Bear Ryver

enjoy a little timeline cleanse with our cousins

Yes!!!

Since @amygreensastrology.bsky.social dropped the knowledge on the lot of works I started comparing Firmicus and Abu Ma’shar’s works lots together and get a lot out of it.

I guess I’m some kind of outlier with my near exclusive non-fiction bookshelves and reading habits…

I’m taking an astronomy class right now and this book is both: how I plan to celebrate wrapping up the quarter, and how I’ll continue wrestling with the mind-bending nature of spacetime.

Truly! I find that little bit of information much more revealing than a consultation chart, or even the intake info.

malefic enclosure ate my hometown show ::cry cry cry::

going to one if my “time machine” shows!

Neko Case in a smallish venue in Tacoma!!

truly thought I’d need have to blast into the past to see her play a local hometown show

The news out of Kansas is grim.

If you’re looking to relocate, check out this org. If you want to help folks relocate, donate what you can.

this ones for the labor siblings

(and the bookish children of saturn)

…my kingdom for an edit button…

this was such an exciting read.

hooked on phonics got me through 1300 and figuring the vaguest bit of what was happening in the 1200s.

having a grasp of a modern germanic language did not help with 100 other than to know what the wynn character was.

friends into ancient things, you’ll love!

if you found me because you found yourself on a malicious list.

welcome fellow antifash esotericist!

lmao, wtf!?

if you follow me you’re very likely on this list and definitely not any of those things but almost certainly wanna go report and block

lovers of the night sky: here’s your chance to tell the FCC that Reflect Orbital’s plan to lunch satellite mirror to create artificial sunlight at night is an absolute no go

Image of a copy of the book, Astrology and History in Early Islam: Aligning Heaven and Earth, by Antoine Borrut

GUYS GUYS GUYS my incredible colleague, Antoine Borrut, just texted me this pic, the BOOK IS IN HAND, which means you too can have it soon!

Astrology and History in Early Islam, coming out with Edinburgh!

Odin as despostes… 👀

Nerdy astrologer friends—who wants to watch and discuss?

Solar eclipse in Aquarius

SB 6045, a bill to allow farmworker collective bargaining in WA state, will soon be voted on. This bill is critical for WA farmworkers like Windmill mushroom workers who've been fighting to get a contract since 2022.

If you live in WA tell your state Senator to support SB 6045.

Anyway, I’ve come to the conclusion that you can not be pro-Black if you use AI

Fascinating!

I’ve been reading through a good chunk of the corpus of Aristotle and this seems like just the right thing to integrate a few threads I’ve been chasing.

I so hope you’re coming to NORWAC and we get a chance to chat this time!

ain’t that the truth!

Johannes Kepler, writing to David Fabricius on Dec 2, 1602, “Moreover, since Ephemerides did not yet exist, profections were introduced by the Chaldeans to lighten the work of calculating the stars.” In Culture & Cosmos Vol. 14.

Oh Kepler! Shots fired!

I swear I put the timer on the pizza… at least I got it out before it was completely inedible. ☄️

Yes, and/or nb kiddos of one’s siblings too!

for context - they are 8 and 10.

got my nibblings talking philosophy!

they *engaged* the first page of Aristotle’s On the Soul with great questions and intriguing intuitions about the nature of a soul.

proud uncle moment!

I talk to the press professionally, I'm really, really, really good at it.

So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.

paging @sasharavitch.bsky.social

a is for absolutely!

A few captures as Venus and the 5% waning gibbous Moon moved until the planet disappeared behind. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social 2/2

BEARISTOTLE!!