Michael Simpson
@artdocare.bsky.social
Homesick for a home that I have yet to create
My worst year in decades and I survived communism for 27 years.
2024 was bad 0/10 would not recommend
December 22, 2024 at 1:21 PM
My worst year in decades and I survived communism for 27 years.
Financial priorities first
Even when I was pretty low income, I’ve always considered books as exempt from budget considerations.
December 21, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Financial priorities first
December 21, 2024 at 1:39 AM
I’ve never seen myself working FOR a company but WITH one. Each works for their own benefit—I work for a monthly previously agreed income, the company for its own goals. We collaborate, but it’s not about one serving the other. It’s a mutual exchange, not a hierarchy of dependence.
December 20, 2024 at 8:45 PM
I’ve never seen myself working FOR a company but WITH one. Each works for their own benefit—I work for a monthly previously agreed income, the company for its own goals. We collaborate, but it’s not about one serving the other. It’s a mutual exchange, not a hierarchy of dependence.
Not to brag, but two years ago today, I earned my degree as a historian from the University of Havana.
December 20, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Not to brag, but two years ago today, I earned my degree as a historian from the University of Havana.
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This may still be one of the most eye opening thing I have students watch/read in this class:
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
This Haunting Animation Maps the Journeys of 15,790 Slave Ships in Two Minutes
By the conclusion of the trans-Atlantic slave trade at the end of the 19th century, Europeans had enslaved and transported more than 12.5 million Africans.
slate.com
December 18, 2024 at 5:54 PM
This may still be one of the most eye opening thing I have students watch/read in this class:
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
Yes, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is my favorite book so far, and no, I’m not emotionally unavailable. Sure, you need to be in a healthy state of mind to read it, but even then, it will stay with you forever. Trigger warnings are not in the first pages just because.
December 18, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Yes, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is my favorite book so far, and no, I’m not emotionally unavailable. Sure, you need to be in a healthy state of mind to read it, but even then, it will stay with you forever. Trigger warnings are not in the first pages just because.
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Must be nice and relaxing to study physics with its tidy boundaries of black & white, known quantities, absolute certainties
December 17, 2024 at 11:16 PM
Must be nice and relaxing to study physics with its tidy boundaries of black & white, known quantities, absolute certainties
Heal your inner child.
December 17, 2024 at 12:02 PM
Heal your inner child.
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"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."
-- Arthur C. Clarke, born #OTD 1917
-- Arthur C. Clarke, born #OTD 1917
December 16, 2024 at 11:09 AM
"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."
-- Arthur C. Clarke, born #OTD 1917
-- Arthur C. Clarke, born #OTD 1917
Finishing Orbital by @authorharvey.bsky.social.
A well-deserved winner of @thebookerprizes.bsky.social.
Just as former USSR cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev’s voice reached a Cuban woman across space, yours has reached this Cuban reader across borders, all the way to post-Yugoslavia (Serbia).
Thank you.
A well-deserved winner of @thebookerprizes.bsky.social.
Just as former USSR cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev’s voice reached a Cuban woman across space, yours has reached this Cuban reader across borders, all the way to post-Yugoslavia (Serbia).
Thank you.
December 15, 2024 at 11:16 PM
Finishing Orbital by @authorharvey.bsky.social.
A well-deserved winner of @thebookerprizes.bsky.social.
Just as former USSR cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev’s voice reached a Cuban woman across space, yours has reached this Cuban reader across borders, all the way to post-Yugoslavia (Serbia).
Thank you.
A well-deserved winner of @thebookerprizes.bsky.social.
Just as former USSR cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev’s voice reached a Cuban woman across space, yours has reached this Cuban reader across borders, all the way to post-Yugoslavia (Serbia).
Thank you.
Music included by NASA on the Voyager Golden Record in 1977:
Brandenburg no. 2 / Gavotte en Rondeau / WTK II, Prelude/Fugue in C Maj by Bach
Queen of the Night by Mozart
Sacrifical Dance by Stravinsky
Fate Symphony / Cavatia by Beethoven
The Faerie Round by Holborne
Brandenburg no. 2 / Gavotte en Rondeau / WTK II, Prelude/Fugue in C Maj by Bach
Queen of the Night by Mozart
Sacrifical Dance by Stravinsky
Fate Symphony / Cavatia by Beethoven
The Faerie Round by Holborne
*sees someone wearing a nasa shirt*
“oh, you like nasa? name 3 songs.”
