Ray Davis
@pseudopodium.bsky.social
Free-range essayist & online publisher at https://www.pseudopodium.org/
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October 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
From "Souvenir de la nuit du 4" by Victor Hugo:
September 27, 2025 at 10:28 PM
From "Souvenir de la nuit du 4" by Victor Hugo:
Left Behind.
September 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Left Behind.
I lost track of who led me to this beautifully layered collaboration between Drew Johnson, William Darrow, & Congressman James M. Hinds, assassinated in 1868, but I thank them.
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The Eloquent Vindicator in the Electric Room - Longreads
No one remembers the assassination of Congressman James M. Hinds. What do we risk by making it just another part of American history?
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September 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I lost track of who led me to this beautifully layered collaboration between Drew Johnson, William Darrow, & Congressman James M. Hinds, assassinated in 1868, but I thank them.
longreads.com/2025/09/09/c...
longreads.com/2025/09/09/c...
www.eudaemonist.com/9ix2025/
In which Barrie unnervingly anticipates collaborationist op-eds from journalism through the decades.
In which Barrie unnervingly anticipates collaborationist op-eds from journalism through the decades.
an eudæmonist : haphazard
A while ago I was reading a book that, for reasons unclear, kept trying to link everything to Peter Pan, which, if one is not a child (and even if one is), is a rather creepy text, with rather creepy details. A passage that has stuck with me and was unearthed from the further reaches […]
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September 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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In which Barrie unnervingly anticipates collaborationist op-eds from journalism through the decades.
In which Barrie unnervingly anticipates collaborationist op-eds from journalism through the decades.
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Unearthed my immigrant grandpa's union badge from the WWII shipyards to mark the day
September 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Unearthed my immigrant grandpa's union badge from the WWII shipyards to mark the day
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An invitation to my online book launch this Sunday, 17th August at 7pm BST. If you aren't already invited and would like to join the gathering please let me have your full name and email address via my contact details here: davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site
August 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
An invitation to my online book launch this Sunday, 17th August at 7pm BST. If you aren't already invited and would like to join the gathering please let me have your full name and email address via my contact details here: davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site
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Hey what is Venture Boy up to?
July 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Hey what is Venture Boy up to?
I've cassandraed a long while now & I know there are worse things going on. But receiving partisan propaganda from the Social Security Administration actually shocked me.
July 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I've cassandraed a long while now & I know there are worse things going on. But receiving partisan propaganda from the Social Security Administration actually shocked me.
Fogerty (El Cerrito's own!): "The song is decrying the kind of person he is. He's absolutely that person I wrote the song about."
June 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Fogerty (El Cerrito's own!): "The song is decrying the kind of person he is. He's absolutely that person I wrote the song about."
Biological LLMs, Fig. 893. From "A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870—1920" by Michael McGerr.
June 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Biological LLMs, Fig. 893. From "A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870—1920" by Michael McGerr.
All the songs about Joey Ramone, of course, but I'm also very fond of two Brian Wilson tributes:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH5Q...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH5Q...
May 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
All the songs about Joey Ramone, of course, but I'm also very fond of two Brian Wilson tributes:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH5Q...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH5Q...
I admire journalists, but headline fabricators & unannounced rewrites are good reasons to avoid the career.
"As for eliminating gossipy headlines altogether, no dice. That would be bad for business."
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"As for eliminating gossipy headlines altogether, no dice. That would be bad for business."
www.pseudopodium.org/ht-20220606....
May 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I admire journalists, but headline fabricators & unannounced rewrites are good reasons to avoid the career.
"As for eliminating gossipy headlines altogether, no dice. That would be bad for business."
www.pseudopodium.org/ht-20220606....
"As for eliminating gossipy headlines altogether, no dice. That would be bad for business."
www.pseudopodium.org/ht-20220606....
Maybe the only happy surprise of this recurring-nightmares-finally-coming-true year has been *Techdirt*, of all things.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)
While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recogn…
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March 4, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Maybe the only happy surprise of this recurring-nightmares-finally-coming-true year has been *Techdirt*, of all things.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
Elizabeth Stoddard pays off her debts:
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www.pseudopodium.org/ht-20230620....
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February 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Elizabeth Stoddard pays off her debts:
www.pseudopodium.org/ht-20230620....
www.pseudopodium.org/ht-20230620....
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On re-reading ‘Conversation with Spinoza’.
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an eudæmonist : the shattered mirror
The last time I read Goce Smilevski’s Conversation with Spinoza, I had not read Spinoza. I was not particularly interested in Spinoza. I was interested in Balkan fiction. I suppose I still am interest...
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February 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
On re-reading ‘Conversation with Spinoza’.
www.eudaemonist.com/26ii2025/
www.eudaemonist.com/26ii2025/
Among many worthwhile recent essays, my mind keeps returning to Joseph Heath's distinctly not-born-in-the-USA "Observations":
josephheath.substack.com/p/observatio...
@adamkotsko.bsky.social's "Law and Justice" now simmers beside it:
itself.blog/2025/02/18/l...
josephheath.substack.com/p/observatio...
@adamkotsko.bsky.social's "Law and Justice" now simmers beside it:
itself.blog/2025/02/18/l...
Observations on the U.S. constitutional crisis
I’m a bit surprised that Pierre Trudeau’s famous “sleeping with an elephant” speech has not been getting more play in recent weeks:
josephheath.substack.com
February 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Among many worthwhile recent essays, my mind keeps returning to Joseph Heath's distinctly not-born-in-the-USA "Observations":
josephheath.substack.com/p/observatio...
@adamkotsko.bsky.social's "Law and Justice" now simmers beside it:
itself.blog/2025/02/18/l...
josephheath.substack.com/p/observatio...
@adamkotsko.bsky.social's "Law and Justice" now simmers beside it:
itself.blog/2025/02/18/l...
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The Great Deskilling 2
January 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The Great Deskilling 2
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Come for the Midnight Mass, stay for the Liebestod
December 24, 2024 at 8:23 PM
Come for the Midnight Mass, stay for the Liebestod
@eddiecampbell.bsky.social's THE GOAT-GETTERS took a subject of zero interest to me & made a revelatory, riveting, & hilarious book. I've been looking forward to this follow-up for a couple of years now. Thanks, @fantagraphics.bsky.social!
October 31, 2024 at 4:23 PM
@eddiecampbell.bsky.social's THE GOAT-GETTERS took a subject of zero interest to me & made a revelatory, riveting, & hilarious book. I've been looking forward to this follow-up for a couple of years now. Thanks, @fantagraphics.bsky.social!
Christina Rossetti:
October 22, 2024 at 11:09 PM
Christina Rossetti:
"I post the mail through the what’s left of the doorway and turn to see the remains of two dogs...."
I've been working on the next instalment of Round About Town 2018-2024. Here's an entry from November 2022
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I've reached November 2022 of Another Round About Town.
I've reached November 2022 of Another Round About Town. I should have completed it within the next couple of weeks, then I'm not sure what. ...
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September 28, 2024 at 4:18 PM
"I post the mail through the what’s left of the doorway and turn to see the remains of two dogs...."
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That’s some fine police work, boys.
Also, I guess we’re still doing pot raids in California?
www.sfgate.com/cannabis/art...
Also, I guess we’re still doing pot raids in California?
www.sfgate.com/cannabis/art...
September 28, 2024 at 1:09 PM
That’s some fine police work, boys.
Also, I guess we’re still doing pot raids in California?
www.sfgate.com/cannabis/art...
Also, I guess we’re still doing pot raids in California?
www.sfgate.com/cannabis/art...