood

How Monseigneur Bienvenu Made his Cassock last Too Long: Walton, Rose

How Monseigneur Bienvenu Made his Cassocks Last So Long: Denny

Monseigneur Bienvenu Made His Cassocks Last For Too Long: Rose

anti AI guys keep making AI sound so fucking cool

The Hanged Man by Victor Hugo

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

a cellar spider! they like dusty corners and awkwardly hustle themselves away when you touch their webs. their cobwebs are unusually strong and can hold even large insects like stinkbugs and paper wasps! when something threatens them they whirl their long bodies around and it makes their web tremble. they don't like being outside or traveling long distances, so all the cellar spiders in a building are usually descendants of one founder.

the internet also says that they are good at eating other spiders (which is a shame because i also like the other spiders) and that they tolerate each other and visit each other's webs. i guess that makes sense if they're all related. i once saw a mother and her children all sharing the same web, spaced a few inches apart like Finnish people waiting for the bus

I don't know what's happening or if it's a coincidence or what but three times today the spiders in my home have gotten closer to my personal space than they normally do. I like spiders but I think it's best for all of us if we stay out of each other's way, and I thought we were on the same page about this. Hopefully they resume their established habits tomorrow and we can all forget about this little escapade.

Sometimes it blows my mind that there are people that don’t wear glasses/contacts. Like they can literally see with no aid. Like they wake up and just be out here seeing. What a wild concept.

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Straightening the Queer: Gender and Sexuality in Truman Capote’s Novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Blake Edwards’ 1961 Film Adaptation

Straightening the Queer: Gender and Sexuality in Truman Capote’s Novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Blake Edwards’ 1961 Film Adaptation

Unnamed Narrator

from Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote (1958)

This is a good example of what are called "Barnum statements" -- things which are true of almost everyone, but which seem insightful when you read them because they are true of *you*. Furthermore, each result contains many statements (I counted 56 in mine), so that if any one of them matches your current preoccupations or self-concept, you'll forget the ones that didn't apply or only slightly applied.

A fun exercise when you encounter something like this is to tally up all the statements and see how many were really true. In my results, I counted 20 statements that were true about me and 25 that were false.

This doesn't mean that the results are useless, since you may not have thought about your life and emotions in these terms before, and it is still useful to consider e.g. whether you harbor resentment about someone in your life, or whether peace is truly achievable with your current approach. It just means that the usefulness of the results depends entirely on you and your self-knowledge, and the test has no special insight about you.

Quotes from my results under the cut for spoilers.

[disliked olive green] ...inhibiting limitations. Difficult circumstances limit your opportunities for experience and your freedom of action. You feel deprived because you have to do without some of the things that would make life pleasant. You expect far too much understanding for your needs from other people, and as a result, you often feel disappointed. You might ask yourself how much understanding and empathy you extend to others. You would like to be free of your...

I think it's quite clever in the way it mixes different motivations and traits. Here, the main topic is "inhibiting limitations", which makes me think of anxiety and an aversion to breaking rules. But then the next two sentences are about being constrained by non-omnipotence and unable to afford everything you want, which is a universal complaint among finite beings, but not one that seems particularly related to inhibitions. Then, the next two sentences are about wanting others to understand you but not being very understanding of others, which again is very common among humans, but which has even less to do with inhibitions.

As a result, someone whose main problem is any one of {anxiety, poverty, ingratitude} might feel like this paragraph applies to them "uncannily well". And there are 12 such paragraphs! It's no wonder that so many people upthread have felt understood.

where’s that quiz where you choose lke 4 colours u like and 4 u dont and it hands your ass on a plate

daylight savings is actually truly one of the most evil things in the world. just casually forcing us to confront the fact that time is fake while torturing insomniacs, autistics and schoolchildren across the globe. when will the agony end

I have tried for years to discover something, anything, about this card with no success.