What are 5 books you’ve read & loved that you sometimes feel no one else has?
- This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson
- Engine Summer by John Crowley
- Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge
- Le Ton beau de Marot by Douglas Hofstadter
- Cages by Dave MacKean
#booksky
The truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do.
-- A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
Ged stood still a while, like one who has received great news and must enlarge his spirit to receive it.
-- A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
Chimney Sweeps - Crimes Against
new genre unlocked in my ebooks collection
Screenshot from 1960s Japanese movie Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster. A serious-looking man in a suit is explaining his latest idea. Subtitle reads 'It may sound primitive and unscientific, but through the fairies, we could ask Mothra to help.'
The latest White House thinking on the Strait of Hormuz.
You've got to see it to bereave it
we used to have Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash, Bob Hope, Mike Pensions, Gary Literacy, Pete Socialsafetynet,
Yes. These books are a Whole Thing. The fan community speaks in terms of how many dozens of circumnavigations they've done (complete read throughs) and for anyone that does fb, the POB fan society is an absolute gem, the best thing there.
In vain may Heroes fight, and Patriots rave;
If secret Gold saps on from knave to knave
- Alexander Pope, 𝘖𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴, 1732
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
Tu viendras sans billet?
Happy belated birthday felicitations, she said, while awake at 3am on symposium ticket buying night
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
In related news, I wrote a couple of emails in bad French and now have a preliminary offer to spend a day in July sailing this Catalan Barque and now I have big boat-shaped stars in my eyes.
I've been trying out directing questions to humans instead of search engines. Did you know humans will share what they know if you ask? No stock images, ads, AI, paywalls. Just perfect gems of info and advice, given and received in a ritual of attention and care, as if by some ancient compact.
the chambers of my soul are all in crookedness!
Yes, I agree, a lot of my problems are outside my head too, but this idea of feeling ultimately and inevitably alone with the problems still rings familiar for me.
Overse added, “Just remember you’re not alone here.”
I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are.
-- Martha Wells, "Network Effect", The Murderbot Diaries
More than once I have faced the accumulated structures of my life and had to burn them down. I left a town, a job, relationships; I struck out again alone, uncertain, new.
Now I have dependents. I can't burn down the structure because there are other beings living in it.
So what can I burn?
Photo taken by me at the Fete Maritime de Douarnenez, France, 2024. Colorful small lateen, lug, and gaff sailing boats anchored in a calm harbour, surrounded with green hills, under cool pink skies, a morning light flooding the distance.
Like anyone, I can fall down a hole of self-recrimination in which I am sure I will spend my life alone, doing nothing worthwhile.
Then I ask: will this knowledge help me sail a lateen rig off the coast of France? Will it help fill my sketchbook with boats?
It will not, so it's irrelevant.
#boats
watercolour of a battle between british and french sailing ships.
1804. Oceans are now Battlefields.
In the South China Sea a British convoy worth almost £1bn today is spotted by the French.
It should be a massacre.
Instead, Commodore Nathanial Dance is about to defeat a French battle squadron using some paint and the most overplayed hand in #navalHistory. /1 🧵
Moths are excellent pets as they ask for nothing and all you have to do to acquire lots of them is open a window and switch on seven lamps and put a classic early Leonard Cohen LP on at a pleasant volume.
Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.
Youngest bro often quotes a prof of his from long ago:
‘Shakespeare. Every time I re-read him it’s like he knows everything that’s happened to me since I read him last.’
It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.
You should've gone to NFT NYC 4 years ago. I could have run the Kobayashi Maru test non-stop for a month and not seen that many doomed enterprises.
Never mind jobs you’ve had:
Tell me five classes you took in college.
1. Psychology of Interpersonal Relations
2. International Relations
3. Modern Art
4. Mysticism
5. Jazz Improvisation
I never hurt when I hit, except when I hit a whale or something of that sort
