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| ME/CFS-hater | poet | mage | ttrpg designer | fka Stinger | lover of handwritten letters | advocate for essais | ungrading professor | kitten connoisseur 😺 | he/him |
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FAthecynicist.bsky.social

This planet man. We could be doing brilliant beautiful constructive things and instead it’s war and race science.

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What I do say is that any expression at all which has had a miraculous, liberating effect on someone—an effect of liberation and of understanding the world—has attained its goal and achieved form. Eugenio Montale, trans. Jonathan Galassi

Note that I don't say that art, and particularly music and po-etry, must be easily mnemonic or memorable. This is an opinion concerning poetry which I have seen attributed to the Hon. Pal-miro Togliatti, and when I read it I congratulated myself that I did not figure among the admirers of that aesthete (or that man).
If what he said were true, Chiabreras would be worth more than Petrarch, Metastasio® would be better than Shakespeare, and the poems in Alice in Wonderland would outdo all the odes of John Keats. What I do say is that any expression at all which has had a miraculous, liberating effect on someone— an effect of liberation and of understanding the world-has attained its goal and achieved form.

From “the second life of art” essay in the title of the same name
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NKnkalamb.bsky.social

U.S. Army Major Harrison Mann resigns over Biden administration’s role in Gaza genocide.

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Iianagp.bsky.social

Fun fact: Being antiwar is actually the moral default position. It's not for antiwar demonstrators to justify their position, it's up to the pro-war people to justify theirs.

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NKnkalamb.bsky.social

800,000 imprisoned people in the US produce $10 billion of value each year through their labor. $2 billion for private industry. The state of Alabama alone makes $450 million off the labor of incarcerated workers. We have a word for this. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

There are 800,000 incarcerated workers in the US, and they do roughly $10 billion worth of work a year, more than $2 billion of it for clients outside the prison system, according to a 2022 study by the American Civil Liberties Union and the University of Chicago. (The lawsuit estimates that the state of Alabama makes over $450 million off of prisoners’ labor.) “We wanted to bring an indictment against the entire system,” says one of the plaintiffs, Robert Earl Council, who goes by the moniker Kinetik Justice. That includes the companies they say profit from making inmates build auto parts, haul beer and ring up Big Macs, thanks to a system that ensures people deemed safe enough to work remain incarcerated and working on the cheap.
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“We found that despite the fact that the heart was pumping oxygenated blood that the lungs were providing adequate amounts of oxygen for, the extraction of oxygen by the body’s tissues was compromised in patients who had symptoms of exercise intolerance after COVID.”

Study helps explain post-COVID exercise intolerance
Study helps explain post-COVID exercise intolerance

Exercise intolerance is one symptom associated with long COVID. A new study helps explain its cause.

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I used to have a Twitter follower who would reply to any criticism of Musk with "Name one person who has done more for the environment." Statistically, nearly everyone on earth has done more to help rhe environment just by not being him.

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Sorry to all the undead who get ennui after centuries of life but I would simply watch a lot of movies and read books. There are already a lot and people keep making more

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OK, first of all, you are not my therapist.

A person approaches a potted cactus with a pitcher of water. The cactus says, "Are you watering me again because you actually think I need it, or because you have unmet needs & can't figure out how to meet them?"
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@benjaminbooks.bsky.social
| ME/CFS-hater | poet | mage | ttrpg designer | fka Stinger | lover of handwritten letters | advocate for essais | ungrading professor | kitten connoisseur 😺 | he/him |
65 followers165 following105 posts