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So tired....

'Nothing in the world is inherently compelling.'
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Corax The Raven @corax-the-raven.bsky.social · Oct 25
The Winter Palace #Poetry #PhilipLarkin #PhilosophicalPessimism
The Winter Palace by Philip Larkin Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder. I spent my second quarter-century Losing what I had learnt at university. And refusing to take in what had happened since. Now I know none of the names in the public prints, And am starting to give offence by forgetting faces And swearing I've never been in certain places. It will be worth it, if in the end I manage To blank out whatever it is that is doing the damage. Then there will be nothing I know. My mind will fold into itself, like fields, like snow.
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There was a mouse called Keith
who circumcised dicks with his teeth
neither for leisure
or sexual pleasure
but to get to the cheese underneath
achillesthe2nd.bsky.social Achilles Micawber @achillesthe2nd.bsky.social · 17d
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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no choice but peace and love
April 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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“The scene shifts
moment by moment.

People, places, and things
appear and disappear.

You appeared as others
expected,
but not as you chose.

You will disappear
as if you never had been,
having taken your turn
in this world.

--Thomas Ligotti
Black & white photo of an overgrown graveyard.
November 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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music.youtube.com/watch?v=3ve3...

#DarkAmbient #AmbientMusic
Life Is Exhausting
YouTube video by The Void Wanderer - Topic
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October 31, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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#BlackAndWhite #Photography #Death #Melancholy #DarkArt #EternalOblivion
Black & White photo of a graveyard. Black & White photo of a graveyard. Black & White photo of a graveyard.
October 31, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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I Have A Special Plan For This World by Thomas Ligotti... #ThomasLigotti #PhilosophicalPessimism #CosmicPessimism
I Have A Special Plan For This World, by Thomas Ligotti Imagine he said all the flesh that is eaten The teeth tearing into it The tongue tasting it's savour And the hunger for that taste Now take away that flesh he said Take away the teeth and the tongue The taste and the hunger Take away everything as it is That was my plan My own special plan for this world But what was demanded in a way of a plan Needed to go beyond tongue and teeth and hunger and flesh Beyond the bones and the very dust of bones and the wind that would come to blow the dust away And so I began to envision a darkness that was long before the dark of night And a strangely shining light That owed nothing to the light of day That day may seem like other days Once more we feel the tiny legged trepidations Once more we are mangled by a great grinding fear But that day will have no others after No more worlds like this will follow Because I have a plan A very special plan No more worlds like this No more days like that
October 31, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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#Photography #BlackAndWhite #Melancholy
Black & white photo of clouds above ocean horizon.
October 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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The Winter Palace #Poetry #PhilipLarkin #PhilosophicalPessimism
The Winter Palace by Philip Larkin Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder. I spent my second quarter-century Losing what I had learnt at university. And refusing to take in what had happened since. Now I know none of the names in the public prints, And am starting to give offence by forgetting faces And swearing I've never been in certain places. It will be worth it, if in the end I manage To blank out whatever it is that is doing the damage. Then there will be nothing I know. My mind will fold into itself, like fields, like snow.
October 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Pretty much the same reasons why I never wanted kids myself.....

#PhilosophicalPessimism #Antinatalism
Yuval Noah Harari talks about children
YouTube video by Rethinking
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October 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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A ‘humanely’ killed animal is still killed – and that’s wrong
#Sentientism #AnimalRights
A ‘humanely’ killed animal is still killed – and that’s wrong | Aeon Ideas
The big ethical issue about animals is not whether we treat them humanely while alive but that we so often kill them.
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October 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM