be tender, be gentle, be loving, be courageous, have principles, make sacrifices for others, be self-critical, be moved by suffering, pay attention, discern what's really necessary, practice stillness, be cheerful as you go to work with everyone else making a rich and dignified life possible for all

I too take my protein pills and put my helmet on

Sad to see this. Pearl Fryar was an amazing topiary gardener and, from everything I’ve heard, a good and solid guy. Bishopville will be a little dimmer without him tending his gardens. www.southcarolinapublicradio.org/2026-04-07/v...

#caturday with shadow and sprawl.

Read the guidelines, eh?

Good for Dr Bell. I hope she has a monster pension and a long, happy retirement. She’s earned that and more. The hate she received for being a sane voice during the early days of Covid was appalling. www.southcarolinapublicradio.org/sc-news/2026...

I’m typing this through tears and vomit

every smug facts of life “realist,” every war apologist, every scabbed over soul should have this image burned into their eyes.

Brucalo springfieldsteen

Enraging a subset of my neighbors by acting on this fact every spring 🥰🐝

Epanouissement, Wassily Kandinsky 1943

You just know his password was HockeyFan123

This is a sad fact. I’d add k-12, too. The ATF took millions from tech companies to train teachers in using ai. V depressing v dangerous.

Moderation, Wassily Kandinsky 1940

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

Rosa Castellano’s “A Slouch of Res in the Road” poems.com/poem/a-slouc...

#caturday in an old blue secondhand or more chair. Back door’s been open all day and the boy is pooped. It’s also race week in Darlington, so nascar fans are nascarring

Panpsychism doesn’t seem that far fetched. You know what’s far fetched? Electricity. That there is something instead of nothing. Blueberries. The way cedar waxwings all land and then leave a treetop at once.

Intelligence is more than fact or information. Intelligence is the spark of the eternal in us all that pushes forward—with fact and info—into something new, moving our spirit, experimenting, playing, curiosity, cleverness. Nonsense songs are intelligent. This guy wants to meter humanity.

I met Mark Turcotte in 2002 or 3. He’s a great poet. Exploding Chippewas is such a good book. I still think about “No Pie” a lot. And I still see him holding his hands as if each hand was weighing something as he said: “for some people, the decision is shit or double shit.”

Something called “Moltbook” is a place where ai agents lie to each other all day. Sam Altman is really into it. techpolicy.press/the-governan...

These are the 4 things AI can do well: •Clean up your email inbox (badly) •Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party •Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself •Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday You can see why we need to base our economy around it

Go listen to Maggie Smith read Jane Hirshfield’s “It Was Like This: You Were Happy” www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2026...

“Wes J. Bryant, a national security analyst who served in the U.S. Air Force […] reviewed the new satellite images and concluded that all of the buildings, including the school, had been hit with ‘picture perfect” target strikes.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

Is it pepper-ridge farms or pepridge farms? The bakery company, I mean. How do you say it? Two or three syllables? PEPper RIDge or PEPridge or, probably weirdest yet, pepRIDGE?

I feel the same way about the “move then” crowd and the “you deserve floods and catastrophic hurricanes” crowd. I live in rural SC, am here for the haul, and am doing my part to build and join in communities rooted in love. I don’t deserve to die in a flood.

Guys like Sheehy are proud of their know-nothing brutishness. The lack of seriousness, self-reflection, and any semblance of an inner life must, on a deep, hidden level, terrify him. The mask hides nothing. There’s no one and nothing behind it.

Eastern bluebird on a power line. I don’t know why but it’s a lonesome little image.

Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.

19. II. 2026, 01:48

Glowering at the broom #caturday

51 children dead. Each one a universe.

“Every war is a war against children”

Lethal autonomous weapon is just not a phrase I expected to consider deeply.

The greatest assassin of life is haste. Theodore Roethke

iambic tetrameter ass stick

If efficiency is your lodestar, enjoy your brethren, the robots.

We should be asking both questions. I do not welcome being dehumanized by unhumaned text. What are we actually buying with that saved time? We buy more automation of what should be deeply human practices.

This is true

If it’s “not true,” explain the drawings then.

Just an assistant professor in search of clarity and grace and communion over a love of learning. Professor Throatpunch here is a punk ass.

They’re delisting the wood stork so the can drain swamps and build strip malls and let DR Horton Homes throw up some stick piles for the exploding coastal population. Seeing it any other way is hope casting.

Jupiter’s right there in the middle

The bitterest thing? Her farm is in Allendale County, SC, one of the poorest counties in the state and very likely to be one big data center in a decade.

Augie is pining PINING for my Red Vines, which are stacked like lumber on the arm of the couch. #caturday #twizzlerssuck

I had to borrow my neighbor’s F150 this morning. That thing had nearly 400k miles on it. Tape deck, manual windows. One key on a lanyard and a busted tailgate, but shoot, she takes good care of that truck. It drove so smoothly.

Good for Heather Anderson. If a yoga studio can’t condemn terror and violence because of corporate signage rules, it’s probably a high honor to have your membership revoked.