Ärvinski The Ephemeral
@arvinski.bsky.social
Quantum hairsplitting. Epistemology. Thought crimes.
Spiritually Transformative Experience [STE]
not leading • not following
not getting out of the way
lift yourself,
you lift the world;
try to lift the world,
you'll break your back
~a. parsasarathy
Spiritually Transformative Experience [STE]
not leading • not following
not getting out of the way
lift yourself,
you lift the world;
try to lift the world,
you'll break your back
~a. parsasarathy
Time to live up to the “Ephemeral” part of my handle. A month or two of restorative silence seems prudent. I’m not really cut out for social media, and it’s a miracle I’ve endured here as long as I have. If you’re still around if and when I return, I’ll see you later - and, if not, I wish you well.
January 16, 2026 at 5:23 AM
Time to live up to the “Ephemeral” part of my handle. A month or two of restorative silence seems prudent. I’m not really cut out for social media, and it’s a miracle I’ve endured here as long as I have. If you’re still around if and when I return, I’ll see you later - and, if not, I wish you well.
Striking how catatonic United Statists are. Most of Humanity, from what I can tell. Pity the rando who makes a profound scientific discovery with global implications. Would academics/researchers listen? Would media publicize it? Would the public care? Or are 8+ billion people hopelessly checked out.
January 16, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Striking how catatonic United Statists are. Most of Humanity, from what I can tell. Pity the rando who makes a profound scientific discovery with global implications. Would academics/researchers listen? Would media publicize it? Would the public care? Or are 8+ billion people hopelessly checked out.
I’m unaware of a more profound 20th Century speech than MLK’s BEYOND VIETNAM: A TIME TO BREAK THE SILENCE. Those unfamiliar with it may not know what true courage sounds like or how it reads. It was as rare then as it is today. Relevant, too. Truth does not expire.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_...
January 16, 2026 at 12:56 AM
I’m unaware of a more profound 20th Century speech than MLK’s BEYOND VIETNAM: A TIME TO BREAK THE SILENCE. Those unfamiliar with it may not know what true courage sounds like or how it reads. It was as rare then as it is today. Relevant, too. Truth does not expire.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_...
Unequivocally so.
The Death Cult has spoken.
The Death Cult has spoken.
This is a call for genocide
As we prepare to invade Denmark, the government violence escalates at home. ICE is now affirmatively inciting illegal attacks against public officials.
January 15, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Unequivocally so.
The Death Cult has spoken.
The Death Cult has spoken.
My warnings were nearly always met with insults and ostracism, just as my characterizations of what is transpiring now are. People are so tragically attached to their comfort zones, most would rather die as fools than live with the wisdom that comes from having been fooled. Self-deceit is like that.
We are far past the stage of permissiveness with white-supremacist violence inside DHS. We are witnessing ICE transition into a death squad.
This cannot be reformed. The only question is who will fight to abolish it, and who will accommodate it instead.
This cannot be reformed. The only question is who will fight to abolish it, and who will accommodate it instead.
Either ICE Is Abolished or It Will Kill Many More Renee Goods
Minnesota is just the beginning of ICE's transformation into a right-wing death squad. But it can be the end
www.forever-wars.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:33 PM
My warnings were nearly always met with insults and ostracism, just as my characterizations of what is transpiring now are. People are so tragically attached to their comfort zones, most would rather die as fools than live with the wisdom that comes from having been fooled. Self-deceit is like that.
If people in the rest of the world disbelieve this app will be used to persecute their brothers, sisters, sons and daughters, they are egregiously mistaken. Global Fascism is not some abstract concept conjured by doomers. It is a malignant power dynamic only Awareness and Planetary Culture can stop.
New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...
www.404media.co
January 15, 2026 at 4:51 PM
If people in the rest of the world disbelieve this app will be used to persecute their brothers, sisters, sons and daughters, they are egregiously mistaken. Global Fascism is not some abstract concept conjured by doomers. It is a malignant power dynamic only Awareness and Planetary Culture can stop.
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These masks feel like they’ve stepped straight out of a hauntingly beautiful folk tale!
“Inside out” 2025 Papier-mâché masks by Olesya
#beautifulbizarre #papiermache #maskmaking #folklore #darkart
“Inside out” 2025 Papier-mâché masks by Olesya
#beautifulbizarre #papiermache #maskmaking #folklore #darkart
January 15, 2026 at 3:30 PM
These masks feel like they’ve stepped straight out of a hauntingly beautiful folk tale!
“Inside out” 2025 Papier-mâché masks by Olesya
#beautifulbizarre #papiermache #maskmaking #folklore #darkart
“Inside out” 2025 Papier-mâché masks by Olesya
#beautifulbizarre #papiermache #maskmaking #folklore #darkart
Why would an extrajudicial paramilitary obtain a warrant [for ethnic cleansing] when everyone understands it freely operates without constraints. Civil courts increasingly exist solely as arbiters of financial disputes between millionaires & billionaires; criminal courts as The State’s rubber stamp.
Good example of the kind of people ICE is extrajudicially targeting. www.minnpost.com/public-safet...
Attorney: No proper warrant for Minneapolis man's arrest in home
The arrest of Garrison Gibson came in a city increasingly on edge after an immigration agent shot and killed Renee Good last week.
www.minnpost.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Why would an extrajudicial paramilitary obtain a warrant [for ethnic cleansing] when everyone understands it freely operates without constraints. Civil courts increasingly exist solely as arbiters of financial disputes between millionaires & billionaires; criminal courts as The State’s rubber stamp.
I usually end up blocking most politicans on Bluesky. Their conduct is so scripted, performative, duplicitous and void of humanity, there is no need to receive a word they say. If the reader can write the script, why bother reading it. Exploitative systems and those who serve them are owed nothing.
January 15, 2026 at 3:59 PM
I usually end up blocking most politicans on Bluesky. Their conduct is so scripted, performative, duplicitous and void of humanity, there is no need to receive a word they say. If the reader can write the script, why bother reading it. Exploitative systems and those who serve them are owed nothing.
Honest self-expression is as therapeutic as it is subversive.
• • • • •
my tongue will tell
the anger of my heart
or else my heart
concealing it
will break
~shakespeare
• • • • •
my tongue will tell
the anger of my heart
or else my heart
concealing it
will break
~shakespeare
January 15, 2026 at 7:38 AM
Honest self-expression is as therapeutic as it is subversive.
• • • • •
my tongue will tell
the anger of my heart
or else my heart
concealing it
will break
~shakespeare
• • • • •
my tongue will tell
the anger of my heart
or else my heart
concealing it
will break
~shakespeare
Lead paint. Microplastics. Tropanes, maybe. But LSD does not deserve such disparagement.
There’s currently a weirdo Republican on C-Span spouting such bullshit as things like Pell grants and other aid programs are intentionally designed to discourage marriage? Rep Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin. What concentrated LSD have these delusional freaks been soaking in for years?
January 15, 2026 at 5:11 AM
Lead paint. Microplastics. Tropanes, maybe. But LSD does not deserve such disparagement.
Insightful discussion of the Buchla Music Easel, a synth that occupies a unique space in the electronic music universe.
The Buchla Music Easel is not merely a synthesizer—it is an instrument that redefines how sound is conceived, shaped, and performed.
In this episode, we explore the philosophy, design, and enduring influence of Don Buchla’s portable modular system through the lens of.....
youtu.be/ehLVOMR8Txw
In this episode, we explore the philosophy, design, and enduring influence of Don Buchla’s portable modular system through the lens of.....
youtu.be/ehLVOMR8Txw
Buchla Music Easel: The Philosophy of Solitary Performance
YouTube video by Monumental Movement Records
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January 15, 2026 at 4:57 AM
Insightful discussion of the Buchla Music Easel, a synth that occupies a unique space in the electronic music universe.
Doesn’t say much for “bipartisanship” but says a •great deal• about everyone who used and uses the term as a triumphalist declaration. “Third Way” politics paved a one-way street to Naziism. How I grieve what humans have done and will do for Power. Make enough deals with The Devil, you become one.
White supremacy explains many apparent contradictions.
Conservative calls for free speech were always about freedom to use slurs without sanction.
Calls for small government were always about denying Black folks rights and state protections.
This is conservatives achieving their goals.
Conservative calls for free speech were always about freedom to use slurs without sanction.
Calls for small government were always about denying Black folks rights and state protections.
This is conservatives achieving their goals.
The so-called party of free speech and small government is happily supporting armed, masked government agents conducting “show me your papers” stops and brutalizing U.S. citizens.
Their real “party values” are terrorizing communities of color and anyone else who speaks out.
Remember this.
Their real “party values” are terrorizing communities of color and anyone else who speaks out.
Remember this.
January 15, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Doesn’t say much for “bipartisanship” but says a •great deal• about everyone who used and uses the term as a triumphalist declaration. “Third Way” politics paved a one-way street to Naziism. How I grieve what humans have done and will do for Power. Make enough deals with The Devil, you become one.
This has always been so.
The team player. The team captain. The team coach. The team owner. Weaklings all, demanding fealty to whatever authority confers a sense of power, real or imagined. Exploiter and Exploited in the same package. Strangers to themselves who know nothing of conscience.
Et tu?
The team player. The team captain. The team coach. The team owner. Weaklings all, demanding fealty to whatever authority confers a sense of power, real or imagined. Exploiter and Exploited in the same package. Strangers to themselves who know nothing of conscience.
Et tu?
January 15, 2026 at 3:20 AM
This has always been so.
The team player. The team captain. The team coach. The team owner. Weaklings all, demanding fealty to whatever authority confers a sense of power, real or imagined. Exploiter and Exploited in the same package. Strangers to themselves who know nothing of conscience.
Et tu?
The team player. The team captain. The team coach. The team owner. Weaklings all, demanding fealty to whatever authority confers a sense of power, real or imagined. Exploiter and Exploited in the same package. Strangers to themselves who know nothing of conscience.
Et tu?
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As you read this remember that the Democratic mayors of St Paul & Minneapolis have instructed the police forces they command to not come to the aid of people attacked by the Republican incel goon army.
January 14, 2026 at 1:09 PM
As you read this remember that the Democratic mayors of St Paul & Minneapolis have instructed the police forces they command to not come to the aid of people attacked by the Republican incel goon army.
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My friend is still on a group chat from their son’s prior daycare in Minneapolis. Last week, ICE agents—with their gear and guns—came into the daycare and took two teachers IN FRONT OF THE TINY KIDS.
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
January 14, 2026 at 12:41 PM
My friend is still on a group chat from their son’s prior daycare in Minneapolis. Last week, ICE agents—with their gear and guns—came into the daycare and took two teachers IN FRONT OF THE TINY KIDS.
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RIP Claudette Colvin
‘It felt as though Harriet Tubman's hands were pushing me down on one shoulder and Sojourner Truth's hands were pushing me down on the other shoulder. I felt inspired by these women because my teacher taught us about them in so much detail.’
Education is empowerment.
‘It felt as though Harriet Tubman's hands were pushing me down on one shoulder and Sojourner Truth's hands were pushing me down on the other shoulder. I felt inspired by these women because my teacher taught us about them in so much detail.’
Education is empowerment.
January 13, 2026 at 10:45 PM
RIP Claudette Colvin
‘It felt as though Harriet Tubman's hands were pushing me down on one shoulder and Sojourner Truth's hands were pushing me down on the other shoulder. I felt inspired by these women because my teacher taught us about them in so much detail.’
Education is empowerment.
‘It felt as though Harriet Tubman's hands were pushing me down on one shoulder and Sojourner Truth's hands were pushing me down on the other shoulder. I felt inspired by these women because my teacher taught us about them in so much detail.’
Education is empowerment.
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If you live anywhere in the country and you think this couldn’t happen to you next, and you are not paying attention.
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
January 13, 2026 at 8:13 PM
If you live anywhere in the country and you think this couldn’t happen to you next, and you are not paying attention.
