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Myles Byrne @neuroplastic.bsky.social · 8d

My photo method has never worked so well as it does here 🍁🍂

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Myles Byrne @neuroplastic.bsky.social · 8d

3rd time in Lapland, in Finland this Autumn ..

.. no distractions:

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Myles Byrne @neuroplastic.bsky.social · 8d

2nd time in Lapland, i was distracted by snow (snowboarding fells in Finland)

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Myles Byrne @neuroplastic.bsky.social · 8d

On a 3rd extended stay in Lapland:

1st time in Lapland, i was distracted by mountains (Norway)

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Myles Byrne @neuroplastic.bsky.social · 20d

💯- Christian Petzold did a subtle remake of Casablanca in 2018:

Transit (2018) ⭐ 6.9 | Drama, Sci-Fi

1h 41m | Not Rated

www.imdb.com

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 20d

Elders need to act like elders

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20d

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

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Myles Byrne @neuroplastic.bsky.social · 20d

Me too.

What scares me most is how security states are reacting to the concept.

Myles Byrne @neuroplastic.bsky.social · 22d

The theory events since 2016 have driven me to is that authoritarianism is agentified dieback. Fascists are the leaders of doomed populations in overshoot.

When things are in balance, natural democracy -> anarcho-socialism -> bonobism emerges.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 22d

With no sense of irony President Trump says, "We're got a lot of
stupid people in this country running things"

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 22d

This.

Or how one of the best selling books of IIRC 1912 was Norman Angell’s book that explained in great detail and - as it turned out - accurately that a major war in Europe would be ruinously expensive *even for the victors.*

(He didn’t claim war would be impossible, as is sometimes claimed.)

Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 22d

I think I discounted just how unprofitable and stupid war already was in 1939.

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Myles Byrne @neuroplastic.bsky.social · 22d

Autists also call it what it is - probably the reason the anti-president is targeting them (by attacking science, where high-func. autists reign).

Myles Byrne @neuroplastic.bsky.social · 22d

The theory events since 2016 have driven me to is that authoritarianism is agentified dieback. Fascists are the leaders of doomed populations in overshoot.

When things are in balance, natural democracy -> anarcho-socialism -> bonobism emerges.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 22d

With no sense of irony President Trump says, "We're got a lot of
stupid people in this country running things"

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Dominic 🔵 @dominictarr.bsky.social · 22d

this is why villains never have competent helpers

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 25d

Another idea: the post-war Ukrainian navy needs new ships. Why not give them, say, an air defence missile frigate for training in the Baltic?

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Myles Byrne @neuroplastic.bsky.social · 28d

Indelible sexy, campy, pop party of a staging, in the oldest theatre in 🇫🇮, reminiscent of Baz Luhrmann's 1996 Romeo + Juliet, with a blazing fireball of a Mercutio.

Would see again.

abosvenskateater.fi/en/repertoir...

Romeo and Juliet - Åbo Svenska Teater

The fervour of youth, immortality, liberation, revolt, conscious defiance. In Romeo and Juliet we'll see a powerful and energetic ensemble, great personalities and future stars!

abosvenskateater.fi

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Myles Byrne @neuroplastic.bsky.social · 29d

.. although the Gutenberg-via-Burroughs-via-Lovecraft printing press we currently have is an interesting phase.

Spoiler (what i'm currently working on):

AI means we get the full Gutenberg + @timbernerslee.bsky.social printing press in the next phase.

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Myles Byrne @neuroplastic.bsky.social · 29d

SirTimBL's new book:

"Like a letter from Johannes Gutenberg about what he hoped the printing press could be" ..

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observer.co.uk/culture/book...

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · Sep 10

American Years of Lead Paint

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Myles Byrne @neuroplastic.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Myles Byrne @neuroplastic.bsky.social · Sep 9

If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula

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Myles Byrne @neuroplastic.bsky.social · Sep 8

the Navier-Stokes equations both generally had smooth solutions and described social dynamics *as the cure for cancer*

(the truly great crank physicists always cross over to cancer biology)

Myles Byrne @neuroplastic.bsky.social · Sep 6

Both Sebald and Borges saw her in Vejer de la Frontera, wearing the black Mantua silk from Norwich as a cobijada.

They would never forget her.

es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobijada

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Myles Byrne @neuroplastic.bsky.social · Sep 5

'Some authors have argued that he was the serial killer known as Jack the Ripper, or that he was otherwise involved in the murders, but contemporaneous documents show that Albert Victor could not have been in London at the time of the murders, and the claim is widely dismissed.'

Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Myles Byrne @neuroplastic.bsky.social · Sep 5

Wow, there it is - Max's mourning dress for "our history, but a long account of calamities" (in the closing paragraph of Rings of Saturn).

In turn, i looked up pandemic victim Prince Albert Victor:

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Myles Byrne @neuroplastic.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Myles Byrne @neuroplastic.bsky.social · Sep 3

Yes, a prank from a cross between Borges and Pagliacci:

'drape black mourning ribbons over mirrors and canvasses depicting landscapes or people, so that the soul would not be distracted on its final journey, either by a reflection of itself or by a last glimpse of the land now being lost forever'

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Myles Byrne @neuroplastic.bsky.social · Sep 3

'a breathtaking gown of black Mantua silk, a length of sixty paces, which the Norwich silk weavers Willett & Nephew created uniquely for this occasion, in order to demonstrate their unsurpassed skills in the manufacture of mourning silks'

.. that's some commitment to Max's tricks!

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