It Has Just Occurred To Me That Data Hoarding Is The 21st Century Version Of Bibliomania.

Bruckner Expressway, South Bronx, 1958

NYC Municipal Archives

My spiraea bushes are having their last hurrah. They are starting to drop their tiny flower petals. See you next year.

When you switch on a lightbulb, your eyes perceive photons, and some neurons in your brain activate. If you switch off the light, then so-called ‘off’ neurons activate. You don’t actually “stop seeing” when you’re in the dark. No; the mind physically represents nothingness in a pattern of neurons.

The phrase “nothing exists” is not a self-contradicting statement but a statement of fact. Nothing exists.

Virtue doesn't have to be complicated. Nor does it have to be a grand gesture. For example, a virtue could be simple, like doing one thing at a time or cleaning up one mess before making another. If you want a measure for approximating integrity, consider that how you do one thing tends to become how you end up doing everything.

If we think hard and cooperate with one another, we can make Slytherin great again, but only if we try really, really hard.

TIL: early movable-type printers would store the normal letters in a case on a bottom shelf, and the capital letters in another case on a top shelf, and that’s where the terms “upper case” and “lower case” come from.

Stop excluding me from your secret clubs.

“On the use of the phrase ‘on the’ and the colon-delimited subtitle in academic papers: A meta-analysis”

Why does it seem like left-coded autists tend to be the kind of people that protest nature while right-coded autists tend to strive to understand the world through natural philosophy?

Acne is all like, "Hey, you don't have any meetings? That's cool. Well, I'm going to take a leave of absence until you need to have a bunch of face-to-face interactions. See you around!"