So I'm working on instructional materials for a pending online course on Lichtenbergianism, and in my #WasteBook from which I am transcribing I've scribbled a journal prompt, "Tools?" Note to self: One word entries are not particularly helpful. #Lichtenbergianism #Creativity

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“God damn them all.”

Today the kids created their planets❤️

Trump has not disguised his intentions. He has said explicitly he's going after states that voted Democrat in the election. So cut the crap. This is not immigration and it's not law enforcement. It is an attempt at armed occupation of states that don't comply with his wishes.

Don't believe the lies DHS are telling you. A DHS agent murdered someone in Minneapolis today. Video shows that the driver was leaving the scene. DHS agents lie in court. They lie in press releases. They are trained to dehumanize you and treat you like a criminal for filming them.

Impeach. Convict. Remove. Imprison.

Now, justice on the doers!

Strolling away after committing murder bsky.app/profile/patr...

This is the ICE agent who murdered a woman by shooting her multiple times in the face.

DHS tweeted this yesterday. Little more than 24 hours later, ICE agents just shot and killed a legal observer in Minneapolis.

Since the Republican Party won't install the plaque, I will.

If you're a Hilton Honors member, call 1-888-4HONORS to express your displeasure: "I am extremely offended by Hilton's decision to remove the hotel that refused to house the fascist ICE agents from your roster... 1/2

The ‘shape’ of the project *will* change — and that’s OK. (p. 54) #Gestalt

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

#Gestalt is German for ‘shape,’ and it has come to mean in English ‘the shape or sense of the whole.’ In #Lichtenbergianism, it is the process of stepping back from your #AbortiveAttempt and looking to see what’s missing. (p. 46)

An idea: You know how online Nazis use brackets to indicate {{{globalists}}} ::whispers 'The Jews':::? Why don't we start using square brackets to indicate [[[Nazis]]]? For example, [[[Stephen Miller]]] is a [[[Republican]]]. #Republicanazis

NPR @npr.org

You can't make me afraid. Immigrants. They commit crimes 10x less than citizens. I don't fear them. Drugs? Oh please, you want to tell me it's ok to buy 10 gallons of vodka but not a joint? I don't fear them. The only thing I truly fear in 2026 are the Evangelical Christians and their faux leader.

We are a country whose Constitution, according to the Supreme Court, gives our own presidents immunity for crimes committed while in office, but we will prosecute presidents of other countries for alleged crimes and invade them to execute arrest warrants.

I’m trapped — TRAPPED, I TELL YOU.

"We are all creative. Creativity is not genius. Beware the impostor syndrome. Make the thing that is not." (p. 8) #Lichtenbergianism

I think it's critical to evaluate every "promise" he makes for even the slightest vagueness in expression. When he said he had no plans to "touch the building" and then tore down the East Wing, we assumed "the building" included the East Wing. But his regime says they only meant the main house. 1/2

One of the biggest mistakes an artist makes is what we call the King of Hearts Fallacy: “Begin at the beginning, and go on until come to the end: then stop.” (p. 41) #AbortiveAttempts

We visited my mother-in-law, who has dementia. Upon being informed that it was Saturday, she replied, "It wasn't supposed to be." I feel this applies to other days of the week as well.

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

Whisper, immortal muse, of the insanity of the great. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook L.13 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

And don't get me started on their inability to perform anything like an allemande or a galliard!

Yep, the level of vicious bigotry is extreme and we can cannot give an inch. There is a movement on the far right, supported by billionaires and powerful people in the White House, who want to ethnically cleanse Somalis from the U.S., and we must describe it as such and treat it as such.

To be fair, I'd probably be a little sensitive about my health too if I knew millions of people had champagne in a back corner of their refrigerator for one thing only.

"You have TWO #Audiences: 1. Those people out there. 2. These people right here. 3. Yourself." (p. 100)

I have jotted down a host of little thoughts and sketches, but they are awaiting not so much a final revision as a few more glimpses of the sun that will make them blossom. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook B.55 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #WasteBooks

Liberals say that our democracy is dying because elites are too craven to stand up to Donald Trump. They’re wrong—our republic is dying because elites are too craven to stand up to Donald Trump.

DreamState Suite Two – Liminal Space #indiemusic

Plato was not always right. #AbortiveAttempts #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

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#Lichtenbergianism

THE DAY CARES ARE LOCKED BECAUSE YOU MADE A GENERATION-LONG EFFORT TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO KILL THE CHILDREN INSIDE THEM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING GHOULS

Just got a Happy New Year from a friend in Beijing, and I replied "The old one still lingers here, like a bowel movement that you can't quite finish wiping." You're welcome.

TAKING THE PATH: You have to walk the labyrinth, take the trip, do the work, risk the change in your work — and in yourself — in order to #MakeTheThingThatIsNot. (p. 79) #Ritual

“It goes without saying that we never finished the project.” (p. 30) #Abandonment

Color theory [📹 Peter Donahue / art.pete.repeat]

When you finish the book, the song, the painting — you’re done. What else is there to do but to #Abandon it to an #Audience? (p. 115)