you are in prison if you wish to get out of prison the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison if you think you are free you can't escape ~gurdjieff #Awareness

i was never more hated than when I tried to be honest when I tried to articulate exactly what I felt no one was satisfied ~ralph ellison •  Earnest questions and honest expression - for me, anway - elicit the most contempt. The fragile comfort zones of The Uninquisitive compel constant defense.

My wife took this great picture of the moon Sunday evening. I appreciate the patience it took to capture these migrating Canada geese. Rodman, NY #birds

American Wigeon (Mareca americana) Andrew's bay, Seattle, US #Birds #Aves #Ducks #Nature #Wildlife #Photography

Giorgio de Chirico (Italian, born in Greece 1888-1978) Natura morta con bicchiere di vino, 1932 (Still life with glass of wine); Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm

Good thing book-burners don’t understand Shakespeare. The Bard was woke AF.

If a transgression didn’t happen in the current news cycle, it probably didn’t happen, whereas if one happens in the current news cycle, it •definitely• didn’t happen. The FCC serves the financial sector, not the public interest. The same can be said of most governing/regulatory institutions.

Between (a.) circular investments and (b.) the hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI accounting for 40% US GDP growth this year, the potential for a tidal wave of disruptive tech destruction within the next 5 years strikes me as very high. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

People have no idea of the extent to which deference to authority influences how they see perceive the world, their fellow human beings and themselves. The rise of Global Fascism compels many to believe they are aware, but nothing could be further from the truth. It's only the tip of the iceberg.

She didn’t need to. Greta consistently rejects self-aggrandizing celebrity. Her critics can only project their own egoic appetites onto her - to no avail. Like all for whom the difference between Power and Truth is self-evident, her life is a natural expression of Service, not curated performance.

Jane Goodall’s LIFE expressed a true cosmological message: WE ARE PART OF THE NATURAL WORLD. Cosmology must be •reclaimed• from nation-state monopolies and consortiums whose service to INDUSTRY jeopardizes Humanity and planetary life. #EvolutionaryImperative #BiogenicCosmology #ContinuityProtocol

Here's a video explaining how Chat Control surveillance would work by the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy... fair.tube/w/72DCPMByyS... #speirgorm

OK, by this logic...the surveillance of every facet of life--from comms to movement to social relationships to etc--which has become the norm over the last decades c/o the surveillance biz model, makes LE surveillance MORE possible than it's ever been in history. But somehow e2ee is the problem?

one thing that has remained true throughout time is that any assertion or evidence that runs counter to human uniqueness is invariably met with strong (often incoherent/misdirected) anger. Jane Goodall wrote about this wrt. chimpanzees and tool-making.

It was inevitable, but I must admit the rate of degradation is exceeding my expectations.

I’m new to old school sampling. It's RIDICULOUSLY fun. Inphonik’s RX1200 Sampler is $15. The RX950 Compressor is $10. This is a •killer duo• from a great developer that will break open up the closed circuitry in your head and instill a genuine appreciation of Rap & EDM OGs. Better late than never.👇

The World’s governing institutions, their “priesthoods" and all who identify with Power over Truth are being exposed for what they are: weaklings pretending strength & wisdom. Industrial Age institutions weren't created to withstand Information Age dynamics. We are witnesses to their obsolescence.🌐🌏

My brain is wired to focus on language. The most effective subversion, in my experience, is simply calling things what they are. No exaggeration. No deference to authority. No one has to like it, including the speaker/writer. to plainness honor’s bound when majesty falls to folly ~shakespeare

Way back when Nazism and eugenics were still generally frowned upon.

Agreed. Beyond his film scores, “1000 Airplanes on the Roof” was the most jaw-dropping stage production I ever witnessed.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster. Notes Of A Native Son, James Baldwin

Sublime.

