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"STEM" is insufficient for a modern economy. We need to make it "STEAM" by adding Artifice, to ensure a supply of cunningly-wrought golden birds for the Emperor, that sing by an arrangement of valves.

Everybody thinks that it's their ideology that's going to rise from the ashes when society burns, but I do think that my particular ideology (weeping bitterly among ash heaps) really does have a good chance.

Wife won't bring me an Invigorating Drop. "What does that mean", she says. "What are you talking about?"

A more true woods is reflected in the creek. I flip myself off from there

1 day off the flute. I’m fiending so bad right now

Everyone watched my 4 minute yawn

The toddler has generalised from my telling him that several things he wants to do today won't happen until Tuesday. He now comments on any unmet desire by sombrely saying "Tuesday". All earthly flaws now to be mended in the pleroma of Tuesday, the time of promise.

The root of human foolishness is our fondness for Music. We are placated from infancy with artificial opiates of the tympanum, and so never heed the rhythms of Nature.

(Billy corgan voice) the world is an uncle

I enter the time machine sheepishly, clutching a copy of Dawkins's The God Delusion; you open at random your Collected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins and read, 'The world is charged with the grandeur of science.'

lol

You live here

can't believe i had my dunce cap on backwards all day

Remarkable that nephew literature once existed, that works like Rameau's Nephew and Wittgenstein's Nephew celebrated being an eccentric half-forgotten appendix to some intellectual personage. All over now of course. Due to the nuclear family

the poor bastard

At every trade school there's a compulsory course dedicated to the defilement of the domestic flora which the client has cultivated. The average roofer or builder will aim in the course of his career to behead thousands of nasturtiums, to leave no begonia unmolested

bluesky posts = bluesky tweets = bleets = bleats. that's the official terminology. "I love bleating"

And that there's yer great grandpappy Cletus. He split the river with his axe and subdued the hills so that they lay down forever bluely like sleeping foals.

pacing back and forth is like the freest hobby

My one buddy Brian actually DID ask to be born,

I knew this

OK. Here goes:

teaching him colours not as universals but only by ostensive reference to particulars

(dogs barking at each other at the park)

me: so do you know what they're talking about?

my dog: idk. they're just barking

your dark rite has worked... but at what cost?

How much death are you allowed to threaten on here?

Being interviewed for Mud & Leaf magazine

the teenage mutant ninja turtles reboot I'm watching has a much more leisurely feel. you sense that Manet, Degas, Renoir and Pissarro are up to their usual hijinx but we've long since lost any sense of them as subjects in the sprawling crowd scenes with intermingled colours

deep into military aircraft wikipedia to try to make a mediocre joke far out of my depth

You can tell the quality of a culture by how it treats its comedians. If they are afforded the slightest iota of honour or respect, that culture will perish.