J.S. Allen

I like to think he is still holding on

The five Platonic Solids (a green isocahedron, a yellow tetrahedron, a blue octahedron, an orange cube, and a red dodecahedron) which arranged on a surface roughly in a ring. Each solid has a drawn expression on one face and a speech bubble on an adjacent face. Read around the ring from the left they say ‘Maybe it will happen today’

Male Costa’s Hummingbird

Parting shot of this rock star from last week… Costa’s Hummingbird on cholla skeleton 🪶☀️🌵 (sunrise reflection in bird’s eye)

It thinks it is so superior

Once I was having drinks with a colleague who studied brain plasticity in leporine visual cortex post-enucleation. When the server came round, he asked the dreaded question, "What do you do?"

"You don't wanna know," said my colleague.

"It's not like you gouge out the eyes of bunnies," he said.

do any of the dolls resemble you

Laundry line with white clothing articles hung in a shape of a dinosaur with a desert mountain background

“Laundrosaurus,” by Helga Stentzel (2022)

#Art as a #TimelineCleanse

how could they possibly know

wikihow escape from samsara

When you and your nemesis die in each other’s arms

Man pedals a bicycle rickshaw down a wide street while a black and white cow watches

New Delhi circa 1994

with two backs

Wide angle color photo of a tan granite and orange brick skyscraper, taken on an angle from across the intersection. No real details can be noted beyond its immensity.

1/4 Finally saw the Guardian Building for myself last week, & what can I say but GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY!

Architect: Wirt C Rowland, 1928
Detroit, Michigan

Mine was:
From now, dildos shall be known as buttnanas

GLORIOUS PELICAN FOOTAGE OMG HOW IS THIS MY LIFE 😭😭🪶

I think I found the perfect music for this one.

Get! Eel! Facts!!!
EelFacts.Net

Advent calendars benefit @skypeascientist.bsky.social so you should buy one and send them to everyone you know too.

pee like a butterfly, sting like a uti

why does vancouver have to be the butt hole

#fungifriends

A chicken walking across the dirt

A chicken

abstract image of amorphous blue and green shapes merging

On the Rocks
#abstract #art

View of adobe village atop a desert mesa overlooking a valley full of rock formations

Acoma Pueblo, NM
#photography

Two goose parents swim away with 14 adolescents hurrying after them

Geese fam
#photography #birds

“Numbers are ubiquitous, inescapable, and they mean different things to different people at different times. An essential part of our shared reality, numbers can also provide a harbor to deep solitary exploration and reveal essential truths about the universe."

- J.S. Allen, Spoon Knife 9: Numbers

“Maybe he got roped into a plot to save the world. Or maybe the work has just taken longer than anticipated. Or maybe he told us it would be three years instead of three months and we just didn’t remember. After a while, I run out of explanations.”

Zach Murphy, Spoon Knife 9: Numbers
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“It’s hard to hit fifty and think you’re special. Special, no, but I am in rare company in trying to be a rural professor of literature (some but not too many of us) who logs his own firewood for sustainable winter heat (no doubt very few of us).”

Darryl Whetter, Spoon Knife 9: Numbers

“In a moment, the teacher would tell the others that I was smart in my own special way and that everyone should be my friend. Then she would invite the class to ask me anything and they would ask me if I could eat on my own.”

Anna Ziegelhof, Spoon Knife 9: Numbers
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We put out a volume of the Spoon Knife anthology each year, and that also means there is an open call for submissions at all times. If you are new to contributing here, read a volume or two and get a sense of what we're looking for.

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Inside CIIS’ Psychedelic Studies B.S. with Nick Walker | CIIS Explore CIIS’ groundbreaking Psychedelic Studies bachelor’s program with Professor Nick Walker, where science, healing, and consciousness converge.

Interview with me about the new Bachelor of Science in Psychedelic Studies program at California Institute of Integral Studies, which launches in 3 weeks!

#psychedelics #psychedelicscience #education #academia #psychology #mind #consciousness #cognition #transformation

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giant splayed hands in front of the camera with a tiny, frightened-looking head with glasses showing between the fingers

This is me