“If Man Could Be Crossed With A Cat, It Would Improve Man But Deteriorate The Cat.”     

everyone always says that the best profession you can have if you love hearing tea is working in HR but I disagree. as a lawyer you literally get the tea from all angles and from everyone involved and get to ask questions about it and make people swear that it’s true under the penalties of perjury. you also get to gather receipts and be like, but your honor, the receipts

my browser tabs make me look so smart but im literally an idiot beyond the comprehension of man ive got a whole section for quantum computing but the tabs keep getting simpler as i look up shit i dont know like its time crystal > quantum computing > symmetry breaking > symmetry in time > symmetry > geometry > shapes > ions > periodic table > chemistry

my favorite drawings from 2021! 

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my shop

I love you phonetics I love you descriptivism I love you minority languages I love you dialects I love you accents I love you suffixes and prefixes I love you fossil words I love you outdated letters and pronouns I love you etymology I love you preservation of endangered languages I love you visible remnants of the way a language used to be I love you linguistics

Seeing foreigners learn my language just overwhelms me with joy, they're studying my language! The one I use to speak! They're translating my culture! Beautiful!

cool stuff available on youtube

archaeology related and not really (just things I watch while knitting = you can learn something but it shouldn’t bore you to death)

Irving Finkel:

The First Ghost Stories - ancient Mesopotamian beliefs

The Ark Before Noah: A Great Adventure - story of one really exciting cuneiform tablet and bearded guy who make reconstructing the ark possible

Short story of deciphering the cuneiform writing 

How to write cuneiform - (or short video that shows you that you really couldn’t do that)

Genevieve von Petzinger ‘s TED talk about  32 symbols found in caves all over Europe

Museum Tour: Ötzi the Iceman - 3D printing a replica of Ötzi, what did he eat, what did he carry, etc. 

A Neanderthal Perspective on Human Origins - lecture by Svante Pääbo, who’s worked on neanderthal genome

History of fashion and whatever Karolina Żebrowska is up to these days 

Ask a Mortician - everything you want to know about death, iconic corpses, flying corpses, well, a lot of corpses in general 

Art history with Waldemar Januszczak

Progress doesn't happen over night, but sometimes if you flip your mindset enough at once it can.

An example:

What if, tomorrow morning, you woke up bright and early. You did skincare and hair care. You made yourself a smoothie, did 20 minutes of yoga, cleaned your house, went to the gym, stretched, made a delicious lunch to take to work, showered, went to work, came home and made a nutritious dinner. Then, you prepped a salad for tomorrow's lunch, slurped downs protein shake, and finished up your laundry. And you soaked your sore feet in Epsom salts and oils and rose petals and you watched your favorite show with a glass of whatever suits you.

Sometimes all it takes, truthfully, is ONE day of saying "I'm doing it" and you actually do it. You actually stick to your lists and your goals and you feel great. And then the next day you feel so great you do it again.

Then the weekend comes, and you look at your to do list going "oh God what didn't I do" and your list was clear. So you go out for coffee with your friends and sit at the park with a book in hand and get excited for tomorrow. Because now you have plans.

Make tomorrow that day.