Seamus O'Quill

The Batman effect: The mere sight of the 'superhero' can make us more altruistic If "Batman" appears on the scene, we immediately become more altruistic: in fact, research conducted by psychologists from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, shows that the sudden appear...

petty sure i know who's getting a 2026 #ignobelprize #sciencesky #batman #theheroweneed

phys.org/news/2025-11...

ad hominem fallacy detected

personal incredulity is not a rational argument nor the repeated ad hominem attacks

remember 1987 when #therunningman felt like hyperbole?
#nostalgia #thebardswarnedus

YouTube video by Poor News Network/Prensa POBRE A Wild Horse in The Fire -PoemCast from Alcatraz

A wild Horse in the Fire -PoemCast from Alcatraz by @povertyskola youtube.com/shorts/PycJk...

you're confusing terms: culture (i.e. language, custom, story, art, & song) has existed very well for 100k+ years in many forms; civilization (i.e. city dwelling, god-kings justifying conquest) is at best 10k years old

The Irish Times view on Manchán Magan: a singular expressive voice Ireland has lost a communicator of rare talent

had the pleasure of a short email exchange & even though he didn't have an answer for my question, replied warmly. I can't think of a better example of the power of the Irish language & landscape to shape a person!

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit...

A prayer for ancestors #CrushingWheelchairsMovie - created by houseless sweeps survivors who refuse to b silenced by hate on stolen land cuz #SweepsKill #landback #NoPerformingPoverty #homefulnessheal... TikTok video by PovertySkola

Screenings of the Trialer of this powerful Movie medicine Crishing Wheelchairs at Tia Chuchas in LA ! www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AF57W8/ premiere at the Roxie in SF on Nov 9th at 12 noon - contact us to bring it to your town or ComeUnity

i experience something similar when engaging w/ media recommendations: 1-3 recs 😊
5+ recs 🤮
have to check out new stuff fast or just wait until the trend fades (didn't watch Seinfeld until last year)

Tonite in LA -houseless peoples create their own powerfull movie in resistance to the violence of sweeping us houseless humans like we r trash

“Poetry is something more philosophic and serious than history; for poetry speaks of what is universal, history of what is particular.”

— Aristotle, Poetics

#philosophy #philsky

"The high-water mark of America’s influence over the world has come and gone. All empires are transitory, right? If you rise, you’re inevitably going to stagnate and fall," says American political history author and podcaster @mikeduncan.bsky.social.

Interview: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

YouTube video by Poor News Network/Prensa POBRE Don't u dare sit down -PoemCast from a povertySkola

Don't u Dare Sit -PoemCast from a povertySkola youtube.com/shorts/p7I7A...

here we see the veiled ad hominem, the choice logical fallacy for passive aggressive people

Crushing Wheelchairs,medicine and lives -Houseless peoples make their own movie about the violence of sweeping us like we r trash and our solutions -last benefit trailer screenings next week in Oakland and LA - @democracynow.org @theguardian.com @realcatbrooks.bsky.social

what is Organic Intelligence & why is it the new title of this newsletter?

getting my #substack going again w/ a new focus on #OrganicIntelligence as the needed antidote to #AI & the #enshitification of the Internet:

open.substack.com/pub/queerdru...

happy eclipse season

most: Socrates; least: Plato

the problem is our culture has conflated the craft of story w/ the struggle to survive. our ancestors & indigenous cultures today value the gift of story & support the artists in reciprocity. commodification of story inevitably leads to starving artists. #artistcoop

when community directly supports the artists we can bypass the censors; we don't need the studios & publishers an #artistcoop is possible now where we fund our media directly & nurture future creators
#artists #creators #druidry /|\

it's an ancient practice to dehumanize & other marginal people. the term 'barbarian' is thought to derive from a racist imitation of non-Greek speakers who sounded to them like 'bar-bar-bar'.

villain was originally the person who staffed a villa (serfdom), but the help are thieves so...🤷🏻

step 1: define terms "moral" "right/wrong""responsibility" "citizen" & "times"
step 2: listen to indigenous wisdom to recast the question
step 3: explore the overlap of indigenous knowledge systems across diverse environments
step 4: seven generations to land back through reciprocity w/nature 🙏🏻

tracing motivation w/in an entirely dysfunctional society is an exercise in futility. when violence is made a state/government monopoly people devolve into partisans arguing for THEIR right to violence & others' illegitimate use of violence. the system is designed for the results it produces.

I hate when people of privilege announce that art, sport or music are non-political. What they really mean is that they don’t want their privilege challenged by uncomfortable truths. They want to enjoy themselves as Rome burns.

when division & One-Right-Way-isms are rampant i most rely on the three streams /|\ of druidry & the discipline of holding multiple perspectives. the human story is too vast & diverse for memes & gotcha-takes, so now's when i get extra curious about nuance
#druidsky #pagansky #witchsky #treewisdom

I'm loving the finitude of physical media like vinyl for the way its volume demands curation

i have never loved a headline more 😄

Encampment Murdering Policy

the system is designed for the results it produces

i regularly practice cartomancy & though i buy the packs, i do have to charge them with my energy before they're useful for divination