Submissions are carrying this week as I was finishing revisions on one chapter while writing the last full chapter of the dissertation. I still have to wrap the chapters in an intro/conclusion and add an appendix and give the whole thing an overall edit (while remixing parts of one chapter into a journal article), but getting All The Chapters done feels like a pretty good milestone.
Apparently, the tallest ghost in the world was shorter than six feet.
"The Last Resort", Ash Sanders for The Believer
Also great:
There's only one way to say this so I'll say it: Tao was born the son of an Italian prince—and a descendant of the papal nobility.
Pork is a reification of a pig.
Someone in Andrea's PhD seminar
Submitted by Andrea.
The key merely fit the lock.
Hollow Knight: Silksong, Team Cherry (Ari Gibson & William Pellen)
Submitted by Joe.
We were trying to go see the last whaler in Iceland.
Andrea and Carrie opening a story about their trip to Iceland
Andrea and Carrie were briefly in the city before heading upstate and made the time to get coffee with me, which was a really nice writing break. It might not have been phrased exactly like this but as an opening to a story that got way weirder than you’d expect this absolutely rips.
We had a laugh just as often as we got really mad, but ultimately we must acknowledge Eric Adams as a symbol, the chief demon of this level of hell.
"Goodbye to the Wild Ride That Was Eric Adams", Adlan Jackson for Hell Gate
Submitted by Wesley.
WHO CARES THAT APPLIED PHYSICS IS ALL DEDICATED TO BUILDING FAKE ASS BROKEN WAR MACHINES OR TRYING TO MAKE DERANGED CHATBOT-WORSHIPING OLIGARCHS EVEN RICHER WHEN WE'VE GOT PEOPLE WORKING ON "QUANTUM SUPER INTELLIGENCE"!
A (deleted?) post on Mastodon by dirtwizard@cyberpunk.lol
Submitted by Wesley.
It is the type of peace that stinks in the nostrils of the almighty God.
“When Peace Becomes Obnoxious”, Martin Luther King Jr.
How does a person convince themselves they need to swallow live frogs?
"You don't have to swallow frogs", Andrea Pitzer in her newsletter Degenerate Art
Submitted by Ed.
Energy is the rice of the future industry.
Lee Cheol-woo as quoted in an article on Interesting Engineering
Submitted by Matthew.
There is nothing distinct about Indiana, it's just a place full of people who got too tired on their way to somewhere better and decided "this is good enough".
“Greenland is a beautiful nightmare”, Mat Duggan on his blog
Submitted by George.
Desert Shield to soybean field
Headline in the trade magazine AgriMarketing
Found while looking for examples of media coverage of commercial applications for GPS in the 1990s. My mental image for Selective Availability-era GPS is that it was too annoying to really use in most industries, but it turns out a lot of people were very, very excited to use it for doing various capitalisms.
When we say, “I love my job,” we really mean, “My job pisses me off, but in an enchanting way.”
"Thank you for being annoying", Adam Mastroianni in his newsletter Experimental History
Submitted by Jillian.
I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.
Federico Garcia Lorca (context unclear)
Submitted by Kira.
Trying to live in a society with Texas is like trying to share a Thanksgiving turkey with a rabid dog: All you can do is snatch some flesh with your hands and take your vaccinations.
"America's Future Is Texas", Lawrence Wright for The New Yorker
Submitted by Kira.
The symbols of the divine show up in our world initially at the trash stratum.
Gnostic Pulp in a note on Substack
Submitted by DB.
To be a lawyer-turned-blacksmith making medieval strap hinges at the dawn of the twenty-first century is an acceptable recuperation of folklore and virility.
The Shape of Craft, Ezra Shales
Submitted by Tim.
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Phrase excerpted into a perfect sentence by Amy Hoy on Bluesky
Submitted by Dorian.