I was 35 in 2016, and the way the last 10 years were stolen from me is a wound that will never heal, but I'm not becoming a fascist and making my mortality everybody's problem.
Mark E. Quiet
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Another Episcopalian Socialist in Chicago. I see crowds of people, walking round in a ring.
Wonderful crucifixion scene with angels, the sun and moon, and Mary and John: St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 371; Epistolary; third quarter of the 11th century; St. Gall/Reichenau; p.147 (www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
French surrealist photographer, sculptor and writer Claude Cahun Assemblage Surréaliste, 1936 (Gelatin silver print) #ClaudeCahun #BOTD #Surrealism #Photography
At a meeting about possibly combining to one weekly service, the 8am Rite I people didn't want to lose this prayer. The 10am Rite II people didn't know it. So one of the 8am-ers said, "We do not presume..." and they all recited the prayer from memory. A beautiful moment I hope I never forget. ⚓
BCP Minus Context@bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 6d agoWe do not presume to come to this thy Table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies.
Sometimes a small detail in a painting has as much or even more impact than the complete work itself ~ here’s the totally bereft Mary Magdalene lamenting the death of Christ, in a corner of Giottino di Pietro (aka Giottino)’s Pietà of San Remigio (1365) Uffizi, Florence
Buzzcocks - Peel Session 1979 youtu.be/U062NEttTZk?... 1. Mad Mad Judy (2:01) 2. E.S.P. (4:58) 3. I Don't Know What To Do With My Life (8:38) 4. Hollow Inside (11:51)
Buzzcocks - Peel Session 1979
YouTube video by Vibracobra23 Ennui
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Derek Walmsley assesses to what extent Ae are unique in the world of electronic music given their live shows represent a space of spontaneous creation Radio / Live Transmission: #Autechre As Concert Musicians #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/q8Smm53
I am theologically confident, even as the chief of sinners, that JD Vance will experience hell
How FDR’s Hitler Derangement Syndrome nearly destroyed the United States.
Polls shows that only 44% of men under 25 support Donald Trump. But in this Cornell fraternity group chat, that percentage seems much higher.
So…there’s been several times now where people protesting at these hate rallies in recent weeks have been assaulted and it’s a clear trend of violence.
Trump Protester punched at Trump rally as they’re mocked by the president
A protester wearing a ‘Release the Epstein files’ shirt was punched by Trump supporters at a Republican rally in Ohio.
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The tower blocks the council put up in the 1960s only took a decade till they were so haunted, no-one wanted to live in them. It weren't just the broken lifts, the smell of piss in the stairwells, it was the ghosts that did for people. Spirits turned mean by the towers' design. Liv Green #VOH
Edith Cavell: "Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone."
“Death is the last weapon of the tyrant, and the point of the resurrection, despite much misunderstanding, is that death has been defeated. Resurrection is not the redescription of death; it is its overthrow and, with that, the overthrow of those whose power depends on it.”
In this Ohio diner, it was a tradition: big plate of meatloaf, a little jello salad, then everyone crowds around the old flatscreen to watch the live streamed execution.
Vida Scudder: “Socialism is the only effective way at this stage of social evolution of practicing human fellowship, and so reaching fellowship with God.” — The Church and the Hour (1917), Chapter IV.
My MAGA focus group felt betrayed by tariffs, high gas prices, and inflation. I asked if there was any way Republicans could win back their support, and they replied only if they could prove that the pain had fallen harder on Black people.
Having grown up in the 1980's, in small town Florida, an hour from Disney - this one hits exceptionally hard. #FallFriday
Disney's Dream Debased
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It will be years until we can begin to speak meaningfully on the scale of the evil Trump has unleashed.
Can a barrage of anti-trans ads and staged assassination attempts lift the GOP to victory in November? This strategist thinks so.
A longtime devotee goes back through more than four decades of Hassell’s music and talks with co-producer Jeff Rona about the ‘City’ sessions, the self-sampling, and the posthumous ‘Music Is Invisible.’ The Tonearm’s Blake Leyh has skin in the game. Life and Death in Jon Hassell’s Fourth World:
Life and Death in Jon Hassell’s Fourth World
A longtime devotee goes back through more than four decades of Hassell’s music and talks with co-producer Jeff Rona about the ‘City’ sessions, the self-sampling, and the posthumous ‘Music Is Invisible.’
thetonearm.com