“we are all killers, on land and on sea; Bonapartes and Sharks included.” -Herman Melville #MobyDick #MelvilleQuotes #booksky

“Though of real knowledge there be little, yet of books there are a plenty” -Herman Melville #MobyDick #MelvilleQuotes #booksky

"Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending." -Herman Mellvile #MobyDick #MelvilleQuotes #booksky

“Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.” -Herman Melville on late-night tweeting. #MelvilleQuotes #booksky #MobyDick

“So soon as I hear that such or such a man gives himself out for a philosopher, I conclude that, like the dyspeptic old woman, he must have “broken his digester”” -Herman Melville #MobyDick #MelvilleQuotes #booksky

Amazing book. Reading now as well. Just heartbreaking.

“Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.” -Herman Melville #MobyDick #MelvilleQuotes #booksky

“very probably he had long since come to the sage and sensible conclusion that a man’s religion is one thing, and this practical world quite another. This worled pays dividends.” -Herman Melville, subtweeting JD Vance

The State of Montana Podcast | Jeff Mangan I don’t ever beg people to share an episode from my podcast, but if this initiative gets on the ballot, Montana will be the first state to find a way to ban corporat financing from political campaigns.

Russell Rowland chatted with TEI's Jeff Mangan on The State of Montana podcast! Links below & on the DDM blog! Thanks Russell! disruptdarkmoney.feather.blog/the-state-o... russellrowland.substack.com/p/episode-5...

Sounds more or less like Corey Robin‘s position in The Reactionary Mind

“Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope” -Herman Melville #MelvilleQuotes #MobyDick #booksky

“Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope” -Herman Melville #MelvilleQuotes #MobyDick #booksky

Out to Sea: Moby Dick's Humor and Light "So they are married already, and they have a baby."

According to Andrew Delbanco (Melville: His World & Work), this quote, from Father Mapple's sermon early in Moby Dick, was added to the novel late in the writing process, possibly to stiffen the abolitionists' spines. More here: open.substack.com/pub/theenthu...

"Delight is to him—a far, far upward, and inward delight—who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self." -Herman Melville #MelvilleQuotes #MobyDick #LiberalCurrents

“Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright” -Herman Melville #MelvilleQuotes #MobyDick #artemis

I'm going to keep posting Melville quotes on here until I get famous. Perfect plan. Can't miss. #HermanMelville #MobyDick #MelvilleQuotes #booksky

"a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more’s the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way." -Herman Melville

“But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself.” -Herman Melville, Moby Dick

An orca swimming in the foreground of a calm body of water, with a misty spray visible above it. In the background, snow-capped mountains and dense forests stretch across the horizon.

In the Great Bear Sea and surrounding coastal rainforest, Indigenous stewardship protects salmon, ocean habitats, forests and cultural traditions.

Meet the Guardians behind this work: https://nature.ly/4tCx0zJ

Out to Sea: Moby Dick's Humor and Light "So they are married already, and they have a baby."

Nobody needs me to tell them Moby Dick is great. But you guys, Moby Dick is really great! open.substack.com/pub/theenthu...

"13 butts pooping, back and forth, forever" 😂😂 amazing description of LLM spaghetti code.

Montana has a long history of citizen's grassroots reform & fierce independence, particularly when it comes to money in politics, corruption, and the citizen's initiative process. #CampaignFinance #DarkMoney #TEI

Natural climate solutions can deliver a host of benefits for people + nature. So what’s holding them back?

A new @science.nature.org-led global study analyzed >500 projects across 137 countries to identify 46 implementation barriers.

Turns out, most aren’t scientific or ecological—they’re human!

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

Corporate Interests File Lawsuit to Block Montanans from Collecting Signatures on “The Montana Plan” “Think about it. They are telling the Court their voice is more important than the voices of our citizens and small businesses,” Mangan said. “This isn’t about protecting free speech — it’s about protecting the ability of big corporate interests to dominate our elections with money, while everyone else gets pushed aside.”

This should upset EVERY SINGLE MONTANAN. Please find a I-194 Signature Gatherer & sign or visit sign.mttei.org. Tell those that would silence us, your voice is certainly as important as $$$, and we have the right to participate in our democracy! disruptdarkmoney.feather.blog/corporate-i...

To be clear, I for one would welcome the coming of the Judith Butlerian Jihad and am a little bummed that’s not what people were talking about this whole time.

Somehow before reading this I labored under the misapprehension that “Butlerian Jihad” was a reference to Judith Butler rather than Dune. Thanks for clearing that up. 😂

Strom Thurmond sure did have some priorities.

Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education is stronger than ever.

Table with the preference order for different alternatives to Daylight Savings Time.

Like most right-thinking Americans I loathe the time change. Especially "spring forward." But I suspect we're stuck with it thanks to Arrow's Impossibility Theorem. Here's my guess as to the constituencies. #econsky what do you think?