‘Schrijven is een uiting van het ego. De lezer heeft twee opties: lezen of niet lezen. Als iemand mijn boek wel leest, spreek ik op zijn minst vier of vijf uur tegen ze. Ik vraag om hun aandacht. Luister naar mijn stem en naar wat ik te zeggen heb.’

The man who who was paid four times as much as each one of The Beatles is dead

Johannes Klabbers is a Dutch/Australian writer and posthumanist therapist, living in Europe. He also holds a doctorate in fine arts.

The largest route, Watling Street, ran from the ports of Kent to Viroconium, now on the site of Wroxeter in Shropshire. At the time, it was the fourth largest Roman city in Britain but it fell into decline. Today Wroxeter is a pretty village with a few hundred people in it. archived 29 Jun 2022

This confirms the country’s status as the world centre of outrageously overpriced fruit.

Tabitha Lasley : When I moved out of London, my plan was to write a book. Instead, I ended up working in a chicken shop, watching drugs tear through a working-class town – and my own life.

He gave me my first break. RIP ❤️ from i.j.oog

Adverse experiences can change future generations through epigenetic pathways

And yet ... jammer maar helaas ... The Times | archived 25 Jun 2022

Wim T. Schippers is 80

“Khat releases you from that constraint that we have to time and space."

Rohit Prasad, Amazon’s head scientist for Alexa AI said the feature could enable customers to have “lasting personal relationships” with the deceased.

Duurzame energie kenden ze in het Zuid-Hollandse Kinderdijk al heel goed. Het rijtje molens langs het water maakt het dorp tot op de dag van vandaa...

Met geruststellen zijn we sinds de oertijd bezig. De vroegst overgeleverde verhalen draaien om troosten of verklaren. Waar de wereld vandaan komt bijvoorbeeld, of dat onweer niet zozeer een doodeng en grillig natuurverschijnsel is, maar gewoon een moodswing van de dondergod. Dat als je maar goed en vooral volgens de regels leeft, je niets zal overkomen.

“Inventing a character in order to understand historical facts is like fabricating evidence. Or rather, it’s like planting false proof at a crime scene where the floor is already strewn with incriminating evidence.”

Anna Weyant, a new art star whose work evokes a millennial Botticelli, was discovered on Instagram. She’s also dating her dealer, Larry Gagosian.

my dream job is advice columnist on a national newspaper but i how long would i last? my usual advice would be : why don't you tell him to FUCK OFF?

This is a terrible review but it does get one thing right : Saoirse Ronan is brilliant. The scene on the beach is completely hearbreaking.

The world we experience–which is the only one we can know–is affected by the kind of attention we pay to it. This implies that there is no simple and single, wholly mind-independent, truth.

i wonder if this would still work. it's pretty much exactly what it feels like to fly to australia in economy so...

Na een dag vol vertragingen, humeuren en andere dingen die niet lukten kwam ik thuis in een ontploft huis met daarin een ‘rillerige’ man, een baby ...

If our evolutionary heritage in its development of consciousness limited its capacities to survival and propagation of the species, then much of the so-called ‘super-natural’ world of the noumenal is neither super nor beyond us. We are immersed in a cosmos that our brain and body for the most part filter out, exclude from access what we did not need as a species to survive in jungles, deserts, mountains, etc.

The Sun sometimes runs up to 16 minutes fast in its daily travels across the sky, and sometimes as much as 14 minutes slow, depending on the season. This effect arises from the tilt of the Earth's axis and the ellipticity of the Earth's orbit around the Sun.

Going to the dogs with John Hughes

hmm it might be me but i think that's pretty funny! from Rachel Cooke's review in the Observer of Why Not Say What Happened? A book by Ivana Lowell about life inside the Guinness clan.

"...a decadent, self-loathing indulgence." archived 19 Jun 2022

This is a fun read.

woa what the fuck £500?

found it!!

"Taking your voice back in after it has left your body is a lot like drinking your own saliva from a glass."