GenQueue

a generalist archive of some of the topics of most interest to me

[yoursummerdreamz]

[leradr]

Sumerian star map from Ninive

3000 b.C.

[changan-moon]

Traditional chinese architecture: 厅堂tingtang/院子yuanzi/天井tianjing. source:雪花建筑

[siyahalbatros]

Negura

[iamjustjess-deactivated20160124]

Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1951-1959

[liberatingreality]

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

Eckhart Tolle

[girilimoni]

the bottom of the lake

[ombuddha-blog]

When I was in India living close to Tibetan monks and lamas, I was often surprised at the apparently easy-going, laid-back way in which many of them seemed to live their practice. They often responded to my intensity and fervor with the expression kale kalepe TOnang (literally “please go slowly”). Essentially, what they were saying was take it easy, go slowly, and you get there. They seemed highly amused by the attitude I had towards my practice, as though they could not understand why I was so driven. They did not have the underlying emotional disposition in their psyches that said they were not good enough. This does not mean they did not practice and work hard. It meant that they let things be and did not have the neurotic intensity of striving many of us suffer from in the West.

Rob Preece.

Photo by Anorak’s Appendix.

[sizvideos]

TL;DR : Watch this incredible story in video

[magicpottybaby]

holy fuck! so how did the penguins taste?????

[monetizeyourcat-blog]

this is the cutest video in the entire world. this seal is just so afraid for this dumb weird baby she thinks she’s found out in the ocean. have a bird. have another bird. no, see, eat the bird! the bird is food! why won’t this stupid baby eat. open your mouth you idiot baby i will feed you bird if it’s the last thing i do

[genqueue]

Handel - "Messiah"/ The Choir of King's College, Cambridge. - YouTube

On September 14, 1741, George Frideric Handel completed perhaps his best known work, “Messiah.”  It took him only 24 days.

[genqueue]

Humans have a heart after all

At least a lot of them do. More precisely,

15,000 People in 52 Countries Donate $330,000 so Elderly Popsicle Man Can Retire

CHICAGO, IL — The sympathy began with a simple photograph and a stranger's desire to put some money into the pockets of a struggling, elderly popsicle vendor in Chicago. How much money? A few thousand dollars would go a long way.

In just a few days, however, the generosity swelled to more than a quarter of a million dollars.

Image credit: Joel Cervantes Macias, a man with a heart

[rollership]

The human virus is attacking the lungs, it wont be long now. Vote Jill Stein to at least try to save the earth.

http://futurism.com/in-just-25-years-we-have-destroyed-10-of-the-earths-wilderness/

[iammyfather]

Wilderness is more than trees.

[genqueue]

Urgent: Chelsea Manning has gone on hunger strike to protest years abuse in prison. Sign the petition calling for her to receive basic humane treatment now!

Following years of abuse at the hands of the U.S. government, imprisoned transparency advocate Chelsea Manning has released a statement announcing that she will be going on hunger strike to protest years of bullying and harassment by the U.S. military, and demand basic respect, humane treatment, and access to needed healthcare related to her gender transition.

Chelsea needs our support now more than ever. If you care about free speech, human rights, and government transparency, sign the petition to show you stand with Chelsea during her nonviolent protest for basic rights and dignified treatment.

[theweekmagazine]

September 12, 2001

Fifteen years have passed since the devastating attacks of September 11, 2001. And while most of us remember with unsettling clarity where we were when we heard that hijacked planes had crashed into the World Trade Center (and later, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field), killing nearly 3,000 people, it might be the next day — September 12, 2001 — that actually marked the beginning of a new era, one in which full-body scans at the airport, color-coded threat levels, slow-burn wars that never really end, and an undercurrent of fear running beneath the mundanity of life became the norm.

Here’s what happened the day after 9/11, in photos.

[redditfront]

A recent board meeting at Apple - via http://ift.tt/2cqrf3j

[genqueue]

As seen by a fly on the wall.

[the-movemnt-deactivated20170912]

Hundreds of Native American protesters temporarily stopped construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Nearly 400 protesters gathered to halt the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a $3.8-billion system that, if completed, would stretch across North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois — rivaling the length of the rejected Keystone XL Pipeline. So far, 16 members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe have been arrested, including the tribe’s leader, David Archambault II.

On Wednesday, Archambault contacted the White House and met with North Dakota senators to try to get construction halted on the 1,172-mile behemoth. While the pipeline doesn’t cut through any federally reserved indigenous land, it will hurt the tribes in numerous ways.

follow @the-movemnt

[fullmarx]

War On Drugs?

See, if the War On Drugs was actually about reducing drug crime, the capitalist state could win it in a matter of months. Decriminalise most drugs, legalise and tax the least dangerous drugs, plough the massive policing budgetary savings and tax revenues into treating drug addiction as a disease, and you’d completely undercut the demand which fuels black-market capitalist drug enterprises virtually overnight - and you’d still have a huge slice left over for all the fancy medals to award to ‘reforming’ police chiefs you could wish for.

The capitalist establishment know this; it’s bleedingly obvious. The War On Drugs is not even remotely about drugs - it’s about the social control necessary to enforce the managed decline of working-class communities via institutionally racist harassment.

[iammyfather]

When Police Budgets depend on confiscating cash from innocent people, in the name “Might be Drug Profits”, you know it has nothing to do with controlling drugs.