@realbrynomite.bsky.social
Hard trying dad, skateboarding, occasional poems, Stoic, learning Arabic 👈 need help. Also, #squarecircletriangle
Continuing to discover parallels and make connections between Stoicism and the beliefs of Quaker Friends. It’s fascinating.
02.05.2025 22:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of a tweet from the verified account of J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling), posted at 12:52 PM on April 28, 2025. The tweet contains only a hyperlink: "transcrimeuk.com". The tweet has 2,057 views.
This is straight up nazi shit. The nazis published propaganda on Jewish crime. If this were blackcrimeuk or immigrantcrimeuk everyone would see it for the bigoted shit that it is.
29.04.2025 12:31 — 👍 13691 🔁 3146 💬 315 📌 380
Ben Mirov | ABRACADABRA First, he pulled a rabbit out of his hat. Then he began to weep. He wept so profusely and with such sincerity that some of us felt uncomfortable and left. One woman offered her handkerchief, which he politely refused and continued to cry into his white gloved hands. Soon a little music began to emanate, and we realized this was the show we had come to see. A young girl appeared from out of nowhere. We humbly thank you for your patronage, she said. Please tip your waiter and drive home safe, and that was all. The red velvet curtain closed, and we sat together in the dim light of a few smoldering candles. Slowly, one by one, we returned to our lives, which were no longer sacred, but something like tar. None of us remembered who we had been, nor could we recognize what we’d become. Not even the wind seemed to remember its name and blew through the world like an anonymous ghost. Many of us went completely insane. A few people decided to start new lives. One woman became an exceptional baker. A man named Louis built a boat from his dreams. I decided to return to my life which I love more than anything, even fresh snow. Outside in the wan moonlight, I took a breath of cool night air and prepared myself to reappear.
Many of us went completely insane.
Ben Mirov @sixthfinch.bsky.social
Has a gaggle of teens rumbled up aside your protest? A list of ways and reasons to sidestep getting drawn into a pointless shouting match.
open.substack.com/pub/brynomit...
“Public libraries may be the most easily crossed bridge for politically polarized communities to get back to a place of mutual respect and aid.”
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Unpopular opinion: that suit was bad ass, part of a long tradition of wonderfully, gaudy suits. Manuels and Nudies have surely been in the White House before. It’s just a bummer about Kid Rock, is all.
04.04.2025 04:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
100%. Messaging needs to be clear and forceful. This is bad and it will not help workers.
03.04.2025 20:55 — 👍 1408 🔁 199 💬 20 📌 8
For your timely consideration:
towardsolidarity.substack.com/p/10-tips-fo...
Storm preparations and supplies like water, fireproof and waterproof bags, first aid supplies, walkie talkies, etc.
Storms are about to get very bad in Arkansas. I am as prepared as I can be. But the only way I got there was to do it a little at a time.
Consider spending effort, mental energy, or money on some bit of preparedness for you or a friend every time you say “We got lucky this time.”
A still from the 1979 thriller movie called “When a Stranger Calls” from which the quote the calls are coming from inside the house” comes.
Where are the breaches in national security coming from again?
25.03.2025 00:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Watching a man get disappeared for political dissent in the middle of the United States, as the opposition party agrees to give the tyrant a blank check to do whatever he wants
14.03.2025 21:26 — 👍 2984 🔁 887 💬 49 📌 30I’m here for the perfectly painted hairy shins. 🙌
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A quiet discourse on shoes with Lou Reed and Fast Fox on the back of a half buried ‘69 Charger in Harkey Valley, Arkansas.
“Sure, all men are beasts. Hey look, I’ll sit here quietly and I’ll stare at my feet.” Lou Reed
“Ok.” Fast Fox
Merton & Batman discuss war on a '78 Camaro atop Mt. Magazine, Logan Cnty, Arkansas.
"For the Church is Christ Himself, present in the world. He has redeemed, present in mystery, in poverty, in ways that are a scandal to human wisdom and to the ruthless leaders of men."
Merton
"I'm Batman." Batman
You absolutely do not need to be a philosopher to get the entirety of this book. It is full of references to modern philosophical perspectives issues we are dealing with now, which was wonderful. I underlined many philosophers working now to be able to look them up later.
12.03.2025 14:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of the book called Arguing for a Better World: how philosophy can help us fight for social justice by Arianne Shahvisi.
HIGHLY recommend. Incredible book. A great tool for crystallizing perspectives, refining logic, and gathering ideas. It is challenging & invigorating. It hurts a bit, too. The mansplaining chapter is a fun & cutting chapter. The last chapter is a perfect crescendo of reason and action.
12.03.2025 14:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Anyway here is Americana. Listen to it loud, in a maroon ‘78 Camaro if ya got one.
music.apple.com/us/album/ame...
I know I would not be who I am now and would probably not have the life (the family!) I have now, but I often wish I’d had the resiliency I have now. I miss Art Center. If I could try it again (from Arkansas) I would. Not graphic design this time. My first love, illustration.
11.03.2025 16:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Probably the same parking lot my dad would pause and listen to Seals and Crofts before heading in. He would graduate. I would not. I fell apart.
11.03.2025 16:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I was just reminded that on this date in 1997, Americana by Starflyer 59 was released. I bought it not too long after and specifically remember listening to it in the parking lot before class at Art Center College of Design.
I spilled my coffee getting out of the car.
I know this is extremely vulgar idealism, but I do think we should try to aggressively reassert the norm that lying is bad. Not in a "Four Pinnochios" fact-checking kind of way, but in a way that frames this kind of lying as moral degeneracy that is fundamentally corrosive to the human spirit.
10.03.2025 22:59 — 👍 23351 🔁 5465 💬 601 📌 267I absolutely love to read and I think I’ve finally found a better way to keep my growing to-read list organized. Who else is using StoryGraph?
@thestorygraph.com is a non-Bezos (so far as I know) enriching, trimmed-down but still robust alternative to Goodreads.
DOGE continues to cut off access to quality of life resources for rural Arkansans.
I would like to know what relevant county commissioners, mayors, and other elected officials are going to do to ensure citizens have the resources these offices have been providing.
www.kark.com/news/state-n...
always ALWAYS read @michaelharriot.bsky.social
03.03.2025 01:14 — 👍 387 🔁 68 💬 4 📌 1
“I have danced around this topic for years, hoping to stumble on the existence of a pithy hashtag and prolific community for such discussions. Honestly, I'd rather write about rolly polys and coyotes and dead grandmothers who live inside flower petals.”
www.patreon.com/posts/123389...
Beyond prepping; beyond predictable community.
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I'm teaching a 4-week class on Mary Ruefle's "Madness, Rack, and Honey" in April.
I would LOVE to spend the first month of spring discussing one of my favorite books with you. 💛
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
Just listened to a wonderful episode of How to Survive the End of the World with guest author Dr. @eveewing.bsky.social. Immediately added their new book to my reading list on Storygraph.
app.thestorygraph.com/books/fa3c68...
Apropos of absolutely everything, Elon and Trump’s relationship will fully sour and it will be messy AF.
27.02.2025 05:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
