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Today I learned what passementerie is (elaborately woven tassels) and that one of the most ominous things I’ve ever seen is a giant black passementerie hovering behind an unsuspecting Victorian.

“It was April, the sky and the sea were so clear that it was difficult to hold one’s eyes up against them—salt, infinitely wide, and filled with bird-shrieks—as if someone were incessantly whetting invisible knives, on all sides, high up in Heaven.”

I find it adorable that Darwin calls them humblebees

The way Christine de Pizan would have ROASTED Andrew Tate

2 essays in and I’m already shook

Phoebus is the actual worst

The goat is the best character

“Architecture is dead.”* ~ Victor Hugo, who probably would have had an apoplectic fit if he was shown twentieth century architecture.

And if printing killed architecture (and video killed the radio star), what would Hugo have to say about the internet and AI?

*Full quote in comments because there’s a character limit

Seasons are my jam

Yes I did indeed save this to read on the 18th of November