Dale (aka Lichtenbergian)

WSJ: “.. U.S. officials and lawmakers with access to classified information say the Trump administration’s assertions about threats from Iran are incomplete, unsubstantiated, or flat-out wrong.”

@wsj.com
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Waste-book method highly recommended. A note made of every phrase, every expression. Wealth can also be acquired through saving up truths in pennyworths. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.164 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #WasteBooks

Two tuxedo cats who are not the best of friends. The large one sits in front, flicking his tail at his smaller, smarter sister, who deliberately slaps her paw down on it. The situation is fraught.

The micro-aggressions continue. #CatsOfMastodon

Yes and?

No one is surprised.

It's weird how the people who argue that we shouldn't blame enlisted soldiers because they HAD to join the military, as it's the last remaining vehicle for social mobility in the US, are the same ones that support the politicians that are doing everything possible to keep it that way.

In addition to turning the lights out, you should probably throw in a little gratitude there, as well as a promise to return. The universe likes that kind of thing. Might make it easier next time. (Spoiler alert: it will not make it easier.) (p. 83) #Ritual

A parody of a recruitment poster: In the center, a large line drawing of a white feather, referencing the movement during WWI of British women giving white feathers to men of fighting age who were not in the Army; the reference is to cowardice. At the top in big red letters, "Enlist!" At the bottom, also in red letters: "Don't be a coward! Be a man! Enlist in the armed forces and go fight in Iran to defend our Freedom!"

#WhiteFeatherCampaign

A RITUAL to get into the space — Lichtenbergianism In which I STEAL FROM THE BEST (Naomi at Todoist) to give you a tool to help you structure your RITUAL to get into the space where you work…

www.lichtenbergianism.com/blog/2026/3/...

My wife brought these home from Aldi, and all I could think of was, "Is their slogan 'So good they'll make you want to open wide!"?

Zero Republicans call for Benghazi-style hearings. No rightwing media outrage. Republicans dined off of 4 dead Americans in Benghazi for a decade, and yet 3 dead Americans at the hands of a GOP president who promised no new wars gets no pushback. Fuck these fake outrage ghouls.

In white letters on a black background, a phrase is repeated with a different word emphasized each time: “Create for your AUDIENCE. Create for YOUR audience. Create FOR your audience. CREATE for your audience.”

And remember, your first audience is YOU.

We are not talking smart people here, you know. I mean... ::waves hands at all this:: (And yes, I meant Mace, not AOC.)

When all you've got is reality TV goombahs...

Time to re-air "The Americanization of Emily."

wAsTe AnD fRaUd KENNETH

If you want to make a young person read a certain book you must not so much commend it to him directly as praise it in his presence. He will then go and find it for himself. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.141 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

I have scratch pads in the island drawer for calculating all that stuff. As I say in this blog post, you probably have a similar system, but in case you don't: www.dalelyles.com/2020/06/08/m...

Well, I'm waiting!

Were there no good guys with guns nearby to stop this?

Get offa me! Lineup for the homecoming parade was thrown into disarray when it developed that the mascots had not been fed that day.

with my apologies, another #BadEtching... badetchings.blogspot.com/2014/10/get-...

Yeah, that does happen "often" in war.

Once again, my take on saying the Pledge: www.dalelyles.com/2019/02/21/s...

Keyword: "entitled"

Is it just me, or are we through the looking-glass here?

A graphic representation of the Lichtenbergian Precept of AUDIENCE: in the foreground, a silhouetted AUDIENCE looking at a squiggly blue circle, their interpretation of the work, represented by a pale gray, perfect circle overlaying the imperfect blue one.

That was also my message in Monday's blogpost, 'Some Advice from an Elder': "Your music is beautiful and you perform it beautifully. That should be the bedrock of how you think about your work. Audience? You have one already. It’s you. Keep going." (And yes, that was a callback to Kleon's work.) 2/2

@austinkleon.bsky.social says in today's newsletter: “In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing.” If you’re playing the game you want to play the way you want to play it, you’ve already won." 1/2

A light blue grid with two diagonal lines across it; one of the angles is labeled 30°. Two tiny black triangles hug the 45° line. Above, hand lettering states “That can’t be right.”

"NARRATOR: But it was.
#Gestalt #Lichtenbergianism" #postcardquotes