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Studio Ghibli Museum Happy New Year 2025 illustration by Hayao Miyazaki (year of the snake).

‘Novel Coat-hangers’  from The Australian Womans Weekly, Toys and Gifts, 1972 

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

Reblogging because it’s a damn potato and I want to encourage people to assume potatoes are magical.

I love you mathematical objects I love you logic I love you algebra I love you analysis I love you rigorous definitions I love you beautiful equations that may not necessarily have applications I love you mathematical proofs I love you pure mathematics I love you I love you I love you

love the new ghibli protagonist. what a little freak (affectionate). he has NO chill. a kid shoves him at the start of the movie and he instantly tackles them and proceeds to fight his entire class. he bashed his head in with a rock and tried to walk it off. the bird in his garden was doing funny things and he instantly starts making plans to murder it. was ready to beat the shit out of that pelican. i just know if he was allowed to curse he would have called that heron a bitch ass mother fucker. mahito was NOT fucking around.

wow! that was a fun accidental 2 hour session of video's game. now to go to the kitchen to check on my pet Pot Of Boiling Water...

One thing about researching world around you is that it becomes a bit friendlier once you know it better. If you see a random spider- you get scared. You see plants and consider them just weeds. You look at night sky and see a bunch of stars.

And then, you learn names.

Now, it is an orbweaver, and you consider them a friend. The greenery around is a laurel, or an alium, or osmanthus, and you know which of them to keep away from, and which of them are great herbs for tea. Now, you look up and see a whole parade of Venus, Ursa Major, or Orion. You now know their names, and, if you respect them- they become allies of yours.

romanticizing your life is such a powerful tool and it’s a shame that it’s mostly used by people on tiktok to justify the purchase of expensive breakfast smoothies when there are few better ways to force oneself through unpleasant shit than imagining a cinematic backstory for your extremely quotidian suffering

finding the strength to walk home from the library at 3am in the freezing rain by imagining yourself as a Napoleonic soldier hightailing it from Moscow in 1813

summer is for loneliness and eating fruit and warm rain at night

summer is for loneliness and eating fruit and warm rain at night

donna tartt: literally writes an entire 600 page book about how it can be dangerous to do things just for the aesthetic

us, already making pinterest boards: oh to be a classics student in vermont in the 80s drinking whiskey from a teacup and occasionally murdering people 

“one wild summer“ by edwin zhang for nylon china aug 22

i’m obsessed with the mum from ponyo. driving single lane on a cliff edge? drift those turns in your nissan cube. husband has to work an extra shift? tell him to fuck off in morse code. pet fish turned into a child on your driveway? adopt her. town drowned in a tsunami? leave your 5 year old in charge, he’s the man of the house now

every morning i wake up & get my coffee & i recite in my head this excerpt from ‘invitation,’ by mary oliver:  “it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world.” & i just say it over & over again until it sticks to my mind for the rest of the day. it is a serious thing. i am alive. i am so lucky. this fresh morning i get the chance to live again & again & again

me irl

if i can just add–

idk who outside of science knows about this, but there is this page called arxiv.org which is an archive where scientific studies are uploaded

every year on the 1st of april, there are several joke papers uploaded, and they are always *chefs kiss*

these are a few from the astrophysics section, enjoy!

Oh my god, also uuuh a PSA of sorts: the x in arxiv is supposed to be the Greek letter, and arxiv is pronounced archive.

Reblog to save a life because I met my PhD supervisor in person for the first time recently and realised this for the first time. I'd been pronouncing it "arxiv", like someone had tried to make it gender neutral or something, for several years and in front of important people.

same goes for LaTeX, it is pronounced la-tech! every year we had to teach the freshmen how to say it, when i used to be student representative