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This is so unhinged
January 29, 2026 at 9:34 PM
This is so unhinged
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I have to say I relate to Stubb's "I am a coward, and I sing to keep my spirits up," but I also must sympathize with Starbuck: "Mr. Stubb, perhaps you should 'pursue' the 'white whale' of 'shutting the fuck up'" 🐳
January 27, 2026 at 3:51 PM
I have to say I relate to Stubb's "I am a coward, and I sing to keep my spirits up," but I also must sympathize with Starbuck: "Mr. Stubb, perhaps you should 'pursue' the 'white whale' of 'shutting the fuck up'" 🐳
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🐋 Way behind but this passage in Chapter 75 reminded me of being inside the Calatrava transit hub.
January 24, 2026 at 9:32 PM
🐋 Way behind but this passage in Chapter 75 reminded me of being inside the Calatrava transit hub.
🐋 FITZ SWACKHAMMER
January 25, 2026 at 3:04 AM
🐋 FITZ SWACKHAMMER
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This is what I continue to work on every evening - it helps calm my nervous system after a day of following the latest news. About 75-80% completed 💚
January 22, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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I've said this elsewhere, but I was completely horrified when I learned that the US government has never kept track of the number of people it's detained/deported who turn out to be citizens.
There are not two kinds of citizens, 'naturalized' and 'born' or 'heritage' or whatever bigoted nonsense they have.
There is one kind of citizen: citizen.
That's it. We're one group. You wrongly arrested a citizen.
You fuckwits.
There is one kind of citizen: citizen.
That's it. We're one group. You wrongly arrested a citizen.
You fuckwits.
January 18, 2026 at 9:49 PM
I've said this elsewhere, but I was completely horrified when I learned that the US government has never kept track of the number of people it's detained/deported who turn out to be citizens.
🐋 Piasa bird/ Underwater Panther reference = 🤯 I guess he can keep giving management analysis to harpooneer boat positioning. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piasa
January 17, 2026 at 10:59 PM
🐋 Piasa bird/ Underwater Panther reference = 🤯 I guess he can keep giving management analysis to harpooneer boat positioning. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piasa
🐋 Welp, Aggasiz was heckin racist.🤮
January 17, 2026 at 10:51 PM
🐋 Welp, Aggasiz was heckin racist.🤮
🐋 Rare menopausal woman side-eye: "Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. "
January 17, 2026 at 10:48 PM
🐋 Rare menopausal woman side-eye: "Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. "
🐋 🥩"Hold the steak in one hand, and show a live coal to it with the other; that done, dish it; d'ye hear?" Ok Chad-Stubb 🙄
January 17, 2026 at 10:44 PM
🐋 🥩"Hold the steak in one hand, and show a live coal to it with the other; that done, dish it; d'ye hear?" Ok Chad-Stubb 🙄
🐋 Going all McKinsey consultant here, Herman. "Now, I care not who maintains the contrary, but all this is both foolish and unnecessary. ...To insure the greatest efficiency in the dart, the harpooneers of this world must start to their feet from out of idleness, and not from out of toil."
January 17, 2026 at 10:41 PM
🐋 Going all McKinsey consultant here, Herman. "Now, I care not who maintains the contrary, but all this is both foolish and unnecessary. ...To insure the greatest efficiency in the dart, the harpooneers of this world must start to their feet from out of idleness, and not from out of toil."
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Ishmael’s YouTube channel: “…so that’s how you run your rope through the boat safely. Er, that’s how you do it as safely as possible. No one on a whaleboat could be said to be truly safe. But, if you think about it, is anybody, anywhere, truly safe? Remember to like, review, and subscribe!” 🐋🐋🐋
January 16, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Ishmael’s YouTube channel: “…so that’s how you run your rope through the boat safely. Er, that’s how you do it as safely as possible. No one on a whaleboat could be said to be truly safe. But, if you think about it, is anybody, anywhere, truly safe? Remember to like, review, and subscribe!” 🐋🐋🐋
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Unleash the Kraken! #AMonthOfDick 🐋
"It is Guido’s picture of Perseus rescuing Andromeda from the sea-monster or whale. Where did Guido get the model of such a strange creature as that?"
Guido's Andromeda here:
www.artchive.com/artwork/andr... (Click 'view image in full screen' for best results.)
"It is Guido’s picture of Perseus rescuing Andromeda from the sea-monster or whale. Where did Guido get the model of such a strange creature as that?"
Guido's Andromeda here:
www.artchive.com/artwork/andr... (Click 'view image in full screen' for best results.)
