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YouTube video by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Topic Walking On The Milky Way

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One of my favorite photos Cassini took. Underside of Saturn, and you can barely make out Earth in the distance. Just gorgeous.

I learned to look shit up on the Internet by looking shit up on the Internet.

@palomar-qfwfq.bsky.social: “Oh yes, cat clowns!” 😀

I think about how much I’d like a magic carpet a lot.

First recognise that there is nothing you can *do* to achieve it. One can receive renown as a great author, lose weight & have men or women swooning, get the perfect job, become mega-rich — & the unworthiness will still be there, because it isn’t tangible. Hemingway and Marilyn Monroe knew this.

Good thing to remember online right now is that everyone here is very emotionally dysregulated and dealing with that by posting

Can't get over how, as a society awash in a sea of trauma talk, we can't honestly discuss how psychologically debilitating the past year and a half has been.

The most basic fact of American political life, I still believe, is the persistence of barely-repressed pandemic trauma and fear. This goes far beyond the effects of long covid. People are still not thinking clearly, they haven't rebuilt their social worlds, and they are psychologically vulnerable.

I really feel like people's temporal aperture has been progressively narrowing since the start of the pandemic. No future. No past. An eternal, formless, shapeless, disconnected present.

The thing I'll never really get over is how limited and parochial writing and reporting on experiences of the pandemic actually were. If you were outside of one of a few predefined media beats, you might as well have been invisible.

This was and is, I think, hugely important. Very few people in this country had their pandemic experiences narrated and knitted into a larger story. From the very beginning, there was a compulsion to particularize suffering and to police who deserved to feel anxious or desperate.

I think it’s awful that the Islamic Republic killed countless Iranians, I think it’s awful that the US and Israel are adding to the body count. I truly hope Iranians get freedom from violence sooner rather than later.

There has been so much death in Iran, especially in recent weeks, and it’s notable who thinks the deaths are only bad when the party they don’t like is at fault

People responding to this thread as if Emily was endorsing or defending the bombing. We desperately need to reopen the schools. BlueSky urgently needs to learn how to read.

Great job, intern

‘By 18 I was having sex to the music of Brian Eno’: Tim Booth’s honest playlist The James frontman fell for Leonard Cohen as a child and would do Val Doonican at karaoke. But which singer taught him that ‘music could be medicine’?

‘By 18 I was having sex to the music of Brian Eno’: Tim Booth’s honest playlist

People watch a show with cats dressed as cats. Someone says: OH, NO... NOT CAT CLOWNS! SUP

Morning Bluesky.

Shabana Mahmood’s double down on immigration ‘disappointing’, says Alf Dubs Labour peer, who was a child refugee, criticises home secretary’s response to Gorton and Denton byelection defeat

Shabana Mahmood’s double down on immigration ‘disappointing’, says Alf Dubs

Labour peer, who was a child refugee, criticises home secretary’s response to Gorton and Denton byelection defeat

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Why the 'Wuthering Heights' Movie Is Infantilizing Everyone is 12 now, all the time.

How does one of the more ambitious tragedies in English literature end up as a “poppy, thuddingly literal work of sexy fan fiction”? @sophiegilbert.bsky.social on Emerald Fennell’s new adaptation of “Wuthering Heights”:

Pencil portrait of my sister from 1964

Pencil portrait of my sister from 1976

Pencil portrait of my sister from 1971

Pencil drawings of my sister. The first one is very early and I'm rather jealous of this youthful leap into a strong style! The others are 1971 and 1976
#lifeportraits #pencil

Just googled and that’s loads better than the kind of thing I mean!

I’m a Brit and I laughed

If you’ve never heard a donkey braying, George has a special message just for you.

As renown philosopher George W. Bush once sagely opined:

"There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says 'Fool me once, shame on . . . shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again'"

The King is mad

Also reality: the Greens won because of a wholesale transfer of large numbers of basically, every type of Labour voter imaginable, for both ideological and practical reasons.

Very clear that for Starmer, 'sectarian voting' is when British Muslims don't vote Labour, and for many others, it is just when British Muslims vote.

I agree. Very Kierkegaardian!

It’s not that it’s cool to sacrifice your kid to God; that’s not what F&T means. Indeed, moral relativism is systematisable, logically integratable. What is revolutionary is a leap beyond the entire current logic! There must be that leap into a true beyond.

YouTube video by Polydor 1000 Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In The Sky (1970)

"Spirit in the Sky," Norman Greenbaum. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRFo...