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  "Hey, hey, I guess it hasn't hit me yet I fell through this crack and I kinda lost my head I stand transfixed before this streetlight Watching the snow fall on this cold December night And out in the middle of Lake Ontario The same snow is falling (the same snow is falling) On the deep silent water (on the deep silent water) The great dark wonder Into the waves of my heart" #BlueRodeo #Canada #lakeontario https://youtu.be/euTqJLyOQEo?si=yfLsCcbb51d9On9E

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  Wendell Barry died yesterday. I heard him speak at rallies, twice. When I see or hear his name, I think of a lover, now dead, who carried his books in her heart like gospel. This is how I feel today: #wendellberry #lamedvov

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  An exchange between Wendell Berry and Tim DeChristopher. I've been in that building Berry mentions. #WendallBerry #Shakers #ThomasMerton #PleasantHillKentucky

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  I posted this on Sept. 14, 2014: I would like to propose that the first Tuesday of September be declared “Dead Labor Day.” I think we all should acknowledge the victory of Capital over Labor in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The victory of corporate personhood over persons. The victory of debt-based fiat finance over everyone else. We built that. Labor, in the sense of doing real work making real stuff or providing real services for non-corporate real people, is almost dead. 1/

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  Lovely parody of William Carlos Williams' poem, by Kelly Link: This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying Were Abby ‪@kellylink.bsky.social‬ 4:35 PM · Apr 20, 2026 #AI #noAI

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  The Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, has either resigned or forced to quit, effective immediately. That's a wow. I wonder if it was the murders of fishermen or the blockade, or something else. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/22/navy-secretary-john-phelan-iran-war.html

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  I don't want Trump to die by an assassin's bullet. I want him to die like Herod the Great did, as reported by Josephus: ...His entrails were also ulcerated, and the chief violence of his pain lay on his colon; an aqueous and transparent liquor also had settled itself about his feet, and a like matter afflicted him at the bottom of his belly...his privy-member was putrefied and produced worms... https://doctoromed.wordpress.com/2026/04/26/not-by-a-bullet/

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  I'm listening to Marta Czech play Bach. I looked out of the window and for a second I saw snow falling. The sun is shining and the temperature is in the low 70s F. I looked up again, and snow was falling. Just for a second. https://youtu.be/tG7gPLF7q-I?si=mg5azRSpRtRZsaPp

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  It's Freud Day. Put your best slip on. LLM: "I'm sorry, Grave, I'm a freud I can't do that." (Sigmund Schlomo Freud born May 6, 1856). #Freud #LLM #AI

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  SLEDGEHAMMER WALTZ To grandmother's house we go, into the huge night tarnished under the yellow silver of a waxing moon. The heart walks with us, keeping the cadence of the iambs of the I AM. Waltzing, Maltida. Some virtuoso is playing piano with a sledgehammer, the bass register coming up through the dance floor like elephants talking from miles away. (#poem continues, two more stanzas)

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  "A whole civilization will die tonight" Something is already dying, and it ain't Iran. "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." John Adams I'm not as pessimistic, maybe, as Adams was, but we are on the brink of that suicide in America, and Trump is not so much the gun we hold to our head as the needle in our arm. Can we stop? Anybody go...

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  Stepping off at the Louisville, Kentucky No Kings March.

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  When people speak of Artificial Intelligence, what they really mean is Artificial Self, the artifice of soul. Intelligence is not self. Self is not intelligence. I would go so far as to say that self is not intelligent, and does not require intelligence. We as humans have difficulty separating intelligence from self. Our machine automatons do not require self, we simply want to impose it on them. Just as we wish to claim the simulacrum of self for our “selves." I wrote the above in 20...

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  Y'all ever hear of Kessler Syndrome? Fuck Musk #starlink #kesslersyndrome https://spacenews.com/second-starlink-satellite-suffers-anomaly-generating-debris/

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  I think I like this #poem better now than when I wrote it. The ongoing cascade of current events sharpens the sting. https://doctoromed.wordpress.com/2025/01/18/its-ok-to-cry/#comments

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  All Hail Gritty! https://doctoromed.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/steal-this-meme-the-wrath-of-gritty/