Whenever there’s some tension around the legality of what people are doing with their bodies, interesting things always happen.
Rennie McDougall in an interview for Urban Omnibus
I actually read this sentence months ago when doing a first-pass edit on this interview.
'We've Been A Little Bit Too Romantic About The Idea That We Should Have Employees And Give People Long-term Job Security' Is An Extraordinary Thing For A Video Games CEO To Say On Record
Submitted by Aaron.
After scientists exposed wild fish to cocaine and a cocaine metabolite, they observed that, as in the lab, fish on cocaine do not act like normal fish.
The universe is too fucking fabulous for capitalism, y'all.
The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
You are not safe with science; you are not safe in history.
"Education by Poetry", Robert Frost
Slightly misquoted in The Edge of Space-Time, still perfect.
She was tall and skinny and middle-aged pretty, like a woman in a detergent commercial, the kind of down-to-business babe who's serious about stain control.
The New and Improved Romie Futch, Julia Elliott
Submitted by Kevin.
I have almost zero tolerance for lugubrious descriptions of what the sun does or does not do
"Lugubrious" is a real humdinger of a word that we do not get enough occasion to use.
Our remains are our names; our names, our remains.
"In Praise of the High Shadow", Mahmoud Darwish, excerpted and translated by Nasser Abourahme in This Death is Not One
"In Praise of the High Shadow" is in some places translated as "In Praise of Tall Shadow"; it does not appear to have been translated in full anywhere easily found online but excerpts appear in Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982, which was translated by Ibrahim Muhawi. A friend of Ramsey's from grad school, Xaytun Ennasr, did the illustrations in This Death is Not One and they are beautiful, by the way.
Which two days of death will I flee?
Nasser Abourahme paraphrasing a Palestinian militant paraphrasing the Imam Ali, heard at the book launch for This Death is Not One at the Poetry Project
That's what I wrote down, anyway.
Change so often happens on a gradient: Blue is still blue until somehow it is purple, the shift is hard to pinpoint but irrefutably there.
The Oracle's Daughter: The Rise and Fall of an American Cult, Harrison Hill
Submitted by Pete.
people think this is AI and I am here to tell you that “sits peeing down” is the most 100% human-written thing I have ever seen
Submitted by Chris.
Con Air is like a piece of classical latin poetry that only survived bc some random Iberian scholar happened to copy it down; "why was it like this" an impossible question to answer, just a scrap of the 90s that we have, to marvel at and be mystified by
The lowercase "latin", the capital case "Iberian", the "bc", the semicolon amidst a general disregard for punctuation? Lots of poetry here.
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