@ezrabutler

collection of musings

Art history is history.

Why does Threads shadow-ban any post mentioning the extinction of dragons?

I don’t have the emotional bandwidth to defend ellipses today.

In a world filled with Puritans, be a Spinoza. Or at the very least, an Orwell.

In a world filled with Crusaders, be a Copernicus. Or at the very least, a Galileo.

Are nostalgia studies designed by anyone under the age of 45 inherently flawed?

The best way to get me to research something myself is to tell me that the “general consensus among scholars” is something which is wholly counterintuitive.

By how they use things, it seems like people really want a mashup between microblogging (Twitter) and bulletin boards (Reddit). Maybe with photo sharing (Instagram) sprinkled in.

I’ve forgotten everything I wanted to write about.

I cannot tell the difference between a French orange and an Italian tomato.