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To ALL the bsky.social users whose posted images, poems & words of wisdom, affirm & reaffirm that the world & some [sadly, not all] humans in it, are beautiful, undeserved gifts to me, that are far beyond my capacity & ability to ever repay.
"Only the best people". After all +77M sane, eyes-wide open, adults looked at the evidence & said: Nah! we'll take the 6x bankrupt, 2x divorced, $¼ MILLION-per-bonk-paying, Drink Disinfectant, drowning-in-debt, scoff-law, self-confessed, jury-of-his-peers-adjudged 34 felony count convict 'genius.'
December 13, 2025 at 2:46 AM
"Only the best people". After all +77M sane, eyes-wide open, adults looked at the evidence & said: Nah! we'll take the 6x bankrupt, 2x divorced, $¼ MILLION-per-bonk-paying, Drink Disinfectant, drowning-in-debt, scoff-law, self-confessed, jury-of-his-peers-adjudged 34 felony count convict 'genius.'
Are you surprised! He's a hero of other kinds of "wars". In the British Army, the Victoria Cross is the HIGHEST and MOST PRESTIGIOUS decoration awarded for valor & its recipient include the post-nominal letters "VC" after their name. Should not then our Commander-in-Chief have after his name "VD"?
December 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Are you surprised! He's a hero of other kinds of "wars". In the British Army, the Victoria Cross is the HIGHEST and MOST PRESTIGIOUS decoration awarded for valor & its recipient include the post-nominal letters "VC" after their name. Should not then our Commander-in-Chief have after his name "VD"?
هَـٰذَا خَلْقُ ٱللَّهِ فَأَرُونِى مَاذَا خَلَقَ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن دُونِهِ I've been champion idiot of my village for longer than anyone remembers so it follows that I'm amazed at God's—or if you like, Whatever's—AC unit that works as well as it does with or without windows whenever He/It pleases. Imagine freezing a river! Dang!
December 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
هَـٰذَا خَلْقُ ٱللَّهِ فَأَرُونِى مَاذَا خَلَقَ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن دُونِهِ I've been champion idiot of my village for longer than anyone remembers so it follows that I'm amazed at God's—or if you like, Whatever's—AC unit that works as well as it does with or without windows whenever He/It pleases. Imagine freezing a river! Dang!
I realize I'm repeating myself but, true is true & Truth & Reality never ever out of fashion; like the sun that has risen, and will rise every day, day in, day out 365 days each year for the past nearly 4.6 billion years and the next 5 billion years it reportedly still has left to shine.
December 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I realize I'm repeating myself but, true is true & Truth & Reality never ever out of fashion; like the sun that has risen, and will rise every day, day in, day out 365 days each year for the past nearly 4.6 billion years and the next 5 billion years it reportedly still has left to shine.
Profanity, I’ve long believed, is a sign of a limited vocabulary but there are no words that encompass the obscenity that is Trump, his goon squad & those who voted for him; & the only way to describe them is profanity that will peel the paint off your walls & make your ears bleed: !₱@#🤬!?🤯&*👆🏻$₴
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December 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Profanity, I’ve long believed, is a sign of a limited vocabulary but there are no words that encompass the obscenity that is Trump, his goon squad & those who voted for him; & the only way to describe them is profanity that will peel the paint off your walls & make your ears bleed: !₱@#🤬!?🤯&*👆🏻$₴
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Love the sight of the sea. As I noted in a post I saw yesterday about Voyager1, we are like a little boy on beach trying to decipher the Reality that is the ocean from the film of water that sticks to his finger after he dips his finger in the water & pulls it out. & then there’s “Dover Beach”
December 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Love the sight of the sea. As I noted in a post I saw yesterday about Voyager1, we are like a little boy on beach trying to decipher the Reality that is the ocean from the film of water that sticks to his finger after he dips his finger in the water & pulls it out. & then there’s “Dover Beach”
strangely, though none of them likely has or will ever have any need for ALL of it, or any hope of spending it on anything remotely defined as reasonably essential to, or for a normal human beings life; the wealth they already have is NOT ENOUGH, making them living embodiments of dogs in mangers.
December 12, 2025 at 4:10 AM
strangely, though none of them likely has or will ever have any need for ALL of it, or any hope of spending it on anything remotely defined as reasonably essential to, or for a normal human beings life; the wealth they already have is NOT ENOUGH, making them living embodiments of dogs in mangers.
