Justin
@mawasjustin.bsky.social
"the creatures, too, must become free"
https://newsocialist.org.uk/red-apes/
https://newsocialist.org.uk/red-apes/
Game-changer for me developing a daily writing habit: buying one of these little A6 notebooks and a biro, and just taking them in my coat pocket whenever I go out. I found 3 pages is about 400 words. An A6 page is tiny, so filling up three of them feels like an easy commitment to fulfil
December 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Game-changer for me developing a daily writing habit: buying one of these little A6 notebooks and a biro, and just taking them in my coat pocket whenever I go out. I found 3 pages is about 400 words. An A6 page is tiny, so filling up three of them feels like an easy commitment to fulfil
People believe some hilarious shit
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
People believe some hilarious shit
Not everyone hates US intervention! Business leaders love it!
October 31, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Not everyone hates US intervention! Business leaders love it!
Feels genuinely unusual to get this extent of historical context in the news section
October 31, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Feels genuinely unusual to get this extent of historical context in the news section
What a strange thing to write unless you agree that Israel is basically a nation of heavily armed white people hellbent on genocide
October 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
What a strange thing to write unless you agree that Israel is basically a nation of heavily armed white people hellbent on genocide
'Starting in the late 1880s, excavations at Nippur (above) in what is modern-day Iraq unearthed a slew of important archaeological items, including cuneiform tablets and many incantation bowls. (Image: John Henry Haynes, Penn Museum)'
October 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
'Starting in the late 1880s, excavations at Nippur (above) in what is modern-day Iraq unearthed a slew of important archaeological items, including cuneiform tablets and many incantation bowls. (Image: John Henry Haynes, Penn Museum)'
Pigs were adopted more readily in Europe partly cos of the wetter climate they're suited to, and partly cos agricultural practices spread through diffusion rather than local improvisation, making them more homogenous
October 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Pigs were adopted more readily in Europe partly cos of the wetter climate they're suited to, and partly cos agricultural practices spread through diffusion rather than local improvisation, making them more homogenous
I know writers who use allegory, and they're all woke
October 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I know writers who use allegory, and they're all woke
Wild boar carving found at Göbekli Tepe, 'located near the modern city of Urfa in Turkey, was a large cultic site used by hunter-gatherers around 9200-8500 BC' [60-61
September 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Wild boar carving found at Göbekli Tepe, 'located near the modern city of Urfa in Turkey, was a large cultic site used by hunter-gatherers around 9200-8500 BC' [60-61
The "Pre-Pottery Neolithic" and the start of plant and animal domestication
September 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The "Pre-Pottery Neolithic" and the start of plant and animal domestication
Why say "seven" when you could say "more than half a dozen"
June 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Why say "seven" when you could say "more than half a dozen"
Beirut band playing Wonderful Life as the rockets fall
June 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Beirut band playing Wonderful Life as the rockets fall
Nice opportunistic Colin Wilson diss in 'Beth's Law' by Joel Lane
June 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Nice opportunistic Colin Wilson diss in 'Beth's Law' by Joel Lane
I recorded this in July 2021
May 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I recorded this in July 2021
Very funny deployment of affected oldness in this opening sentence
May 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Very funny deployment of affected oldness in this opening sentence
On the choice of a pope from the US
May 9, 2025 at 11:39 AM
On the choice of a pope from the US
I found the 'Descriptive Catalogue' that the Sotheby's listing refers to, and this is the entry if you're interested. Sadly my lack of Hebrew means I can't get much from it, but at least there's this penciled 'OR 2808' which maybe could be a shelf ref
April 28, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I found the 'Descriptive Catalogue' that the Sotheby's listing refers to, and this is the entry if you're interested. Sadly my lack of Hebrew means I can't get much from it, but at least there's this penciled 'OR 2808' which maybe could be a shelf ref
Thanks for the reply! The Sotheby's listing implies it's part of the Sefer Ha'razim, but it's definitely not included in the PDF of this version
April 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Thanks for the reply! The Sotheby's listing implies it's part of the Sefer Ha'razim, but it's definitely not included in the PDF of this version
Trying to track down a reproduction of this 'Sibbat Ma'ase Haegel Vaazazel Ve inyan Ha sheidim' treatise on demons but the closest thing I could find in the British Library was this info from a 1975 Sotheby's auction catalogue
April 28, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Trying to track down a reproduction of this 'Sibbat Ma'ase Haegel Vaazazel Ve inyan Ha sheidim' treatise on demons but the closest thing I could find in the British Library was this info from a 1975 Sotheby's auction catalogue
A lot of rung talk in the Zohar
![Rabbi Shimon said, Come and see: All is a mystery of wisdom. Here beckons an allusion to wisdom and rungs below, to the depths of which Abraham descended, knowing them but not clinging, returning to vitality. He was not seduced by them like Adam, who upon reaching that rung was seduced by the serpent and inflicted death upon the world. He was not seduced like Noah, for when he [Noah] descended and reached that rung, what is written? He drank of the wine and became drunk, and exposed himself inside 7718 (oholoh), his tent -spelled with a 7 (he): oholah, her tent. But of Abraham, what is written? Abram went up from Egypt, as- cending, not descending, returning to his domain, the supernal rung he had grasped before. The event transpired to reveal wisdom, for he endured firmly-fttingly-and was not seduced. He rose erect, returning to his do- main:to the Negev--the South, supernal rung to which he had been linked before, as is written: continually journeying toward the Negev. Here too, to the Negev, the site he had grasped before. Come and see the mystery of the matter: If Abram had not gone down to Egypt and been refined there first, he would not have become the share of the blessed Holy One.193](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6iv7h2ilicragrhe3rwr4awe/bafkreidz36k3ze42ymkpmsjuxc6nthonqojeuj2ykwr4uuox7traita26i@jpeg)
April 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A lot of rung talk in the Zohar
I think "AI" is pernicious in all sorts of ways, is clearly environmentally destructive, & is and will be used as a tool to discipline the labour force. But insisting like this on its uselessness seems to stray a bit into wishful thinking
March 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I think "AI" is pernicious in all sorts of ways, is clearly environmentally destructive, & is and will be used as a tool to discipline the labour force. But insisting like this on its uselessness seems to stray a bit into wishful thinking