Tristan S. Rapp
@Hieraaetus
Nimis Audax Mundo, Nimis Stultus Caelo. Master's in biology at Aarhus University & Co-founder of @theextinctions
You are effectively illiterate if you never read books written more than two generations ago
What’s your most PRETENTIOUS opinion?
Inside you are two creationists: One denies the evidence of feathered dinosaurs because it doesn't fit into his binary of created kinds, the other accepts evidence of feathered dinosaurs because they vaguely resemble Medieval heraldic beasts if you stylize them and squint.
Sometimes I’m like “I should comment” and then I’m like, nah why bring headaches upon yourself for zero gain
I was looking very much forward to this but the Hammerschmiede clay pit turned out much more difficult than I anticipated. As one of the most important Miocene sites in Europe and 3 big pieces by Mauricio Anton already done... my own expectations were high.
I should get one of those room night sky projectors. They seem cozy.
"lol" and a number of other sentence-final interjections and punctuation practices are actually extremely useful tone-signifiers that have developed as we adapted to rapid, informal text-based communication.
delete the “lol” from the end of your sentences and just say what you need to say
Always fascinated by the phenomena of works that are so widely known, but so rarely read, that there exists an entire body of jokes, memes and common quips that rely entirely on everyone knowing, but nobody ever reading the actual text
The Divine Comedy really is just this image
“The arc of history is long, and it bends toward” *flips through history book* Oh. Oh no. Oh no no no