there were electric cars in the early 1900s. most couldn’t go very far, so many car makers focused on marketing them to women - therefore they made them increasingly beautiful. this one was purchased by the king of siam in 1903: the hubcaps were gold and it was inlaid with ivory. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/e82c7607de80173a01bf2fb24002ea5de95378babc4cae12c9d61c7c01abf0cf.file

women have internet places where they do a kind of baby naming fantasy football: “if you already had twins named derek and skyler, what would you name their new baby sister?”. i have seen this. incredible. pythagoras said the art below number was naming things. was he was married

thinking “the facts” that convinced you of something must automatically convince someone else reveals no theory of mind. they are not convincing facts in and of themselves, they were convincing because of: “you”. when you present them again as ultimate you are talking to yourself

you can feel really smart telling yourself this for as many years as you want but ultimately you’re like a hunter who says “i got all the right stuff and went to the right place” but comes home empty handed complaining about the deer. other people are coming home with deer.

fascinating that "selling out" was ever a coherent concept active in music, art, everything creative. clearly a 90s thing - the 90s has been described as a mix of 80s affluence and 60s ideals. after that the idea of existing outside large companies, namely tech, just vanished.

st. margaret, patron of pregnancy, childbirth, and women in labor, emerges from a dragon’s stomach while he vomits up a piece of her dress: https://hell.twtr.plus/media/46cc9c03b77845d829403ec89167846cad3ea57ea443f6f64046eb326386b702.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/fe8087d28f7e5a50e27a40a91c892cde859c1663b3162def1b188d8ead93fd70.file

something deeply lodged in my mind is that henry cornelius agrippa von nettesheim (born 1480s) describes wandering troubled souls (after bodily death, essentially ghosts) as “troubled and moist spirit(s)”. are ghosts wet? perpetually damp? truly horrifying to consider.

its quite nice to imagine some german aristocrat obtaining a substance he probably believed, at the time, to be the coagulated semen of the whale (im told that’s why it’s called this), and making a kind of incense from it, to go talk to a ghost. people don’t have hobbies anymore.

history of spookiness: a 1500s german text provides a formula for a substance that, if burned near graves, will call up ghosts. the recipe calls for“spermaceti”, which is taken from the semi-liquid, waxy substance found in a sperm whale's head. heres an image of it in flake form: https://hell.twtr.plus/media/d210377a00efa9685c29b6e114bfb7047adda7007e0999ba40bc3a5f37e14cca.file

i have been posting for over nine years. in that time i quit my job, moved 1000 miles, got married, stopped drinking or doing drugs, got diagnosed with a weird disorder, didnt die, got a dog, got cats, had 2 kids, and obtained around 2000 books. but my greatest accomplishment? https://hell.twtr.plus/media/36893d1486fb217ac41c9fa340aa4ba9431b008129b86432e8d6ef1be01fce8b.file