In starlit nights, I saw you So cruelly you kissed me Your lips, a magic world Your sky, all hung with jewels

I think Jack Vance might have has some of the 'peek-behind-the-curtain' element that's sometimes attributed to H P Lovecraft. The TOTAL social division seen in Dying Earth is something that could actually happen, post 'superintelligence' or whatever it will be.

Thinking of and praying for Bear tonight. Bear F. Braumoeller. ( ' Only the Dead: The Persistence of War in the Modern Age ' ) - Even though war might seem rarer at times, the underlying probability that conflict will escalate from a small dispute to a major war has not fundamentally decreased.

King Ghidorah is going to be in Godzilla Minus Zero. I love the new design. Also this Ghidorah is much bigger than Godzilla it seems. !!! 🦖

I'm going to start my own Catholic order. It's going to just be me and lot of cats. ' Ordo Cattorum '

Trying to spend Sundays doin' God and stuff, but they just won't let up will they. Anyway, reading the Bible and realizing how wrong I got this one. Like a lot of people I got all my totally wrong ideas from ' Paradise Lost ' the epic poem by Milton, and Dante's ' Inferno ' to a lesser extent.

Izamel's got a sun-beam so at least he's happy

' The 6:00 PM post is a planned announcement or livestream, but the full context or topic has not yet been described on the official White House calendar. '

“ Do you think God stays in heaven because He too lives in fear of what He’s created here on Earth? ” ( Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams )

I'm afraid they might be thinking that : since Denmark won't sell us Greenland, we're just going to take it, and then pay them reparations, similar to what happened with Italy and the Papal States after the Risorgimento.

Well that didn't take long, 2026, day three, air strikes

Word of the Day : SOLASTALGIA - ' Solastalgia is the distress, sadness, or homesickness felt when your home environment changes so drastically you no longer recognize it, a feeling of loss experienced while still at home, unlike nostalgia which is missing a home you've left '

Hope everyone had a nice Christmass

Today ' Trump Battleships ' Strangely I had just been thinking about something like this. We need battleship sized warships that are all missiles and drones. They've been thinking about something like this, ' arsenal ships ' What they're talking about now is sort of a compromise / composite

" My heart has joined the thousand for my friend stopped running today " I spend Sundays all day praying now, mostly for the dead, in my own idiosyncratic way.

What the claimed draft text reportedly asserts (according to that newspaper/reposts) : God is not an abstract being but “Omni-creating Intelligence,” a creative cosmic force that generates galaxies and solar systems.

' An Italian newspaper claims to have obtained an unofficial draft text circulating privately among Catholic orders that reframes God as a cosmic intelligence, asserts life and non-human intelligence exists throughout the universe, and calls for a convergence of religion and science. '

With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound He pulls the spitting high tension wires down

' This “Final Cut” edition is bigger and better with 30 new pages, English text with bilingual Spanish translation, as well as deleted dialogues and more material that was only included in the original zines. '

Using Chat GPT to build-out Völuspá : " Ah! This is perfect — you’re essentially turning the metaphysics of a quantum‑informational universe into a playable magic system. Let’s lay this out carefully. "

every week just gets weirder tbh

OK we're back

Was this message directed at Trump or Speaker Mike Johnson

"(Hitler's) feeling for men is not that they co-exist, but that they are capable of being arranged and standardized by a superior intellect...." - E.B. White, author of Charlotte's Web An insistence that power should follow "superiority" is essential to fascism. www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...

Expressing unpopular political opinions over Thanksgiving dinner with MAGA relatives can dramatically slash your gift-giving budget this Christmas. Follow me for more money-saving tips and tricks.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

She was a girlygirl and they were true men, the lords of creation, but she pitted her wits against them and she won. - Cordwainer Smith, "The Ballad of Lost C'Mell" #TheDivineQueen #SundayVibes #Rescue #ScienceFiction #Tortitude #Feminism #CatsofBlueSky #Cats #CatLovers

This is Jared Isaacman, the asshole they're toying with making the head of NASA, so he can dismantle it, and turn it into a ' startup accelerator '. And if that doesn't work out, he can sit on the roof and listen for alien signals like in Contact, check those receivers out.

I didn't know, Jack Kirby did these costume designs for a 1969 production of Shakespeare, ' Julius Caesar ' ( !!! )

Today - BREAKING : Google announces partnership with Polymarket, odds will be integrated into Search & Google Finance.

Possible car-bomb in NY. ( Burning cars don't explode like they do in movies, so ... )

Hope people had fun Halloweens !

A permanent basic income for artists? Could this be a scheme to counter the massive AI attack on art? www.businessinsider.com/ireland-basi...

1949 : " The thinking machine might ultimately sustain, repair and protect itself. It might even conclude that man is unnecessary and decide to destroy him "

I can't get over this X-BAT drone fighter/interceptors. These things are going change Airforce doctrine.