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• total liberation • ACAB •
• vegan • curiosity-driven •
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@blessedcuriosity.bsky.social

home after 8 and a half hours of work non stop > whip up a 'quick' dinner (vegan miso ramen, cook & prep time: 2 hours 20 minutes)

i am soooo ready to... crash!

Vegan Miso 'Ramen' in a bowl: creamy miso base, carrots, bell peppers, corn, bok choy, silken tofu, with mushrooms (shiitake, swiss brown, oyster) on the side, sprinkles with toasted sesame seeds on top.

The bowl's placed on a white plate, with a spoon and a fork on either side of the bowl.

February 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM

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Jason Fried

@jasonfried.bsky.social

A passage from the Tao that’s frequently worth revisiting.

December 27, 2024 at 10:15 PM

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j0shc

@wrestlingbrain.net

I hate when people say you’re supposed to eat a big breakfast and a small dinner, no you’re not, the opposite feels way better

December 19, 2024 at 6:16 PM

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Ted McCormick

@tedmccormick.bsky.social

This is off to a hell of a start

Cover: Wendy Brown, Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber [The Tanner Lectures on Human Values] (Harvard University Press, 2023)

From Wendy Brown, Nihilistic Times, pp. 2-3: “The revised rubric of the Tanner Lectures, it would seem, still glides on Enlightenment assumptions about a distinction between truth and value, and about truth's capacity to inform value. It carries whiffs of the hope invested in this distinction and capacity, and especially in the idea that "learning" bears on the principles according to which life-individual and collective-ought to be lived. Yet it also throws us directly into the food tide of modernity's other effects, where science first wrecked the foundations of value in God and tradition; then choked the redemptive value of value by elevating its economic meaning over others; then collapsed Enlightenment conceits about the link between knowledge and emancipation, knowledge and progress, knowledge and collective well-being, knowledge and choosing what to value or protecting what we value; and finally fell into crisis itself. What was science anyway if not a radically human production of one kind of truth valued above all others yet incapable of telling us what to value or how to craft the world accordingly?

“All of this preceded our disorienting contemporary condition, in which philosophical, social, economic, ecological, and political coordinates for value and values are profoundly unsettled, both in knowledge practices and the world. There is today the rise of ferociously anti-democratic forces…

…in settled as well as relatively newer liberal democracies, forces that openly affirm autocracy, theocracy, violent exclusions, or racial, ethnic, and gender supremacies. These emerge not only from far-right formations and parties but from assaults and corruptions of electoral systems from within and without, above and below-ranging from capture of politicians by dark money and capture of electorates by increasingly quotidian disinformation campaigns, to warping elections with voter suppression, gerrymandering, corporate funding, and foreign influence. There are the digital technologies continuously revolutionizing work, knowledge, governing, social relations, psyche, soma, and subjectivity, and bearing, along with enhancements of human capacities, novel ways of estranging, surveilling, and manipulating them. There is the political-economic transformation that unleashed finance as a force more powerful and less bound to human and planetary thriving than even capitalist commodity production. There is the chaos of the interregnum between the Westphalian global order and whatever might succeed it, a chaos marked by unprecedented boundary trespass and boundary policing of ideas, people, religions, capital, labor, technologies, violence, pollutants, and goods. And, there is the existential emergency posed by climate change, plummeting biodiversity, and the debris of a manic century of production piling up, unmetabolizable, in floating ocean islands and earthly fields of waste. This last includes more than a billion humans themselves cast off as waste: One in eight people now live in makeshift shanty towns, refugee or homeless camps within or abutting cities across the globe, with minimal access to civilizational basics-sanitation, nutrition, education, health care, and protection from the elements.”

December 16, 2024 at 6:12 PM

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Steffen Hope

@hopesteffen.bsky.social

Some months ago, a collection of articles edited by Grzegorz Pac, myself, &Jón Viðar Sigurðsson was published by Brepols. The book is in open access, & can be found here: www.brepols.net/products/IS-....

Cover of the book, which features a medieval illumination. The illumination depicts King Wenceslas carrying a bowl to some nobles seated at a table. Behind the king, the archangel Michael appears, holding a spear in his left hand, and placing his right hand on Wenceslas' head in benediction. Wenceslas points backwards to the angel.

December 16, 2024 at 11:42 AM

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John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹

@lippoenen.bsky.social

December 6, 2024 at 5:50 PM

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Pop Crave

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9 years ago today, Troye Sivan released ‘Blue Neighbourhood.’

December 4, 2024 at 5:04 AM

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Jolly old Granta Claus

@grantthethief.bsky.social

What’s so intoxicating about art is that despite the difficulty of creating it, the juice is worth the squeeze. It’s a struggle to make something from nothing! But the outcome - and even the journey - is worthwhile. It’s worth doing.

We write. We draw. We compose. We’re conjurers of possibility.

November 29, 2024 at 3:47 AM

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Frank & Joe 🇨🇦

@thehardyboycats.bsky.social

I wake up with a fair amount of tabby cat on me most mornings. There are worse ways to start the day

A determined looking tabby cat curled up on what appears to be a pile of white bedding, but there is a person underneath. The tabby, Joe, has his fat polydactyl paws folded neatly in front of him and you can tell by his aspect, he won’t be easy to move.
#CatsOfBluesky

November 28, 2024 at 9:55 AM

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inkedupandsonic

@sonictyrant.bsky.social

Me: *throws boomerang*

My dog: ok *lights cigarette* wtf just happened?

Me: OMG!

My dog:

Me: i thought you quit

November 24, 2024 at 5:29 PM

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The Great Moonhound 🇵🇸

@thegreatmoonhound.bsky.social

No fucking kidding. Why is there fat storage if the fuckin thing needs to be fed all the time…?

November 21, 2024 at 12:44 AM

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Rachel Gilmore

@rachelgilmore.bsky.social

A lil tip for the folks with shoe polish on their lips today :)

Excerpt from Timothy Snyder's "On Tyranny:"

"1. Do not obey in advance."

"Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do."

November 20, 2024 at 5:34 PM

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@blessedcuriosity.bsky.social

just had a WILD thought

i do actually carry in me an age-old, chronic, perpetually unfulfilled and aching desire to Live

just live..
(as opposed to the regular, untenable, and socially unquestionable miserably-slave-away-and-repeat-till-death thing)

yeah,
Radical!

November 20, 2024 at 4:20 AM