2 silver cups, part of the so-called Boscoreale treasure, buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.

The BBC has an article titled The 'delicious irony' of the Met Gala's Garden of Time theme, in which it explores the dystopian short story by JG Ballard that has inspired this year’s theme.

As the article describes it, it is a ‘short story in which the last bastion of rich, refined beauty – with its classical music, rare books, and its lovely clothing – is overrun by a working-class mob’. As the author continues on to talk about how dystopian the Met Gala with its $30,000 ticket, is in the context of the global uncertainty and increasing poverty, maybe the author themselves would have failed to imagine just how dystopian the whole event would actually end up being.

As we’re all distracted by the gorgeous clothes and display of wealth happening on our phones, there is a group of pro-Palestinian protestors marching towards the gala - a reminder how once again, Israel is taking advantage of how we’re easily distracted by shiny things to ramp up its attack on Rafah

anyway. onto better things

This was the last episode of the first season of The Twilight Zone and they never dared to do anything as fucking funny as this again.

#dirty minds worldwide

you can taste the fucking irony

wretchedly perish then said cicero wednesday

😭 he brings all his friends to meals

biblioteca palafoxiana, the first and oldest library in the americas (1646–). puebla city, puebla, mexico.

You can take the apartheid out of South Africa but you can never take it out of a white South African

me as a child: this "$4.99" sales stuff is idiotic, anyone can instantly round this up to $5 in their mind, no one is falling for this

me as an adult: oh wow only $4 (with some additional numbers behind it), that's great because if it was a single dollar more that would have been the last straw for me in my miserable life