c.c. o'hanlon
@ccohanlon.bsky.social
vagabond. sea-dweller. diarist. wreck.
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#nobots
"So here is us, on the raggedy edge."
– from the film Serenity (2005)
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#nobots
"So here is us, on the raggedy edge."
– from the film Serenity (2005)
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A world of spiteful children in positions of power should long ago ceased to be shocking. We should no longer be the toys they get to smash their oversize dumper trucks into. We must poison their sandpits. Lace their building blocks with psychoactive substances.
January 15, 2026 at 4:25 PM
A world of spiteful children in positions of power should long ago ceased to be shocking. We should no longer be the toys they get to smash their oversize dumper trucks into. We must poison their sandpits. Lace their building blocks with psychoactive substances.
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"Texts from nature, from the universe, and they remind us that symmetry co-exists with chaos, that ingenuities outflank fatalities, that what is desired is more reassuring than what is promised."
-John Berger, "How to Resist A State of Forgetting"
[Robert Smithson, designs for Spiral Jetty, 1970]
-John Berger, "How to Resist A State of Forgetting"
[Robert Smithson, designs for Spiral Jetty, 1970]
January 16, 2026 at 11:22 PM
"Texts from nature, from the universe, and they remind us that symmetry co-exists with chaos, that ingenuities outflank fatalities, that what is desired is more reassuring than what is promised."
-John Berger, "How to Resist A State of Forgetting"
[Robert Smithson, designs for Spiral Jetty, 1970]
-John Berger, "How to Resist A State of Forgetting"
[Robert Smithson, designs for Spiral Jetty, 1970]
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Ed Herring. Some dimensions of my Lunch, 1970
May 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Ed Herring. Some dimensions of my Lunch, 1970
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Ed Herring. Some dimensions of my Lunch, 1970
May 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Ed Herring. Some dimensions of my Lunch, 1970
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
– Cormac McCarthy, from No Country For Old Men, 2005.
[via @peterjosyph.bsky.social]
– Cormac McCarthy, from No Country For Old Men, 2005.
[via @peterjosyph.bsky.social]
January 17, 2026 at 4:56 AM
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
– Cormac McCarthy, from No Country For Old Men, 2005.
[via @peterjosyph.bsky.social]
– Cormac McCarthy, from No Country For Old Men, 2005.
[via @peterjosyph.bsky.social]
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Yes. Do you know how many families are being supported by their neighbors right now? Families afraid to leave home being fed by their neighborhoods; immigrant communities feeding the old hippies standing on their street corners with whistles in 10-degree snowstorms. They cannot break us
Is everyone in MN a hero?
January 17, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Yes. Do you know how many families are being supported by their neighbors right now? Families afraid to leave home being fed by their neighborhoods; immigrant communities feeding the old hippies standing on their street corners with whistles in 10-degree snowstorms. They cannot break us
"At the end of the day, this is not about bacteria, it is about whether the basic assumptions of modern life can still be trusted... I wish we all knew when to trust the intelligence that remains, even as the systems around us fray."
– Peter Bach, @lyst.bsky.social, on our muliplying uncertainties.
– Peter Bach, @lyst.bsky.social, on our muliplying uncertainties.
Diary of Unexpected Continuities
I have written before about my yoga teaching friend, someone with whom I have experienced more altered perceptions and distorted senses of time than with
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January 17, 2026 at 4:27 AM
"At the end of the day, this is not about bacteria, it is about whether the basic assumptions of modern life can still be trusted... I wish we all knew when to trust the intelligence that remains, even as the systems around us fray."
– Peter Bach, @lyst.bsky.social, on our muliplying uncertainties.
– Peter Bach, @lyst.bsky.social, on our muliplying uncertainties.
I give in and keep an afternoon appointment with a local doctor — who tells I'm (still) positive for COVID. My breathing's laboured and my lungs creak like they're made of wattle and daub.
I just want to lie down. Anywhere.
I just want to lie down. Anywhere.
January 16, 2026 at 8:24 PM
I give in and keep an afternoon appointment with a local doctor — who tells I'm (still) positive for COVID. My breathing's laboured and my lungs creak like they're made of wattle and daub.
