Paul
@proteanclod.bsky.social
Almost visible through the fog I love. An affinity with corvids. A devotee of the hypnogogic state.
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Your periodic reminder that climate change means levels of migration will increase sharply in the coming years and we either find an effective and humane way to manage that or we invite ever more chaos and suffering.
November 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Your periodic reminder that climate change means levels of migration will increase sharply in the coming years and we either find an effective and humane way to manage that or we invite ever more chaos and suffering.
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You are defining refugees as OTHER for the rest of their lives Ms Mahmood. That is nothing other than a far right policy.
#BBCLauraK
#BBCLauraK
November 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM
You are defining refugees as OTHER for the rest of their lives Ms Mahmood. That is nothing other than a far right policy.
#BBCLauraK
#BBCLauraK
Shabana Mahmood's divisive, hate-fuelled intervention is suggestive of a basic moral faultline going well beyond migration & the politics of migration, as usually grasped. It places blaming & scapegoating at the very core of being - the Other as always already responsible for 'my'/ 'our' suffering/
November 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Shabana Mahmood's divisive, hate-fuelled intervention is suggestive of a basic moral faultline going well beyond migration & the politics of migration, as usually grasped. It places blaming & scapegoating at the very core of being - the Other as always already responsible for 'my'/ 'our' suffering/
'I (WE!)' is priceless - a psychiatric case study in microcosm!
Trump didn’t “win a war” on the “climate change hoax,” but he is waging a war on the truth. Autocrats rewrite reality to consolidate control.
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
'I (WE!)' is priceless - a psychiatric case study in microcosm!
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Sometimes "fuck off" just isn't emphatic enough.
This is obscene.
This is obscene.
November 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Sometimes "fuck off" just isn't emphatic enough.
This is obscene.
This is obscene.
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“I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.”
― Edmund Husserl
― Edmund Husserl
November 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
“I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.”
― Edmund Husserl
― Edmund Husserl
I tend to react slightly queasily to the term 'a class act', but if it has meaning at all, she is one!
“One of the college staff recalls how on one visit a student produced a Sharpie and asked Atwood to sign his backside. She obliged, apparently. She can’t remember signing any bottoms, she says later, “but it sounds like the sort of thing I might do”.”
‘It is the scariest of times’: Margaret Atwood on defying Trump, banned books – and her score-settling memoir
At 86, she’s a literary seer and saint – and queen of the Canadian resistance. So what does the writer make of our dystopian world?
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I tend to react slightly queasily to the term 'a class act', but if it has meaning at all, she is one!
The logical transatlantic corollary would be to strip the inflammatory turnip of the presidency and all his other civil powers but to formally anoint and rename him as the Prince of Hell and oblige him to wear that fake Korean crown night and day for the rest of his life.
October 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The logical transatlantic corollary would be to strip the inflammatory turnip of the presidency and all his other civil powers but to formally anoint and rename him as the Prince of Hell and oblige him to wear that fake Korean crown night and day for the rest of his life.
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/un...
Did you know only 8% of England’s countryside has a right of public access? And only 3% of our rivers?
Sign this petition from @Right2Roam calling for access reform this election. We shouldn’t be shut out of our own country, or risk being told off for going for a swim! We need access for everyone.
you.38degrees.org.uk
September 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/un...
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I am deeply honoured by this invitation to deliver The Tanner Lectures on Human Values next Spring. My topic: ‘The elementary forms of human freedom.’
tannerlectures.org/lectures/the...
tannerlectures.org/lectures/the...
September 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I am deeply honoured by this invitation to deliver The Tanner Lectures on Human Values next Spring. My topic: ‘The elementary forms of human freedom.’
tannerlectures.org/lectures/the...
tannerlectures.org/lectures/the...
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Saturn this morning from my Indiana backyard, as viewed from an 8" SCT with a 2.5x Televue PowerMate. 2 min of 480p video (50 ms exposures, 325 gain, ~20 fps). Integrated w 3x drizzle.
Saturn was edge-on earlier this summer, and now we're increasingly viewing it from "below" 🧪🔭
Saturn was edge-on earlier this summer, and now we're increasingly viewing it from "below" 🧪🔭
September 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Saturn this morning from my Indiana backyard, as viewed from an 8" SCT with a 2.5x Televue PowerMate. 2 min of 480p video (50 ms exposures, 325 gain, ~20 fps). Integrated w 3x drizzle.
