SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026People generally grow more fond of us when they have a chance to help us! 000
SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If you are going out beware of mangoes And all such beautiful sweet things. poets.org/poem/problem...poets.orgProblems with HurricanesA campesino looked at the air 111
SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026May I use a hot clothes iron like a panini press, to reduce cooking time? 010
SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It was a difficult text to write, but leaders must be bold in these times… 020
Reposted by SemprePhiAlan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I wrote about the Cornell rape case, specifically about how MAGA responses to it highlight the male supremacism on the American right. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illusion...liberalcurrents.comThe Illusion of Consent: A Rape at Cornell and the MAGA RightFor the new right, when a man is accused of rape, he is first and foremost a victim of feminism. 16507156
SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026So wild that he finds lack of accountability as a “perverse inhuman desire.” So the victim is inhuman! All while acting as a front man for the patriarchy and its drive to escape accountability or even scrutiny. We all know who it is that lacks key human traits, and it isn’t the victims. 000
Reposted by SemprePhidamniel spookradski @self.agency · 06/10/2026"the sages did not yearn for the messianic era so that jews would have dominion over the earth or the gentiles, or be exalted by them, but so that they could be free to exist as jews, living and studying torah, without anyone to oppress or disturb them." —rambam 04814
SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026He would object, “we’re not talking about oil right now.” : / 000
SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Understood. I happen to believe that *well* over half of young men fully understand that consent is a prerequisite. As always, the bystanders would be more proactive if they realized that they were easily in the majority. Bad actors thrive when people believe that such behavior is within the norm. 2100
SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Many people see such conviction as very cool. Especially young women. 1330
SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This higher power can bring them back bsky.app/profile/payf... 031
SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yes, the percent of discourse spent hedging and equivocating has steadily been increasing this century. 000
SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I had trouble fully digging this album until I listened a couple times at .75 speed, then .8, then .9…the groove opened up and I fell in! 010
SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Did you no there are also NYC studio versions of most of the tracks on this album? He makes some different decisions, which are sometimes illuminating. youtu.be/eBLViMLws10youtu.beBob Dylan - Idiot Wind (Blood On The Tracks NYC Session - 1974) (Lyrics)YouTube video by silesius 020
SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I am sure some slotted in correctly beyond that, and I think the poor chap deserves credit for those : D 010
SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yes! I think this is linked to how we can imagine the greats from the 1940s and 50s being stars today, so much more than in football or basketball. 010
Reposted by SemprePhiAnna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026lol in the modern era, I haven't seen this many celebrities speak on politics at the same time. Perhaps this was necessary. 2603
SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Look at Robert Kraft out there being part of positive change in the world! 051
SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I actually don’t think it is fair to penalize an athlete for hitting it *too” well and think we could trust the tech to fairly determine, with any doubt settled against the hitter. But that World Cup incident is a data point on questionable tech (on much harder task) www.reuters.com/sports/socce...reuters.comNorway coach convinced ball hit cable before England goal in quarter-finalNorway coach Stale Solbakken said he was convinced that the ball hit a camera cable above the pitch just before Jude Bellingham scored England's equaliser in the first half of their World Cup quarter... 110
SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I think it will likely be more favorable for democracy! Hard to believe the unit might have escaped capture by BW et al… 010
SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Thank you. This has always been clear to me, at least since the release of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyaani...en.wikipedia.orgKoyaanisqatsi - Wikipedia 000
SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 04/10/202690 Years Ago today! All them fascists bound to lose! 000
Reposted by SemprePhiThis Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 04/10/202690 years ago, on the 4th of October 1936, antifascist counter protesters stopped a British Union of Fascists march through London’s East End. The Metropolitan Police tried to clear the way for the fascists resulting in violent clashes known as the Battle of Cable Street. #otd #history 🗃️ 523583
SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Pop culture risk analysis. (Remember Oprah and the oven door fasteners?! 000
SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Perhaps related: Jane Hirshfield Autumn Again the wind flakes gold-leaf from the trees and the painting darkens— as if a thousand penitents kissed an icon till it thinned back to bare wood, without diminishment. 001
SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I see Billie Holliday cutting loose inside the Victrola horn 010
SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026youtu.be/zY3o7MlU0K0youtu.beGabriel Mayers - One More Cup of Coffee (Bob Dylan Cover)YouTube video by BUSKRS 100
Reposted by SemprePhiLeor Galil @imleor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Annie Howard wrote a big John Prince deep dive ahead of this month’s celebrations for what would’ve been his 80th birthdaychicagoreader.comAmerica still needs John Prine - Chicago ReaderOn what should’ve been his 80th birthday, beloved songwriter John Prine offers enduring lessons about the value of empathy and curiosity. 1348
SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yeah, it is not waning if you look at the last year! 100
SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Think of the white marble temples with hydration stations for menstruation recovery! 010
SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hard to reconcile this cute face with the fact that the female often eats the male’s head off during sex and yet he completes the act. 000
SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This seems to me to be one of the cascading effects of the onset of omnipresent social media ca. 2007. We get so hyped up that our senses are dulled to the nuances and distinctions. All sense of proportion and salience becomes distorted like a funhouse mirror. 130
SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026What I hear is: “You don’t pay me, so I don’t have to serve your interests.” 000
Reposted by SemprePhiPaul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:science.orgNASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of fundingDecision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say 17668412
SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I encourage him to speak loudly on behalf of GOP candidates. I hope he never shuts up! 000
