mona

Me: damn this situation I'm in sure isn't ideal, what am I gonna do about this

Suicidal Ideation Man who lives in my brain: perhaps I have a suggestion ☝️🤓

there IS actually a reason why seconds and minutes (and degrees for geometry) are in base 60 instead of base 10, and if you want to blame someone for that, blame the very specific way Babylonians counted with their fingers.

The way Babylonians finger-counted was by using their thumb to tap each phalange of the fingers in the same hand the thumb was in, in the order of proximal to distal phalanges and index finger to pinky finger (for a total of 12 taps), and lifting a finger on the other hand every time they counted up to 12, resulting in each finger in the second hand representing 12 taps, with 5 fingers representing... 60 taps.

did you know they say calculus is the language of God. did you know they tried to hold math up to infinity like a candle to the void. did you know statisticians plunged into the vastness of random chance and picked out patterns and equations and eight hundred ways to tell you how big your inevitable errors are and how far off those guesses at errors might be. math haters I can't sit with you anymore. human innovation is cradled in these ancient, methodical, desperate attempts at understanding what we are not designed to understand

St. Croix River Lighthouse 1856, Calis, Maine  -  William Davis , 2020.

American , b. 1952  -

Oil on panel  , 6 x 8 in.

— Unknown

You know how in lovecraftian stuff, people gaze at elder gods and immediately lose their minds because they cant comprehend what theyre looking at?

Yeah, this is what it looks like

oh i get it now! what happened fundamentally and irrevocably changed me forever

‘The Bookworm’ by Hermann Fenner-Behmer, c. 1906.

“There is no other home”, Soviet poster, 1986.

surely the conses wont quence

Booty shorts that say this

it’s rot girl autumn! we're decaying alongside the trees!

anyone else feeling the Effects lately. due to all the Things

"I wouldn't want to bother anyone," I say as the thing inside of me eats me alive.