Mark Wesley

The angel of history This is from Walter Benjamin’s essay “On the Concept of History,” but I’m going to use the old translation back when it was called “Theses on the Philosophy o

“This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet.” kottke.org/17/01/the-an...

Alumni association: give use $20,000

Me: why don’t you just take my right lung?

Alumni association: deal, just don’t write it off.

A bunny on a very small motorboat is out at sea at night. Under a full moon, many watery bunny spirits rise up, all around the boat. A shipwreck is nearby

Daily bunny no.3243 has drifted into unknown seas

most shockingly of all, the alien craft was reportedly adorned with a sort of bumper sticker that said "Earth Hoes Cant Fuck"

Finished The Martian last night and after that and Project Hail Mary, it’s safe to say Andy Weir is one of my favorite authors I’ve read so far. Both incredibly well written, captivating books that had my attention from the start. Cannot waitttt to see Hail Mary next month 😁

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The voice of Winnie the Pooh talking about Winnie getting people through hard times in their lives is like the sweetest fucking things I’ve ever heard

bluesky is so inspirational

Terrible thing about healthcare data breaches is it's the Chinese government gathering data to hunt down and kill American spies and has nothing to do with your identity being stolen. Your data is perfectly safe. It's under the watchful eyes of the People's Liberation Army.

the-unflappablewolf Who would you trust more? total stranger in a star trek shirt? 94.5% total stranger in a star wars shirt? 5.5% 99.421 Stimmen • Verbleibende Zeit: 2 Tage 23 Stunden thebaconsandwichofregret No exaggeration, the vote split on this poll is hysterical.

No but this is entirely correct

clocking in at the nightmare factory to solve fake problems created by man’s hubris and incompetence

At least your nightmare factory will do some good, so there’s that.

Ah yes: work.

The Strand has Annihilation listed under wilderness survival books, but I do caution you not to use it as a how-to guide. At least, if you do... don't tell me how it went. www.strandbooks.com/collections/...

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Three bunnies sit in a small apartment, watching a romance movie on a tv at night. One of the bunnies scoffs at the movie, to another's chagrin, and the third bunny holds up an action figure near the screen. VHS tapes and empty boxes are strewn about the floor around them

Daily bunny no.3241 can never agree on movies

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#TheExpanse 🚀

A bunny sips tea outside, in a little side yard where a table and a single chair are set up.

Daily bunny no.3240 has a great afternoon

One of these days when the discourse is really bad, I'm going to ask what everyone's favorite Simpson's quote is and the reason why.

HOMER FINDS A PEANUT

HOMER: "Aww, twenty dollars? I wanted a peanut!"

BRAIN: "Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts!"

HOMER: "Explain how!"

BRAIN: "Money can be exchanged for goods and services."

HOMER: "Woo hoo!"

Don’t laugh at me

a man with a beard and blue eyes is looking up ALT: a man with a beard and blue eyes is looking up

(single cinematic tear runs down cheek) "So... the legends of the Floating Columbia were true. Prophecy of the Akron Sage has come to pass."

General: "There is still time! Send the drones, Sir!"

(holds up hand to belay order) "No, Soleimani-san. It is time. We are ants under the tread of destiny."

A bunny sits on the rooftop, next to a hen ands two chicks. A 2nd chicken frantically flaps in the air nearby them, buoyed aloft by a bunch of balloons.

Daily bunny no.3239 made it to the top

orange cat asleep

asleep on my blankey, in my lane, thriving, moisturized, etc

I'm working on a short story named Thermal Mass, where a civilization send warships into a starsystem and planetary orbit their escape pods were not designed for, and the desperate existential fluctuation management one has to mitigate in and out of starshine. Heavy sacrament overtones mixed in.

Praying for the Supreme Leader of Iran to look up in his final moments to see the Goodyear blimp above, knowing its 100% over

Brown chihuahua mix stands on snowy apartment stoop with green door

Brown chihuahua mix stands on snowy apartment stoop with green door. A chunk snow is falling from the roof onto her head

Photos taken seconds from disaster

Two Labradors lounge around in their velvet bed, snoring over my meetings, and then have the temerity to complain when said meeting delays their dinner by up to 23 seconds.

Please spare a thought for the hardest working dogs around

Women do not realize that when they send me messages like this it gives me an erection and makes my job of driving the bus very difficult