From Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast:

There was an all but forgotten landing high in the southern wing, a landing taken over for many a decade by succeeding generations of dove-grey mice, peculiarly small creatures, little larger than the joint of a finger and indigenous to this southern wing, for they were never seen elsewhere.

In years gone by this unfrequented stretch of floor, walled off on one side with high banisters, must have been of lively interest to some person or persons; for though the colours had to a large extent faded, yet the floorboards must once have been a deep and glowing crimson, and the three walls the most brilliant of yellows. The banisters were alternately apple-green and azure, the frames of the doorless doorways being also this last colour. The corridors that led away in dwindling perspective, continued the crimson of the floor and the yellow of the walls, but were cast in a deep shade.

The balcony banisters were on the southern side, and, in the sloping roof above them, a window let in the light and, sometimes, the sun itself, whose beams made of this silent, forgotten landing a cosmos, a firmament of moving motes, brilliantly illumined, an astral and at the same time a solar province; for the sun would come through with its long rays and the rays would be dancing with stars. Where the sunbeams struck, the floor would flower like a rose, a wall break out in crocus-light, and the banisters would flame like rings of coloured snakes.

But even on the most cloudless of summer days, with the sunlight striking through, the colours had in their brilliance the pigment of decay. It was a red that had lost its flame that smouldered from the floorboards.

And across this old circus-ground of bygone colours the families of the grey mice moved.

At the moment, I have… seven, I think. I mostly use two - one at kbin and one at lemmy.ninja. I have one at lemmy.world that I check in on occasionally, but there’s generally too much junk to wade through there. And I have one at lemmy.nsfw for… you know… stuff. The rest are languishing.

I just open them through my browser. I have a tentative plan to switch to an app, but I’m waiting for them to get a bit more settled first, and really the browser works fine.

I find each instance to be a different experience, so I just switch between them as I see fit. And I’m still looking for at least one more - something deliberately scholarly and sedate.

Yeah… that’s the first moment when the mask starts to slip, and you realize you’re in for something entirely different than what it initially appeared to be.

Happiness - Todd Solondz

It’s the dark, seedy, perverted underbelly of the American dream, equal parts funny and creepy, and brilliantly cast and acted.

i have never once in all my years seen one single thing made better by being discovered by the masses.

I first came here shortly after spez’s petulant AMA. I intended to just sort of check the place out, thinking that maybe I’d end up moving here if things there kept going downhill. But then I ended up just staying here, and in fact haven’t been back to Reddit since.

So that’s a yes, I guess.

No - they’re blocking out any users from accessing the wider fediverse through threads.

They’re entirely welcome to access the fediverse through any of the countless instances that are not owned by grotesquely destructive megacorporations.

I think he’s a weak and pathetic piece of shit with a raging inferiority complex, and that it just so happens that the line of self-aggrandizing bullshit that he spins in his desperate attempts to compensate for his overwhelming sense of inferiority is attractive to other desperately insecure losers.

“If I say ‘I know,’ I stop thinking.”

Nobody has ever gotten the reference, and many don’t even get it after I explain it.

(It’s from Nicholas Roeg’s movie Insignificance, and it’s said by an Einstein expy just called The Professor, explaining why it is that he’s careful to always say that he thinks that ____ or believes that ____ or that the leading theory is that ____.)