yes I think that's right like "no feeling is so extreme that we cannot absorb it as a feeling" (and maybe implicitly "there may be more extreme ones you haven't yet reckoned with...) there are so many Rilke translations, there must be many variants around

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy

Questions like this keep me up at night.

Rilke's "No feeling is final" in the original is "Kein Gefühl ist das fernste". Different meaning? Discuss.

Today's album in the car: Low - Things We Lost in the Fire

This is a bad deal, and the old way of doing things is clearly not working. We need new leaders in the Senate.

What books have the most powerful/shocking/affective single pages?

A great read from Jessica Winter excoriating facile ideas about the crisis of masculinity. Scott Galloway and his new book feature prominently, but it’s a broader takedown of a worldview that takes hierarchy, and men’s position at the top, as a given.

9-10 November 1938 | The November Pogrom – a pogrom against the Jews throughout Nazi Germany. Hundreds were killed (or died by suicide), 30,000 men arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps, over 1,000 synagogues burnt, over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged.

McFreiheit Quelle: Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung - Werner Sygnecki - Nr. 17

Just like that, an entire mindset seems to have changed. Wish me luck.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Connections Puzzle #882 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Nice.

The worldwide erasure of Black History is a scandal.

jeff goldbloom: thread

You remember that time when the White House joined Bluesky, everyone instantly blocked it, and we've never heard from it since.

This feels like a Johnny Cash and The Fall kinda day.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.

I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point

Alright, let's do it. Here's a little prospective reader's guide to every Thomas Pynchon novel. We'll take them in order of publication. This might be a long thread. Buckle up! 1/x

Any thoughts on Let It Be (album)?

The AP tracked down details of some of the people killed in President Trump's military strikes on drug smugglers he describes as narco-terrorists. They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver. apnews.com/article/trum...

Sandwich Guy thanks everyone for their support, “emotional, spiritual, artistic or financial.” Intones, “Let us not forget that the great seal of the United States says…‘ out of many, one.’…You all have a right to live a life that is free.”

Starting my 1977 project tonight. Not long until the 50th anniversary.

🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.

First listen, for some reason...

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Playing the complete Carnegie Hall concert. Special stuff.

Another Robert Bly miniature. Really feeling the presence of his old friend James Wright in this one.

Clarice omg

Dark clouds.

Here you go…

It's a game changer, isn't it?

@boscobel1975.bsky.social I don't know if I remember correctly, but did you post something some time ago about what conservatism meant in the 60s, and that that has completely changed since then? I am looking for the quote.

Could...could this be hope?

[Narrator: they lost 13 seats]

What we know, 12:10am [Now in 2 parts] —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems flip ≈13 seats in VA House —Dems defend NJ-Gov + Assembly —Dems win NJ+VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win supreme court —ME vote-restricting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices —Krasner & Bragg win

This victory speech from Zohran Mamdani is the most profound Dem speech of its kind since Obama at the DNC in 2004.

Seems appropriate for tonight ❤️ (I think I’m gonna make this one a linocut) 🗃️

Fight. Win.

Mamdani: So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up.

Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.

Savor this moment, friends. They couldn’t buy their way to a win. They couldn’t racist their way to a win. There are more of us than them, and we fucking beat them. And we can keep beating them.

What we know, 10:20pm —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, *and* AG —BIG Dem gains in VA House —Dems win NJ-Gov —Mamdani wins —Dems keep PA supreme court —Larry Krasner & Bragg win — GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices —JD Vance’s half-brother loses Cincy —Dems sweep Orlando council —ME anti-mail vote measure loses

Do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now?