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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew

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sara @saraburke.net · 1d

Quote from The Rings of Saturn
By Winfried Georg Sebald

Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life

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sara @saraburke.net · 5d

You can push portra 800 to 1600

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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 6d

i shared things, i left things behind. i found small ways to touch other people's lives where i could, and i found i can let other people touch mine. i found ways to be less alone

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 7d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 8d

•Turn off all notifications except calls and texts.

•Raise your bike seat. It’s probably too low.

•Lower your arms when you run. Fists down by your hips.

•When you walk your dog, do solely that. Don’t be on your phone. Spend the time being with your dog and out in the world.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 11d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 8d

this type of digital proprioception is my favorite kind of game review!

Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 12d

My experience was that Hollow Knight is very “spacey” (you just need to move to the right positions on screen) which makes everything feel frantic and chaotic, while Nine Sols is very “timey” (you just need to parry with the right rhythm) which makes everything feel controlled and precise

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 9d

I thank the knife.

Jon Cone

AN ESSAY ON ONTOLOGICAL
PRAGMATISM

It is bitterly cold outside. The kitchen is cold. I thank the kettle. I thank the toaster. I thank the skillet. I thank the cutting board. I thank the knife. I thank the butter. I thank the water. I thank the raspberry jam. I thank the tea towel. I thank the coffee grounds I put into the compost tin. I thank the orange. I thank the orange peel. I thank the old round table. I thank the plate, the cup. The fork, the spoon. The small bowl of milk. The kitchen windows have ice. I must get window curtains. If you lean over the sink and look out the window at the far end of the street you see a pink aura announcing the sun’s arrival. I pick the cat's bowl up to clean it. I reach the cat food down from the cupboard. I thank the cat food and the cat bowl. The floor is dirty. It needs washing. I thank the floor.

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sara @saraburke.net · 12d

I was in this situation weekend before last for an infected kidney. Godspeed! I hope they give you lots of lactated Ringer’s—those feel like mana

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sara @saraburke.net · 12d

I’ve had a lot of those!

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Kay @kayannbee.bsky.social · 12d

>:)

I am holding Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon in my hand!

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sara @saraburke.net · 12d

Nobody needs permission to get these sick wings all over. Agree on pts 1 & 2

Illustration of Ciel from Tsukihime with power tattoos but in regular clothes. Angel wings on back and arms.

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sara @saraburke.net · 14d

If only it had more than like 40 max players online :/ I miss it, and MBAACC doesn’t have automated ranked matchmaking. I’m searching for a fighting game and can’t find the right one

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Kay @kayannbee.bsky.social · 17d

at the Isamu Noguchi Museum with @saraburke.net

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 24d

in this ep. one of us exclaims “81!” like it’s the most faint-in-church shocking thing ever and one of us explains why he got a tattoo of the phrase “lust demon santa” & how he hopes to use time travel to erase the tattoo and our convo about it. www.patreon.com/posts/inevit...

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sara @saraburke.net · 27d

Where do you post then? And what happened on Bluesky? I thought they reverted all the bans

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sara @saraburke.net · 27d

Any time I’ve done that it’s made me feel more committed to the documented process. It made me less likely to experiment and change things up

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 28d

what comes to mind when you hear the phrase “body count’?

that’s where we start things.

adam keeps talking about how this one is a “certified banger.”

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sara @saraburke.net · Sep 12

while this book's tone is quite frustrating and academic at times, I wish more people would read it

screenshot of quote:

RELATIONSHIP
ANANCILE
Relationship Anarchy
Juan-Carlos Pérez-Cortés
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One very clear example of this issue is when the idea of avoiding labels in relationships is insisted upon and one of the people involved has a personal traumatic history of being denied value, a name, or the importance of a bond. If you have been denied recognition as a mechanism of power in the context of an abusive relationship, you will experience that desire not to name as a violent memory rather than a safeguard against repeating relationships of control and possessiveness. You will understand this as minimizing its significance rather than preventing the imposition of a predetermined format, identified by a label, in establishing how the bond will be set up and evolve.

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sara @saraburke.net · Sep 10

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Holy the Firm
ANNIE DILLARD
Holy the Firm
Annie Dillard
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The seraphs are born of a stream of fire issuing from under God's throne. They are, according to Dionysius the Areopagite, "all wings," having, as Isaiah noted, six wings apiece, two of which they fold over their eyes. Moving perpetually toward God, they perpetually praise him, crying Holy, Holy, Holy.... But, according to some rabbinic writings, they can sing only the first "Holy" before the intensity of their love ignites them again and dissolves them again, perpetually, into flames.
"Abandon everything," Dionysius told his disciple.
"God despises ideas."

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sara @saraburke.net · Sep 8

It works well for first drafts. @kenlikescarbs.bsky.social do you still do this?

sara @saraburke.net · Sep 7

it’s pretty great imo

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ショー☆バタバタしてる @shoimada.bsky.social · Sep 7

掃除してたら出てきた100玉そろばん
子が小さい頃によく親子で遊んだなぁと懐かしくってまた棚に飾ることにしたよ
播州そろばんは計算道具であり伝統工芸品でもある
花札もそうなんやけど子どもが触って楽しめる伝統工芸品がたまらなく好きなのかもしれない

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Kay @kayannbee.bsky.social · Sep 4

"I became a scam artist and picked up the grace of weakness" ❗️❗️❗️

cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · Sep 4

this Dan Wriggins poem from his book Prince of Grass rules danwriggins.bandcamp.com/merch/prince...

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · Aug 26

We need to stop using a framework of 'ChatGPT killed someone', it feeds into the myth of the system's agency & OpenAI's framing. The right framework to use: OpenAI is continuing to perpetuate an indefinite industrial disaster. The oil pipe is not at fault when it breaks. The company that built it is

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sara @saraburke.net · Sep 4

Screenshot: Letter From Buenos Aires Anne Boyer

With the artist, we had spoken about why it was that Paradise, in Dante, is so boring. I said it was because Dante had never really known Beatrice, only laid eyes on her and run back to his room for the hot flush of fantasy. She was an absence, not a person, as contentless as every other abstracted desire – "and betaking me to the loneliness of mine own room, I fell to thinking." The artist disagreed, then told us about Marta, his Beatrice, with whom he fell in love and for whom he wrote eight poems, after which she moved to Patagonia and he forgot her. He couldn't remember her last name.

This is why heaven is boring: there is nothing substantial in it, only a ghost of a hope.

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