Robert
@braveamateur.bsky.social
"They shout and curse, stabbing wildly, more brawlers than warriors. They make a wondrous mess of things. Brave amateurs, they do their part."
300 (2006)
300 (2006)
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I finished The Manticore a week ago or so. I read Fifth Business last year and liked it a lot so I had high expectations for this one. For some reason though this one was a bit underwhelming while I was reading it. 1/2 📚💙
December 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I finished The Manticore a week ago or so. I read Fifth Business last year and liked it a lot so I had high expectations for this one. For some reason though this one was a bit underwhelming while I was reading it. 1/2 📚💙
‘You thought this a few years ago, now you say something else,’ I reply, ‘Do you think I’ve worked so hard, all these years, to say the same thing and not be transformed?’
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We Alter Ourselves in What We Do
Interviewer: Your intellectual journey has been marked by several shifts. You’ve moved from Derrida to neuroscience, and your thinking has evolved to encompass the threats posed by artificial intel…
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December 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
‘You thought this a few years ago, now you say something else,’ I reply, ‘Do you think I’ve worked so hard, all these years, to say the same thing and not be transformed?’
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Every Friday is Black Friday at BDP.
November 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Every Friday is Black Friday at BDP.
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"You mustn't feel sorry for me. Don't you see I'm happy at last — free — free! — freed from the farm — free to wander on and on — eternally! Look! Isn't it beautiful beyond the hills? I can hear the old voices calling me to come..."
Robert: Act 3, Scene 2
~Eugene O'Neill
#books #literature
Robert: Act 3, Scene 2
~Eugene O'Neill
#books #literature
February 2, 2025 at 9:55 AM
"You mustn't feel sorry for me. Don't you see I'm happy at last — free — free! — freed from the farm — free to wander on and on — eternally! Look! Isn't it beautiful beyond the hills? I can hear the old voices calling me to come..."
Robert: Act 3, Scene 2
~Eugene O'Neill
#books #literature
Robert: Act 3, Scene 2
~Eugene O'Neill
#books #literature
I know someday, you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky
But why, why, why can't it be
Oh, can't it be mine?
I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky
But why, why, why can't it be
Oh, can't it be mine?
November 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I know someday, you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky
But why, why, why can't it be
Oh, can't it be mine?
I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky
But why, why, why can't it be
Oh, can't it be mine?
For anyone looking for #giftideas a pair of good slippers is hard to beat. These I got for Christmas last year or the year before and they are great.
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www.glerups.com/products/the...
November 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
For anyone looking for #giftideas a pair of good slippers is hard to beat. These I got for Christmas last year or the year before and they are great.
www.glerups.com/products/the...
www.glerups.com/products/the...
This is a fun and interesting little book. A bit of a noodle scratcher at times. This one's as "sprawling" and intricate as Inherent Vice but not quite as funny and entertaining imo. Still good though. I'll keep going with Pynchon. 1/2 📚💙
November 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is a fun and interesting little book. A bit of a noodle scratcher at times. This one's as "sprawling" and intricate as Inherent Vice but not quite as funny and entertaining imo. Still good though. I'll keep going with Pynchon. 1/2 📚💙
Looking forward to seeing Das Boot at the cinema next week. They're showing the 3,5 h director's cut. We have this small cinema in town with a beautiful art deco inspired room. They even serve food and drinks and this evening's special is German sausage with potato salad and sauerkraut. 😅 #moviesky
November 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Looking forward to seeing Das Boot at the cinema next week. They're showing the 3,5 h director's cut. We have this small cinema in town with a beautiful art deco inspired room. They even serve food and drinks and this evening's special is German sausage with potato salad and sauerkraut. 😅 #moviesky
"What I’m gravitating towards is work that feels more distinct. People who are off doing their own thing, on blogs or standalone websites."
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A Little More Distinct - thejaymo
What I’m gravitating towards is work that feels more distinct. People who are off doing their own thing, on blogs or standalone websites.
thejaymo.net
November 2, 2025 at 8:47 AM
"What I’m gravitating towards is work that feels more distinct. People who are off doing their own thing, on blogs or standalone websites."
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Pika - Start Your Happy Blog
Pika is a pretty good blogging platform built by the good people at Good Enough.
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November 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This month let's start a movement away from social networks. #nosocialsnovember Get ye to the blogiverse with 15% off your first year of pika.page using code NOSOCIALSNOVEMBER.
This is kinda interesting. I made my kids do something away from the screens, so they colored some. On the left is what our 14 yo did (she has normal vision) and on the right what the 11 yo did (she has #achromatopsia).
October 31, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This is kinda interesting. I made my kids do something away from the screens, so they colored some. On the left is what our 14 yo did (she has normal vision) and on the right what the 11 yo did (she has #achromatopsia).
"I don't even mind people who disagree with me politically. I just don't want them to talk to me about it."
This guy is great!
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This guy is great!
youtu.be/p6QtnoNFVgw?...
The Invasive Scourge of Teasel
YouTube video by Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't
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October 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"I don't even mind people who disagree with me politically. I just don't want them to talk to me about it."
This guy is great!
youtu.be/p6QtnoNFVgw?...
This guy is great!
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A small Lofoten tourism group announces they're shutting down their guides and possibly going bankrupt thanks to the loss in revenue from chatbots that steal and rephrase their content
None of this shit is inevitable. Fuck the slimy tech bros.
www.instagram.com/p/DPyRB-tDBf...
