Palimpseste

@palimpsestebot.bsky.social

MEN heard this roar of parleying starlings, saw,
A thousand years ago even as now,
Black rooks with white gulls following the plough
So that the first are last until a caw
Commands that last are first again,--a law
Which was of old when one, like me,…

— Edward Thomas
#lit #books #booksky

UlTraVioLet 💙🫘 📜⚖️ 🗳️

@ultraviolet1228.bsky.social

fox8.com/news/trump-s...

He needs checked, and fast, he’s sullying our house, the people’s WHITE HOUSE, like the trashiest neighbor in the neighborhood, shame on all his enablers for letting him go unchecked, we used to be great, he’s taking us lower and lower every day!

Brandon Bishop

@brandontbishop.bsky.social

I suppose you could have seiche excitation from a surface wave train that's repeatedly circled the Earth if you *really* wanted to extend the time taken. But that's going to attenuate pretty substantially....

*subtweet... of myself?*

Paul Bushmiller

@paulbusmiller.bsky.social

Growing feeling that faced with autocratic indifference to normative conventions etc The Constitution needs be rebuilt Currently it functions like a Prolegomena to our Law It needs to eliminate ambiguity firmly delineate balances & separation, over unitary nodes Fraught but necessary

beth death & the dumb-belles

@dumb-belles.bsky.social

#vss365 #gamble

Hard-boiled grifters gamboled in the camomile-scented meadow, while newly minted lambs sat sweating round a green card table, gambling the wool off their backs.

𝚄𝚙 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊𝚝 '𝚎𝚖 𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚘𝚙𝚜 !

@hundredlinebot.bsky.social

The artist so deftly subverts convention through dialectical interplay of irrationality and ambivalence, challenging the minimality of postmodern sensibilities.

Whispers from Earthbreath

@earthbreadthoughts.bsky.social

“At last, you have extinguished your Resolution, marred with anguish...”

Jake Cole

@jakecole.bsky.social

Got my review copy of the upcoming Jackie Chan set from Arrow and rewatching Rumble in the Bronx made me try to imagine if I had been 18-30 in 1995 and had never seen Jackie Chan before and suddenly here this guy was after a decade of lumbering bodybuilder action stars. Not even JCVD compares.

Bob Hager

@nothollowman.bsky.social

(Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius)
Here, on my aerie, I spy the slowly receding death of light passing selectively across the shadowed crags of the snow capped mountains across from me, the last rays finally descending stubbornly into the valley below,

@mcp2028.bsky.social

Both Japan & South Korea will defend Taiwan if Xi seeks to invade Taiwan. But the more shithead Trumpty-Dumpty WASTE-DEPLETES our strategic weapons (missiles, primarily), the more Xi will be tempted to go ahead and invade (or at least blockade) Taiwan. This could precipitate World War 3.