Why Does It Seem Like Left-coded Autists Tend To Be The Kind Of People That Protest Nature While Right-coded

At night I dream of public transportation networks so efficient they make cars obsolete

Flame Skimmer (Libellula saturata), Libellulidae, Chambers Bay, Pierce Co., WA, USA

photograph by Steve Russell

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.

I refuse to have a LinkedIn, it itches my body everytime I've tried setting up an account

Zero is a funny number. The opposite of one is negative one. But the opposite of zero is still zero.

don't like trivia games. they're a test on everything you could possibly know (that is useless). don't respect a test that rewards breadth of life experience rather than ability to take a canonical set of materials and study the shit out of it. philosophically opposed to that

Bruckner Expressway, South Bronx, 1958

NYC Municipal Archives

One of the funniest things about communism is that it rests on a premise that's basically like, "Hey, once everybody voluntarily gives up a specific set of strategies and advantages, everything will be wonderful. So, once we figure out how to coerce everybody into voluntarily giving those up, we'll be set."

A storm brewing (Puritan and Cavalier), oil on canvas ― Edgar Bundy (British, 1862-1922)

Like Freud, Lacan regards hysteria as one of the two main forms of neurosis, the other being obsessional neurosis. Whereas obsessional neurosis concerns the question of the subject's existence, hysteria concerns the question of the subject's sexual position. This question may be phrased "Am I a man or a woman?" or, more precisely, "What is a woman?" Lacan thus reaffirms the ancient view that there is an intimate connection between hysteria and femininity. Indeed, most hysterics are women, just as most obsessional neurotics are men. The structure of desire, as desire of the Other, is shown more clearly in hysteria than in any other clinical structure; the hysteric is precisely someone who appropriates another's desire by identifying with them.