“oh, you like nasa? name 3 songs.”
December 15, 2024 at 12:10 AM
Music included by NASA on the Voyager Golden Record in 1977:
Brandenburg no. 2 / Gavotte en Rondeau / WTK II, Prelude/Fugue in C Maj by Bach
Queen of the Night by Mozart
Sacrifical Dance by Stravinsky
Fate Symphony / Cavatia by Beethoven
The Faerie Round by Holborne
Brandenburg no. 2 / Gavotte en Rondeau / WTK II, Prelude/Fugue in C Maj by Bach
Queen of the Night by Mozart
Sacrifical Dance by Stravinsky
Fate Symphony / Cavatia by Beethoven
The Faerie Round by Holborne
Blessed be the fruit
[youth pastor voice]
You know who else was cross-fit?
You know who else was cross-fit?
December 14, 2024 at 9:11 AM
Blessed be the fruit
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Eating too much of anything is bad for you, I learned this by eating too much of anything
December 13, 2024 at 9:21 PM
Eating too much of anything is bad for you, I learned this by eating too much of anything
No country has ever embraced socialism and successfully implemented it without ultimately infringing on the rights of the masses. It inevitably leads to either dictatorship or fascism. Prove me wrong.
December 13, 2024 at 5:27 AM
No country has ever embraced socialism and successfully implemented it without ultimately infringing on the rights of the masses. It inevitably leads to either dictatorship or fascism. Prove me wrong.
Undoubtedly I’m unfortunately reaching in reverse.
December 12, 2024 at 12:11 PM
Undoubtedly I’m unfortunately reaching in reverse.
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They're not so much bookshelves as graveyards of obsessions past.
December 10, 2024 at 5:13 PM
They're not so much bookshelves as graveyards of obsessions past.
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sometimes I like deliberately spelling a word an equally plausible way that's not in spellcheck, for enrichment
December 11, 2024 at 4:48 AM
sometimes I like deliberately spelling a word an equally plausible way that's not in spellcheck, for enrichment
I wonder how, I wonder why…
We’re thrilled to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 judging panel.✨
Roddy Doyle will act as chair of judges, and will be joined by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Sarah Jessica Parker, @chrispower.bsky.social and Kiley Reid.
thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
Roddy Doyle will act as chair of judges, and will be joined by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Sarah Jessica Parker, @chrispower.bsky.social and Kiley Reid.
thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
The Booker Prize 2025 | The Booker Prizes
The judges for the Booker Prize 2025 are announced, as the prize opens for submissions from publishers
thebookerprizes.com
December 10, 2024 at 9:16 PM
I wonder how, I wonder why…
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That moment when you love the freedom that comes with emotional awareness but hate how it requires the body keeping score.
December 6, 2024 at 5:07 PM
That moment when you love the freedom that comes with emotional awareness but hate how it requires the body keeping score.
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It’s interesting that the emojis show the earth from three angles 🌎 🌍 🌏 but not the fourth.
Though 🔵 is a fair approximation of what it would look like.
People underestimate the Pacific.
Though 🔵 is a fair approximation of what it would look like.
People underestimate the Pacific.
December 6, 2024 at 3:52 PM
It’s interesting that the emojis show the earth from three angles 🌎 🌍 🌏 but not the fourth.
Though 🔵 is a fair approximation of what it would look like.
People underestimate the Pacific.
Though 🔵 is a fair approximation of what it would look like.
People underestimate the Pacific.
Ah, what a delightful way to address a fellow human—criticizing someone for doing precisely what you do when your viewpoint opposes theirs. Naturally, we must also acknowledge your unparalleled grasp of the planet’s collective consciousness to confidently declare she won’t be missed. Gotcha.
December 6, 2024 at 7:30 AM
Ah, what a delightful way to address a fellow human—criticizing someone for doing precisely what you do when your viewpoint opposes theirs. Naturally, we must also acknowledge your unparalleled grasp of the planet’s collective consciousness to confidently declare she won’t be missed. Gotcha.
I’m a historian and I don’t want people to read your comment, nothing to do with climate, everything to do with common sense.
Secrets historians don’t want people to know: Our idea of ancient history has way more to do with which parts of the world have climates that support papyrus/parchment/woodblock/etc. preservation than anyone is willing to admit.
December 5, 2024 at 9:48 PM
I’m a historian and I don’t want people to read your comment, nothing to do with climate, everything to do with common sense.
Intolerant to intolerance.
December 5, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Intolerant to intolerance.