I just want to lie down. Anywhere.
I just want to lie down. Anywhere.
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How I feel about Greenland. www.smh.com.au/traveller/in...
I rarely come back from a trip changed – until I went here
A lot of the things I was worrying about suddenly seemed trivial in the face of what these people contentedly endured.
www.smh.com.au
January 5, 2026 at 11:49 PM
How I feel about Greenland. www.smh.com.au/traveller/in...
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Launching into frenzied refit of S/V Salish Nomad for a circumnavigation of the Pacific Ring of Fire. Hopefully departure date 2027.
#sailing #oceanography
#sailing #oceanography
January 8, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Launching into frenzied refit of S/V Salish Nomad for a circumnavigation of the Pacific Ring of Fire. Hopefully departure date 2027.
#sailing #oceanography
#sailing #oceanography
Wake in darkness — 04:45am — then spend ten minutes sat on the edge of the bed, trying to stifle a chest-wracking cough.
January 16, 2026 at 4:06 AM
Wake in darkness — 04:45am — then spend ten minutes sat on the edge of the bed, trying to stifle a chest-wracking cough.
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You should follow the David Graeber Institute (he wrote some good books too). And I’ve been saying this for a long time. Change does not come from above. They like to take credit for the things people win in the streets. But change does not come from above.
One thing today has shown is that ordinary people who are politically active protesting their Govt, they are far braver than any of the career politicians running the Govt.
And frankly without such brave people, we would not even have the limited rights that we do have.
And frankly without such brave people, we would not even have the limited rights that we do have.
January 7, 2026 at 11:58 PM
You should follow the David Graeber Institute (he wrote some good books too). And I’ve been saying this for a long time. Change does not come from above. They like to take credit for the things people win in the streets. But change does not come from above.
Given returns from a trip to the grocery store in tears: pick-pocketed on a crowded bus, she has lost her wallet, passport, prescriptions, everything. We've spent the past hour on the phone with our son and online filing paperwork with the carabinieri, Wise, and the US embassy.
[silent scream]
[silent scream]
January 15, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Given returns from a trip to the grocery store in tears: pick-pocketed on a crowded bus, she has lost her wallet, passport, prescriptions, everything. We've spent the past hour on the phone with our son and online filing paperwork with the carabinieri, Wise, and the US embassy.
[silent scream]
[silent scream]
"Surveys suggested a significant minority in Iran preferred Western powers not intervene at all, seeing the movement as an internal struggle. Some also noted the irony of American authorities shooting their own citizens while condemning Iran for doing likewise."
– Peter Bach, @lyst.bsky.social
– Peter Bach, @lyst.bsky.social
Protest, Pressure, and the Risk of Misreading Iran
Reza Pahlavi, the crown prince of Iran, released a video in Farsi last week calling on Iranians to go outside on Thursday and Friday evenings at 8pm. He
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January 14, 2026 at 9:55 AM
"Surveys suggested a significant minority in Iran preferred Western powers not intervene at all, seeing the movement as an internal struggle. Some also noted the irony of American authorities shooting their own citizens while condemning Iran for doing likewise."
– Peter Bach, @lyst.bsky.social
– Peter Bach, @lyst.bsky.social
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Pueblo Nuevo
bunk beds
in the dorm of a deserted school
striped and stained mattresses
on the headboards
chalked numbers
-Beatrice Caracciolo,
from “Journey Book: Mexico”
(trans. Gustaf Sobin & Eliot Weinberger)
bunk beds
in the dorm of a deserted school
striped and stained mattresses
on the headboards
chalked numbers
-Beatrice Caracciolo,
from “Journey Book: Mexico”
(trans. Gustaf Sobin & Eliot Weinberger)
December 12, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Pueblo Nuevo
bunk beds
in the dorm of a deserted school
striped and stained mattresses
on the headboards
chalked numbers
-Beatrice Caracciolo,
from “Journey Book: Mexico”
(trans. Gustaf Sobin & Eliot Weinberger)
bunk beds
in the dorm of a deserted school
striped and stained mattresses
on the headboards
chalked numbers
-Beatrice Caracciolo,
from “Journey Book: Mexico”
(trans. Gustaf Sobin & Eliot Weinberger)
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"The boat drifts down the river in soft rain.
