prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 16hif what keeps us from RECLAIMING full humanity while retaining empirical judgment is the original social problem of the industrial era—high productivity abstracting the physical requirements that maintained our relationships & kept our paranoia from reaching critical mass—then no tribe can stay sane 000
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 19hwhat if people in the incestuous madhouse of 'rationalism' are right that the rest of us are anti-human, in the sense that flourishing humans want to huddle in artsy sex bondage under a bright sky of delusional self-aggrandizement, and atomized outsiders are unfit to judge? bsky.app/profile/drow... 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 09/10/2026if the right true name of a movie is the interesting word it uses the most, these are good names—well not 'on gaurd' but the original 'le bossu' (the hunchback)—you might never SEEN a movie where as many people say "hunchback" as many times 000
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 08/10/2026fun news for @merriam-webster.com that the "archaic: to put down or describe in writing" meaning of 'paper' is making a comeback, championed by the most venal most malicious government in united states history 000
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 08/10/2026sometime i read the original was a study in cross-cultural poetics & of course the whale is a beluga that's the white whale see its dome head see its smile why do people keep interpreting it as a sperm whale 000
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 07/10/2026weekend double feature: SEVERED AT BIRTH? the blade / dao (1995), on guard! / le bossu (1997). 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 07/10/2026looking at my list, it's both too sparse & too detailed—maybe we opted-out of something sometime but this is definitely not everything their bots could surmise from my household's purchases; yet the bots also leapt to many dumb conclusions wow people think reviews are private—we really don't get it 000
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 05/10/2026❝ and these spectacular hexagonal columns—a physical record of heat leaving a lava flow—aren't evidence that nature somehow prefers making things into perfect shapes, but rather they're what happens when the basic laws of physics break rock into patterns ❞ youtu.be/37DXAPteKIwyoutu.beHow Does Lava Form Hexagon Columns?YouTube video by GEO GIRL 000
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 05/10/2026everybody rises to bloom & seed & climb again another place another time 000
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"we know you didn't murder the attorney general alone! everyone saw the entire crime on the feed! what we need to know is: WHERE IS HERMIONE GRANGER HIDING?" 000
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 04/10/2026an article about state-of-art of computer-aided-everything gut-punched me again from writer's perspective the principal-agent problem is that human staff of an organization need to be compelled to follow the org's plan (however unethical, however venal) OH why does 'fuck you money' have to win NOW 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 04/10/2026when amazon bought imdb in 1998 i was agitating against media consolidation—what a punch in the gut shoulda known, the original name of that great public passion project was 'rec.arts.movies movie database' do you remember when 'they' started requiring experts to build proprietary knowledge bases? 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 02/10/2026the list is so much longer than this, the panic is disgraceful 000
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 01/10/2026fun to picture a mystical swirling here-now potentialverse 'under' the quantum that 'big enough' knots in the wood of spacetime can warp, slow, even stop i want relativity & the specific local speed of causality to have inspired people to separate 'change' from 'time'—or better, to put change first 000
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 01/10/2026forced to ponder quantum again by an icky 'new thought' infomercial, somehow i decided the past probly DOESN'T exist and life is built on this swirling-now reacting to itself we see birds in flight and maybe think they're defying gravity but the air density they're surfing is a gravitational effect 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 01/10/2026unlike live company we used to keep, tech never goes home, slop never sleeps 000
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 01/10/2026❝ people are amazed how i line up car parks… i would visualize a space exactly where i wanted and 95% of the time it would be there for me & i would just pull straight in… 5% of the time i'd have to wait just a minute or two and the person would pull out & i'd pull in ❞ hucksters prove god loves us 101
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 01/10/2026not vampire not squid nor octopus—deep sea scavenger—another living fossil witness of spacerock "a relict(ual taxon) is a species or other lineage which is the sole surviving representative of a formerly diverse group" i keep thinking our internal organs are sea creatures bsky.app/profile/drow... 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 29/09/2026no sign yet of apple creator studio for duo? absence of ipad apps is spooky 000
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"current banner is not a pickle, really really NOT" i feel i need to explain to the robocloud that identified the banner AS a pickle, factly i kinda only like funny macro pix that're jokes about perception, not "this spider resembles a hotdog! sponsored by bankfurter the affordable mortgage sausage" 000
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 28/09/2026but just take a moment to think how nicely your people would dress to attend the groining ceremony of your adolescent 000
