Finally finished Babel. Incredible work. Worth getting it signed :) 💙📚🪐

Too much knowledge leads to overactivity; Better to calm the mind. The more you consider, the greater the loss; Better to unify the mind. Water dripping ceaselessly Will fill the four seas. Specks of dust not wiped away Will become the five mountains. - Wang Ming #zen

"The wise ones of old had subtle wisdom And depth of understanding, So profound that they could not be understood. Because they could not be understood, I can only describe how they appeared in the world:

"Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell." (Rilke) OR "They happy highways where I went and cannot come again." (a.e. housman) The second poem is one of the poems that I have memorized.

President who thinks every problem can be solved by bullying harder somehow has caused significantly more, much worse problems in every possible facet of life.

No amount of time looking at a screen has felt better than any amount of time with a good book. #booksky

Planets and Bright Stars xkcd.com/3219/

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes

Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.) This is an atrocity.

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There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

Salted dough, Broadview heights, OH Not sure what happened, but I miss it

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The part of the latest JJK episode is the failed appeal. After animating the first trial, the result of the appeal is just text on the screen: "Guilty. Life in prison." And that's what the legal system is like. No drama. No action. You get a letter from an admin that has never seen you. #anime

One of my neighbors has life size marble statues in their front yard. During the day, they are quirky. Fun but odd. During the night they are horrors drawing back to every souls game I’ve ever played.

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

Not sure what I was thinking Hoes flock to me Call me shepherd Heat can’t reach me Thick wool sweater Insanely better.

Fleecing the hoes Call me shepherd Looking for heat Peep the sweater

I'm asking that we all raise our political expectations. We deserve good things.

I love being a good cook. When my wife asks for leftover pizza to become a quesadilla, I can make it so.

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

Put it down

☆ pronouns: he/they ☆ height: 6'1 ☆ zodiac: Aries ☆ smoke: no longer ☆ tattoos: nah ☆ piercings: nah ☆ fav color: cherry blossom, lavender, most greens ☆ fav drink: DIET DR. PEPPER. The king of drinks.

Drop something muscular (I’ve been loving this character)

Started listening to "Proust and the Squid." Although, I'm not sure if the author would be happy about that. 📚💙 This may mark the start of my obsession with the literacy crisis.

For me it was typing on RuneScape trying to get some trades in while on the phone talking with one of my buddies. Of course, I had to make sure that the game was happening on line one and the call was happening on line two. A lost art really.

Prison for the recipe

so funny to see republicans complaining about this as if they have not been pulling this shit for 15 years.

Five jobs I’ve had: - Water park maintenance - Waste water treatment engineering - Tutor - Writing consultant - Software engineer

Starting "Babel" later today. Thanks to all my friends getting me on the right track. 💙📚🪐

I’m going to read some RF Kuang, and I’m not sure which I should read: “Babel” or “Katabasis” first. Help! 💙📚🪐

Finally wrapped up “tomb sweeping” by Alexandra Chang. As with all short story collections, it had its peaks and valleys. But the view from the peaks was astonishing. 💙📚

I just want to live in boring times. Please.

“If you wish not to get stuck, seek to perceive what you have not yet perceived.” From John Salvatier’s “Reality has a surprising amount of detail.” Very fun little essay.

Saw “No other choice” tonight and it was…. Something. I think that it’s worth watching once.

I know there’s a lot of great anime, but how have I missed the Fate series for so long.

Couldn’t be worse news

Conservatives Say Renée Good Was Brainwashed By Bible Into Loving Thy Neighbor https://theonion.com/conservatives-say-renee-good-was-brainwashed-by-bible-into-loving-thy-neighbor/

First lift of the new year very successful. Not trying to push it too hard.

My Walgreens added a new robotic voice that say “Welcome to Walgreens!” I hate it. I don’t demand to be created by a human, but like don’t give me a fake one.

One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years. Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.

Kishōtenketsu is a 4 act story structure used in a lot of asian classical literature. I just learned about it, and now I see it all over. 💙📚🖋️ #writingcommunity The four acts are in the name itself: ki-shō-ten-ketsu. Ki - Introduction Shō - Development Ten - Twist Ketsu - Conclusion

Started “Tomb Sweeping” by Alexandra Chang. Two stories in, and I’m loving it. 💙📚🖋️

Wrapped up Tress. I love the vibe and the world. An excellent “standalone” fantasy. 💙📚🪐

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

Wrapped up "Believe" by Ross Douthat. He spent far to little time on the parts that were interesting (miracles, the supernatural, conversion) and far too much time on the weakest parts (scientific evidence to be religious, new testament). 💙📚