هَـٰذَا خَلْقُ ٱللَّهِ فَأَرُونِى مَاذَا خَلَقَ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن دُونِهِ
I paid no attention to lichen & moss until I saw a photo like this a few weeks ago & what I learned about them stunned me. Set aside JWST, I'd like to see the AI BS-wizards make a smidgen of spontaneously self-replicating, self-perpetuating lichens or moss
I paid no attention to lichen & moss until I saw a photo like this a few weeks ago & what I learned about them stunned me. Set aside JWST, I'd like to see the AI BS-wizards make a smidgen of spontaneously self-replicating, self-perpetuating lichens or moss
December 12, 2025 at 3:44 AM
هَـٰذَا خَلْقُ ٱللَّهِ فَأَرُونِى مَاذَا خَلَقَ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن دُونِهِ
I paid no attention to lichen & moss until I saw a photo like this a few weeks ago & what I learned about them stunned me. Set aside JWST, I'd like to see the AI BS-wizards make a smidgen of spontaneously self-replicating, self-perpetuating lichens or moss
I paid no attention to lichen & moss until I saw a photo like this a few weeks ago & what I learned about them stunned me. Set aside JWST, I'd like to see the AI BS-wizards make a smidgen of spontaneously self-replicating, self-perpetuating lichens or moss
"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper." - W.B. Yeats
from: fravery.tumblr.com
from: fravery.tumblr.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper." - W.B. Yeats
from: fravery.tumblr.com
from: fravery.tumblr.com
Backyard Begonia
fom: www.tumblr.com/rafefar
fom: www.tumblr.com/rafefar
December 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Backyard Begonia
fom: www.tumblr.com/rafefar
fom: www.tumblr.com/rafefar
Would that we could live with such elegant delicacy as this butterfly which (like bees)—make no mistake—is raiding & plundering that plant but leaving it more or less intact & able to live & flourish.
December 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Would that we could live with such elegant delicacy as this butterfly which (like bees)—make no mistake—is raiding & plundering that plant but leaving it more or less intact & able to live & flourish.
Word of caution: Don't count on "the voters". In spite of, & in the the evidence ⇩ ⇩: +77M elected. CHOSE this s***t-show. Remember Jesus عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَاوَةُ وَٱلسَّلَامُ? I hear he healed the blind, the lame & lepers; walked on water, fed multitudes & raised the dead, but the crowd still went for Barrabas.
December 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Word of caution: Don't count on "the voters". In spite of, & in the the evidence ⇩ ⇩: +77M elected. CHOSE this s***t-show. Remember Jesus عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَاوَةُ وَٱلسَّلَامُ? I hear he healed the blind, the lame & lepers; walked on water, fed multitudes & raised the dead, but the crowd still went for Barrabas.
“No Congre vote?” Are you surprised? Trump & much of Congress were ELECTED, CHOSEN. Why? Beats me, but what IS clear is that Trump & his Circle Jerk buddies are NOT the problem. They were put there by +77M people who can’t do simple math & can’t foresee what happens when you put foxes in a henhouse.
December 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
“No Congre vote?” Are you surprised? Trump & much of Congress were ELECTED, CHOSEN. Why? Beats me, but what IS clear is that Trump & his Circle Jerk buddies are NOT the problem. They were put there by +77M people who can’t do simple math & can’t foresee what happens when you put foxes in a henhouse.
Seeing is more than sight; it requires also insight. Vision is sight (subjective, internal) & light (objective, external): a perfectly functioning eye is useless in the dark. Seeing is more than looking that requires understanding; & sometimes seeing not only WHAT IS THERE, but seeing WHAT IS NOT.
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Seeing is more than sight; it requires also insight. Vision is sight (subjective, internal) & light (objective, external): a perfectly functioning eye is useless in the dark. Seeing is more than looking that requires understanding; & sometimes seeing not only WHAT IS THERE, but seeing WHAT IS NOT.
I'd intended to include the following images in my previous post about what it is exactly that can, in this amazing, stupefyingly incomprehensible universe, be gleaned ONLY from photographs of objects taken from distances that can ONLY be detailed in parsecs. Are we humble enough to "see" anything?
December 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I'd intended to include the following images in my previous post about what it is exactly that can, in this amazing, stupefyingly incomprehensible universe, be gleaned ONLY from photographs of objects taken from distances that can ONLY be detailed in parsecs. Are we humble enough to "see" anything?
