Paul
@proteanclod.bsky.social
Almost visible through the fog I love. An affinity with corvids. A devotee of the hypnogogic state.
many questions
My appetite is not lessened and work seems quite horrid in prospect.
January 30, 2026 at 11:36 AM
many questions
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My feed is dominated by sand discourse and it feels very nice.
Almost as nice as very fine sand, which (sometimes) squeaks when you walk on it.
Almost as nice as very fine sand, which (sometimes) squeaks when you walk on it.
I suppose it's a good moment to mention that the most neglected subdivision of sand is 'very fine' (63-125 µm)
so many people, including some sedimentologists, will just completely skip over 'very fine' and go from silt to 'fine' sand (125-250 µm)
don't forget about 'very fine' sand! 😁
so many people, including some sedimentologists, will just completely skip over 'very fine' and go from silt to 'fine' sand (125-250 µm)
don't forget about 'very fine' sand! 😁
January 29, 2026 at 4:27 PM
My feed is dominated by sand discourse and it feels very nice.
Almost as nice as very fine sand, which (sometimes) squeaks when you walk on it.
Almost as nice as very fine sand, which (sometimes) squeaks when you walk on it.
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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Hey, time for a two-fer. Birds and forest! #FlyDay #ForestFriday #NehalemBay #Oregon #Birds #Trees #Photography 📷
January 24, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Hey, time for a two-fer. Birds and forest! #FlyDay #ForestFriday #NehalemBay #Oregon #Birds #Trees #Photography 📷
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For the love of books, please don't put clear sleeves on your books' dust jackets without wiping off the dust and the sticker residue 😩
Wipe the book gently with 70% rubbing alcohol if the cover is glossy, or dust thoroughly if it has a papery finish.
Otherwise you're basically begging for foxing.
Wipe the book gently with 70% rubbing alcohol if the cover is glossy, or dust thoroughly if it has a papery finish.
Otherwise you're basically begging for foxing.
January 13, 2026 at 10:59 PM
For the love of books, please don't put clear sleeves on your books' dust jackets without wiping off the dust and the sticker residue 😩
Wipe the book gently with 70% rubbing alcohol if the cover is glossy, or dust thoroughly if it has a papery finish.
Otherwise you're basically begging for foxing.
Wipe the book gently with 70% rubbing alcohol if the cover is glossy, or dust thoroughly if it has a papery finish.
Otherwise you're basically begging for foxing.
Who could have thought aspirin was so potent?
January 3, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Who could have thought aspirin was so potent?
And why 'his wife' although at this stage that's probably a trivial question?
January 3, 2026 at 9:41 AM
And why 'his wife' although at this stage that's probably a trivial question?
Has anyone thought this through?
January 3, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Has anyone thought this through?
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In the coming year, I wish you all a thriving community
December 31, 2025 at 6:05 PM
In the coming year, I wish you all a thriving community
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Your periodic reminder that climate change means levels of migration will increase sharply in the coming years and we either find an effective and humane way to manage that or we invite ever more chaos and suffering.
November 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Your periodic reminder that climate change means levels of migration will increase sharply in the coming years and we either find an effective and humane way to manage that or we invite ever more chaos and suffering.
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You are defining refugees as OTHER for the rest of their lives Ms Mahmood. That is nothing other than a far right policy.
#BBCLauraK
#BBCLauraK
November 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM
You are defining refugees as OTHER for the rest of their lives Ms Mahmood. That is nothing other than a far right policy.
#BBCLauraK
#BBCLauraK
Shabana Mahmood's divisive, hate-fuelled intervention is suggestive of a basic moral faultline going well beyond migration & the politics of migration, as usually grasped. It places blaming & scapegoating at the very core of being - the Other as always already responsible for 'my'/ 'our' suffering/
November 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Shabana Mahmood's divisive, hate-fuelled intervention is suggestive of a basic moral faultline going well beyond migration & the politics of migration, as usually grasped. It places blaming & scapegoating at the very core of being - the Other as always already responsible for 'my'/ 'our' suffering/
'I (WE!)' is priceless - a psychiatric case study in microcosm!
Trump didn’t “win a war” on the “climate change hoax,” but he is waging a war on the truth. Autocrats rewrite reality to consolidate control.
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
'I (WE!)' is priceless - a psychiatric case study in microcosm!
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Sometimes "fuck off" just isn't emphatic enough.
This is obscene.
This is obscene.
November 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Sometimes "fuck off" just isn't emphatic enough.
This is obscene.
This is obscene.
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“I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.”
― Edmund Husserl
― Edmund Husserl
November 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
“I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.”
― Edmund Husserl
― Edmund Husserl
I tend to react slightly queasily to the term 'a class act', but if it has meaning at all, she is one!
“One of the college staff recalls how on one visit a student produced a Sharpie and asked Atwood to sign his backside. She obliged, apparently. She can’t remember signing any bottoms, she says later, “but it sounds like the sort of thing I might do”.”
‘It is the scariest of times’: Margaret Atwood on defying Trump, banned books – and her score-settling memoir
At 86, she’s a literary seer and saint – and queen of the Canadian resistance. So what does the writer make of our dystopian world?
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I tend to react slightly queasily to the term 'a class act', but if it has meaning at all, she is one!
The logical transatlantic corollary would be to strip the inflammatory turnip of the presidency and all his other civil powers but to formally anoint and rename him as the Prince of Hell and oblige him to wear that fake Korean crown night and day for the rest of his life.
October 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The logical transatlantic corollary would be to strip the inflammatory turnip of the presidency and all his other civil powers but to formally anoint and rename him as the Prince of Hell and oblige him to wear that fake Korean crown night and day for the rest of his life.
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/un...
Did you know only 8% of England’s countryside has a right of public access? And only 3% of our rivers?
Sign this petition from @Right2Roam calling for access reform this election. We shouldn’t be shut out of our own country, or risk being told off for going for a swim! We need access for everyone.
you.38degrees.org.uk
September 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/un...
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I am deeply honoured by this invitation to deliver The Tanner Lectures on Human Values next Spring. My topic: ‘The elementary forms of human freedom.’
tannerlectures.org/lectures/the...
tannerlectures.org/lectures/the...
September 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I am deeply honoured by this invitation to deliver The Tanner Lectures on Human Values next Spring. My topic: ‘The elementary forms of human freedom.’
tannerlectures.org/lectures/the...
tannerlectures.org/lectures/the...
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Saturn this morning from my Indiana backyard, as viewed from an 8" SCT with a 2.5x Televue PowerMate. 2 min of 480p video (50 ms exposures, 325 gain, ~20 fps). Integrated w 3x drizzle.
Saturn was edge-on earlier this summer, and now we're increasingly viewing it from "below" 🧪🔭
Saturn was edge-on earlier this summer, and now we're increasingly viewing it from "below" 🧪🔭
September 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Saturn this morning from my Indiana backyard, as viewed from an 8" SCT with a 2.5x Televue PowerMate. 2 min of 480p video (50 ms exposures, 325 gain, ~20 fps). Integrated w 3x drizzle.
Saturn was edge-on earlier this summer, and now we're increasingly viewing it from "below" 🧪🔭
Saturn was edge-on earlier this summer, and now we're increasingly viewing it from "below" 🧪🔭
Find myself grudgingly admiring of European leaders today. At all levels of social interaction a good first step in dealing with a manipulative but essentially cowardly bully is to confront them mob-handed & with a united front... 1/2
August 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Find myself grudgingly admiring of European leaders today. At all levels of social interaction a good first step in dealing with a manipulative but essentially cowardly bully is to confront them mob-handed & with a united front... 1/2
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DOUBLE PELICAN DIVE AFTER SUNSET!!!! wooooo! What a way to end the week!
time to sleep and prepare for the horrors and joys of the next one
🪶
time to sleep and prepare for the horrors and joys of the next one
🪶
August 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
DOUBLE PELICAN DIVE AFTER SUNSET!!!! wooooo! What a way to end the week!
time to sleep and prepare for the horrors and joys of the next one
🪶
time to sleep and prepare for the horrors and joys of the next one
🪶
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Aldous Huxley - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
July 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Aldous Huxley - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
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that liminal thing when you're reading and falling asleep and start to hallucinate words on the page that aren't on the page, i love that
July 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
that liminal thing when you're reading and falling asleep and start to hallucinate words on the page that aren't on the page, i love that
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In a letter drawn from a posthumous collection of correspondence, published in 2019, the neurologist Oliver Sacks argued that society had no immunity to the seductions of digital life. “What we are seeing—and bringing on ourselves—resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale,” he wrote.
The Machine Stops
The neurologist Oliver Sacks on steam engines, smartphones, and fearing the future.
www.newyorker.com
July 10, 2025 at 4:03 AM
In a letter drawn from a posthumous collection of correspondence, published in 2019, the neurologist Oliver Sacks argued that society had no immunity to the seductions of digital life. “What we are seeing—and bringing on ourselves—resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale,” he wrote.