Dax

Pardon me while I slip into something a little more comfortable (madness)

George Fox was onto something he couldn't even imagine
"ChatGPT saith this, and grok says this. But what canst thou say?"
This is easily my most re-used quote

I block people on LinkedIn with wild abandon. If you make one influencer style post. Zero tolerance. Productivity is not a virtue.

Having a gout flare up and really exaggerating the limp to pull focus

A photo of a Quaker Meeting sign

Waiting upon the Lord (God Bird)

The people yearn for corn.

"Look at the birds. They don't plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them."

#Bible

A selfie of me wearing a Mustard Beetle Channel Islands bandana.

The bandana felt like a bold and outlandish choice for me, tbh. Also, first Bluesky selfie. I'm not actually the sheep from a painting I saw once in New Jersey. Unfortunately.

rock

rock

I’m watching a live stream

eating the purple crayon to gain its powers

The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.

be the problem you want people to have to deal with in the world

Photo of a trail in the San Jacinto Wilderness overlaid with a quote from Ursula K Le Guin's rendition of Ch 4 of the Tao te Ching: "Blunting edge, loosing bond, dimming light, the way is the dust of the way"

The way is in my lungs and giving me a cough.

A photo of the script of Fleabag, focused on the line "Quaker meeting. You're not allowed to speak. If the spirit moves you to speak you have to stand up and share it in front of everyone. It's very intense, it's very quiet and it's very, very erotic."

Found in Airbnb (which I can now enter). Still accurate.

A photo of a hammock with an inviting but inaccessible cabin, which I have not been able to enter for several hours since arriving, in the background

Airbnb host never gave us an access code and hadn't responded in the 2 hours 40 minutes since check-in. Unclear if this is their hammock or their neighbors. I'm not sure it matters anymore.

The comments towards the end about how the experience felt "solemn but not sacred" hurt a little. Setting aside my own defensiveness, that can be true. I want to appreciate every message in meeting for what it is, but sometimes I miss the fire when it doesn't seem to appear. But that's the waiting.

Praying for a world of more Mr Rogers. And a couple James Naylor's/Benjamin Lay's lol

i love to select all the squares that contain traffic lights

I would burn my own house down, but I don't have the money to buy a house. That's the mood.

Why do I worry so much that I might be bad at a job that I never even wanted.

I am following with deep concern the extremely grave humanitarian situation in Gaza, where the civilian population is being crushed by hunger and continues to be exposed to violence and death.”
– Pope Leo XIV

Silence is complicity. Speak up. #Gaza #CeasefireNow #AhujaCongress2026

A blurred image of yet another letter to my representative in US Congress, Brad Sherman. Brad, if you or your staff are reading this, I urge you to call for an end to the genocide against the people of Gaza and for the immediate reopening of borders to unrestricted aid.

they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore

Inordinate number of middle aged dad types with "kill pedos" merch at this gym. Weird vibe, but due process for pedophiles is not a hill I want to die on & feels like some use protecting children from pedos as a distraction from the fact that they won't bother to protect children from anything else

Photo of an outdoor bookstore called Bart's Books in Ojai, CA

Oh hi

I like that people enjoy this one. Feels nice sometimes to drop the pretense and let out my genuine wish that everyone achieve some sort of security and ability to appreciate and find joy in their idiosyncracies.

Chapter 22 of the Tao te Ching, from Ursula K Le Guin's English rendition, which reads: Be broken to be whole. Twist to be straight. Be empty to be full. Wear out to be renewed. Have little and gain much. Have much and get confused. So wise souls hold to the one, and test all things against it. Not showing themselves, they shine forth. Not justifying themselves, they’re self-evident. Not praising themselves, they’re accomplished. Not competing, they have in all the world no competitor. What they used to say in the old days, “Be broken to be whole,” was that mistaken? Truly, to be whole is to return.

me and all my friends are growing downward

Gonzo skipping or leaping idk on the movie poster for The Witch.

horror movie posters but with muppets: thread

"...the U.S.-Israel relationship requires that the Government of Israel brings to justice anyone who commits such a heinous act..."

Kind of a fox in the henhouse situation, isn't it, Brad???

I would vote for a piece of styrofoam if it ran a primary against you.