amaranth mist

(via retronaut)

" In the years between the Second Inundation and the Third and last one, so the story goes, Atlantis was for all practical purposes a madhouse with the inmates in charge. Everybody knew what was going to happen and nobody wanted to deal with the implications of that knowledge..." --John Michael Greer (on The Archdruid Report blog)

The Book of the Emerald and The Necronomicon.

"I guess ignoring climate change can now be seen as a long-term jobs program, when you think of all the seawalls and refugee housing projects that are going to be built in the next couple centuries." --aught on Metafilter

Ptolemaic scifi.

When plastic bags are outlawed, only outlaws will have plastic bags.

"Credentalism is economic discrimination disguised as opportunity."

“The scenes come back into my head at night,” he notes. “I see people lying dead in a pool of blood, screaming with severed body parts. I cannot sleep some nights, spending long hours rolling on the bed. But what options do I have? I’m a journalist and I want to cover what is happening in my country.”

(via Retronaut)

"Sir, you do not own a computer, you have no office, you do all your work in a noisy smoke-filled internet cafe in a small town in south Taiwan—how on Earth did you manage to pitch your CLI FI story to the world's major media such as the recent article in Time magazine?"