Saturn was edge-on earlier this summer, and now we're increasingly viewing it from "below" 🧪🔭
Saturn was edge-on earlier this summer, and now we're increasingly viewing it from "below" 🧪🔭
Find myself grudgingly admiring of European leaders today. At all levels of social interaction a good first step in dealing with a manipulative but essentially cowardly bully is to confront them mob-handed & with a united front... 1/2
August 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Find myself grudgingly admiring of European leaders today. At all levels of social interaction a good first step in dealing with a manipulative but essentially cowardly bully is to confront them mob-handed & with a united front... 1/2
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DOUBLE PELICAN DIVE AFTER SUNSET!!!! wooooo! What a way to end the week!
time to sleep and prepare for the horrors and joys of the next one
🪶
time to sleep and prepare for the horrors and joys of the next one
🪶
August 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
DOUBLE PELICAN DIVE AFTER SUNSET!!!! wooooo! What a way to end the week!
time to sleep and prepare for the horrors and joys of the next one
🪶
time to sleep and prepare for the horrors and joys of the next one
🪶
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Aldous Huxley - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
July 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Aldous Huxley - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
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that liminal thing when you're reading and falling asleep and start to hallucinate words on the page that aren't on the page, i love that
July 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
that liminal thing when you're reading and falling asleep and start to hallucinate words on the page that aren't on the page, i love that
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In a letter drawn from a posthumous collection of correspondence, published in 2019, the neurologist Oliver Sacks argued that society had no immunity to the seductions of digital life. “What we are seeing—and bringing on ourselves—resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale,” he wrote.
The Machine Stops
The neurologist Oliver Sacks on steam engines, smartphones, and fearing the future.
www.newyorker.com
July 10, 2025 at 4:03 AM
In a letter drawn from a posthumous collection of correspondence, published in 2019, the neurologist Oliver Sacks argued that society had no immunity to the seductions of digital life. “What we are seeing—and bringing on ourselves—resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale,” he wrote.
Spoiler alert: it wasn't "happiness may be bought for $2 million".
Albert Einstein’s Theory on Happiness Written on Hotel Stationery Sold for Nearly $2M #History #alberteinstein
Albert Einstein’s Theory on Happiness Written on Hotel Stationery Sold for Nearly $2M
Albert Einstein’s Theory on Happiness Written on Hotel Stationery Sold for Nearly $2M
In 1922, Albert Einstein wrote two notes on hotel stationery that, nearly a century later, were worth almost $2 million. They weren’t the keys to the universe, as the scientist is known for, but the writing commented on something much more mystifying: the human condition. The story goes that Einstein was about to leave for […]
READ: Albert Einstein’s Theory on Happiness Written on Hotel Stationery Sold for Nearly $2M
mymodernmet.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Spoiler alert: it wasn't "happiness may be bought for $2 million".
May 19, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Oh yes!
"If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees." Rilke
May 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Oh yes!
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Inspired by Euripides Bacchae, a dancing maenad relief. A copy of a famous late 5th century BCE relief of dancing maenads attributed to Kallimachos. The maenad moves in a trancelike state with her drapery swirling around her.
📷 Met Museum (35.11.3)
#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #ReliefWednesday
📷 Met Museum (35.11.3)
#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #ReliefWednesday
April 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Inspired by Euripides Bacchae, a dancing maenad relief. A copy of a famous late 5th century BCE relief of dancing maenads attributed to Kallimachos. The maenad moves in a trancelike state with her drapery swirling around her.
📷 Met Museum (35.11.3)
#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #ReliefWednesday
📷 Met Museum (35.11.3)
#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #ReliefWednesday
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Happy International Asexuality Day!!!🖤🩶🤍💜
April 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Happy International Asexuality Day!!!🖤🩶🤍💜
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“I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent deliberate silence.”
Louise Gluck.
ph. dmitry chapala.
Louise Gluck.
ph. dmitry chapala.
April 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
“I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent deliberate silence.”
Louise Gluck.
ph. dmitry chapala.
Louise Gluck.
ph. dmitry chapala.
frail kite - her riposte
to Sextus Empiricus -
sails April's blue breeze
#dailyhaikuprompt #kite #scepticism
to Sextus Empiricus -
sails April's blue breeze
#dailyhaikuprompt #kite #scepticism
April 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
frail kite - her riposte
to Sextus Empiricus -
sails April's blue breeze
#dailyhaikuprompt #kite #scepticism
to Sextus Empiricus -
sails April's blue breeze
#dailyhaikuprompt #kite #scepticism
March 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
#dailyhaikuprompt #newmoon
today on the trail
three crushed frogs, a piebald lamb
spring tide's kill and kiss
today on the trail
three crushed frogs, a piebald lamb
spring tide's kill and kiss
March 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
#dailyhaikuprompt #newmoon
today on the trail
three crushed frogs, a piebald lamb
spring tide's kill and kiss
today on the trail
three crushed frogs, a piebald lamb
spring tide's kill and kiss