The story of a marble worker Evrard Flignot from Brussels who devastated by the death of his wife built a pretty mausoleum for her in Cimetière de Laeken.
At first look inside, there is a mourner reaching out to an empty wall. But, once a year, on the day of the summer solstice, the Sun draws a light that recalls this love for almost a century.
introducing my four year old niece to the concept of “moral dilemmas” by telling her that i’m a monster that eats children and that i know it’s wrong but i’m so so so hungry and everything else tastes yucky. i’ve tried all the human food in the world and it all tastes so yucky i can’t even eat it. i can only eat children and i’m so hungry
her resolution was that if i meet a kid that has the same name as their sibling, then i can eat one of them. their parents won’t be sad, because they have another kid with the same name right there. speaks to an uninformed but fascinating worldview
our history teacher tried a similar tack but the theoretical scenario was “the man who invented the medicine necessary to save your wife is charging more money than you can pay and won’t accept credit. you’re against stealing but you also don’t want your wife to die. what do you do?”
our answer was not only to steal the medicine but to murder the inventor because if he’s paywalling life-saving medicine, the solution that involves the lowest body count is killing him. we’re ethically and morally obligated to eliminate this threat to human survival
they’re going through your DMs now. Not an exaggeration, they just released an update that your DMs are no longer private and will be combed for undesirable content
the US just reversed the law that made it so queer people can’t be targeted for surveillance because they’re queer
which means if you’re still using Twitter and you’re queer and out, they’re almost definitely flagging you and reporting it to the trump regime
The service industry is like living in a parallel world, you’re busy when everyone else is free on the weekends or night time, you’re working the hardest when everyone else is resting or playing on the holidays
You see your family after everyone else is back at work, there is is no Christmas for service workers, there are no weekends, it’s time formed in the shadow of “real” life, life lived in the invert
“I’m stuck in a time loop” “I entered a parallel dimension” “body snatchers have changed everyone else’s behavior toward me” yes, understandable, we’ve all worked in retail
not to use a post like this to push personal gain but here’s the paper published from the research my sister did for her master the last couple of years, specifically focussed on younger people and how covid is impacting their cognitive ability
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