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Ärvinski The Ephemeral @arvinski.bsky.social · 7h

I’d need a Piper Cub to bridge the chasm between how I’m perceived on social media vs. IRL, but it’s weird all over. I suspect many with a history of Spiritually Transformative Experience(s), trauma and/or neurodivergence feel similarly. I’m a poor fit for social media, but it’s kind of liberating.

Jeremy Renner in THE HURT LOCKER when his character is navigating the surreal normalcy of being in the grocery store and trying to make a simple decision.

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Ärvinski The Ephemeral @arvinski.bsky.social · 18h

Grievance is the totality of the whole charade.

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Ärvinski The Ephemeral @arvinski.bsky.social · 18h

If Politico could have both-sides’d the framing, it would have. Don’t be surprised if it conjures a false equivalent in the coming days or weeks.

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Ärvinski The Ephemeral @arvinski.bsky.social · 18h

Vertical hierarchy sets the stage for authoritarian exploitation. The scale, in terms of the dynamic, is largely irrelevant. The structure isn’t.

Ärvinski The Ephemeral @arvinski.bsky.social · 19h

This isn’t journalism. It’s marketing. Reflexive deference to institutional power is a disease which constantly erodes critical thought. If this is the best NPR will do - the exact same thing it has done for decades - then good riddance.

Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s do some news

NPR copy about increasing ICE violence edited (by me) for factual clarity

Ärvinski The Ephemeral @arvinski.bsky.social · 20h

Shiva is the archetype which most closely corresponds to the Information Age. I’d elaborate on the relationship, but the effort would be wasted here - a paradox, cursed and recursed, illustrating the proposition in granular detail. How ironic that incuriosity is the great plague of our time.

Avishek ghosh @avishekcolours.bsky.social · 22h

Shiva

Ärvinski The Ephemeral @arvinski.bsky.social · 1d

It's a pitiful thing, the instatiable appetite for celebrity - a character weakness that accounts for most of social media’s toxicity. So much exploitation is centered around it. The contemporary emphasis on “social capital” is an assault on critical thought and a plague on public discourse.

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Ärvinski The Ephemeral @arvinski.bsky.social · 1d

Planetary scientists could do the funniest thing right now.

#PlanetaryBiogenesis
#Cosmogenesis
#Disclosure

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DocLB2 @doclb2.bsky.social · 5d

“Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; they do great and beautiful things. And shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth about all this, so far as the truth is ascertainable?”

W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America

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Ärvinski The Ephemeral @arvinski.bsky.social · 1d

Don Draper was not in the office that day.

American Association of Wine Economists AAWE @wineecon.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating wine history: a 1970s Gallo Pink Chablis commercial. ‘It’s the finest wine in all the realm… And so great was her praise, the white wine blushed pink.’
Sound on!

Ärvinski The Ephemeral @arvinski.bsky.social · 1d

Ontological expectations - “positive" or “negative” - are usually based on Desire. Rarely is any desire greater than one’s hunger for Validation. The human preference for being right comes at the expense of self-correction. This is what makes Pride a vice and Humility a virtue. Conceits are deadly.

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Ärvinski The Ephemeral @arvinski.bsky.social · 1d

This isn't a well-received opinion. Mine rarely are. A lifetime of “saying the quiet part out loud” has endeared me to few. I appreciate the exceptions but value Consideration far more than Agreement. Better to bear the social penalties of honest self-expression than the weight and peril of Falsity.

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Ärvinski The Ephemeral @arvinski.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone needs something to relieve the cognitive overload and psychological stress of our shared paradigm collapse. Nature, music & sound design are my primary restoratives. Planetary science research is another, but that’s in a class of its own - and sometimes creates more stress than it relieves.

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Ärvinski The Ephemeral @arvinski.bsky.social · 2d

People aren't being honest with themselves or each other about the extent to which the public failed to hold its institutions and politicians accountable. Few United Statists have ever been aware of how authoritarian US culture is. It’s always been a propaganda state. Now it’s one with a schism.

