Robert Hardin

If Alexander McQueen were alive today, could he pull off wearing Alexander McQueen?

(Most of us couldn’t beyond our early 30s, but damn, some of those looks were cool.)

If Trump drops a bomb and inadvertently sets off world annihilation, Zionist Christians who live long enough will thank him for stewarding their way to paradise.

Why is it that the more insane a leader gets, the more problematic the imperative to stop them becomes?

If Christ were here, the first thing he’d do is kick over the tables of Thiel, Musk, and every hedge fund CEO who has taken over and degraded education, healthcare and the legitimate media channels of journalism.

I say this as a sympathetic agnostic:

Christians have been singled out and lied to systematically by the Right because the idea has been to tailor, misrepresent and omit Biblical teachings to promote a power-hoarding, economy-crushing endgame.

Escapism on the level of identity is a seesaw I’d rather not straddle.

Each complex piece I publish now takes a single day to complete, which is new. A motive or subject appears in my head, often connected to a visual idea. Then I develop it on my Studiologic SL88 GT Mk2 (which feels glorious!), track the result and create a video so that I can upload what I’ve done.

Written by twilight while imagining petals that fluttered, detached from their stems and drifted heavenward.

#studiologicsl88 #originalmusic #modernclassical #moderncomposition #piano

Horror fiction often involves the world being someone’s edible oyster. Now we’ve got a glutton for a world leader.

But if crowds chanted “Himmler-Similar!” or “Artificial Himmler Flavor!” when Miller walked by, would he be flattered?

When you compare the original Nazis with the sadistodynkophants in the Trump admin, the one Stephen Miller resembles most is Himmler.

The life cycles of the earth and now billionaires make us understand why extinction is the ultimate consequence of domination.

(from *Almond Blossoms and Beyond*, translated from the original Arabic by Mohammed Shaheen)

As you liberate yourself with metaphors, think of others
   (those who have lost the right to speak).
And as you mine the distance, thinking of others through twilight, think of yourself
(and say, “If only I were a candle in the dark”).

As you pay your water bill, think of others
   (those who have only clouds from which to drink).
As you return home, to your own home, think of others
   (do not forget the people who live in tents).
As you count the stars before nodding off, think of others
   (those who have nowhere to sleep).

“Think of Others”

by Mahmoud Darwish

As you prepare your breakfast, think of others
   (do not forget the pigeon’s food).
As you conduct your wars, think of others
   (do not forget those who seek peace).

If human beings are so important, then why are a housefly’s reflexes faster than those of our greatest athletes?

Is anyone else fiending for an 8-to-10mm titanium / amethyst ring with the palette of this album cover and sleeve?

Do some people buy things on the internet so that their loneliness will be eased by the knowledge that, somewhere, an object is trying desperately to reach them?

“If we would not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of the necessities of life.”

— Senator John Sherman, 1890

We must replace the policies that empower corporate autocrats with fair digital antitrust and privacy laws.

“I don’t read my reviews. I measure them.”
— Joseph Conrad

“You know, I wasn’t exactly sure what all those women were saying until a man repeated it. I guess that lower register really cuts through.”

When it comes to urban and academic neologisms, the Christian right can’t differentiate between the demotic and the demonic. And scrod forbid they actually like certain slang, which they’ll then redefine and ruin forever.

Have you ever gazed up at your ceiling with relief and wished the bottom half of your dwelling place looked the same?

You know what they say: Shakespeare put more of himself in Macbeth than the sonnets. The point being that autobiography too easily becomes performative, and loses critical distance due to vanity, at which point performance and not truth becomes the focus.

If my tag really bothers you, I’ll remove it and subsequent posts.

Bluesky is a platform that actively responds to user reports. If we were on Facebook, I wouldn’t bother. But the whole point of being here is the lack of intrusive algorithms and the user’s power to tailor the experience logically.

Why was there no major U.S. news coverage of the August 4th demonstration against the war in Gaza? It took place in NYC, was widely attended and was initiated by the anti-Palestinian genocide activists IfNotNow.

The only coverage I could find was by the Guardian in the UK and on Democracy Now.

I didn’t mean to invalidate or derail your post. It is appearing in the nature writing feed, which supposedly only recognizes #naturewriting . I’m trying to make Bluesky and the curator of that feed address the issue.

People are starting to tag posts for this list that have nothing to do with nature or nature writing. I’ve been responding to them with the tag #notnaturewriting .

#notnaturewriting