I hate that almost every search stopped supporting quotation marks around a word or phrase to match it exactly. There are so many times that I know exactly what I'm looking for but it keeps trying to show me unrelated bullshit. The loss of booleans and advanced filtering is a whole other issue.
tl;dr: more people should watch this gentleman's speech and think seriously about what he is saying
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I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
How to understand war with Iran? We must get away from propaganda. Facts suggest two interpretive frameworks: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the United States.
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Proving I'm a human by being forced to mechanical Turk imaging analysis being fed to a techbro's private terminator army
Repo Man (1984) dir: Alex Cox the cop opening the trunk of the car and getting vaporized
LOGGING ON
Today in Japan it's National Cat Day. In Japan, cats say "nyan" rather than "meow" and today's date is 22/2 (ni ni ni) which sounds a bit like “nyan nyan nyan”. I don't need any excuse to celebrate cats & I've written about cats in #JapaneseFolklore & culture here:
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Conserve The Sound: An online museum of vanishing and endangered sounds www.conservethesound.de
Black and white photo of a medium haired, tabby, cat sitting up and seems to be meowing a little bit towards the camera. The background is in focused, but the cat is a little blurry.
Black-and-white photo of a medium hair, tabby cat it is sitting up on a cement, stoop of some kind of wooden structure probably a house
Black-and-white photo of a medium haired, tabby cat sitting up on the cement, stoop of what seems to be a wooden house. The cat looks towards the camera and it is blurry, but you could still make out its expression. The wall behind it is sharply in focused.
Black-and-white photo of a medium haired, tabby, cat lying, relaxed on the cement scope of what seems to be a wooden house. The cat is not in focused, but the wall behind it is.
I recently got this set of four shots of an adorable tabby. None of them are in focus and honestly I don’t really care. ☺️ I started collecting cat photos primarily because of the love they represent, if they’re technically nice too that’s just a bonus. Ca. 1950s.
Some foliage growing beside a building. Somewhere an orange cat lurks.
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Harold Budd & Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois: Lost In The Humming Air - from their 1984 album, The Pearl www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKPs...
I found the old 35mm slide for the cover for Neuromancer and had it scanned in for your pleasure. Enjoy!
questionnaire filled out with childish handwriting 8. I worry about ... My cat 9. I am happy when... I see my cat 10. I am sad when... I don't see my cat 11. my responsibility is... my cat
*nodding*
A detail from a 1591 German pamphlet about "Ketzerei", heresy. You see a man standing, carrying 7 cats. This detail is part of a title page: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/details/bsb00086437
Meet the 1591 cat man. I am counting 7 cats on and near him. #catcontent
The night sky simmers and sparks. Any attempt to understand what we see in the cosmos relies on knowing how it changes, night after night. These variations are preserved beautifully on a hundred years of glass plate photographs.
A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.
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Look, if you wanna listen to REAL chiptune (and fakebit still counts, we're not having THAT discussion here) I'll make a list for y'all!
Anyone interested in that sort of thing?
episode 070
They have no gods. They work magic, and think they are gods themselves. But they are not. And when they die, they become dust and bone, and their ghosts whine on the wind a little while till the wind blows them away. They do not have immortal souls.
In my ongoing attempts to give you a break from *gestures widely* THE HORRORS:
Let's talk about the utterly bizarre science of cats' purring.
Here's a weird starting point:
There are NO cats (Felidae) that can BOTH roar AND purr.
Cats that roar = genus Panthera
Cats that purr = genus Felis
I will never forget the chill I felt the first time I read "About Face" by @natepowell.bsky.social
I didn't want to accept what it said about the future that is now staring us in the face
I encourage everyone to read it now that we no longer have a choice
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