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"[O]f all the emotions – and indifference, too, because even indifference is an emotion of a sort – only love sees the unveiled truth."

– Gene Wolfe, Return to the Whorl
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A construction barrier with a sign reading “We've unearthed the cursed bones of an ancient god We apologise for any inconvenience caused”
November 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Someone send in the troops to save us from this urban hellhole
Downtown Chicago from Maggie Daley park on a sunny fall day
November 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Not only does this have nothing to do with the game or the prediction, it doesn’t even answer the question posed. Incredible stuff
The Sun-Times' Bears experts make their picks for the game against the Giants on Sunday at Soldier Field (noon, Fox 32): Patrick Finley Bears, 28-24: Ever wonder why Wilson NFL footballs have "The Duke" printed on them? Bears founder George Halas suggested it after Giants founder Tim Mara arranged the equipment contract in 1941. One of his sons, Wellington, was named after the Duke of Wellington. Season: 5-3.
November 7, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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😵
Instead, the best explanation for 2025 is that voters didn't know what they were getting with Trump 2.0 last November, but now they do — and they don't like it.
November 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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I think this sums up the ignorance of the right wing pretty well
• 9:39 PM CST TEXAS Texas voters approve constitutional amendment that requires US citizenship to vote in the state BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Share 凸 U.S. citizenship is already required to register to vote in Texas. The Associated Press declared the measure passed at 10:31 p.m. EST.
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Computer, what’s that? Zoom … enhance … hm thought so
Link from Tears of the kingdom, skydiving
November 2, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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An actual backlash, or a handful of terminally online people and we’re reporting on it to stoke controversy?
A New York Times headline: “Vance Says He Hopes His Wife Embraces Christianity, Setting Off Backlash”
November 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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#synchronicity
Screenshot of a Bluesky timeline. Oak Blanco says “seriously scaring some children tonight by showing them what a lifetime of computer use does to a mf” followed by a post from Weird Christmas consisting of a black and white photo of a person wearing a horrifyingly deformed homemade Halloween mask.
October 31, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Only real fernheads will appreciate this but I found a great spot for bracken. #bracken
A picture of dry, brown common bracken in a field.
October 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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The ideal sports broadcast has a single play by play announcer who doesn’t say much, and a small score bug.
Norman Rockwell’s painting “Freedom of Speech.” A man in worker’s clothing stands up to speak at a town hall meeting. Better-dressed men and women around him look up at him admiringly.
October 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Something’s off here
A sign for BTN saying “WATCH BIG TEN HERE… CATCH EVERY GAME” and listing ten of the eleven big ten teams before Maryland and Rutgers were admitted, but omitting Minnesota.
October 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Hello from the Norb Kluga Bridge
A sign reading “Norb Kluga Bridge”
September 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Ten years of @learnedleague.com !
The “most consecutive matches without a forfeit” section of my Personal Records page from LearnedLeague, showing 1000 consecutive matches without a forfeit.
September 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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A New York Times guest essay page with title "It Shouldn't Be 85 Degrees in September"
September 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Good advice for first time readers of Gene Wolfe
Everyone has had the experience of struggling fruitlessly with a difficult book that was begun with high hopes of enlightenment. It is natural enough to conclude that it was a mistake to try to read it in the first place. But that was not the mistake. Rather it was in expecting too much from the first going over of a difficult book. Approached in the right way, no book intended for the general reader, no matter how difficult, need be a cause for despair. What is the right approach? The answer lies in an important and helpful rule of reading that is generally overlooked. That rule is simply this: In tackling a difficult book for the first time, read it through without ever stopping to look up or ponder the things you do not understand right away. Pay attention to what you can understand and do not be stopped by what you cannot immediately grasp. Go right on reading past the point where you have difficulties in understanding, and you will soon come to things you do understand. Concentrate on these.
September 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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September 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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St. John Chrysostom
Let us learn not to call the rich lucky nor the poor unfortunate. Rather, if we are to tell the truth, the rich man is not the one who has collected many possessions but the one who needs few possessions; and the poor man is not the one who has no possessions but the one who has many desires. We ought to consider this the definition of poverty and wealth. So if you see someone greedy for many things, you should consider him the poorest of all, even if he has acquired everyones money. If, on the other hand, you see someone with few needs, you should count him the richest of all, even if he has acquired nothing. For we are accustomed to judge poverty and affluence by the disposition of the mind, not by the measure of one's substance. Just as we would not call a person healthy who was always thirsty, even if he enjoyed abundance, even if he lived by rivers and springs (for what use is that luxuriance of water, when the thirst remains unquenchable?), let us do the same in the case of wealthy people: let us never consider those people healthy who are always yearning and thirsting after other peoples property; let us not think that they enjoy any abundance....
September 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Important update
Two freshly baked loaves of zucchini bread
September 7, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Doing some Saturday bible study
Screen grab of an online conversation: TIL there is no physical description of Jesus in the Bible. False Luke 2:52 He's larger than a baby By the description of him driving the moneylenders from the temple, we can also tell that he fit inside the temple, which gives us an upper bound as well as a lower bound on his size. It's been said that Jesus Christ was larger than a baby but smaller than a temple
September 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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OK FINE
A steam error message: "It looks like you've been attempting a lot of purchases in the last few hours. Please wait a while before trying again."
September 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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A very sad blue blob with a single protruding tooth, captioned "Something Went Wrong"
September 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Attn
A screenshot that reads “⚠️ The terraforming is complete”
August 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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A control panel from the movie Apollo XIII. A button has a piece of masking tape over it with the word “NO!” written on it.
August 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Found poetry in my ebook edition of Watergate: a new history
August 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Leonardo DiCaprio pointing in recognition
August 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM