Started reading Devotions by Mary Oliver
I think the Spanish edition prologue nails it when saying that these poems “transmit an intense spirituality without subscribing to any orthodox creed”.
Open Tabs
— Bertrand Russell on the limits set by science (via The Quotations Page)Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
Hope, Not Optimism – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
As always, excellent insights from Cory Doctorow on how to remain hopeful nowadays (and always) and why is it different from being optimistic.
— Typewriter interview with James KochalkaThe word HOBBY doesn’t make sense to me. It’s all just STUFF I DO.
Are hobbies just the part of the process that no one pays me for?
— Last paragraph of Emily Wilson's translator notes for The Oddysey (via Choose your own Odyssey)
— Jodie Foster on what is "normal" (via The Quotations Page)Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from.
Miscellaneous (a.k.a The Stream)
Liked Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail
this scratches an itch I didn’t knew I had, both as a dinosaur kid and a computer nerd 😆
Listened to 199: Unburned gasoline by Lateral with Tom Scott ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
not me screaming at the screen because I know what “i18n” and “a11y” mean 😆
Listened to Astronaut Reid Wiseman Thinks We're Going to Be OK by Humans ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
10/10 no notes 🤩
Liked Starry Night - Vincent van Dominogh (7,000 dominoes) - YouTube
amazing 🤩… and such patience 😅
Reposted fuckyeahgeometry-blog.tumblr.com:
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My friend linked this to me, so I don’t know the source, but if you do, PLEASE let me know. This is amazing!
Liked This Planet is...Up to Something - YouTube
man oh man was this beautiful 🤩, Hank Green has done it again.