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book club thread
What are you reading right now? What do you think of it?
What have you read so far this year, and what are you going to read
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what to do
so fucking boredddd what should i do
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Movies
Lets share what we've been watching and any recommendations
I just watched this knowing nothing about it, it was intense and
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hilo español
¿Hay alguien de Petrarchan que hable español? ¿De donde eres? ¿Qué tan RS es tu país/ciudad?
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Furniture and Interior Design
I am moving to a new city in January and I am basically starting from zero. Have to buy a new bed, carpets, cupboards, everythin
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sketch comedy
some of my favourite bits of sketch comedy
A Bit of Fry and Laurie 'Hugh's Brain'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2S2GkdhO_
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What 392 DKK buys you in Copenhagen
Approximately $58, £44, or €53.
This is at Lidl, it would be a bit more expensive at some other places.
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share what you're listening to
because every forum needs a music thread
I'm enjoying 'Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora, 19
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Pub-rarchan
I'm on holiday in a rainy Tallinn, Estonia, drinking the local beer. This brand was founded by a Prussian apparently. The incong
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classic sports photos
Jim Clark in the Lotus 49 at Silverstone in 1967.
He won this race by 12.8 seconds from Denny Hulme.
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when did we lose the war?
I am so tired of the sort of feedback that goes round writers' circles these days. I've seen it in writing groups, competitions,
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Post something you've made
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE6NZ4bsmow
post something you've made
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artposting
> Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1901
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Internet Haunts
What weird or niche places do you like to hang out online?
I already know about kiwifarms, rdrama, lolcow.farm, crystal.cafe
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Classical Languages thread
This thread is for the discussion of anything related to Greek and Latin, including learning them, literature in these languages
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Mushrooms and other foraging
After two years of dabbling with mushroom identification via books I have decided to take a real course with a real expert to mi
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In Reflection
In old films, everyone's favourite day of the week is Friday. Well, I can tell you one thing - it's not mine. For obvious reason
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What do you think about this essay I wrote?
It's a long essay, maybe too long. I'm not sure if criticizing these institutions and this sort of culture this way does anythin
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Work From Home Culture
What do you guys do when you work from home? I try to get to a coffee shop almost every day. I see a lot of shops and places ope
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AI doomloop
One of the most interesting things you can be doing in the 21st century is pretending that an AI is your psychotherapist.
You
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Your favorite albums
What albums do you feel are perfect? I recently listened to "Ágætis byrjun" and it was amazing, just the pure discovery of exper
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The Death of Yugoslavia
This documentary created by the BBC in the immediate aftermath of the war in Bosnia is one of the most compelling works of factu
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Roman Coins
I just read this great AskHistorians post about Roman coins:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/xe3lza/comment/i
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Forums for weapons and war
Preferably more technically inclined though that's more for quality control than interest. Pic kind of related, It had an effect
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Future hopes
Who else is excited that the world’s new superpower will soon evolve into a global philanthropic empire?
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Understanding Marxism
I've decided it's time to give up on ever getting laid again and finally get a proper handle on Marxism.
Please instruct me o
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Any STEM PhDs in here?
About to start a PhD but idk if I'm about that lifestyle. I like learning and researching but some of the people in my dept seem
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Hello from the train
Traveling from the west coast to the east, they cancelled my original but at the cost of another two days in California they upg
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Quitting Internet culture
Lately I've been thinking a lot about how the best days of Internet use are probably behind me. I had some fun and learned a bun
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Favorite Tintin book?
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Seeing clouds from above
I feel like no one talks enough about how incredible an experience this is. Fascinating. Can you imagine showing this to a 15th
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Good UK-themed political podcast recommendations?
Something not annoying. Not interested in the bloody ‘The Rest if Politics’ show. Is there a chapo for UK politics?
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Who do you think the best solo artist of the 80s is?
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/bike/thread
Bikes! I love bikes!
>often faster than urban traffic/public transit
>easy to maintain
>fun to work on
>athletic, forces
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'Catfishing' a Wikipedia based trivia game
Forgive the dubious looking URL, this is a really fun trivia game that involves guessing Wikipedia articles based on their categ
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Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande
This really fascinating and well-written book by the anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard (no points for guessing his nationalit
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Making Roman Garum
This video from Tasting History is one of the neater things I've seen on the internet this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watc
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Via Negativa
Somewhat branching out of this thread >>>513 https://petrarchan.com/pt/thread/513.
Nassim Taleb (the anti fragile guy) defines
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Underworld - Born Slippy (.NUXX)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkHdBf-8PZE
Been listening to this song on repeat the last few days. I'm changing some things
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wistful songs
one of my favourite songs is 'farewell transmission' by songs: ohia (jason molina).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=malJUMz2A
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content creation
every blight that afflicts our present culture can be rooted in this loathsome word, 'content'.
how can anyone self-describe
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What's your Biggest fear ? And why ?
Mine is my sleep paralysis. I don't see a demon, but every single time it happens I think I'm going to be stuck this way forever