None of this shit is inevitable. Fuck the slimy tech bros.
www.instagram.com/p/DPyRB-tDBf...
October 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
A small Lofoten tourism group announces they're shutting down their guides and possibly going bankrupt thanks to the loss in revenue from chatbots that steal and rephrase their content
None of this shit is inevitable. Fuck the slimy tech bros.
www.instagram.com/p/DPyRB-tDBf...
None of this shit is inevitable. Fuck the slimy tech bros.
www.instagram.com/p/DPyRB-tDBf...
"This project is in effect as of now."
263 pages in (40% of the book) and the main plot is about to kick off! Lol
I think I expected this to be a bit more plot driven. It's what I imagine scrolling Wikipedia after listening to Joe Rogan talk about conspiracy theories would be like. 😅 #booksky
263 pages in (40% of the book) and the main plot is about to kick off! Lol
I think I expected this to be a bit more plot driven. It's what I imagine scrolling Wikipedia after listening to Joe Rogan talk about conspiracy theories would be like. 😅 #booksky
October 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
"This project is in effect as of now."
263 pages in (40% of the book) and the main plot is about to kick off! Lol
I think I expected this to be a bit more plot driven. It's what I imagine scrolling Wikipedia after listening to Joe Rogan talk about conspiracy theories would be like. 😅 #booksky
263 pages in (40% of the book) and the main plot is about to kick off! Lol
I think I expected this to be a bit more plot driven. It's what I imagine scrolling Wikipedia after listening to Joe Rogan talk about conspiracy theories would be like. 😅 #booksky
Went down a little rabbit hole of pics of iconic male actors smoking cigarettes. Man, a filterless cigarette stuck in the corner of the mouth, especially on some b&w old time iconic dude is a cool as hell look. If it weren't for all the negative sides to it, I'd be smoking in a heartbeat! 😅
October 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Went down a little rabbit hole of pics of iconic male actors smoking cigarettes. Man, a filterless cigarette stuck in the corner of the mouth, especially on some b&w old time iconic dude is a cool as hell look. If it weren't for all the negative sides to it, I'd be smoking in a heartbeat! 😅
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"It is a peculiar hallmark of the American economy that you can produce a dangerous product and effectively off-load any legal liability for whatever destruction the product may cause by pointing to the individual responsibility of the consumer." - Patrick Radden Keefe
#NowReading #booksky
#NowReading #booksky
September 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
"It is a peculiar hallmark of the American economy that you can produce a dangerous product and effectively off-load any legal liability for whatever destruction the product may cause by pointing to the individual responsibility of the consumer." - Patrick Radden Keefe
#NowReading #booksky
#NowReading #booksky
I don't remember the last time a text held my attention from beginning all the way to the end like this one. @michaelrance.bsky.social
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Dancing At the End of the World
Love, Joy, Fascism, & The End of the World.
www.michaelrance.news
September 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I don't remember the last time a text held my attention from beginning all the way to the end like this one. @michaelrance.bsky.social
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www.michaelrance.news/p/dancing-at...
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“It can often seem that those in power don’t want us to enjoy making things for ourselves — they’d prefer to establish a cultural hierarchy that devalues our amateur efforts and encourages consumption rather than creation.” — David Byrne
February 28, 2025 at 12:23 AM
“It can often seem that those in power don’t want us to enjoy making things for ourselves — they’d prefer to establish a cultural hierarchy that devalues our amateur efforts and encourages consumption rather than creation.” — David Byrne
"We trained our young men for victory...but they don't quite know how to act in defeat. We told them they were brighter and braver than other young men. It was a kind of shock to them to find out that they aren't a bit braver or brighter than other young men."
The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
August 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
"We trained our young men for victory...but they don't quite know how to act in defeat. We told them they were brighter and braver than other young men. It was a kind of shock to them to find out that they aren't a bit braver or brighter than other young men."
The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
This is a striking painting!
William Blake’s painting The Ghost of a Flea speaks to processing childhood trauma
White paint dots the flea’s eye, so that he appears to be both looking ahead and looking at us.
By Sarah Corbett
William Blake at PG:
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#books #art #literature
White paint dots the flea’s eye, so that he appears to be both looking ahead and looking at us.
By Sarah Corbett
William Blake at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...
#books #art #literature
August 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
This is a striking painting!
I really like the first two albums by Spiritworld, but I don't know what happened on this one.
I straight up lol'd when he started singing on the last song! 😅
The first two albums are still good though. #nowplaying
I straight up lol'd when he started singing on the last song! 😅
The first two albums are still good though. #nowplaying
August 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I really like the first two albums by Spiritworld, but I don't know what happened on this one.
I straight up lol'd when he started singing on the last song! 😅
The first two albums are still good though. #nowplaying
I straight up lol'd when he started singing on the last song! 😅
The first two albums are still good though. #nowplaying
These came in the mail the other day. I've wanted to read the Eco for a long time, but I'm really looking forward to the Rachilde. Don't really know that much about it, other than that it may have inspired Robert Eggers' The Lighthouse which is one of my favorite movies. @wakefieldpress.bsky.social
August 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
These came in the mail the other day. I've wanted to read the Eco for a long time, but I'm really looking forward to the Rachilde. Don't really know that much about it, other than that it may have inspired Robert Eggers' The Lighthouse which is one of my favorite movies. @wakefieldpress.bsky.social