In a world where the line between the real and the not real is rapidly blurring, it's good to know that some things are still very real. #WokeToJoy #WelcomingBackTheMonarchs

They had more pressing concerns than posing for a picture all together, but I counted seven monarchs! I've never had so many in my garden at once. Moments of hope. 💚 #nativeplants

Humans process information through IDENTITY lenses: scientific, religious, political, cultural. When they conflict, COGNITION collapses into defense - not Inquiry, Consideration or Understanding. It poisons social connection and destroys human potential. Perspective is only context. It isn’t Truth.♾️

This is a very reasonable question. A betting person would almost certainly wager the answer is above zero.

greta thunberg’s moral clarity throws other people’s callous indifference into sharp relief. The existence of a person who can unabashedly refuse the excuses cheapens and undermines their excuses. Her existence exposes their lie.

Good to be reminded that humans are still capable of creating wonders.

A Steller's Jay more or less in #profile for the #BirdOfTheDay 💙🌲🪶 at Yosemite NP. #RockinTuesday #Yosemite #birds

A proper context for decades of “bipartisanship.” Make enough deals with The Devil, one eventually runs out of deals, not devils.

The same people who never saw Fascism coming - and refuse(d) to listen to anyone who did - *still* aren’t asking themselves what they may be missing now. Most continue to appeal to the same authorities and subscribe to the same consensual narratives as before. Self-correction is for other people.

The “decades ago” part is consistently ignored by loyalists who demand nothing, accept less and vilify anyone who rejects the DNC corporate hierarchy and misanthropic whims of the donor class. The party never recovered from Reagan. It never even tried.

The Devil is in the details. I strongly suspect the longstanding sterility narrative surrounding Lunar soil is false. The Lunar regolith is one thing, but what it conceals - despite their common origin - is another. www.salon.com/2025/09/29/t...

Can someone please find more pHD's to tell me “This is bad,” about the most recent political transgressions? I’d like to be sure, but absent peer review and citations, how can anyone really know.

Now, I sit in quiet, Listening as the earth settles down After a long day of scorching sun. We wait, For the night birds and fruit bats to appear, In harmony One provide the song, the other, the dance, And together, we will give thanks For another day done. #The_Eco_Spiritual_Experience 🌱

Awww, it’s like Disney’s THE JUNGLE BOOK minus the racism and colonialism.

What’s the difference between “ignor[ing] moral convictions” and not having any?

Amid attacks on public media, there’s a bright spot: Reading Rainbow is returning! The beloved show that inspired generations will now stream on KidZuko, carrying forward its mission to celebrate reading and literacy for our children. This is POWERFUL news! 📚

Post a fictional comedian who definitely would accept an invitation to the Riyadh Comedy Festival.

Far more social capital is acquired from error than accuracy. The safety of the herd is illusory.

Sports media, and the leagues and governing bodies, help it along. There’s no excuse for partnerships with Barstool Sports, e.g.

Amber is displaying more courage & integrity than any judicial or legislative figures. The failure of public institutions - their explicit weaponization against citizens - is self-evident to anyone paying attention. We had better learn to look out for one another. The State has other things in mind.

Stephanie McNeal, Senior Editor of GLAMOUR, reporting what cowardly sports journalists and obsequious media figures obfuscate, minimize and ignore: mainstream misogyny as an ascendant cultural value. This negligence constitutes a public assault on the human rights of women and girls everywhere.

The less people understand about human nature/experience, the more they deify Power, Control & Social Advantage; the more they are exploited and exploit others. Consumer society cultivates Like/Dislike, Acquisition, Competition, Selfishness - at the expense of self-knowledge and social connection.

In our information-saturated world, we're predisposed to turning the page before reading it. All who claim to value Truth are obligated to understand the nature of Power and its innermost workings, including how it distorts our ideas about The World & each other, all for the purpose of exploitation.

Morning sea, wide sky, quiet mind. #EasySunday 📸

What makes our planet a beautiful place is how much we can learn and experience through each other. Long gone are the days when we sit in silos of isolation. There's a whole world waiting to be explored, in person or online. Join in! #ExploreMore #The_Eco_Spiritual_Experience 🌱

Emil Bizer (German 1881-1957) Reben im Winter, no year, 92 x 67cm, Markgräfler Museum Müllheim

the mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early ~seneca the elder •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  • Unlearning being far more difficult than learning, we all have a lot of unlearning to do.