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The Ephemeral Tao
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The Tao that can be spoken is not the Eternal Tao. The Ephemeral Tao just won't shut up already.

Blathering Queer NB Anarcho-Situationist Electronic Musician Artist Furry Zera Nerd. AAAAA/AAAAAAA

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"Plate of Shrimp"
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November 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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If you see this QTP with a female anime character you love
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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October 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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October 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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At the NW Tea Festival this weekend. Holy mother of chaos it got CROWDED. More people this weekend than I've seen since well before Covid.
Picture of puehr tea being poured into a handmade cup. Picture of a tea table with several tea pots, gaiwans, cups, and tea pets; with trays of tea, and water being poured from a kettle into a gaiwan. My haul from the tea festival this year, two cakes of puehr tea, packets of five other types of tea, and three new tea cups.
September 29, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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And then they created generative-AI so people wouldn't even want books anymore. We do need to stop pretending "it's just a tool, and all tools are morally neutral". That has never been true, and it's even less true now.
Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn't even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they'd be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital “library”. Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRM, so stop believing tech is apolitical - the defunding of libraries and paywalling of information are all part of this.
September 29, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr.
Image of DJ Dr. Johnny Fever from "WKRP In Cincinnati", talking into a microphone in the DJ booth, captioned "I almost forgot, fellow babies: BOOGER!"
September 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Waffle Pride Now!
September 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Worse, it only impacts left/liberals. Fascists talk however they want. It makes us sound childish and ineffectual by comparison. That's the point. It's not just about advertising algorithms. Stop letting fascists control the discourse. Use adult language to discuss adult topics in an adult way. 2/2
YouTube comment from user @klaxoncow The worrying thing is that I watched that "1 progressive vs. 20 far right" Surrounded debate. A guy sits down opposite Medhi - our "progressive" in this case - and he openly admits to being a fascist and laughs. He doesn't believe in democracy, and wants fascist autocracy. He didn't mince his words in the slightest. The fascists and the racists and those who would persecute have been liberated, and they no longer use "dog whistles" and euphemisms and metaphors. While the decent folk have been cowed into this self-censorship. This is the precipice that we sit on the edge of right now. The good men are doing nothing. Which, as the saying reminds us, is all it requires for evil to triumph. As the liberals mince their words, speak in inoffensive euphemisms, self-censor themselves into saying nothing, lacking all impact - losing their power - the fascists and racists and the hateful have found their courage and are emboldened to speak their hate with impunity. The Commander-in-Chief is a paedophile, protecting criminal interests, sending his masked private army to "disappear" those he does not desire to be around, to appeal to his white supremacist base. Elon Musk openly did a Nazi salute - twice - on public display, without an inch of shame or embarrassment. We've progressively dis-empowered ourselves to speak the truth, while the forces of hatred have gain a new strong voice. And, basically, I worry that this means we're in deep, deep, deep shit.
July 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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I mean, I'm not one to kinkshame, but...
Twitter post from @forloopcodes, text "I still can't believe this is your virtual girlfriend", with a picture of a 3x3 matrix equation [a1... a9]*[b1... b9]=[c1... c9]
July 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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July 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Panel from Bloom County comic. Coke vs Pepsi, both taste like malted battery acid.
July 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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May 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Picture of Xenomorph Queen with caption "If not friend, why friend shaped?"
April 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Time again for eating tasty and nutritious spring dandelions, which has been an annual ritual for a couple decades now. These were harvested from my own yard. I do it a bit different each year, and this year I chose gaeng kiew wan, Thai style green curry.
Ingredients for gaeng kiew wan, Thai green curry, with fresh-picked dandelion greens. Sitting on a countertop in front of a rice cooker, waiting to be cooked. Chopped dandelion greens in a bowl next to cans of coconut milk, for curry. A wok on the stove full of gaeng kiew wan, Thai green curry, with tofu and dandelion greens.
April 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Happy 420 day for all who celebrate it!
GIF of Cheech and Chong smoking a huge joint, from the movie Up In Smoke.
April 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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March 1, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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American Christianity in a nutshell here.

Just a reminder that the Religious Right is not Christian by any biblical standard, no matter what they call themselves.
Picture of Jesus driving the merchants out of the temple. Caption: I used to support Jesus until his protests turned violent and destroyed businesses.
February 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Them: "Hey, how are things going?"

Me:
Tiny angry-looking fairy sitting on a computer desk next to a drawing tablet and smoking a cigarette the size of her arm.
January 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Schoolhouse Rock - I'm Only a Bill: Sorry, kid. There's no song to explain this crap.
December 20, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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Zoidberg: Your pun is bad and you should feel bad.
December 19, 2024 at 5:57 PM
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Instead of spending the Friday after Thanksgiving celebrating "Black Friday" by engaging in mindless consumerism that is destroying our society and entire world... Let's make today "Black Flag Friday", and celebrate by engaging in mutual aid, opposing unjust power structures, thinking critically about authority and culture, and lifting up the voices of the marginalized and oppressed.
November 30, 2024 at 8:29 PM
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Count von Count
November 27, 2024 at 6:13 PM
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"Name a better qualified doctor than Dr. Oz"
Dr. Johnny Fever - WKRP In Cincinnati
November 27, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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What I think of every time someone says this.
November 21, 2024 at 6:44 PM