thinking about how the burning of the library of alexandria is remembered as the most prominent historical symbol of the destruction of knowledge…but that’s nothing compared to the thousands of entire languages killed in America and Australia by the colonialists…
To put an extremely fine point on this excellent paragraph: language is knowledge in non-literate cultures. This is why language reclamation is always at the top of the list for where to spend our limited resources in Native America.
I was looking up pictures of the Airbus a380 for Important Science Reasons just now, and lemme tell you. I was not at ALL prepared for the sheer size of this fucker.
I mean
jesus christ it’s a flying building
shIT.
okay one more but just because I also think it’s really pretty
whee! THE MORE YOU KNOW.
Okay but consider the following plane tumblr informed me about in an ad
This boy eats other planes
I was impressed until I scrolled down and saw the image and then I laughed so hard my sides still hurt
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