Andromeda by Guido Reni – Artchive
www.artchive.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Unleash the Kraken! #AMonthOfDick 🐋
"It is Guido’s picture of Perseus rescuing Andromeda from the sea-monster or whale. Where did Guido get the model of such a strange creature as that?"
Guido's Andromeda here:
www.artchive.com/artwork/andr... (Click 'view image in full screen' for best results.)
"It is Guido’s picture of Perseus rescuing Andromeda from the sea-monster or whale. Where did Guido get the model of such a strange creature as that?"
Guido's Andromeda here:
www.artchive.com/artwork/andr... (Click 'view image in full screen' for best results.)
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🐋day 9 / ch 32-34.
you hear people talk sometimes about how moby dick is this big literary metaphor for death, and you hear people talk sometimes about how moby dick is just an uwu little man telling you fun whale facts. both of these are reductive.
you hear people talk sometimes about how moby dick is this big literary metaphor for death, and you hear people talk sometimes about how moby dick is just an uwu little man telling you fun whale facts. both of these are reductive.
January 10, 2026 at 1:10 AM
🐋day 9 / ch 32-34.
you hear people talk sometimes about how moby dick is this big literary metaphor for death, and you hear people talk sometimes about how moby dick is just an uwu little man telling you fun whale facts. both of these are reductive.
you hear people talk sometimes about how moby dick is this big literary metaphor for death, and you hear people talk sometimes about how moby dick is just an uwu little man telling you fun whale facts. both of these are reductive.
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Here's a good view of the whale chart by Lt. Maury mentioned in the text of Moby Dick collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commo... 🐋
collections.leventhalmap.org
January 12, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Here's a good view of the whale chart by Lt. Maury mentioned in the text of Moby Dick collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commo... 🐋
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Unfortunately intensely relating to Ahab as he indulges in his obsessive nightly doomscroll of nautical charts 🐋
January 13, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Unfortunately intensely relating to Ahab as he indulges in his obsessive nightly doomscroll of nautical charts 🐋
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Guys the time to "tinker" with your will is before you get on the boat 😭🐋
January 13, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Guys the time to "tinker" with your will is before you get on the boat 😭🐋
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I don't see a lot of word play in Moby-Dick, but this bit here is fun and feels quite contemporary. 🐋
January 14, 2026 at 3:40 AM
I don't see a lot of word play in Moby-Dick, but this bit here is fun and feels quite contemporary. 🐋
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Found a Booble Alley deep dive if you're curious about the mysterious shanty mentioned in chapter ch 22 🐋
The Girls of Booble Alley
; or, what sea shanty was being sung by the crew of the Pequod?
allvisibleobjects.substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Found a Booble Alley deep dive if you're curious about the mysterious shanty mentioned in chapter ch 22 🐋
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Ishmael be like 🐳
January 6, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Ishmael be like 🐳
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asking for an AI summary of moby dick so i can learn from ahab’s hustle mindset
January 6, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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🐋" Where's that girl?—there, Betty, go to Snarles the Painter, and tell him to paint me a sign, with—"no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor;"—might as well kill both birds at once. " 😬 efficient Hussey
January 7, 2026 at 6:14 AM
🐋" Where's that girl?—there, Betty, go to Snarles the Painter, and tell him to paint me a sign, with—"no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor;"—might as well kill both birds at once. " 😬 efficient Hussey
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I'm imagining Peleg And Bildad together as Statler and Waldorf and nothing will change this for me. 🐋
(OMG we need a Muppet's Moby Dick!!!!!)
Only human is Ahab!!!!! Eeeeeeeeeeeee!!! Can we just cast Michael Caine!!
(OMG we need a Muppet's Moby Dick!!!!!)
Only human is Ahab!!!!! Eeeeeeeeeeeee!!! Can we just cast Michael Caine!!
Peleg and Bildad are a hoot together too.
I'm accepting the recently proposed theory that they're actually a couple.
I'm accepting the recently proposed theory that they're actually a couple.
January 6, 2026 at 4:31 PM
I'm imagining Peleg And Bildad together as Statler and Waldorf and nothing will change this for me. 🐋
(OMG we need a Muppet's Moby Dick!!!!!)
Only human is Ahab!!!!! Eeeeeeeeeeeee!!! Can we just cast Michael Caine!!
(OMG we need a Muppet's Moby Dick!!!!!)
Only human is Ahab!!!!! Eeeeeeeeeeeee!!! Can we just cast Michael Caine!!
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Yes! Hahaha! YES! 🐋
January 7, 2026 at 4:45 AM
Yes! Hahaha! YES! 🐋