Cloud Atlas

“magic isnt real” — plants just grow out of the ground. for free. everywhere.

"It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works."

-Terry Pratchett

[tweet from Ian Boudreau @iboudreau.bsky.social "I think the best response I've seen to AI anything has been, "Why should I bother reading something that nobody could be bothered to write"]

The Galena Evening Times, Kansas, January 18, 1900

[text ID: When the wind blows a lot of loose hair around a girl's face it is never as becoming as the description sounded in the novels she has read.]

The first couple of captain america movies were good. I know. I know. I hate the mcu too but the first couple of captain america movies were good I'm Sorry. I have to speak my truth

The mcu wasn't ALWAYS completely soulless. Like it was never high art or anything it's always been kinda silly action movies but the first couple of em were good. I'm not gonna let the first avenger + winter soldier get memory hole'd Never forget what we once had. Me & like three other people are left standing in the stucky trenches in 2023. I am cringe but I am right. Remember what we believed in

[tweet from fen @lousybite "controversial but if i work a full time job i should be able to live in a one bedroom apartment by myself and not starve myself to make rent"]

Honestly? I love this, this is great. This is my new favorite line to use when interacting with strangers online.

[screencap of an Anonymous comment saying "Very normal thing to say, call a family member and read what you typed out loud to them when you get the chance"]

[tweet from Sigurd the Mighty @MightySigurd "I am so tired of living like it's the 1600s. Can I afford eggs at the market? Are my friends gonna die in the plague? Puritans coming for my sinful lifestyle. I want some modern problems. Modern Problems"]

When I say “free water, free food, free shelter, free healthcare, free education for everyone” in that “everyone” I even include the people I hate. Too many people get surprised at the idea that I do wish for the people I hate to have better lives.

‘only the people i like should have enough’ is the way we got to here, which is how hardly anyone has enough and we keep making up more and more reasons why the people who don’t have anything deserve it. 

[tweet from Amber Sparks @ambernoelle "Unpopular opinion: I don't think your life has to have a purpose, or you a grand ambition; I think it's okay to just wander through life finding interesting things until you die"]

I do not want my fantasy media to be realistic. I want my fantasy media to be convincing.

That’s an excellent distinction.

[tweet from Cher @cher " Ok ! The Rant is over ! I'm Calmer !

Well I'm not Calm but I Got so upset i tired myself out !"]

[tweet from Erin Riley @erinrileyau "After everything that Elon has done, I NEVER want to hear that women are "too irrational" "too emotional" or "too unpredictable" for leadership roles EVER AGAIN."]

Andrew Garfield on The Stephen Colbert Show discussing his problem with certainty of faith. [x]

“There are three things you must ask yourself before you say anything…”

[Image ID: three GIFs of Craig Ferguson. Text reads: 1. Does this need to be said? 2. Does it need to be said by me? 3. Does it need to be said by me now? /ID]

[tweet from Kieran Hurley @kieran_hurley "what a fucking bleak and deathly phrase "cost of living" is when you really unpack it."]

[ID: "when you're editing and finally have to deal with the placeholders" with a screengrab of YouTube's Tom Scott in a grey hoody looking vaguely haunted. Subtitiles say: "That was a problem for future me and now I am future me" /ID]