Yes! AGAIN, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT PREACHING! I just stating obvious truths ⇩ that ALL people should follow, but which few do, and our current crop of leaders ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT—not even, even especially not even—the (so-called) Muslim leaders:
December 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Yes! AGAIN, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT PREACHING! I just stating obvious truths ⇩ that ALL people should follow, but which few do, and our current crop of leaders ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT—not even, even especially not even—the (so-called) Muslim leaders:
Granted. We ARE special. But look how we behave! Look who we elected! I worked as a prosecutor in Zimbabwe for many years all the way up to the Supreme Court & "got" 12 death sentences. I was also a public defender for 4 years in the US & to me, electing any felon is bonkers, but THIS ONE??
December 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Granted. We ARE special. But look how we behave! Look who we elected! I worked as a prosecutor in Zimbabwe for many years all the way up to the Supreme Court & "got" 12 death sentences. I was also a public defender for 4 years in the US & to me, electing any felon is bonkers, but THIS ONE??
We humans really act way too big for our boots. We’re Johnny-come-lately’s who’ve only been able to peer into space for less than 1 millionth of 1% of the history of the universe; but we talk like we had it all figured out & can’t understand why JWST keeps telling us to put it in a pipe & smoke it!
December 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
We humans really act way too big for our boots. We’re Johnny-come-lately’s who’ve only been able to peer into space for less than 1 millionth of 1% of the history of the universe; but we talk like we had it all figured out & can’t understand why JWST keeps telling us to put it in a pipe & smoke it!
"... JUST 5.5 million light years long but ONLY 117,000 light years wide.” Really!?!?! Really!?!?! Really!?!?! ... The blasé, casual nonchalance with which some of us talk about the awesome Reality that is the universe is, in my—& it is just MY—opinion, criminal and should not be allowed! See ⇩
December 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"... JUST 5.5 million light years long but ONLY 117,000 light years wide.” Really!?!?! Really!?!?! Really!?!?! ... The blasé, casual nonchalance with which some of us talk about the awesome Reality that is the universe is, in my—& it is just MY—opinion, criminal and should not be allowed! See ⇩
I AM NOT PREACHING but Life—like it or not—is A SUBJECTiVE EXPERIENCE; when I vomit, my mouth is befouled & when I die, I WILL die & be BURIED ALONE. SO WILL EVERYONE ELSE DIE & BE BURIED/cremated ALONE. Here ⇩ —TAKE OR LEAVE IT—is a REMINDER OF A FORGOTTEN REALITY: ALTRUISM IS SELF INTEREST
December 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I AM NOT PREACHING but Life—like it or not—is A SUBJECTiVE EXPERIENCE; when I vomit, my mouth is befouled & when I die, I WILL die & be BURIED ALONE. SO WILL EVERYONE ELSE DIE & BE BURIED/cremated ALONE. Here ⇩ —TAKE OR LEAVE IT—is a REMINDER OF A FORGOTTEN REALITY: ALTRUISM IS SELF INTEREST
About the "I don't always understand what I am saying either"; does anyone? These days life looks like a tableau of the blind leading the blind. see: chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-rule-o... & chrishedges.substack.com/p/america-is... & my earlier post bsky.app/profile/ibnt...
December 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
About the "I don't always understand what I am saying either"; does anyone? These days life looks like a tableau of the blind leading the blind. see: chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-rule-o... & chrishedges.substack.com/p/america-is... & my earlier post bsky.app/profile/ibnt...
Horses fascinate & perplex me. Why DO they do the things for us that they do—often at great expense and danger to themselves—run senseless mile-long races over hurdles, for OUR enrichment or impoverishment; carry us into war; & haul our burdens? Some comments ⇩ I've collected in search of answers:
December 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Horses fascinate & perplex me. Why DO they do the things for us that they do—often at great expense and danger to themselves—run senseless mile-long races over hurdles, for OUR enrichment or impoverishment; carry us into war; & haul our burdens? Some comments ⇩ I've collected in search of answers:
This is true: A sage said that you can dig anywhere in the world and you would be sure to find a treasure, provided you dig with the heart of a peasant. Gratitude is the appetizer that beats all appetizers.
December 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
This is true: A sage said that you can dig anywhere in the world and you would be sure to find a treasure, provided you dig with the heart of a peasant. Gratitude is the appetizer that beats all appetizers.