A school of mullet, passing, sprays the surface; a heron quawks once, passing over, under a hidden moon."
--Peter Matthiessen, in Far Tortuga
A school of mullet, passing, sprays the surface; a heron quawks once, passing over, under a hidden moon."
--Peter Matthiessen, in Far Tortuga
September 23, 2024 at 12:12 PM
"The boat drifts down the river in soft rain.
A school of mullet, passing, sprays the surface; a heron quawks once, passing over, under a hidden moon."
--Peter Matthiessen, in Far Tortuga
A school of mullet, passing, sprays the surface; a heron quawks once, passing over, under a hidden moon."
--Peter Matthiessen, in Far Tortuga
A hacking cough through the graveyard hours, unable to get the spasms to stop — my head and torso clammy, vision blurry.
January 11, 2026 at 2:15 AM
A hacking cough through the graveyard hours, unable to get the spasms to stop — my head and torso clammy, vision blurry.
Day eight of whatever it is — flu, COVID, viral pneumonia — that's got a grip on me. Prolonged bouts of coughing, hot flashes, occasional difficulty breathing, tiredness.
January 10, 2026 at 6:51 AM
Day eight of whatever it is — flu, COVID, viral pneumonia — that's got a grip on me. Prolonged bouts of coughing, hot flashes, occasional difficulty breathing, tiredness.
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My wife in her muscle car, a '63 Chevy Impala SuperSport coupé — outside the pool house on Fremont Place, near Hancock Park, Los Angeles that was our first home together, 1989. Singer Lou Rawls and Muhammad Ali were our next-door neighbours.
The cool drawing of us is by @brianmchenry.bsky.social
The cool drawing of us is by @brianmchenry.bsky.social
December 17, 2024 at 3:56 PM
My wife in her muscle car, a '63 Chevy Impala SuperSport coupé — outside the pool house on Fremont Place, near Hancock Park, Los Angeles that was our first home together, 1989. Singer Lou Rawls and Muhammad Ali were our next-door neighbours.
The cool drawing of us is by @brianmchenry.bsky.social
The cool drawing of us is by @brianmchenry.bsky.social
Woke before dawn, coughing violently, a taste of copper at the back of my throat. The kitchen paper I was using to cover my mouth was saturated with blood.
January 8, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Woke before dawn, coughing violently, a taste of copper at the back of my throat. The kitchen paper I was using to cover my mouth was saturated with blood.
My wife and our youngest are bundled up on the sofa watching Twilight...I keep longing for Kristen Stewart to have a Damascene transformation, then Buffy-like, pull an 18" wooden stake from her shorts and hammer it into Edward's sanctimonious heart.
January 8, 2026 at 12:26 AM
My wife and our youngest are bundled up on the sofa watching Twilight...I keep longing for Kristen Stewart to have a Damascene transformation, then Buffy-like, pull an 18" wooden stake from her shorts and hammer it into Edward's sanctimonious heart.
Given, our youngest daughter, and I are bed-ridden with an aggressive flu: headaches, fever, hot and cold sweats, and raspy coughs.
Bloody miserable.
Bloody miserable.
January 5, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Given, our youngest daughter, and I are bed-ridden with an aggressive flu: headaches, fever, hot and cold sweats, and raspy coughs.
Bloody miserable.
Bloody miserable.
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Late afternoon at Winter Cove, Saturna Island🇨🇦. Calm, chilly days in the Gulf Islands and the bays are deserted; but the nights are long...
January 1, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Late afternoon at Winter Cove, Saturna Island🇨🇦. Calm, chilly days in the Gulf Islands and the bays are deserted; but the nights are long...
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Note to self.
[from Albert Camus' Notebooks, 1935-1842]
[from Albert Camus' Notebooks, 1935-1842]
April 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Note to self.
[from Albert Camus' Notebooks, 1935-1842]
[from Albert Camus' Notebooks, 1935-1842]