whatever else you say about Melville the line "From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee." does go extremely hard

Draw forg?? :FroggieHmm:

#FatFrogFriday

whatever happens in life, always remember that the bug emoji is perfectly positioned to play the sax emoji 🎷🐛

oh no im buying more books dont judge me
books everywhere all the books
gonna make a book fort

@sluttymayo the "B" stands for "Battle" and "Bellicosity" and also "Bitches" because the Mycenaeans were like that.

the "A" stands for "Alcohol" and "Athletic" because the Minoans liked parties and also jumping over cows, which is an athleticism. It also stands for "Atlantis" because mermaids and water and shit.

hey, once you're done using your time machine to tell ben franklin to define positive and negative the other way around in electricity, can i use it to beat up historians kung fu style so that linear b is the one we haven't deciphered and linear a is the one we have? linear b is just a more compelling phrase so i feel it should be the more mysterious one. hashtag subtoot

The best big cat of them all coming up with the full 2026 Totally Tanked treatment.

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I’ve had it with weird nerds shitting on Academy so thankfully I’m a bigger weird nerd.

Any suggestions for where to buy used books online for decent prices? Not expecting thrift store prices, but if they’re asking $5 off the price of a new book, they can kick rocks. 🙂

#books

What music player do people use on Linux?

@kzodasnowman I'm mostly using Audacious now but there are a bunch of other ptions.

I think I used to use XMMS because it looked like winamp.

waving the magic wand that turns AI "prompt engineers" into bronze age shipbuilders

@Plurivox I extremely like the bright red horse on the leafy background

I don’t need ChatGPT. I just have to post on Mastodon ‘I don’t know this thing’ and all of my autistic acquaintances converge here to explain things to me

I stole this meme to remind fediverse of the ancient Minoans; it is important to respect the bronze age seafaring societies.

#BronzeAgeIsBestAge #StolenMeme

("Minoan" is the modern name for a civilization that was on the island of Crete in the Mediterranean in the Bronze Age, named after the legendary King with a Minotaur.

We don't know much about them; they invented writing that we still can't read, but they painted some cool frescoes and seem like mostly chill dudes.

the Bronze Age Greeks later conquered them and borrowed their writing system for Greek, then their descendants forgot how to read it but later invented their own alphabet.)

yo some people in Crete made a replica of a bronze-age Minoan galley and rowed it around.

that is incredibly cool

here's an article about how they constructed it:

https://kosmossociety.org/the-improvised-craft/

@aronia arigateaux! kirais da.