prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 26/09/2026❝ the fourth great [religious] awakening in united states from 1950s to early 80s terminology controversial… some believe the changes were not equivalent to first three 'mainline' churches weakened conservative & evangelical denominations grew secularism grew new religious movements emerged ❞ 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"on top of the ridge at the foot of the hill called huayna picchu and protected on all sides by precipices & on three sides by the rapids of the urubamba river, the wonderful inca city of machu picchu"—still covered in centuries of temperate rainforest—probly saved from erosion by its farm drainage 000
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 17/09/2026maybe there's a good feeling eating olive salad you cured yourself oh! gizmo! 000
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 05/09/2026❝ pierced by a shaft of frozen urine which had fallen from the toilet facility of an overhead plane ❞ 000
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 20/08/2026both those crazy old birds live on other side of the equator from the explosion, in warm wet pockets that maybe changed less during the worst in the new post-asteroid plains, equidae grew in size & number, working very hard for us recently, but still out wild some places; these rare ones are trippy 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 18/08/2026earth eons: hadean (before oldest rock formations) archean (before oxygen) proterozoic (before complex life) phanerozoic i didn't realize how many early species made it all the way here come one come all see the velvet worm meet the vampiric arachnid in death combat as old as life itself if u dare 110
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 18/08/2026couple nifty birds that have been so since the spacerock dust settled 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 02/08/2026"wait the stork-y bird they worshipped in ancient egypt is now literally called 'sacred ibis'? why would we still—" 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 16/07/2026just before they score the winning goal, a brief sideline camera shot catches messi approaching the england box w/ lautaro martínez waving for the ball near the far post 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 30/06/2026not sure why, when secular buddhists talk about "human flourishing" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flouris... they don't seem to think what to do w/ spiritual feeling after stripping the supernatural from the tradition i guess the idea is avatars & cosmology are just a big story, not the mind, like, mapping 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 18/06/2026part of why the 'migrant crime' global plutocrat propaganda gets traction in the united states is that the millions of indigenous people in the americas are kinda outside the category of 'ordinary regular humans who were once demonized to justify barbaric abuse' juneteenth tells only half the story 000
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 16/06/2026current drownded banner zooms in on sea water reflecting the terminus wall of a glacier maybe if i surfed i'd've guessed why terminus waters are always eerily still? hey lazy brain cells, icebergs aren't magic, IT'S A GLACIER, there's a very geometric moraine below the waterline, shaping the waves 000
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 10/06/2026❝ bardo can become a place of danger as the karmically created hallucinations can impel one into a less than desirable rebirth ❞ fetus is clearer in painter's other 'beings' www.alexgrey.com/search/?avg_... i'm kinda more interested what awareness sees get out of yr head bsky.app/profile/apsy... 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 01/06/2026as we debate la ferrari elettrica— and europe cooks at record heat and the world endures petrostate poisons in our politics (incl data center debt)— some luce pros & cons: + per-wheel engine braking + hidden diffuser + ferrari miata, later − battery cooling − wiper vortexes! − porsche comparisons 190
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 19/01/2026❝ the triple point of a substance is the temp & pressure at which its gas, liquid & solid phases coexist in thermodynamic equilibrium liquid water can only exist at pressures ≥ the triple point below this—in the vacuum of space—solid ice sublimates, transitioning directly into vapor when heated ❞ 000
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 30/12/2025❝ —humans need fantasy to be human. to be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. —tooth fairies? santa? little— —yes. as practice. you have to start out learning to believe the little lies. —so we can believe the big ones? —justice. mercy. duty. that sort of thing. ❞ flock muscles 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 14/11/2025on the way to filling a list of animal pix i found these 020
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 21/10/2025it's short attention span making identity politics bad we couldn't all be forensic accountants even before computer-aided white collar crime ethnonationalism is "a distraction" in the sense the fires it starts are a quick initimate narcotic—orthogonal to long work chasing institutional 'cui bono' 110
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 10/10/2025i'd expect specialized software to allow compositional control like the shark example i viewed a wide variety of shapes-into-drawings images to choose this, which comes at the end of fairly long directions exploring fish anatomy is the problem that the bots' first offering always feels like a meme 000
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings re-make, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor: 110
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 20/08/2025i would wear augmented eyewear if they could create a new sky for me w/ a planetary ring & a big supernova piercing the blue mirage naturalist overlays yes; blending grazing animals onto parked cars yes; but generally even playful transforms of scenery—do i want to project/reify my inner life—nnnnh 000
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 11/08/2025i'm caught by the 'golden afternoon' 1862 when tale was first told—in a boat on a river—as beatles put it (romantic carroll hung out w/ pre-raphaelites) and musing on his 'great expectations' of alice the lady-in-training, viz her contemporary, estella the weapon (did he know 'ophelia' overdosed) 110
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 10/08/2025my case for "don't panic" being an update of "keep your temper" rests on many resemblances, but this one, i can't believe i never noticed: literally a white rabbit in a tie, quoting a queen but don't go asking "is arthur dent two alices in a bathrobe" i suspect it was never searched until just now 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 07/08/2025oh look i had the 'alice' with the dalí art (including 4 diff-color-diff-style caterpillars) funny, when adaptations cut her "adventures" from the title they cut her whole hilarious "trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself"–ness too 120
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 02/08/2025subject suggests / escape is necessary / having been rendered plain by tech / another joker sporting empty threads remember the cyber geishas well what the mirror shows is all you get unless you hide in whitewater god's in debt too / dressed to / make biggester splashes / in modern blinding light 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 27/07/2025changed banner today first time since starting the avatar policy, and scheduled another in some months "how 'shadow' will feel" is—with its deathmask look & arcane greek name—euxenite—kinda creepy actually still working to keep avi/name, bio & banner each on their own tracks, independent of posts 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 24/07/2025god bless 'surrealist exhibitions' (around time of second horror war) note revolving door motif amongst the crazy of the 1938 main hall as usual, wordplay suffers… english readers get only the literal "rainy taxi" component of "taxi pluvieux" "also, a bed sinking in a swamp" youtu.be/KyA__te-r_Y 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 12/07/2025when this tulip blooms, it will —make physical reality obsolete —build you a free house —convert into a flying robot car —buy your house for a billion dollars —completely replace money —teach your toddler college in six weeks —cure all diseases —build you a tv studio ON MARS it's more than a plant 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 10/07/2025also, 9/11 effed w/ our heads note green line quoting autumn 2002 poll: news.gallup.com/poll/7147/cr... "btwn 9/11 & sniper attacks, americans have been subject to [awful] violence over past 15 mos… women bear especially heavy burden of anxiety regarding personal safety" @johnrogers.bsky.social 115360
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 30/06/2025finding a mollusk in your market vegetables is a blessing from beyond in the sense that the soil, like the sea, is 'under world' where death returns to life and critters residing there are as unto gods of eternity gooey squishy gods with retractable eyestalks & a savage hunger for salad ingredients 000
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 01/05/2025enthusiasm (n) 1 … 2 (archaic, derogatory) religious fervor supposedly resulting directly from divine inspiration, typically involving speaking in tongues and wild, uncoordinated body movements via latin enthusiasmus ‘inspiration, frenzy’ from greek enthousiazein ‘be inspired or possessed by a god’ 100
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