Reposted by Jack Preston KingDr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature, because we are a part of the mystery we are trying to solve. - #MaxPlanck 0133
Reposted by Jack Preston KingJim Cherry @jymwrite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My October newsletter, a couple of days early. eomail5.com/web-version?...eomail5.comIt's almost October! Giving Credit Where Credit is Due!I know you've seen the cover of The Lion Communique a lot, but I don't think I've let you guys in on who did it. 021
Reposted by Jack Preston KingDaniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Reality is not a substitute for the world 1365
Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Isn’t this how everybody sees themselves or wants to be seen? Who wouldn’t find this list self-evidently positive? buff.ly/8q4ExWpbuff.lyAre You Creative? Or a Troublemaker?To stay creative, refuse to choose 000
Reposted by Jack Preston KingDaniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Is there experience too small for the world? 0255
Reposted by Jack Preston KingLaura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Researchers already say humans are likely to reshape themselves to be better understood by chatbots, service robots, etc in a sort of existential drift... nautil.us/are-you-in-d... 165
Reposted by Jack Preston KingFRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“The bombardment of pseudo-realities begins to produce inauthentic humans very quickly, spurious humans — as fake as the data pressing at them from all sides.” – Philip K. Dick 041
Reposted by Jack Preston Kinghookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Let us walk the woods as feral possibility space. Let us walk the woods in hope of strange sights, fantastical encounters. Stories we can tell to those we love as an intimate folklore of hope that wonder is still abroad. That we still have places of constant magic. – #DAKilroy 541270
Reposted by Jack Preston KingJim Cherry @jymwrite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The price of everything is going or gone up. You know what hasn't gone up? The price of The Lion Communique! So, get yourself a copy, go to a park, stay at home & read The Lion Communique! tinyurl.com/Tiny-Amazon #booksky 071
Reposted by Jack Preston KingDr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It is in ourselves and only in ourselves that we can touch the interior of being, because it is only there that we discover a being which has an interior and which is nothing but this interior. - #MerleauPonty 053
Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I loved this book. Actually, I loved it, then I hated it, then I loved it again... #BookReview buff.ly/JblZRowbuff.lyWhy Fish Don't Exist: Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of LifeWhen Lulu Miller was seven years old, she asked her atheist, biochemist father, “What’s the meaning of life?” 010
Reposted by Jack Preston KingEdie Meade @ediemeade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I'm having trouble talking myself into the feeling this whole thing ain't broken... but I have a new poem called "Hickory Hill," published in Oyster River Pages' glorious annual issue, and I'd be thrilled if you read it (or listened to me read it) www.oysterriverpages.com/edie-meadeoysterriverpages.com"Hickory Hill," Poetry by Edie Meade — Oyster River Pages“Hickory Hill” by Edie Meade is a haunting, visceral prose poem that confronts a devastating tragedy while questioning poetry’s ability to hold, witness, or make meaning from it. 3115
Reposted by Jack Preston KingLaura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I was trying to figure out if they were starlings or redwings when the two on the left pretended to be an owl just to wind me up. 072
Reposted by Jack Preston King~ Alison Peace @irishali13.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Poem for Thursday 9.24.26 Nothing ~ Margaret Atwood -Nothing like love to put blood back in the language/The sky's not vacant/ What touches you —is what you touch. 0101
Reposted by Jack Preston KingFRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." ~ Charles Darwin. 022
Reposted by Jack Preston KingDaniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A word of regret for the end of feelings 1266
Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A book about passion and purpose. A book about following your dreams. #BookReview buff.ly/3lfQV9Cbuff.lyThe Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another WorldSarah Stewart Johnson’s The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World is a marvelous blend of science history and personal memoir that I fully expected to like, but wound up falling… 010
Reposted by Jack Preston KingFRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Inside the emerging world of anesthesia “dream therapy” bigthinkmedia.substack.com/p/inside-the...bigthinkmedia.substack.comInside the emerging world of anesthesia “dream therapy”"The amount of interest is enormous," says anesthesiologist Boris Heifets. "People are dropping in and coming out of the woodwork, trying to understand how to do this." 132
Reposted by Jack Preston KingFRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“Most of us tend to see what we wish to see, and to think that it is reality in its unadorned essence. Materialists believe that absolutely everything, even the formal structures of culture and the intentional structures of consciousness, can be reduced without remainder --> 121
Reposted by Jack Preston KingFRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“Public opinion is no more than this: What people think that other people think.” – Alfred Austin 061