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i do know how phrases like 'delayed groining' or 'groining blocker' probably sound to you right now 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 28/09/2026time to scrub the latin blather from the language one phrase at a time starting with 'puberty' which we shall translate directly into THE GROINING 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 27/09/2026staring in awe some branches of 'fourth awakening' 😱 the apocalyptic rise of the blacks 🤑 pray to win 👽 space-age occultism 🥰 hippie jesus (in order of influence?) maybe a majority of americans—maybe most of the world—doesn't know our "godless communism" bogeyman is mostly about race integration 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 26/09/2026awakening starts 1950s it says, i wonder what's the timeline 1954 the doors of perception 1954 brown v board of ed oh i see "conservative churches saw themselves battling secularism in terms of issues such as LGBT rights, abortion & creationism" if you're new here, god 'created' race hierarchy 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 26/09/2026i once joked about the japanese essence of emoji & it was startlingly discordant, as tho i'd stood up during a deep bach performance to read a pipe organ manual aloud get similar results by not 'ignoring' the advertisements during a poignant broadcast anyway, 'cognitive imperialism' is a real word 000
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 · 25/09/2026i went to a cooking class the chef demonstrated an omelet cut veggies, grated cheese, broke EGGS so good they sizzled "your turn! walk to that diner across the street & order an omelet to go" mine was pesto & feta and i was really proud of it chef said next week we learn how to bomb a hospital 000
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i went to a cooking class the chef showed us how to omelet cut veggies, grated cheese, broke EGGS so good they sizzled "your turn! see that diner across the street? order an omelet to go" mine was not the best but i was really proud of it chef said next week we'll learn how to bomb a hospital 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 24/09/2026doesn't seem coincidence how much of the investment into our distracting new energy-intensive cybergods is despotic oil wealth 020
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 24/09/2026i dreamed a plate of jumping beans overflowed in my bed they were actually translucent poppers w/ huge grubs squirming inside they were good but i ate too many, considering "new york cooking is more filtered" at the giant mall farm, i needed to exchange phillipine pesos to bet on the paper horses 000
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 23/09/2026maybe only raw chemistry "tells the truth" about the biosphere—maybe every living thing is lying true in early oceans green—the most functional frequency on earth—was good food after that it's tricks empiricism is vision correction not reflex people hate wearing glasses bsky.app/profile/drow... 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 · 23/09/2026scenarios ⓪ nothing is real the divine is real, and ① we're all wrong about it ② we're all right about it ③ some are right the divine is not real, and ④ "it's just a story" ⑤ we hunger to make & populate it ⑥ we hunger for something related & sometimes on way there we dream it sacredness IS real 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 23/09/2026i think visualizing shadow lands in our mental map is different from using fables about channeling cave-life or such to explain our fear of snakes or our romantic habits i mean i like those jokes umwelt tho ok maybe the supernatural is a human projection we all have that talent why not study it 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 22/09/2026see the shadow lands, a mix of habitat our biologic ancestors lost, habitat our nomadic human ancestors lost & habitat we've lost part of our mind lived in the sea part of mind lived in the trees part of mind roved w/ the breeze and part—in living memory—huddled, broke daily bread together, etc 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 22/09/2026its lawyers won't let it cite its sources maybe when whoever looks back at us is rotating models of evidence, they'll keep shaking their heads that intellectual property hoarding was the key reason "machines of loving grace" was a ruinous hoax we must pave the way for the wikipediods of the future 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 22/09/2026silent cinema scenes of high spirits were so frank it's kinda alarming how childishly the same sins were depicted by supposed libertines 50 years later even being dense it's taken me too long to realize that maybe since we came back from the holocaust war it's a big drama just talking to a stranger 000
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 21/09/2026corporate downtown press & pull w/ thumbs into the lobby, when you feel the sections loosen work upward to break open the skyscraper use bandshell to scrape out the elevator shaft & flooring taller people are bitter; stir them into the ocean pertly chop the building halves into bewitching dances 000
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 21/09/2026the chairs are off somewhere, now's good to do the stick thing the branch is pretty straight right, bark rough, the leaves won't break we'll rest the branch on an S-shaped car & apply milk steadily while we mold the wood along the metal swallow the branch, see how easily we curl, try other shapes 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 20/09/2026furniture that moves all night is—well it's a whole other when the fuckers carve caustic poems on the floor a guest who saw summer dawn reflect breathtaking malice left early sobbing another cried over what their spilled milk revealed i've been taking them to the woods & encouraging short flights 100
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 20/09/2026youtu.be/GFtgpdmVDhgyoutu.beA Tribute to CatsYouTube video by PleasantProductions 001
prosopite @drownded.bsky.social · 18/09/2026maybe there's some way the rest of the animals can short us 0150
