Smorgasborder
@smorgasborder.bsky.social
Pseudonymous hedge wizard. Winner of the 2012 Doberman Prize for Inconsequential Findings.
A beautiful piece by the great Mexican artist Remedios Varo.
May 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
A beautiful piece by the great Mexican artist Remedios Varo.
"Burning a source"
March 25, 2025 at 5:40 AM
"Burning a source"
An oddly beautiful thought, although I wish Schopenhauer could have seen beyond suffering.
!["[The principle of this thou art] presupposes that I have to some extent identified myself with the other and therewith removed for the moment the barrier between the 'I' and the 'Not-I'. Only then can the other's situation, his want, his need, become mine. I then no longer see him in the way of an empirical perception, as one strange to me, indifferent to me, completely other than myself; but in him I suffer, in spite of the fact that his skin does not enfold my nerves."
- Arthur Schopenhauer](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q5g3okfcjykeyhzkl6m3lvwd/bafkreicim32ghi2jt7zluzurfdrb4wz6aqgu5noeyn7ga6hv3yeqroo7bi@jpeg)
September 19, 2024 at 1:50 AM
An oddly beautiful thought, although I wish Schopenhauer could have seen beyond suffering.
And ... Imane Khelif is a cisgender woman. These TERFs are such strange, sad people.
August 2, 2024 at 12:27 AM
And ... Imane Khelif is a cisgender woman. These TERFs are such strange, sad people.
Worth following up w what came next.
July 19, 2024 at 11:02 AM
Worth following up w what came next.
I am sure that The Saint of Bright Doors is a brilliantly written book. I have not been able to read it as the author indicated his support for the sentiment that the mass murder of over a thousand people was "a significant moment in the psychological war."
July 18, 2024 at 9:23 AM
I am sure that The Saint of Bright Doors is a brilliantly written book. I have not been able to read it as the author indicated his support for the sentiment that the mass murder of over a thousand people was "a significant moment in the psychological war."
Worth noting the following 2021 comments by Paul Weimer...https://www.patreon.com/posts/they-who-pay-new-60266480
January 23, 2024 at 12:18 AM
Worth noting the following 2021 comments by Paul Weimer...https://www.patreon.com/posts/they-who-pay-new-60266480
This explanation from Dave McCarty (who was one of the people managing the Chengdu Worldcon) raises more questions than it answers. What are "the rules we must follow" in question?
file770.com/2023-hugo-no...
file770.com/2023-hugo-no...
January 21, 2024 at 3:41 PM
This explanation from Dave McCarty (who was one of the people managing the Chengdu Worldcon) raises more questions than it answers. What are "the rules we must follow" in question?
file770.com/2023-hugo-no...
file770.com/2023-hugo-no...
This is a book I was actually looking forward to, but I don't know if I'll ever read it, given that the author retweeted justifications of the mass murder of October 7 (and blocked me for asking him why).
December 1, 2023 at 9:43 PM
This is a book I was actually looking forward to, but I don't know if I'll ever read it, given that the author retweeted justifications of the mass murder of October 7 (and blocked me for asking him why).
The speaker Thunberg invited didn't "support Palestine." She spoke in favor of the murder and kidnapping of hundreds of civilians:
www.thejc.com/news/world/g...
www.thejc.com/news/world/g...
November 17, 2023 at 11:04 AM
The speaker Thunberg invited didn't "support Palestine." She spoke in favor of the murder and kidnapping of hundreds of civilians:
www.thejc.com/news/world/g...
www.thejc.com/news/world/g...
This quote is profoundly chilling to me.
November 12, 2023 at 1:30 PM
This quote is profoundly chilling to me.
October 28, 2023 at 1:49 PM
It appears to be a tweet celebrating the event of that mass murder as a "significant moment in the psychological war."
These children, one from Gaza, one from Nir Oz, are dead now. I'll be working for a future where this doesn't happen. Not looking for moments to celebrate one death or the other.
These children, one from Gaza, one from Nir Oz, are dead now. I'll be working for a future where this doesn't happen. Not looking for moments to celebrate one death or the other.
October 27, 2023 at 11:52 AM
It appears to be a tweet celebrating the event of that mass murder as a "significant moment in the psychological war."
These children, one from Gaza, one from Nir Oz, are dead now. I'll be working for a future where this doesn't happen. Not looking for moments to celebrate one death or the other.
These children, one from Gaza, one from Nir Oz, are dead now. I'll be working for a future where this doesn't happen. Not looking for moments to celebrate one death or the other.
We are not our accursed governments. Yet you retweeted the following on the other side immediately after the mass murder of 1400 people, who were not their government. Why?
October 27, 2023 at 11:40 AM
We are not our accursed governments. Yet you retweeted the following on the other side immediately after the mass murder of 1400 people, who were not their government. Why?
*thinks about responding, remembers weasels can't type*
October 26, 2023 at 12:12 PM
*thinks about responding, remembers weasels can't type*
No, not really when I'm getting responses like this
October 10, 2023 at 8:27 PM
No, not really when I'm getting responses like this