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I just have to make it through Easter, and then my Sunday mornings will start at a decent time again instead of at sunrise.

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So TIDAL artist tracking might need some inquiry because I listened to at least 9 hours of Solti's so called "Golden" Ring cycle, and neither he nor the Weiner Phil show up in my stats for March for most streamed. Most streamed artist had 17 plays. 🫤

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I would like to take the moment to point out that Trump’s demands of Ukraine are no different than the US and Western Europe’s demands of the Palestinians back in the 1990s, and that nowadays the West appears to expect the Palestinians simply to commit mass suicide.

Juan Cole at Informed Comment. The West has Long Demanded of Palestinians what Trump Demanded of Ukraine — and More

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Just a reminder that the economic boycott today is not all-or-nothing. If you *have* to buy yourself something to eat, you didn't fail the movement. Do what you can. That's all any one of us can do.

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The one thing I said right tonight was to someone attempting to engineer a group response:

If we hope to free ourselves from the horrible past we keep reading about [in the Bible], we have to stop trying to make one way be the right way for everybody.

The POV that is getting me in trouble right now is regarding the prophetic corpus.

It is certainly not mine to say what the prophetic corpus means, if it does mean anything at all (id est: if anything means anything at all).

I would like not to have to have an opinion about this, but the way things have developed, I am entangled with this way of thinking via shared texts. I am particularly sensitive to the problem of the situation re: "shared texts."

But, to the extent that I am entangled with this, I refuse a reading of the Babylonian Captivity that interprets it as tragedy with its roots in something like marital infidelity. For one thing, it is more truthful to describe the prophetic complaint as "failure to practice pure Yahwism [as envisioned by the Prophet ______]".

And for another thing, it's victim-blaming, which I am against on principle.

To read the prophetic corpus — whose overarching claim seems to be that the local chaos of the 6th and 7th centuries was Jacob's own fault — and then to agree with that premise in a simple cause-effect model is, at least to me, not a good idea.

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Morning Tumblinas

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"la venida de cristo" (the cumming of christ)

paintings by fabián chairez (mexico, born 1987) also available as a postcard set

his exhibition in mexico city is currently being targeted by extremist religious groups and christian groups are trying to sue him (X) for his work so i thought i would show all of tumblr

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Re: the “secret” — I almost forgot that I pulled the High Priestess this morning, though I’m not sure how I could have. I’m wearing her as a T-shirt today.

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This book that I am reading feels like a secret that I am not supposed to be telling myself. It is, however, only archaeology — which, if I am honest with myself is one of my great fascinations, both in terms of the collective “external” environment, and the supremely personal “internal” kind.

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(Frustratedly) “…And always this language tool which uses the jagged edge of time as a pen to render each moment in what feels like an ink made of our very blood.”

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For me, the ongoing problem is that the “external” environment is not arresting. The “internal” focus creates an enthralling temporal lag/sync-issue in one direction or the other (it is not always clear which). Meanwhile, contemplation also dulls the outwardly-tuned senses. Double victory for her.

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Proof of life

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Kinda just crawling through these days. Gonna try and get some stuff done today, but when I'm not required to leave the house, it's very, very hard to pretend to be functional.

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Finding that some of my kindle books have already been excised from the store.

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A panda express is opening up two blocks from my house, which means that my lower self is about to win a lot of battles 🫣

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Oh maybe that card has something to do with watching the new Gladiator movie? I like that connection, so I’m gonna go with it.