Me and my #daimon irl:

RESOLUTIONS COLON ZERO STOP PERIOD HOPES COLON ZERO STOP - #SamuelBeckett, telegram to The Times when asked after his #NewYear's resolutions and hopes for 1984. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. - #SamuelBeckett, 'Worstward Ho' (1983)

Sadly this did not end up being what I'd hoped

I love this Radiohead song

Dec 30th 1999 - Rap star, Jeriko One, was murdered by 2 members of the LAPD. 📽️📅 Strange Days (1995)

MY LIFE By #Rilke #DOTD 1926 My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see me hurrying. Much stands behind me; I stand before it like a tree; I am only one of my many mouths, and at that, the one that will be still the soonest.

Watching The Wizard of Oz. This movie is fucking insane.

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𝑱𝙄𝑺𝙀𝑰 OR DEATH POEM OF #HAKUIN “All you young people, if you're afraid of dying then choose death right now. After dying once this time you will never die again.”

"Time is the moving image of #eternity." - #Plato, 'Timaeus' "Eternity is in love with the productions of #time." - #WilliamBlake, 'Marriage of Heaven and Hell"

Bwahahahahaha most “people” won’t even notice the difference …

What a spiritual practice actually looks like:

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. - #MarcusAurelius

I used to think they were all nuts when they’d carry on non-stop about deep state cabals, powerful pedophile rings and highly connected sex traffickers. It turns out they knew exactly what they were talking about. They were talking about themselves.

'He's completely gone': Internet erupts after Trump's latest 'absolutely unhinged' claim "He's completely gone," journalist Mike Rothschild posted on X. "Just lost in the palace of mirrors of his mind www.rawstory.com/trump-267483...

Your #existential PSA for the day, courtesy of #SimoneWeil:

working at a university

DOJ Removes All Mentions Of Justice From Website https://theonion.com/doj-removes-all-mentions-of-justice-from-website/

The statute justified the imprisonment in World War II of thousands like Heidi Gurcke Donald. She is horrified as Trump invokes it for mass deportation.

Pan & Rings - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/kRVL8

I mean...

Karp is stone-cold insane. I have no idea why other writers try to portray him as anything but that. It will just make you look foolish later down the line.

Wait till you read how he was fucking hired

Louis *who* now?

These guys are so lost in the sauce that they don't even qualify as human at this point. The singularity already happened a few years ago without us realizing it.

Victor Brauner (1903-1966) The Surrealist, January 1947. Design is clearly based on the Magician card from the Tarot. My photo

What a spiritual practice actually looks like:

Vale #Rilke #DOTD 1926– who wrote his own epitaph, which graces his tombstone even today: 𝙍𝒐𝙨𝒆, 𝙤𝒉 𝒓𝙚𝒊𝙣𝒆𝙧 𝙒𝒊𝙙𝒆𝙧𝒔𝙥𝒓𝙪𝒄𝙝, 𝑳𝙪𝒔𝙩, 𝑵𝙞𝒆𝙢𝒂𝙣𝒅𝙚𝒔 𝑺𝙘𝒉𝙡𝒂𝙛 𝙯𝒖 𝒔𝙚𝒊𝙣 𝙪𝒏𝙩𝒆𝙧 𝙨𝒐𝙫𝒊𝙚𝒍 𝑳𝙞𝒅𝙚𝒓𝙣. "Rose, o pure contradiction, desire to be no one's sleep beneath so many lids."

The #unconscious is the key to itself. - #PeterKingsley, ‘ #Catafalque’

Real #mysticism is to abandon any possible identification and, from moment to moment, surrender everything—which is why scepticism is the most mystical attitude of all. - #PeterKingsley, ‘ #Catafalque’

The #unconscious is the problem and the unconscious, if we consciously watch and humbly wait as only a real prophet knows how to, is its own solution. - #PeterKingsley, ‘ #Catafalque’

The meandering trajectory of coffee and coffee-related culture from the Islamicate world, into Western Europe and America, then into the entire world, and hence back now to different parts of the Islamicate world, is a really wild ride

Thank god for Mary.

My son took this at Pompeii. I love the composition, the frame, the mysterious quality of the image. To me it speaks of time, passing moments

Four and fifty years hung the sky with stars. A quivering leap smashes a billion worlds. Hah! Entire body looks for nothing. Living plunges into Yellow Springs. - 𝒋𝙞𝒔𝙚𝒊, or death poem, of #Dogen #Zen- ji

The words you speak become the house you live in. - #Hafiz

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. - #JBPriestley

Trump on a report that Ukraine tried to strike Putin's residence: "I don't like it. It's not good. I heard about it this morning. You know who told me about it? President Putin told me about it ... I was very angry about it."

The Russians have tried to assassinate Zelensky many times. Never seems to have bothered Trump.

We’re just innocent men

It is not unheard of for the ground to shake in Broken Hill, but what is unusual is the number of earthquakes recorded by Geoscience Australia this year.

Australia's first large-scale soft plastics recycling facility is processing huge loads each day, turning waste into a useful raw material.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. - #Ruskin

#MARTINBUBER ON HOW TO LIVE “I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change.

#WyrdWednesday One of my favourite weird Christmas tales, the classic account by Jean Hingley of Rowley Regis, Birmingham, of being visited on the 4th of January 1979 by three fairy-like UFOnauts who discussed Jesus, the Queen and Tommy Steele with her before she offered them some mince pies.

Getting spellbound by the surreal subway scene of Matthew Grabelsky’s 'Witchy Woman'. Oil on Canvas #beautifulbizarre #grabelsky #contemporaryart #surrealism #oilpainting #nycsubway #hyperrealism #blackcat #witchywoman #artcollectors #art

What a spiritual practice actually looks like:

Your #existential PSA for the day, courtesy of #DorisLessing:

BONUS POINTS: if you choose 6 Jan ( #Epiphany) to take down your tree and trimmings, it's almost as if you hand the #Noel baton over to your Eastern Christian cousins who only start their feast race on that day–it keeps the #Christmas spirit going!

FYI Anglo-Germanic sphere: take down the Christmas decorations either before 6 Jan (Epiphany or Three Kings Day), OR definitely before 2 Feb (Candlemas), especially if you want to prevent goblin infestations. You're welcome. www.english-heritage.org.uk/christmas/le...