Open Thread Wednesday 22 JAN 24 ~ Visuals
Submitted by QMS on Wed, 01/22/2025 - 5:00am
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Life in Deep Time
"the tenderness between natural architecture, ecological thought, human fantasy, and
celestial forms of light and visibility"
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“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.”
-- Anais Nin
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“The White Heat of Cold Water” oil on canvas by Sholto Blissett
78 3/4 x 118 inches
He “calls attention to our manufactured and shifting relationship between social constructions
of ‘nature’ and ‘culture’—their cosmically entwined, spectral, and thorny coexistence,”
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/01/sholto-blissett-life-in-deep-time/
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Just a starting place. Additions encouraged below the fold.
Comments
Good morning...
A cold 14F this AM, but we're finally going to warm over the next week. There was a huge snow storm south of us along the coast with historic accumulation 6"-8".
(1 min)
We've been below freezing for three days, but are headed toward 35F today. A heat wave!
How about illusions?
Thanks for the OT!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Hey, good morning
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We've only a few inches of the white stuff on the ground
and very few degrees on the thermometer. Just fired-up
the wood stove for the daily blaze. Chase away the chillies.
Interesting bit in the news about Syria kicking Russia out of
their Navy base lease. RUS now removing their assets.
Looks like Turkie will fail faster.
And Ukie Ze is panicking with the loss of Papa Biden.
Gulf of America? What kinda shite is that? Call it for what it is.
The Gulf of Conoco.
rolling stoned: watching Brandon being flushed down the toilet of history
is small consolation for the semi-permanent damage in our guts
question everything
Good morning, Cap'n!
It is 23 degrees this morning. The last 24 hrs. was the coldest day of the year.
I read this morning that Trump (the Savior) has pledged 500 billion bucks for data centers to gather AI cancer data on us in order to help AI give us personalized cancer vaccines within 48 hours after a diagnosis.
I need more coffee.
Gaaahhh...
Thanks for the OT, dear friend, and stay warm!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Ahhg
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calling doctor AI in the cancer aisle STAT
Enjoy your java!
question everything
Good morning, Q
Hope you enjoyed your trip to Fla.
Mid 30's here this morning. Supposed to get up to the mid 70's today thru Friday. We're still under a weather advisory until tomorrow for high winds and low humidity. Not what we need to keep the wildfires at bay. On that front there is a little good news. Rain in the forecast for Saturday. Even without the wildfires we really need the rain.
Throw another log on the fire and stay warm. Thanks for the OT.
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.
Humphrey posted this last night
Was 8 hours enough to change the site so certain words aren’t allowed anymore?
Guess we’ll find out if it doesn’t need to be changed now.
In America you can say that it has a racist problem, but you can’t say that Israel has a racist problem.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.