Parhelion

we don't even know if birds enjoy the wind.

This cost-effectiveness intervention is 10-13x cash.

Don't you mean 2.9-3.7x?

while the ships glide across the harbor like clouds

Please don’t uplift our prey. Please don’t uplift our predators.

They believe the end of the world is already here, it just isn’t evenly distributed.

The birds think that heaven is infinitely tall, that one can dive for a thousand years.

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You Cannot Your body does things and you follow along.

Put a spooky story on substack yesterday 👀

The birds watching the drive-in movies are getting the wrong ideas. They think humans have lives full of drama. They think humans start unhappy and become happy. They think humans start weak and become strong.

The dust has consciousness. The tremor in a voice has consciousness. The fall of a hammer has consciousness.

The birds have no word for suffering. When humans explain the concept to them, they pretend to understand it but they can't. All we've ever wanted to do is fly and all we ever do is fly.

When the birds domesticate wolves they become something far from dogs.

Respect

The startup found a treatment to trigger memories of past lives, but when others saw that the participants became solemn and joyless, uptake tanked. The product was shelved.

We’re so back

They have music playing in their homes 24 hours a day. They believe that if it were to be turned off, they would go deaf. It is unclear if this was once a spiritual belief. Now it is a matter of fact.

"You’re not from Phobos, you’re not from Deimos, you are nothing. Unfortunately, though, you are something, a stranger."

do you think there are still machines on the other continents?

do you think there are still birds on the other continents?

You can't remember any of your dreams. But you must be doing terrible things in them and deliberately forgetting. Why else would you feel so guilty when you wake up?

Childhood is thinking you’ll rule a galaxy. Adulthood is accepting you’ll only rule a planet.

You crash on an island with your colleagues. When you make a rescue signal they put it out. “Accept the world as it is.” When you spell HELP with logs they roll them away. “Desire is the cause of your suffering.” When you build your ship they cut it apart. “You’re scaring the newborns.”

They are programmed to self-destruct when their true name is invoked.

They believe there are thousands of levels of hells and this is one of the early ones.

Ahhh rip. At some point, only up from here!

This mask will protect you from memetic contagion. It isn’t perfect. If you see others taking theirs off, run and hide. Beliefs change faster than cells and most are malignant.

Your wife doesn’t know there are still nukes. She thinks that ended with the first age. She doesn’t have the clearance to know. And you prefer it that way.

They can look at a location and tell you what will happen there. The most powerful men in the world pay them to search for their deaths.

When your wife is turned into a vampire, you declare you'll make it work. You sell your grandmother's silverware. You or one of your daughters is always home to let her in. You paint her in her outfits and tape them onto your mirror, which is now only here to cover the window.

Love → Building on Fire - 2005 Remaster Talking Heads · Song · 1977

I've got two loves
And they go tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet like little birds

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