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Madonna by Beniamino Bufano at Fort Mason
The child at the bottom represents the peaceful blending of cultures. The artist accidentally cut off his index finger & mailed it to President Wilson to protest WW1.
#Stunday #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #photography #MobilePhotography
The child at the bottom represents the peaceful blending of cultures. The artist accidentally cut off his index finger & mailed it to President Wilson to protest WW1.
#Stunday #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #photography #MobilePhotography
January 11, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Madonna by Beniamino Bufano at Fort Mason
The child at the bottom represents the peaceful blending of cultures. The artist accidentally cut off his index finger & mailed it to President Wilson to protest WW1.
#Stunday #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #photography #MobilePhotography
The child at the bottom represents the peaceful blending of cultures. The artist accidentally cut off his index finger & mailed it to President Wilson to protest WW1.
#Stunday #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #photography #MobilePhotography
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“Big Oil is openly asking Congress for a ‘get-out-of-jail-free’ card because fossil fuel companies are desperate to avoid facing the evidence of their climate lies in court," said CCI's Richard Wiles.
Oil Lobby Makes Killing Climate Lawsuits a 2026 Priority | Center for Climate Integrity
As communities get closer to putting Big Oil companies on trial for climate lies and damages, the American Petroleum Institute says stopping “state climate lawsuits” is an industry priority
climateintegrity.org
January 13, 2026 at 8:58 PM
“Big Oil is openly asking Congress for a ‘get-out-of-jail-free’ card because fossil fuel companies are desperate to avoid facing the evidence of their climate lies in court," said CCI's Richard Wiles.
This is an explicitly genocidal terror regime whose functionaries *want everyone to know* they are free to kidnap, torture and murder with total impunity, 100% free of legal constraints and judicial consequences.
The logical conclusion is that they are literally researching how to be cruel the Nazi way.
January 13, 2026 at 8:49 AM
This is an explicitly genocidal terror regime whose functionaries *want everyone to know* they are free to kidnap, torture and murder with total impunity, 100% free of legal constraints and judicial consequences.
Being on an austerity budget and in a surly mood will not stop me from appreciating whatever temporal crumbs of good fortune I happen to encounter - especially if they can fatten up a cold, waify signal.
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January 13, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Being on an austerity budget and in a surly mood will not stop me from appreciating whatever temporal crumbs of good fortune I happen to encounter - especially if they can fatten up a cold, waify signal.
Ever notice Bluesky’s owner-operators have a history of springing into fluff mode when The Regime provokes more outrage than usual? Emotional regulation via Trending Topics is sleazy. I’m not suggesting they should stoke the fire; only that pouring water on it is conspicuously nefarious.
January 13, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Ever notice Bluesky’s owner-operators have a history of springing into fluff mode when The Regime provokes more outrage than usual? Emotional regulation via Trending Topics is sleazy. I’m not suggesting they should stoke the fire; only that pouring water on it is conspicuously nefarious.
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Falsely accused and cast into a river by a jealous official, Tang Lai’er, an ordinary youth of the Yi people, seems doomed. But fate sides with the clever. Rescued by an old couple, he survives trial after trial, using wit instead of weapons. Time and again,
1/2
#folktale #art
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#folktale #art
January 12, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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he turns traps into triumphs, exposing corruption from below. In this Yi legend, justice isn’t granted by power. It’s earned through cunning and resilience.
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🎨 Tang Lai’er, published in 1989, adapted by Zhang Jing and illustrated by Sun Jingbo.
2/2
🎨 Tang Lai’er, published in 1989, adapted by Zhang Jing and illustrated by Sun Jingbo.
January 12, 2026 at 5:31 PM
he turns traps into triumphs, exposing corruption from below. In this Yi legend, justice isn’t granted by power. It’s earned through cunning and resilience.
2/2
🎨 Tang Lai’er, published in 1989, adapted by Zhang Jing and illustrated by Sun Jingbo.
2/2
🎨 Tang Lai’er, published in 1989, adapted by Zhang Jing and illustrated by Sun Jingbo.