Doing a land acknowledgement of the Microsoft Azure Australia South-East Data Centre hosting this Microsoft Teams meeting.

Requesting medical leave to brood darkly on ill bodings.

Note: A previous version of this article referred to the subject in a disparaging tone. The author has since developed loving-kindness for all sentient beings and revised the article accordingly.

Asking my coworkers if this project has brought them unquiet dreams, ill bodings, spectral figures warning of something that hulks just out of sight.

Seeking appointment as my state's Heritage Commissioner on a platform of "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake." The program is the total effacement of all cultural memory.

We're going to make ecological conservation politically mainstream by imbuing it with visceral cruelty. You are allowed, encouraged, even required to kill invasive species as brutally as possible. Every Australian must beat a deer to death with a claw hammer.

To everyone out there disaffected and confused by systems of bureaucratic rationality: we see you. We care. And so we're expanding our regulatory reform program of reducing administrative burdens to also reduce spiritual burdens. The program will continue to operate by bureaucratic rationality.

My heart is moved to pity for those who can't hack the dizzying winds and social dislocations of modernity (not me; I'm thriving).

judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his gut biome

In my role playing game there are many Matches, which are made up of Rounds, which consist of Turns. Every Turn has four Quarter-Turns. There are several Actions in each Quarter-Turn, and each of those has multiple Moments. Moments are precious. Each one contains the entirety of one Existence

I've seen people who enjoy sun-bathing, going to the beach etc being described as "Sun Worshippers". This is precisely wrong. Someone who worships the Sun respects its power and stays out of it unless with good reason.

White boy shocks chinese restaraunt by containing somehwere deep inside himself an intense, jewel like beauty; hyper concentrated to a single point, to be almost imperceptible, until it catches and looses the fire of the sun, in a chance gesture or the hint of an expression,

What are the best concrete contexts for teaching a toddler about the concept of entropy? This is important for introducing him to his purpose.

One day soon, scientists hope that we might discover life on Earth. Until then we wait with stony patience.

Had my performance review at work. I've been hitting my metrics but apparently there are portents in the sky foretelling my ruin, I need to meet with an augur weekly now for omen management. I asked it this was legal and they told me "Everything's AI now" so yeah.

Toddler's new socks have a zoologically questionable antlered-bear design on them. The union of predator and prey. Powerful image.

Glory be to God for pinto beans – For beans of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon beans that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-beans; black-eyed peas;

It’s like if a magician was cutting you in half on stage but the audience is the moon and the theater is 10th century Baghdad

I think it's nice, when my dog has responsibilities, to call them something fun like "dogsponsibilities". It makes them weigh less heavy on her.

Light rains sometimes fall

Everybody thinks that it's their ideology that's going to rise from the ashes when society burns, but I do think that my particular ideology (weeping bitterly among ash heaps) really does have a good chance.

Son, the man in this picture is "Mario". He is a hero to our people.

Objects Are More Interesting Than They Appear

My favourite thing about the social media network Bluesky is the rich community of real human beings who follow me.

A contemporary email signature should include both a scan of the imprint of your personal seal as well as a scan of the imprint of the seal of the public authority which employs you. Contrary to certain tasteless practices, the authority's seal should not be larger but should be the same size.

A good email signature should make clear to your correspondent, without saying so directly, that they are now your combatant in spiritual warfare.

along streets and walls golden leaves paper over change under heaven

Introducing my toddler to the principles whereby Natural Law is discerned from cosmic phenomena through pure reason, by deriving the rule "When it's still dark outside, you cannot play your glockenspiel."

"Supply and demand"? I would never "demand" a commodity. I would approach it with respect, as a collaborator - as a friend.

"Precious metals"? You mean "scarce" metals I expect. All metals are precious, to me. For their conductive properties.

"STEM" is insufficient for a modern economy. We need to make it "STEAM" by adding Artifice, to ensure a supply of cunningly-wrought golden birds for the Emperor, that sing by an arrangement of valves.

I am but one of many Seasoning Stewards tasked with flavoring Her Majesty's meals. I employ the finest Black Peppercorns, precision-ground to suit each dish. Yet still her royal palate favors the White Peppercorn Steward who, despite the mild temper of his spice, is a heavy-handed brute

Newsflash the groundhog sees its shadow. 9 more centuries of wickedness and despair....

lyft your skinny fists like antennas to heaven, sponsored by lyft™️👨🏻

What is this. Why would you come on the internet and post something like this?

I'm glad the political valence of frog imagery is becoming left-wing. A terrible thing to surrender to the Right.

I repost this whenever the wind in the trees is truly remarkable, exceeding "music" as the stars exceed mere baubles.

We should abolish music. Is the sound of the wind in the trees not enough for you?

My love, I hope this letter finds you well. Things go nicely at the bog, and the other men are in good spirits. They say if we place our nets right we'll return with bog crabs enough for the county. But I confess, at times I suffer a sinister melancholy; I've taken to prodding the crabs with a stick

Welcome to bluesky new users! This website reflects to each user the contents of their heart. Everything that annoys you about it is a warped mirror of your wickedness.

The beans themselves were of a rich pink color, and radiated light over a distance of several feet. Cooked with leaves of the sweet flag, they would grow to the size of goose eggs. The emperor himself tasted one of these excellent beans, and found them delicious beyond compare.

installed the feed that lets me read every bluesky post in alphabetical order. lot of screaming thus far

In the dark dystopian future of my YA novel, people with larger than average heads, "megacephs", are a feared and oppressed class. It is not so different from reality...

I respect my dog. But I don't respect her beliefs.

The beasts of the field have begun subtly bowing their heads when I pass. Probably nothing.

When I'm not posting much, it's because I'm taking all the things I would have posted and instead I'm submitting them as formal memoranda to my manager.

therapist wrote "mark and recapture" next to my name in his session notes

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Dr Philip Nitschke, voluntary euthanasia advocate, founder of Exit International and author of The Peaceful Pill Handbook. The Nobel Committee's full statement: "Only in death is there peace".

We’re getting rid of leaf blowers by eating 50 leaves a day each. Get out there

Bluesky moderation won't be effective until it can label posts by whether the poster has a core of inner serenity, or whether the post comes from sourceless swirling anger. User gets to choose which they want to see.