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Daily S.P.E.C.I.A.L. - Fri. Oct. 31
"I longed for the happy life but was afraid of the place where it has its seat, and fled from it at the same time as I was seeking for it." - Saint Augustine, Confessions
🎵The answer to it all ain't military datum
Like who gets there firstest with the mostest atoms
No, the people of the world must decide their fate
They gotta get together or disintegrate...
I hold this truth to be self-evident
That all men may be cremated equal☢️🎵
Daily S.P.E.C.I.A.L. - Thur. Oct. 30
"Right is layd aside, either by simply Renouncing it; or by Transferring it to another. By Simply RENOUNCING; when he cares not to whom the benefit thereof redoundeth." - Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
I remember asking years ago "will Merrick Garland ever do his fucking job?"
The answer to both your question and mine was/is no, punctuated with a dollar sign.
Daily S.P.E.C.I.A.L. - Wed. Oct. 29
“Down there I sell whiskey and cards, all you can buy up these stairs is a bullet in the head. Now, which do you want?” - Johnny Guitar (Vienna in her bar standing against the townsfolk trying run her out of business)
Post something random or you’ll have an awful November
29.10.2025 01:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0a Sunset Sarsaparilla would fix me
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Daily S.P.E.C.I.A.L. - Mon. Oct. 27
"No longer wander at hazard; for neither wilt thou read thy own memoirs, nor the acts of the ancient Romans and Hellenes, and the selections from books which thou wast reserving for thy old age." - Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations
Setting up my 1962 watchlist:
-Lawrence of Arabia
-To Kill a Mockingbird (rewatch)
-Ride the High Country
-The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
-Panic in Year Zero!
-Lolita
-Harakiri
“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.”
www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...
they're already disappearing undesirables, just expanding the nets
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Daily S.P.E.C.I.A.L. - Fri. Oct. 24
"If a man never contradicts himself the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all" - Miguel de Unamuno, quoted from conversation in Schrodinger’s What is Life
America is irregular. We're backed up. A properly functioning digestive system would have shit out these self-enriching turds a long time ago.
24.10.2025 16:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's both exciting and confusing to see how large the Fallout IP has grown. A videogame franchise (now TV show) about rebuilding society in the ashes of global nuclear annihilation has promotional connection to a semi-professional hockey team? The World of Fallout Exhibit sounds awesome though.
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Daily S.P.E.C.I.A.L. - Thur. Oct. 23
"When facts speak, the wise man listens.” - Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole
I don't want to set the world on fire...
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Everything considered to exist is just created motion
22.10.2025 22:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Reckoning by Robert W. Service, from the poetry collection Songs of a Sourdough
Songs of a Sourdough
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Daily S.P.E.C.I.A.L. - Wed. Oct. 22
“Gossip was a cheap sport” - Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla
it's dizzying to me that stories like this -- a corrupt grift built on democracy-wrecking lies that culminated in a coup attempt -- barely breakthrough anymore. they're just daily background noise now.
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Daily S.P.E.C.I.A.L. - Tue. Oct. 21
“I know people ain’t smart and often love those who don’t care for them. Up to a point, I’m tolerant of that, and past a point I’m not tolerant of it. I think it’s a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a thing for you.” - McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
Daily S.P.E.C.I.A.L. - Mon. Oct. 20
"Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason." - Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations
Daily S.P.E.C.I.A.L. - Fri. Oct. 17
"The quantity brought thither will soon be sufficient to supply the effectual demand. All the different parts of its price will soon sink to their natural rate, and the whole price to its natural price." Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (supply adjusting to demand)
Daily S.P.E.C.I.A.L. - Thur. Oct. 16
“Do not be whirled about, but in every movement have respect to justice, and on the occasion of every impression maintain the faculty of comprehension or understanding.” - Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations
Daily S.P.E.C.I.A.L. - Tue. Oct. 14
"For as to what men sometimes will affirm:
That more than Tartarus (the realm of death)
They fear diseases and a life of shame..." - Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
1961 watchlist:
-West Side Story (rewatch)
-Yojimbo
-One-Eyed Jacks
-Judgment at Nuremberg
