shpendium(dot)whatthefuck

welcome to the digital shithole of shpendium. this website exists because the domain was available and my better judgment was not.

let me ask you — what the fuck are you expecting here?

okay, you are already here. i think about technology, world politics, nature, and beer — sometimes separately, sometimes dangerously combined. i'm currently focused on several things that feel urgent but will likely be forgotten by tuesday.

if you are looking for a professional portfolio, you have taken a wrong turn at the internet. in fact, i am eager to know how you fell here. nevertheless, if you are looking for someone who has 100+ wikipedia tabs opened, or knows some completely useless facts that could just keep you awake at night, you are in the right place.

disclaimer: the rest of this site is a work in progress. much like my life.

completely useless facts

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thirteen facts that serve no practical purpose and will rattle around in your head for the rest of the week. you’re welcome.

  1. 01

    a group of flamingos is called a flamboyance. a group of owls is called a parliament. a group of cats is called a clowder. none of this will ever help you in life.

  2. 02

    the shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes. it was between britain and zanzibar in 1896. zanzibar lost. this happened before your great-grandparents were likely born, and it was still shorter than most meetings.

  3. 03

    wombats produce cube-shaped poop. they are the only known animal to do this. scientists spent actual time and resources figuring out why. the answer involves elastic intestinal walls. you now know this.

  4. 04

    bananas are technically berries. strawberries are not. neither are raspberries. botanically speaking, a watermelon is closer to a berry than a strawberry is. the world is a lie.

  5. 05

    there are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe. and yet people still lose to strangers online in under ten moves.

  6. 06

    the eiffel tower grows about 15 centimeters taller in summer. metal expands when heated. paris is literally bigger in july. no one is impressed by this at dinner parties, but you will try anyway.

  7. 07

    the word “assassin” is thought to derive from the arabic word for hashish users. there was a medieval sect so feared that rumors swirled about their habits. etymology is frequently unhinged.

  8. 08

    a shrimp’s heart is located in its head. this is both anatomically true and a reasonable metaphor for poor decision-making. shrimp have been doing this for 500 million years and show no signs of reconsidering.

  9. 09

    it is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose closed. you just tried it. you’re welcome for the brief moment of self-awareness.

  10. 10

    cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landing than to the construction of the great pyramid of giza. the pyramids are so old that woolly mammoths were still alive when they were being built. time is deeply unsettling.

  11. 11

    the inventor of the frisbee was cremated and turned into a frisbee after he died. his name was walter fredrick morrison. this is either poetic or deeply strange. probably both.

  12. 12

    honey never spoils. archaeologists have found 3000-year-old honey in egyptian tombs that was still perfectly edible. bees have been producing an immortal condiment this entire time and we just put it in tea.

  13. 13

    the human nose can detect over one trillion distinct smells. your brain is running an extraordinarily sophisticated chemical analysis operation at all times, and you’re using it to sniff leftovers to decide if they’re still good.

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thoughts

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you actually clicked through. bold move. here’s the situation: this page exists, which is more than can be said for most of my plans. the thoughts themselves, however, have not yet made the journey from my head to this screen. they’re in there somewhere, rattling around between opinions about geopolitics and whether the second beer was a good idea. they’ll surface eventually. probably.

privacy policy

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let's get something straight: i am not harvesting your data. not out of some profound respect for your digital sovereignty, but because you are simply not that interesting.

1. data collection
i do not use cookies. i do not track your session. i do not care how long you stared at the useless facts. if i wanted to observe agonizingly average behavior, i would go to a supermarket on a tuesday afternoon.

2. third parties
i have not sold your information to advertisers, foreign governments, or corporate algorithms. frankly, even if i had it, they wouldn't want it. what is the market value of someone who clicked "i refuse to self-reflect" on a random website? exactly.

3. your rights
you have the right to leave this website at any time. you had that right before you clicked on this page, and yet here you are, reading a fake privacy policy just to see where the joke goes. this is a stunning indictment of how you spend your free time.

playlists.

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music is the only thing i organize obsessively and without shame. some i built, some spotify built for me, some i just claimed. none of them are apologized for. four tabs: the ones i built, the concerts i attended, spotify's yearly verdict, and the playlists i claimed from others.

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built track by track, in order, for a reason.

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50 songs · 4hr 26min · by ozzy osbourne
northern echoes
52 songs · 4hr 44min · by wardruna (einar selvik)
people ain't no good radio
50 songs · 3hr 21min · by spotify
hand of doom
64 songs · 5hr 29min · by ozzy osbourne
ssss
20 songs · 1hr · by trashuserrrr
miqt
59 songs · 4hr 2min · by petrit nikolla
thicc +juiccccyyy
64 songs · 3hr 37min · by shygirl
servis iii
24 songs · 1hr 40min · by petrit nikolla
servis ii
32 songs · 1hr 56min · by petrit nikolla
servis
54 songs · 3hr 22min · by petrit nikolla
this is agnes obel
33 songs · 2hr 1min · by spotify
the weeping song radio
50 songs · 3hr 32min · by spotify
alternative 90s
80 songs · 5hr 41min · by spotify
legends only
80 songs · 6hr 6min · by spotify
push the sky away radio
50 songs · 3hr 43min · by spotify
this is nick cave & the bad seeds
50 songs · 3hr 56min · by spotify
something in the way radio
50 songs · 3hr 56min · by spotify
rock school
100 songs · 6hr 31min · by spotify
all out 90s
150 songs · 11hr 5min · by spotify
dark ambient
150 songs · 12hr 22min · by spotify
rock classics
200 songs · 14hr 44min · by spotify
n'dritare
174 songs · 11hr 53min · by shpetim selmani
dark pagan music
192 songs · 17hr 28min · by nemuer
this is 403
20 songs · 1hr 35min · by spotify
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terms of service

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by continuing to breathe while looking at this screen, you are entering into a legally non-binding but spiritually damning agreement with me.

1. assumption of risk
you acknowledge that reading the content on shpendium.wtf is a spectacularly poor use of your finite time on earth. i am not responsible for any ensuing existential dread, sudden realizations of mediocrity, or the overwhelming desire to throw your phone into a river.

2. warranties and liability
this site is provided "as is," which is to say, entirely without purpose. there is no warranty that the thoughts will ever actually be written down. if you somehow experience damages from reading about an octopus's three hearts, that sounds like a personal medical issue, not a legal one.

3. intellectual property
don't steal anything from here. not because it's valuable, but because it's embarrassing. imagine standing in front of a judge and admitting you plagiarized a joke about wombat poop from a stranger's digital shithole. have some dignity.

4. dispute resolution
if you have a grievance with these terms, you agree to resolve it by complaining to your therapist, who is already tired of hearing about your internet usage.

you have entered shpendium.wtf. this was your choice. no one made you do this.