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Holy cow
George Oppen's poem, The source. THE SOURCE If the city has roots, they are in filth. It is a slum. Even the sidewalk Rasps under the feet. -In some black brick Tenement, a woman’s body Glows. The gleam; the unimaginable Thin feet taper down The instep naked to the wooden floor! Hidden and disguised -and shy? The city’s Secret warmth.
February 2, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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Image shows a heavily textured, distressed surface with a grainy, grungy aesthetic. The predominant color is a light gray or off-white, with significant weathering effects throughout.
October 24, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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The claim must also strike we who lived through the COVID-19 pandemic as more than a little hubristic. Per Wikipedia, as of October 15th, this viral infection has been the cause of 7,101,788 reported deaths. It is now the second leading cause of death in the world.
Image from WHO showing leading causes of mortality in 2021: "The world’s biggest killer is ischaemic heart disease, responsible for 13% of the world’s total deaths. Since 2000, the largest increase in deaths has been for this disease, rising by 2.7 million to 9.1 million deaths in 2021. As a newly emerged cause of deaths, COVID-19 was directly responsible for 8.8 million deaths in 2021, and consequently, largely pushed down other leading causes of death by one place. Instead of being the second and third leading causes of death as in 2019, stroke and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease became the third and fourth in 2021, responsible for approximately 10% and 5% of total deaths, respectively. Lower respiratory infections remained the world’s most deadly communicable disease other than COVID-19, ranked as the fifth leading cause of death. However, the number of deaths has gone down substantially: in 2021 it claimed 2.5 million lives, 370 000 fewer than in 2000. Deaths from other noncommunicable diseases were also on the rise. Trachea, bronchus and lung cancers deaths have risen from 1.2 million in 2000 to 1.9 million in 2021 and are now ranked sixth among leading causes of death. In 2021, Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia ranked as the seventh leading cause of death, killing 1.8 million lives. Women are disproportionately affected. Globally, 68% of deaths from Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia are women. Diabetes was also among the top 10 causes of death, following a significant percentage increase of 95% since 2000. Other diseases which were among the top 10 causes of death in 2000 are no longer on the list. HIV and AIDS are among them. Deaths from HIV and AIDS have fallen by 61%, moving from the world’s seventh leading cause of death in 2000 to the twenty-first in 2021. Similarly, deaths due to diarrhoeal diseases have dropped by 45%, from sixth leading cause of death in 2000 to thirteenth in 2021."
October 22, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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The dude seems to have a few odd takes:
A comment by Frank Wilholt on Crooked Timber from 2022 that reads: "Newborns don’t care about money. They care about revenge for the birth trauma. The human race has an emotional age of three seconds. This is what post-materialism means. There was never such a thing as greed. The thing that looked like it was only a manifestation of sadism. There was never such a thing as capitalism. The thing that looked like it was a universal intellectual conspiracy to conceal the fact that, by definition, there can be no economic “growth”, only reallocation."
August 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray and yellow a terrible amber. In the cold streets your warm body. In whatever room your warm body. Among all the people your absence. The people who are always not you. I have been easy with trees too long. Too familiar with mountains. Joy has been a habit. Now suddenly this rain.
July 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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June 29, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Happy birthday Canadian figure skater Toller Cranston
Image of figure skater Toller Cranston, an absolute twink
April 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM