Sol breaching the wafty brane twixt Virgin and Scales, I call to witness respecting Libra, from Marston's Iacke Drums Entertainment (1601), the (possible) Shakespeare-avatar Planet: " ... like a paire of Ballance,/Thou wayest all sauing thy selfe." Out now & free to read: my Fall Equinox Substack.
The Death of Princes
The heavens themselves blaze them forth, you know
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You may well have seen this already. 'Tis pity.
Stephen Luscombe obituary
Keyboardist and songwriter for idiosyncratic synth-pop duo Blancmange, who enjoyed UK chart success in the early 80s
www.theguardian.com
I've yet to find a pharmacy in Athens that can assure me they've got the new one, and there's some bullshit (on CVS's part, at least) about having to get a scrip for it. Confusion reigns in the red states, and we all know *COUGH* RFK Jr. *COUGH* why. Feel better!
BTW, "legion" here is less sited in the apocalyptic lexical field than offered as a more or less literal estimate: I reckon 5-10k apparatchiki (loanword selected only scantly metaphorically!) yielding when distributed over 50 states roughly 100-200 per primary subnational unit. Sounds about right.
The relevant section of The Wealth of Nations. It might be quibbled that he made his criticisms with respect to colonial entities; I'd quibble back that, everything and everybody having been colonized by imperial capitalism, the aperçu that there is no worse governor than a merchant applies featly.
Book IV, Chapter 7 | Adam Smith Works
Of Colonies
www.adamsmithworks.org
You won’t have all the context for this (I didn’t), but there’s an internet for that; read discriminatingly! A couple of legs up: “Bhangi” is highly offensive to the perennially-subordinated Dalits; and “Baniya” is a subcaste that engages in finance. And don't panic at the Hindi! Welcome you are.
Found while researching vaiśyas ("Gammas" in Huxley) for a projected essay on Adam Smith's view that they, de- not prescriptively understood and in any culture, should never dominate government. Contested planetwide: originalisms affecting whether fraternity or cruelty will be repressed groups' lot.
Vaishya vs. Vaishya
Bobby Kunhu Since Amit Shah exclaimed on June 9th at Raipur, "Aur isi liye Mahatma Gandhi ne durandesi ke saath, bahut chatur baniya tha woh, usko maloom tha aage kya hone waala hai, usne azadi ke baa...
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Reprobating capital punishment, I no more want the legion MAGA scelerati executed after the trials and guilty verdicts than I do anybody else. But, for this alone, I DO want them under the jail, and by "jail" I mean a Supermax, and by "under" I mean beneath the subbasement. And in solitary. Forever.
This Is The Slavery Photo The Trump Administration Doesn't Want You To See
One history professor warned that the administration's moves show an "enormous increase in federal power and control."
www.huffpost.com
I've observed from an intimate vantage the corrosion that the Calle Ocho Revanchistas' acid efflux can work in even the most liberal (in a Plutarchan sense) nature, even one yoked to a luminous intellect. So this deracinated cipher could never have been anything but wet for some substitute Batista.
Should Marco Rubio Get To Seize Your Passport For Donating To Democrats, Other Terrorist Organizations?
Boy, we're all so hysterical, right?
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No cat tower that either I provided my own beasts or was someone else's feline furniture was weighted down or attached to the floor, and as best I recall, none were ever knocked over, even with multiple kittehs (three being the max present to memory) growltigering each other up and down the levels.
I'm sorry Charlie Kirk's dead to the extent that I wanted him, along with the other masters and movers of MAGA misrule, alive to face trial if the fascists are swept away. (Fat chance of that: of the 70% of the electorate not aligned with ethnonationalist-falangist memelords, over half don't vote.)
Charlie Kirk suspect is a gun-loving Trump supporter
From what we know so far, the suspect seems to be part of the 'groyper' movement of far-right online agitators
www.thecanary.co
This is one of these times that I wish Bluesky had calibrated reaction emojis like the Zuckerberg hellsite. Because obviously I neither "like" nor "heart" this for you. Really sorry and hope a solution presents itself imminently. 😞
Samuel Beckett avers in the notes to his poem "Whoroscope" that Descartes closely guarded the hour of his birth to prevent anyone from erecting a nativity for him -- no birth hour, no ascendant, no meaningful chart. "Caute", as Spinoza would say.
Evidently mesmerizedly absorbed in effecting formal pristinity, I omitted to remark in the headnote that this is all about my Substack piece for so-called "Labor Day". So go to work and read it gratis. (It may more dispose the anti-woo so to do if I announce that Yijing is deferred to the equinox.)
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Labo[u]r's Love's Lost
Hell, yeah, nobody wants to work. Also: the clouded joys of accurate scrying.
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Now our definitive Horst Wessel. MAGA's vexillosexual version of the Blutfahne ceremony manifests in Trump's occasional lubricious flag-grind, so check that off your Fascism Bingo card. Luckily, they so far trip over their own braindead decadence whenever they try to gin up a Reichstag fire. So far.
Jan. 6 Rioter Ashli Babbitt Was Killed Storming The Capitol. She Will Now Receive Military Funeral Honors.
The Babbitt family also received a settlement of $5 million earlier this year.
www.huffpost.com
Cute li'l pupper -- I know how it feels. Wishing you the best good memories can bring.
@jimmy-jim-james.bsky.social : #6 « — mon semblable, — mon frère! » AMIRITE? Cheers!
The strangest David Lynch facts – ranked!
Ahead of a new biography of the late director (whose favourite number was seven), we rundown some of the most offbeat things about this most mysterious modern genius
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I do indeed dig, thanks very much. (Nice to see that the Telegraph did at least one unambiguously praiseworthy thing in its rather-too-Chequers'd past (lol I'm hilarious).)
I know I must've seen the Disney/McGoohan version at some point, but the only one of the three Dr. Syn flix I recall viewing for sure is the 1962 Hammer production with Peter Cushing as "Parson Blyss" (had to change the name to avoid intellectual-property beef with the House of Mouse). Ripping yarn.
As per the late, great David Graeber in his seminal tome Bullshit Jobs: A Theory.
Oh, but I do hate the Murrican ethnonationalist falangists so. Truly I do.