"They said I couldn't go on the away team to 21st century Earth because I didn't have 12 years of experience in Microsoft Office."
Geoffrey Lewis
@gplewis09.bsky.social
writer reader photographer thinker philosopher curator artist brother friend mentor elder ; bower before the feminine. https://linktr.ee/gplewis
This is a section of my New Rules for the New Economy book published in 1998. Full book can be read at: https://kk.org/newrules/category/this_new_economy/ #kknewrules
“tribal epistemology” — the systematic conflation of what is true with what is good for the tribe www.vox.com/policy-and-p...
America is facing an epistemic crisis
What if Mueller proves his case and it doesn’t matter?
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'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)
Who else, historically, made it difficult for people to pursue arts, religion, music, philosophy, education? Authoritarian regimes, in their various forms. Every. Single. One.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · last wk.President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
One of them has eaten the plums. The other is selling baby shoes.
Daniel Solis@danielsolis.bsky.social · 2w agoThere are two wolves. One always lies. One controls the lever of trolley track. They're in a state of superposition inside a box. On the trolley are infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters going to an infinite hotel. The trolley must first travel halfway, but before that a quarterway, and so on...
Great product design is about skating to where the faster horses are going to be, which is how it looks. If you ask people what they want, they'd say where the puck is, but real product is cars — and that's how it works.
He always found himself singing “within the vernacular of the love song,” but "it’s also the relationship betw me & my country, me and my friends, me and myself, me and my god. It’s not always about me and my girl. That’s just the language I’ve gotten used to using.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/a...
Glen Hansard, Oscar-Winning Frontman of Irish Band the Frames, Dies at 56
The popular singer-songwriter won, with Markéta Irglová, an Oscar for the song “Falling Slowly” from the film “Once.”
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Remembered this Eileen Myles today, ACCEPTANCE SPEECH, their version of what America could be (feels so close I can touch it, can't you?)
@gplewis.bsky.social hi Gerry! any chance you'd be willing to part with the @gplewis handle? that is my handle in most all the places I post and i'm very active ~ would be ever grateful.
reading reduced to "skill nostalgia" can become part of the political project of deliteracy; this is why "close reading" needs to be taught as a political practice rather than an exercise in aesthetic appreciation and self-soothing
Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · last mo.It is something which is being done to us by a long, purposeful dismantling of institutions that support mass literacy. I have essay coming later this year, but basics are covered in this talk. Deliteracy is not symptom of algorithmic tech, the tech is being developed to assist deliteracy.
"authenticity" is built from feelings not facts, and facts don't "feel real" in and of themselves. (also, "authenticity" is always a construct and not empirically given) ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
“I hold everything closer, trusting the room to stay still, even as the curtains quiver. I couldn’t name what travels through this house, funneling through the doors, the untouched pipes.” —excerpt from “Sweeter” by Yong-Yu Huang
The human tendency to invoke love at moments when we want to disguise transactions involving power. —Phyllis Rose, Parallel Lives
What is a degenerate game state? www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/degenerate...
What is a degenerate game state?
Exploring the concept of degenerate strategies and degenerate game states in board games and TTRPGs. What does it mean and why does it matter? And how is it connected to the Black Lotus card in Magic?
skeletoncodemachine.com
"Purity is the power to contemplate defilement" is a famous philosophical and spiritual paradox from Simone Weil recorded in her post-humous book Gravity and Grace. It means that true, deep purity does not run away from evil or suffering, but can look right at it without being dirtied or destroyed.
this daffodil is not dejected, it is merely overwhelmed by its multiplicity of veils—
A cool breeze on a summer's day. The way it reminds me of childhood breezes & the places where I felt them, the people I felt them alongside. The creeks & streams. Empty fields. Open water. On my deathbed sometime far in the future (hopefully)...just give me one more & I'll be merrily on my way.
Had to close my DMs because I owe so many of you a reply. Please forgive me. I reopened them. But I’m not really getting wifi out here? Tis wonky.
I'll be coloring Legion later this year, with @joshuawilliamson.bsky.social @cleanlined.bsky.social Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou @paulkaminski.bsky.social and Chris Rosa!
"And the auld triangle went jingle-jangle All along the banks of the Royal Canal." Brendan Behan
