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It smells like the left wing of the day of judgment; it is an argument for the pit.
The Try-Works
The Try-Works
February 11, 2026 at 2:35 AM
It smells like the left wing of the day of judgment; it is an argument for the pit.
The Try-Works
The Try-Works
and therefore his shipmates called him mad. So man’s insanity is heaven’s sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels the uncompromised, indifferent as his God.
The Castaway
The Castaway
February 11, 2026 at 2:16 AM
and therefore his shipmates called him mad. So man’s insanity is heaven’s sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels the uncompromised, indifferent as his God.
The Castaway
The Castaway
and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God‘s foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it;
February 11, 2026 at 2:14 AM
and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God‘s foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it;
O head! thou hast seen enough to split the planets and make an infidel of Abraham, and not one syllable is thine!
The Sphynx
The Sphynx
February 6, 2026 at 6:55 PM
O head! thou hast seen enough to split the planets and make an infidel of Abraham, and not one syllable is thine!
The Sphynx
The Sphynx
the propriety of devil-worship, and the expediency of conciliating the devil.
Stubb’s Supper
Stubb’s Supper
February 6, 2026 at 4:28 PM
the propriety of devil-worship, and the expediency of conciliating the devil.
Stubb’s Supper
Stubb’s Supper
[…] yet there is no conceivable time or occasion when you will find them [sharks] in such countless numbers, and in gayer or more jovial spirits, than around a dead sperm-whale, moored by night to a whale-ship at sea. If you have never seen that sight, then suspend your decision about /
February 6, 2026 at 4:28 PM
[…] yet there is no conceivable time or occasion when you will find them [sharks] in such countless numbers, and in gayer or more jovial spirits, than around a dead sperm-whale, moored by night to a whale-ship at sea. If you have never seen that sight, then suspend your decision about /
no perspective promise of it to them, and then this same quiescent cash all at once mutinying in them, this same cash would soon cashier Ahab.
February 5, 2026 at 8:57 PM
no perspective promise of it to them, and then this same quiescent cash all at once mutinying in them, this same cash would soon cashier Ahab.
Had they been strictly held to their one final and romantic object—that final and romantic object, too many would have turned from him in disgust. I will not strip these men, thought Ahab, of all hopes of cash—aye, cash. They may scorn cash now; but let some months go by, and […]
February 5, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Had they been strictly held to their one final and romantic object—that final and romantic object, too many would have turned from him in disgust. I will not strip these men, thought Ahab, of all hopes of cash—aye, cash. They may scorn cash now; but let some months go by, and […]
For even the high lifted and chivalric Crusaders of old times were not content to traverse two thousand miles of land to fight for their holy sepulchre, without committing burglaries, picking pockets, and gaining other pious perquisites by the way.
Surmises
Surmises
February 5, 2026 at 8:53 PM
For even the high lifted and chivalric Crusaders of old times were not content to traverse two thousand miles of land to fight for their holy sepulchre, without committing burglaries, picking pockets, and gaining other pious perquisites by the way.
Surmises
Surmises
God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever; that vulture the very creature he creates.
February 5, 2026 at 7:16 PM
God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever; that vulture the very creature he creates.
Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms.
Moby-Dick, The Chart
Moby-Dick, The Chart
February 5, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms.
Moby-Dick, The Chart
Moby-Dick, The Chart
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
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Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
Strong chins create good times
Good times create weak chins
Weak chins create based poasters
Good times create weak chins
Weak chins create based poasters
January 31, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Strong chins create good times
Good times create weak chins
Weak chins create based poasters
Good times create weak chins
Weak chins create based poasters
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President Donald Trump will not be attending Super Bowl LX on Feb. 8 in Santa Clara, Calif., he said in an interview with the New York Post.
“It’s just too far away,” he said.
“It’s just too far away,” he said.
January 26, 2026 at 1:04 AM
cooked
… keeping a busy schedule and is still a little backlogged, though be patient, schmuck, you’re at the top of the list, it’ll be your turn before you know it.”
Shadow Ticket
Shadow Ticket
January 25, 2026 at 5:34 PM
… keeping a busy schedule and is still a little backlogged, though be patient, schmuck, you’re at the top of the list, it’ll be your turn before you know it.”
Shadow Ticket
Shadow Ticket
Zdeněk’s left arm turns out to be a modified ZB-26 Czech light machine gun, with the magazine built into his shoulder. “This is one of the maby earthly variants of Azrael, the Angel of Death,” he informs Csongor, “a Jew less forgiving than some you may have hoped to come across, who has been…
January 25, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Zdeněk’s left arm turns out to be a modified ZB-26 Czech light machine gun, with the magazine built into his shoulder. “This is one of the maby earthly variants of Azrael, the Angel of Death,” he informs Csongor, “a Jew less forgiving than some you may have hoped to come across, who has been…
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In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
Jarvis, show me the refs bank accounts
January 18, 2026 at 1:12 AM
Jarvis, show me the refs bank accounts
fwiw I think “monthly” is frequent enough for people to notice.
Otoh, there is the social contagion effect. I saw many posts on my city’s subreddit over the summer about electricity prices. Even if they don’t really track their own pricing ppl talk about it which matters for perception
Otoh, there is the social contagion effect. I saw many posts on my city’s subreddit over the summer about electricity prices. Even if they don’t really track their own pricing ppl talk about it which matters for perception
December 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
fwiw I think “monthly” is frequent enough for people to notice.
Otoh, there is the social contagion effect. I saw many posts on my city’s subreddit over the summer about electricity prices. Even if they don’t really track their own pricing ppl talk about it which matters for perception
Otoh, there is the social contagion effect. I saw many posts on my city’s subreddit over the summer about electricity prices. Even if they don’t really track their own pricing ppl talk about it which matters for perception
Shadow Ticket, Thomas Pynchon
October 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Shadow Ticket, Thomas Pynchon
The guy with the auger isn’t too happy. “Dammit, you dynamite hounds,” he screams, “this is sinful, don’t you know the Angler’s Creed forbids this kind of thing?”
“Missouri Synod Lutheran, myself,” Hicks in a shaky voice he almost doesn’t recognize.
“Missouri Synod Lutheran, myself,” Hicks in a shaky voice he almost doesn’t recognize.
October 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The guy with the auger isn’t too happy. “Dammit, you dynamite hounds,” he screams, “this is sinful, don’t you know the Angler’s Creed forbids this kind of thing?”
“Missouri Synod Lutheran, myself,” Hicks in a shaky voice he almost doesn’t recognize.
“Missouri Synod Lutheran, myself,” Hicks in a shaky voice he almost doesn’t recognize.
to cover most of Milwaukee, then returning in a downpour of Friday-night supper ingredients which a sudden crowd have showed up with buckets, bags, and hats to collect.
October 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
to cover most of Milwaukee, then returning in a downpour of Friday-night supper ingredients which a sudden crowd have showed up with buckets, bags, and hats to collect.
KA-BOOM. And then some. Addressing every bone in Hicks’s body, including the one just under his hat. A colorful and earsplitting fountain of ice, blood, silt, factory waste, and pieces of perch, pike, whitefish, and two or three varieties of trout meanwhile hurtling skyward, the echo racketing away
October 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
KA-BOOM. And then some. Addressing every bone in Hicks’s body, including the one just under his hat. A colorful and earsplitting fountain of ice, blood, silt, factory waste, and pieces of perch, pike, whitefish, and two or three varieties of trout meanwhile hurtling skyward, the echo racketing away