Cris PGH
@cris-pgh.bsky.social
Lifelong Pittsburgher, policy, tech, food, kindness, living that Liberal Arts life. I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you.
I keep thinking today about how people are like vast nets - their networked knowledge, their cultural references, their experiences, so dense and extraordinary it would take each of us our own lifetime to understand their lifetime, and how lovely that is.
Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes
Humberto Ak'abal, from IF TODAY WERE TOMORROW (seems a fitting poem for a Sunday morning...) #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
Fun fact: Pitt's freshmen were 3 when Dark Knight Rises was filmed.
Bane's Stadium Entrance in Batman
ALT: Bane's Stadium Entrance in Batman
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Most of us don't want to optimize every minute of every day, remove confusion from every interaction, get rid of all social interaction, or eliminate thinking entirely. I can see the appeal of all those things, but we're not robots. An "optimized" life filled with AI sounds dull and soulless.
Nothing makes me feel more poorly suited for this time in history than how strong and negative my gut reaction is to the banal chatter of (almost) every podcast.
For the rich have always been gothic in the collective imagination. We know their actions outside of the wall as dark and monstrous, why should they themselves be any less repellent and shadowed in its shield of secrecy? - Dr. M. Benn
"prehensile tale" is the new "gripping story" btw
ME: Shhh, be very quiet, I’m training my horse to think. THEM: What horse? I don’t see a horse. ME: He hasn’t learned to think yet, so he doesn’t exist. THEM: What. ME: That’s logic: He doesn’t think, therefore, he ain’t. THEM: Oh no. ME: What? THEM: You put Descartes before the horse
Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!
The sci-fi short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” written in 1950 by Ray Bradbury, takes place on August 4th 2026. Aka today. It is a good read, but a real kick in the teeth and a rough go emotionally. It’s available as a pdf online here: www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_...
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
Sardonicus@sardonicus.eu · 10mo ago'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
It’s Pittsburgh of the 20th Century Nostalgia Day outside.
I honor the traditions of my #pittsburgh lineage when, after getting very dirty and sweaty doing yard work in the sun, I shower in the basement not the bathroom upstairs.
She’s here! Today is the start of this Couch to 5k for reading I’ve put together! Come and join us :-D open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
let's do a 'couch to 5k' for reading
we're going to work ourselves back to good 'reading fitness' over the next eight weeks. come and join us.
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“We find rest in those whom we love.” -St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Your reminder that Joshua Chamberlain thought it was a moral imperative to fight the Confederacy but he didn't have any background as an Army officer, so he was like, "Hmm, I should study Casey's Infantry Tactics and Duparcq's Elements of Military Art and History", and that's how he beat Longstreet.
Angry Staff Officer@pptsapper.bsky.social · 3mo agoHappy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate
Literature is asking, “Where’s Waldo?” Psychology is asking, “How is Waldo?” Philosophy is asking, “Why is Waldo?”
I prefer to save talking till I know what I’m talking about.
Thys hath been shared recentlye by several folks on thys syte
I think this is especially masterful because the tech bros all worship the Lord of the Rings and name a lot of their evil things after characters/objects from it, without ever having read a word from any of the books or understood a damn thing from it. Woke Pope strikes again
Fintan Mallory@fintanmallory.com · 5mo agoTHE POPE IS QUOTING GANDALF!!!