Reposted by Jack Preston Kingalex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 21/09/2026hear me out here - you know how with cookies it's so very very satisfying to be able to hit "REJECT ALL"? just put that choice on every site but for AI. maybe the EU can get the ball rolling 142
Reposted by Jack Preston KingSusan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Mary Oliver ♥️ “It has saved my life to know this.” 49425
Reposted by Jack Preston KingCarmella de Keyser @carmellapoetry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026DIANE DI PRIMA reading her poetry in 1976. A brief one line poem from the 50's Revolutionary Letter Number 4 from the 60's The Fire Guardian from the 70's #DianeDiPrima #beatpoets 👇🏻🎧▶️ youtu.be/xO7YzZb7AwM?... 351
Reposted by Jack Preston KingDaniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026We have always become impossible 0224
Reposted by Jack Preston Kingphillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Why do you worry so, / when none of us is spared? Jill Bialosky 0116
Reposted by Jack Preston Kingphillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Donald Hall, born on this day in 1928 04011
Reposted by Jack Preston KingBen Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The first six (of 22) fake acknowledgments in @yoadrianididit.bsky.social new poem. This poem rules. neonpajamas.substack.com/p/090-poem-p... 095
Reposted by Jack Preston KingSusan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Tiny poem from our collaborative chap, BRINK WAS THE WORD I WAS LOOKING FOR: diodepoetry.com/leary_susan_... Love poem-ing with Jarrett Moseley! Happy #smallpoemsunday! @darkwebtofu.bsky.social @diodeeditions.bsky.social @tomsnarsky.bsky.social 54120
Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work." - Jacques Cousteau jackprestonking.com/f/the-kind-o...jackprestonking.comThe Kind of Person Who Saves the WorldHow to Be That Person. Hurry, the World Needs You. 010
Reposted by Jack Preston KingGary Lachman @garylachman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Are we living through what the philosopher Jean Gebser called the "breakdown of the mental-rational consciousness structure?" Find out Sundays this October on my course in the secret history of consciousness hosted by the PRS: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-secret-h...eventbrite.comA Secret History of Consciousness - Online Class Series with Gary LachmanJoin Gary Lachman in 4 classes looking at different but related philosophies of consciousness that lie outside the materialist mainstream. 062
Reposted by Jack Preston KingTaz Rahman @tazrahman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This essay has been brewing for years! 'Yeats, Joyce and the Problem of Irish Independence' is this week's 'Sunday Editorial' for Lawnewsindex: lawnewsindex.blogspot.com/2026/09/20th... 022
Reposted by Jack Preston KingSpooky Little Book Nerd @spookylilbooknerd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I went down a VERY weird Halloween book rabbit hole. 🎃📚 Every book in this video is actually set on Halloween…trick-or-treating, haunted houses, creepy attractions, and some seriously WTF stuff. 😂 New video is up! 👻 #booksky #books #horrorbooks 📚🩸💙 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysj7...youtube.comI Went Looking for the Creepiest Halloween Books Nobody Talks About 🎃 | Weird Halloween Book HuntYouTube video by Spooky Little Book Nerd 0112
Reposted by Jack Preston KingAP Strange @apstrange.bsky.social · 20/09/2026On this week's episode of The AP Strange Show, I had a wonderful chat with Jo Hickey-Hall from The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast! We covered a lot of ground, discussing largely unseen forces and their relationship to nature and human spirit, as well as how... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comEntering the Fairy Realm with Jo Hickey-HallPodcast Episode · The AP Strange Show · September 20 · 1h 4m 165
Reposted by Jack Preston KingDaniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Is there anything to the mind? 32711
Reposted by Jack Preston KingDaniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It’s possible everything unfinished will be pieced together 2265
Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 18/09/2026His own complete occult system... jackprestonking.com/f/w-b-yeats%...jackprestonking.comW. B. Yeats’s A Vision Explications and ContextsW. B. Yeats's A Vision: Explications and Contexts is an extremely niche book, one whose ideal reader is someone who: 021
Reposted by Jack Preston KingHaley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Okay it's this, from "Say Fire" by Selma Asotić. Holy hell. 143
Reposted by Jack Preston KingJim Cherry @jymwrite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Halloween is approaching The Lion Communique has stories for the season. The Captured Dead, ghosts of the Civil War haunt Gen. Sherman, Judgement Night, a swampy southern gothic noir, As Good a Name as Any what haunts the trenches of WWI. #booksky tinyurl.com/Tiny-Amazon 041
Reposted by Jack Preston KingDr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 16/09/2026In the very essence of #poetry there is something indecent: a thing is brought forth which we didn’t know we had in us. - #CzesławMiłosz 021
Reposted by Jack Preston KingFRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 16/09/2026To search expectantly for a radio signal from an extraterrestrial source is probably as culture-bound a presumption as to search the galaxy for a good Italian restaurant. ~ Terence McKenna 031