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Ärvinski The Ephemeral @arvinski.bsky.social · 2d

If INFORMATION didn't have the potential to destroy ideology, billion$ wouldn't be concentrated in media consolidation. The illogic of reverse-engineering data to support Fascist ideology may be engrossing, but the core story is legislators/regulators betraying the public with impunity for decades.⚖️

Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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9 paints • 12 hrs
The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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Ilis Trudie 🏝 @ilistrudiepalmer.bsky.social · 2d

Those days,
When you have to find the headwaters
For healing.

#ThoseDays

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 2d

NEW
Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell’s entire “club fed” prison camp was placed on lockdown so she could meet with an unidentified visitor. 🧵 ⬇️

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Ärvinski The Ephemeral @arvinski.bsky.social · 2d

One need not be Catholic to appreciate the statement or the man who made it. I’m not, and I do.

SassySenora701 @sassysenior70.bsky.social · 3d

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 27d

"There is plenty of humor in Germany, more than enough. But we do not permit ourselves to be ridiculed."

www.abramsbooks.com/product/outr...

from Kliph Nesteroff's OUTRAGEOUS:
A comedian named Werner Fink was performing in a Berlin nightclub in 1935 when it was raided by police. Reuters reported, "Werner Finck, one of the best-known vaudeville stars in Germany, has been put in a concentration camp for "pulling the leg' of Nazi leaders ... He has been detained since in a secret police prison in Berlin. His 70-year-old mother has been unable to obtain any information regarding his whereabouts.
Actress Käthe Dorsch learned Fink was incarcerated at the Esterwegen concentration camp. She met directly with Nazi minister Hermann Göring to secure his release, and the comedian was freed in 1936.
"You know, it's funny," said Finck. "I walked around the camp and saw the walls, guards with their guns, and the heavy gates. Everybody told me how hard it was to get in-but all I did was speak one sentence."
Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels called Berlin comedians "society rabble and intellectual snobs." Goebbels said, "There is plenty of humor in Germany, more than enough. But we do not permit ourselves to be ridiculed ... Such jokes make us wretch."
Five more comedians were banned "for publicly ridiculing Nazi party and state functionaries [and making] Nazi leaders the butts of their jokes."
"Comedians have no right to be jocular about such things as the Nazi four-year economic plan or Adolf Hitler's demand for colonies because they are too important and require too much careful thinking on the part of big minds," said Goebbels. The Nazis banned nearly all comedy-with the exception of anti-Semitic jokes and racist humor.

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 2d

Rodolphe Bresdin, French (1825-1885), La comédie de la mort, 1854, lithograph on cream China paper laid down on white wove paper, image: 21.7 x 15 cm, sheet: 28.4 x 19.5 cm, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA

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Ärvinski The Ephemeral @arvinski.bsky.social · 2d

Expressing a grim perspective doesn’t make me a “doomer” or a cynic. People seeking encouragement or vibes need to say so. Otherwise, evaluating things •as they are• must be the primary responsibility. True insights can only emerge from honest analyses, not wishful thinking or preordained outcomes.

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Ärvinski The Ephemeral @arvinski.bsky.social · 2d

Where would critical stories be broadcast and published? The US aristocracy controls the vast majority of media corporations from which national narratives are constructed and maintained. This has been a significant problem for many years, and now it has metastasized into a reckoning - one of many.☠️

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Ärvinski The Ephemeral @arvinski.bsky.social · 2d

Distasteful observations, I know.

But somebody has to do it.

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Ärvinski The Ephemeral @arvinski.bsky.social · 2d

Not being drawn to emulations, I had to try Dawesome KONTRAST. As much as there is to like, it’s challenging to tame, and that’s fine since deconstructing its codex-like design is part of the appeal. Even so, it would be nice to conjure some gentle sounds from it. I’m hopeful we can evolve together.

3dcandy @3dcandy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d

Dawesome Kontrast released! https://3dcandy.live/2025/10/dawesome-kontrast-released/

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