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The Owlbear Camus

@akirathelemur.bsky.social

he/him/his ☭ 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇩 Buddhist/Jewish/animist Capitalism is bad AI art is not art Also: cats and metal

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The Owlbear Camus@akirathelemur.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is Stella. Stella likes to chase sticks. Stella also likes to chew sticks into smaller sticks, and hadn't quite wrapped her head around the concept of conservation of matter. This is why Stella is now chasing twigs.

A black dog stands on a green lawn, staring at the camera. Behind her is a cluster of shrubs. In front of her, a human hand, pale ass skin, holds a.small.twig.
Patrick Stuart Sutcliffe@peaceandliberation.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is El Sayed’s quote where he allegedly called the Harris campaign “nauseating.” Like with his comments on Vance and the attacks on Iran, these seem to come from a very real, very personal place: the way people ignore the struggles of Brown-skinned people in North America.

"Watching elders who look like your parents, children who look like your kids, be pulled in parts out of rubble for a year, and then watching the split screen of this manufactured campaign of joy on behalf of Democrats was nauseating," El-Sayed said in a November 2024 physicians conference.
Dana El Kurd@danaelkurd.bsky.social · 6d ago

It is in fact racist to call an Arab with views you disagree with an antisemite. I know this will be a surprise to many but unless that person is actually saying something antisemitic, the Arab is not genetically predisposed to antisemitism

The Owlbear Camus@akirathelemur.bsky.social · last wk.

So I guess you could probably quibble over what is meant, exactly, by "organ," but I personally like the thought of rabbis taking a brief break from more important things to argue about who has the biggest dick. I sort of love the Talmud for that.

Screenshot of passage from Talmud - Bava Metzia 84a - in Hebrew with an English translation. Bold words are direct translations, non bold inferred. Using HTML tags to indicate bold The Gemara continues discussing the bodies of these Sages: <b>Rabbi Yohanan said:</b> The <b>organ of Rabbi Yishmael, son of Rabbi Yosei,</b> was the size <b>of a jug of nine kav. Rav Pappa said: </b> The <b> organ of Rabbi Yohanan</b> was the size <b> of a jug of five kav, and some say </b> it was the size of a jug <b> of three kav. Rav Pappa himself </b> had a belly <b> like the baskets </b> [dikurei] made <b> in Harpanya.
The Owlbear Camus@akirathelemur.bsky.social · last wk.

Once more with feeling: you can call a shitty terrible person a shitty terrible person without bringing mental health into the narrative and making those who struggle with mental health collateral damage to your intellectual laziness. Do better or shut the fuck up with this ableist shit.

Kira Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️@kiraleigh.bsky.social · last wk.

im begging you once again to please decouple "evil" from "mentally ill." every time you label an evil man mentally ill you throw the most vulnerable people under a bus. we are not more likely to be prone to violence. in fact, we are more likely to be victims of abuse. please remember that.

The Owlbear Camus@akirathelemur.bsky.social · last wk.

". . . today’s anhedonic decadence celebrates the inhibition, even the transcendence, of appetite. . . Because eating is a quintessentially communal activity, an intervention in how people eat is also an intervention in how we socialize." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Why does everything feel so joyless? Welcome to the age of decadence without pleasure | Michèle Mendelssohn and Charlie Tyson

Decadence in our era comes in technologically mediated forms, emptied of desire and obsessed with self-optimisation

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The Owlbear Camus@akirathelemur.bsky.social · 2w ago

'The books themselves have been painstakingly arranged just as Eco shelved them, in accordance with the “good neighbor” principle of placing seemingly unrelated titles in close proximity in order to reveal unexpected intellectual connections between them.' www.openculture.com/2026/07/umbe...

Umberto Eco’s Personal Library Opens to the Public: More Than 32,000 Books, Exactly as He Left Them

William Weaver could add an extension onto his Tuscan villa, which he called the 'Eco Chamber.' The Biblioteca Eco, or Eco Library, whose ribbon-cutting earlier this month you can see in the Italian n...

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