There's something very spooky about Ob-Ugric idols for gods. Very non-anthropomorphic, clearly made by shamans who have been to the other worlds...

@goth People think AI is going to replace all our jobs meanwhile we’re taking their jobs

What Thou dost — is Delight — Bondage as Play — be sweet — Imprisonment — Content — And Sentence — Sacrament — Just We two — meet —

Shakespeare was anything but personally violent, while [Christopher] Marlowe was a veteran street fighter, a counterintelligence agent, and generally bad news, in ways that can remind us of Villon and Rimbaud, neither of them pillars of society.

Being is an image of the divine. - Friedrich Hölderlin

Today is apparently Finnish Art Day, warranting a highlights thread of the 'golden age of Finnish art' which, amid the Russian Empire, advanced romantic nationalist revival through the Beauty of the simple and honest life of provincial Finns Elin Danielson-Gambogi (1861-1919) /1

I first heard “The Weight” at a live performance by The Band in New York in 1968, just after the single was released. The song instantly fascinated me, particularly its leathery authenticity and baked-in Americana.

The poet must change as a Shakespearean protagonist changes, startled by a new self-awareness.

DEI is the only free lunch

John Martin was an English painter known for his vast, dramatic landscapes and scenes of apocalypse. These are his 10 greatest works 🧵 1. The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum (1822)

Today's Poetry Thread: CHILDREN This one chokes me up. Feel free to add poems.

There are long periods when I cannot write at all. Long, long periods, sometimes lasting many years. Sometimes one just has to lie fallow.

Lionel Messi does it again conjuring alchemy in 97th minute. Ray Hudson screamed “He doesn’t pull rabbits out of his magic hat; he pulls kangaroos!” I don’t know what that means either, but how else can you explain this sporting sorcery? 🐐 🇦🇷 🇺🇸

Isolated readers throughout the world do not need nor want political exhortation, historicizing, incessant contextualization.

“To justify the word *infinite* and give it a precise meaning, we need only recall that in the aesthetic order satisfaction revives need, response renews demand, presence generates absence, and possession gives rise to desire.” — Paul Valéry, from “The Aesthetic Infinite”

[William Blake] insisted that all rationalisms were concealed natural religions, mysteries celebrating one limiting context or another as being necessary to curb the full creative freedom of human energy.

Gem alert: phd committee reviews Costin Alamariu's dissertation The Problem of Tyranny and Philosophy in the Thought of Plato and Nietzsche A great contribution to eugenics scholarship. I'm excited to read it again as a book, coming soon with new additions: buy book, hail Homer.

Israeli volunteers have put together a website which compiles more than 100 first hand testimonies from victims of the #HamasMassacre. Please read their stories and hear their cries. (Link 👇 in first comment).

Tehran must be etherized.