ㅁ nights surpass the dull days... elegiac, oneiric transits across stochastic space, full of windings, ergodic retrogressions into instants that fade like aimless bursts of color
– a reverse nonnet.
Month: October 2024
Caveat: Links #92
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“The great trouble with religion – any religion – is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason – but one cannot have both.” – Robert A. Heinlein
Caveat: Poem #3008 “Self-contained bird-objects”
ㅁ Seagulls meditate in white-blob form, just floating out on the water.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #3007 “Ritual behavior”
ㅁ Boat lifted, put away nice and cozy, and sometime next spring it'll be relaunched.
– a tetractys.
Caveat: Links #91
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“World War II is closer in time to the US Civil War than it is to the present day.”
Caveat: Poem #3006 “Stop and smell the flowers”
ㅁ I keep getting lost in weird liminal spaces... can't find anything.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #3005 “Political discourse”
ㅁ Regardless, texts will justify beliefs we hold ex ante, so... let's make a text, the words will fly! Regardless, texts will justify and warp our minds, we can't defy... our own unreasoned meanings flow. Regardless, texts will justify beliefs we hold ex ante, so!
– a triolet.
Caveat: Boat outta water
An autumnal ritual, we got the boat out of the water.
I work on cleaning it a bit, tomorrow, but the bottom is remarkably free of nefarious barnacles – probably a consequence of how late we put it in the water this year. I’m grateful for the neighbors’ help on pulling it out this morning – Arthur’s situational awareness is so minimal, these days, that he was in fact seemingly unaware of what we were doing. Some of that is his deafness, but he also just really tuned out of reality most of the time.
Despite his unawareness during the proceedings, Arthur nevertheless managed to find the gumption to go down after we’d “parked” the boat to inspect our work, and offer a few pointless criticisms. This is why it can be so draining caring for and interacting with him – the few times he exits his solipsistic bubble, it’s as often to criticize or complain as it is anything else.
Caveat: Poem #3004 “The most recent storm”
ㅁ the wind foretold rain the rain came then in great sheets assaulting the night
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Links #90
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
- People actually don’t have that many misconceptions about what the opposite party believes
- (related to above) Take your own ideological turing test (I got 7/10 which is apparently typical)
- Show how confused you are
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“Your enemy is not the refugee. Your enemy is the one who made him a refugee.” – Willie Nelson
Caveat: Poem #3003 “Inertial conditions”
ㅁ having fallen down seemed best to just take a rest and get up later
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #3002 “Refugees”
ㅁ Fall is the season when mice sneak in. The temperatures drop, outside. Everything gets rained on. Summer's berries are gone. The warm house beckons. What's not to like? Some crumbs left. It seems... Safe?
– a nonnet.
Caveat: Links #89
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“Desire is, by nature, childlike and chary of government. The day we begin to qualify it by the righteousness of its political content is the day we begin to prescribe some desires and prohibit others. That way lies moralism only.” – Andrea Long Chu
Caveat: Poem #3001 “A thing that happened”
ㅁ the Fall's first frost came, painted the dock and pier white; some ducks swam away.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #3000 “A giant pile”
ㅁ so many banal poems accumulate... then there's a nice round number like this one.
– a tetractys.
Caveat: Links #88
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
- Looking back on the way out (leaving the planet)
- nostr
- Moldbug is not exactly wrong (caveat: he’s still a reactionary misanthrope, though – he wants better fascism)
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one’s bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one’s head under the cover, giving one’s self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind…” – Marcel Proust
Caveat: Poem #2999 “Dream journal”
ㅁ I had a bad dream. I was so angry, I raged. I wrecked the gift store.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2998 “Fall’s flight”
ㅁ The seagull sat, observing things. The tide, the rocks, a swimming fish. A duck that ducked, some rippling rings. The seagull sat, observing things. I wonder if the bird might wish that Fall was slower with its wings. The seagull sat, observing things. The tide, the rocks, a swimming fish.
– a triolet.
Caveat: Poem #2997 “Eighty-first stanza”
ㅁ Kiamon stood by the side of the road... feelings were grim, and the gray skies had snowed. Nobody stopped to assist her. The cars kept zooming past with their tail-lights like stars.
– a quatrain in dactylic tetrameter.
Caveat: Links #87
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“Twitter is a charnel ground, to be sure, and this is for now and among other landscapes, where I choose to practice.” – Roshi Joan Halifax
Caveat: Poem #2996 “The discovery”
ㅁ Some crows found a truck, which was black, just like they were. They seemed to like this.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2995 “The full moon”
ㅁ Assertions of luminosity: the moon proffers her axioms. To wit: autumnal changes, after the equinox, include stormy gales, driving downpours, lost rainbows, blowing leaves.
– a nonnet.
Caveat: Links #86
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“My love grows stronger as my stomach grows emptier.” – any dog, anywhere.
Caveat: Poem #2994 “Progress”
ㅁ the blueberry shrub outside the kitchen window has turned bright purple
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2993 “The online life”
ㅁ blog or not... emptiness receives wisdom: the bodhisattvas don't go online much
– a tetractys.
Caveat: Links #85
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“While the secret knowledge is only available to some members of the society, there is an ideology, an ethics, and a phenomenology of ignorance that is shared, to some degree, by all.” – Jonathan Mair
Caveat: Poem #2992 “The crash at Eden”
ㅁ the sneaky snake entered the garden hopped up on his self-deceptions like a chatbot on prozac and gave his wanton pitch elevator-style to the kids there this one girl succumbed crashed
– a nonnet.
Caveat: Poem #2991 “Submission”
ㅁ The wind whipped rain, and caused a feeling: a vague, pathetic fallacy took hold of me, and left me reeling. The storm pushed rain, and gave a feeling: nostalgia gripped, my soul was dealing, bowed down to nature's papacy. The storm pushed rain, and gave a feeling: a vague, pathetic fallacy.
– a triolet.
Caveat: Links #84
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“American whale draughtsmen seem entirely content with presenting the mechanical outline of things, such as the vacant profile of the whale” – Herman Melville (in Moby Dick)
Caveat: Poem #2990 “Outward”
ㅁ there's no sense of rest no respite from nagging guilt sleep is all that's left
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2989 “Surrender”
ㅁ Lately I hate life. I feel nothing anymore. Why do I bother?
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Links #83
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
- A Catholic makes the case that both candidates are too evil to bother voting (bear in mind this is basically about abortion, of course, but the roundabout path taken has some interesting twists)
- Postmodern conservatism
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“Immigrants are just the kids on the lawn – the old man wants the damn kids to get off his lawn. The old man is a jerk.”
Caveat: Poem #2988 “It’s possible this poem has no name”
ㅁ I made secret, unknowable poems. Crafted with pure banalities, they occupied remote screens, distant from daily life. These were words for fate: disquisitions against time; perfect rants.
– a nonnet.