Planet: Critical's @racheldonald.bsky.social tackles listener questions about #collapse, #AI, #ClimateChange and more with ideas, empathy and eloquence. Worth a listen. www.planetcritical.com/for-the-futu...

Here's something to make us all feel better, a truly heartwarming tale: Captain Beefheart and the Girl Scout cookies. www.beefheart.com/don-and-the-...

it’s a wicked world in all meridians

Finished Tropic of Cancer, an unfiltered carny's view of Paris a century ago. Historically fascinating, intentionally grotesque, and verbally exuberant. Full of misogyny and casual abuse, yet also aware of this, making it both a complex and challenging read. Not a recommendation, but... #booksky

This needs to become a strategic priority for every country. All the evidence needed to justify this is right there, staring you in the face, asking you what you're waiting for. Start managing your risk, because the risk is real.

Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters

NOAA predicts Blue Ocean Event for September. This year. The name Greenland was a prediction. #climate #overshoot #blueoceanevent www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/CFS...

No new pictures, where are you mentally?

Asiallinen ja ajankohtainen juttu. Toki ilmasto- ja yhteiskunta pessimistinä (muuten toki optimisti) epäilen tuota lopun "muutamaa vuosikymmentä." Ajattele vuotta 2030 ja valmistaudu siihen, ja voit (ehkä) yllättyä positiivisesti. Varoitus: tämä kommentti voi aiheuttaa harmitusta ja pahaa mieltä. 👀

300,000 Wondrous Nature Illustrations Put Online by The Biodiversity Heritage Library

“A story has a beginning, a middle & an end. Long form television usually has a beginning, a middle, a middle, a middle, a middle… until it dies of exhaustion.” Joel Coen

Asiallinen ja ajankohtainen juttu. Toki ilmasto- ja yhteiskunta pessimistinä (muuten toki optimisti) epäilen tuota lopun "muutamaa vuosikymmentä." Ajattele vuotta 2030 ja valmistaudu siihen, ja voit (ehkä) yllättyä positiivisesti. Varoitus: tämä kommentti voi aiheuttaa harmitusta ja pahaa mieltä. 👀

"Collapse is primarily resulting from widespread states of self-deception and ignorance, both in the groups accelerating it actively and in the groups sitting back and accelerating it passively." r/collapse

Homemade white currant liqueur and just added two bottles of black currant cassis, bottled after 5 month maturation. Gotta have hobbies that'll be useful AFTER the apocalypse. 👀 #boozesky #homestead #liqueur #cassis

Damn. I know what I'm listening to tonight. Nice lineup! Had not realized the book was out already, either.

Bob Pepper remains one of my favorite cover artists. From my paperback copy of Roger Zelazny's JACK OF SHADOWS (Signet, 1972). 🔥 #coverart #illustration #designsky

I talked to designers and technologists about how evading surveillance is less about cool patterns and fooling cameras, and more about working with what you've got www.404media.co/the-state-of...

One of the many reasons to love Scorsese. As a film historian his knowledge and experience is peerless, this bit on Kenneth Anger being a good case in point. Would love to hear him talk about Kuchar Brothers, Maya Deren, Brakhage, the Warhol films and that whole era of experimental film at length.

Weird, had not heard this Stones tune before until Peggy Lou played it on WWOZ over the weekend. From their key period, b-side to "Jumpin' Jack Flash," but not on any albums. There's even a charming Michael Lindsay-Hogg music video for it. Huh! 🔥 #musasky #RollingStones

Ei olla enää kaukana sadasta seuraajasta. Tulkaa siis tänne! Tai menkää sinne. Kyl te tiiätte

We're all just waiting for the libs to put on the fucking sunglasses.

"When a yeast colony feasts on sugar water, it doesn't decide to cut back when too much waste alcohol is produced. It will consume as much as it can until its habitat is destroyed, forcing a die-off." r/collapse

What's the last car you stopped to take a photo of?

"Russian and American war machine Will destroy mankind's dream They shoot their missiles in the air They do not care, they do not care Death destruction, bombs galore The rich are laughing at the poor Our jails are filled to the max Discrimination against the blacks" Ramones, "Planet Earth 1988" 👀

Sergio Leone on politics. Still valid. 👀

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

Venezuela punches above its weight when it comes to literature. Here’s a guide.. go buy some books by some Venezuelan authors today: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...

Friend saw a T Shirt: "Born to dilly dally, forced to fight fascism." Want!

At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!

Saw IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT. Tense and timely tragedy of errors. Also, perhaps unexpectedly, quite funny in spots, giving the resolution even more resonance. Recommended look at life in an authoritarion state. Coming soon to the US. 👀 #filmsky

yesterday, a key person in William Burroughs life / legacy passed- now, a major chronicler of Allen Ginsberg’s life and art (wrote or edited many books about / by Ginsberg) is gone! Michael Schumacher was an inspiration and essential part of my Ginsberg research.

Molybdomancy for the new year. Casting tin, in some corners. I see a baby bird hatching, and do take it as a good sign. 🤞 😎 #newyear #divination

MTV is officially ending all of its music channels. In honor of that, what's your favorite music video?

I couldn’t care less about your New Year’s resolution, but I WOULD really like to hear about the one book you always look for whenever you go into a used book store.

Memories... 👀

Favorite new(ish) fiction and non-fiction reads this year. Managed a chart-topping 14 books, which makes this the best year since 2015 (also 14). Far cry from 1996 (107), but beats my goal of one book each month. Genuinely loved both. Substantial, human, moving and engagingly told. 🔥 #booksky

Ruin two bands by combining them. The Gun Culture Club

“Fortuna's wheel had turned on humanity, crushing its collarbone, smashing its skull, twisting its torso, puncturing its pelvis, sorrowing its soul. Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale.” Ignatius J. Reilly

I’ve always thought of this moment as being “thank you for your years of service in films, Dick Miller so here is a perfect visual moment for you.”

Juggling this and Moby Dick, golly gee, exuberance must be my middle name. But whoever said reading classics is boring?! Two peas in a well-brined pod.👀 #booksky

You are forced to have the same job as the main character in the last book you read. What is the job? Research scientist in consciousness studies

If you see this, share a smile

RIP Claudia Cardinale. Much like Robert Redford, she was a rare case of a beautiful performer with a filmography full of bangers who did NOT become right-wing later in life. Here she is punching fascist Brigitte Bardot in the face in Les Pétroleuses (1971).