Stephen Snooze

Lansing, KS, photographed from the same corner

Sorry guys, but there’s a fourth wall here and I gotta break it

Cats by Shou Xin

I used to use this app

The Cure - Just Like Heaven

Personally, I'm trying to think less about stuff

everyones got like, all these opinions all the time and is convinced they're right all the time and it's kinda suffocating if I'm being honest

Crazy movie. 🎥 Interesting fact. I shot ALL my scenes in one day.

Library of America rules.

Bruges looks like a fairytale because the economy collapsed in 1500. The river that connected the city to the sea filled up with mud and sand. Merchants left for Antwerp, and the money never came back. The town had been Europe's richest trading port. It even had the world's first stock exchange, run out of an inn owned by a family called Van der Beurze. Their family name became the French word for stock exchange. French speakers still call it a "bourse" today. Once the river died, nobody had money to tear down the medieval houses and rebuild. So they stayed. Five hundred years later, in 2000, UNESCO put the city center on its world heritage list. The collapse is what saved it. Belgium is tiny. About 30,689 square kilometers, slightly smaller than Maryland. Inside that, it fits 16 UNESCO World Heritage sites. Roughly one every 1,900 square kilometers, packed in tighter than almost anywhere else in Europe. The train station in the last photo is Antwerp Central. Built between 1895 and 1905 by an architect named Louis Delacenserie. The huge glass-and-steel dome on top is 75 meters high (about a 25-story building) and copied from the Pantheon in Rome. In 2014, Mashable called it the most beautiful train station in the world. The city spent €765 million in 2007 digging a tunnel underneath so high-speed trains could pass through without disturbing the original hall. Right next to that station is Antwerp's diamond district. About a square mile of streets. For most of the last hundred years, this tiny patch handled roughly 84 percent of the world's uncut diamonds. Trade peaked at nearly $41 billion in 2022. By 2025 it had dropped to $19.1 billion, down 22 percent in a single year. Antwerp lost its top global ranking to Dubai and Mumbai for the first time. The gothic building covered in carvings, second photo, is Leuven Town Hall. It took 30 years to build (1448 to 1469) and two of the three lead architects died on the job. The facade has 235 stone figures tucked into little niches, most of them carved between 1850 and 1913. There used to be 236. The statue of King Leopold II was taken down in 2020 because of his role in colonial Congo. In 2024, France pulled in 100 million international tourists. Belgium pulled in 9.64 million and ranked 41st in the world. A country that fits the planet's most beautiful train station, 84 percent of the global diamond trade, and a medieval city frozen in time into something the size of Maryland is getting roughly one tourist for every ten France gets.

Neil the seal is creating havoc in Tassie again 🦭😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣

Unironically more accurate to the original than the “remake”—

Feels like life’s been glitching a lot lately

> be Alexandra Elbakyan > be born in Kazakhstan in 1988 > start coding at 12 > hack your internet provider at 14 > hack MIT Press at 16 to download neuroscience books you can't afford > get a CS degree from Satbayev University > intern in neuroscience at Georgia Tech > speak at Harvard on brain-computer interfaces > notice researchers can't read the papers they need > notice academic publishers charging $30 a paper > notice peer reviewers worked for free > notice editors worked for free > notice universities funded the research with billions of dollars of public money > build Sci-Hub in 2011 > upload nearly every paywalled research paper ever published > give it away for free > get sued by Elsevier > get hit with a $15 million judgment > don't give a flying f*ck > keep Sci-Hub up > get domain after domain seized > register a new one > keep Sci-Hub up > get investigated by the US Department of Justice > don't give a flying f*ck > get accused of working for Russian intelligence > don't give a flying f*ck > have the FBI subpoena your iCloud > get named one of Nature's ten people who mattered in science > get a parasitoid wasp named after you > get a deep-sea snail named after you > get the Electronic Frontier Foundation Award for Access to Scientific Knowledge > become a legend

Best night driving albums I’m Your Man - Leonard Cohen Low-Life - New Order Moon Pix - Cat Power Turn On The Bright Lights - Interpol Hats - Blue Nile The Idiot - Iggy Pop Rain Dogs - Tom Waits Contact From The Underworld Of Redboy - Robbie Robertson S/T - Chris Isaak Chromatics

DP I’m working with just said he feels like he’s being asked to do things that AI can do better and it gave me whiplash

found a rare, obscure MONGOLIAN psychedelic jazz-rock funk album from the 1970s-80s communist era. after the collapse of the soviet union, the band members lost contact with each other and their music was almost lost. archivists had to track down the original recordings.

A wonderful Japanese poster for PLAYTIME (1967)

VHS cassette packaging design was on another level