out of mind

there is a place you can go, even for just a moment - to contemplate reality. to absorb knowledge. to become more scientifically literate than you were before. in this place you may see things that frighten you, that shock you, that force you to question the world around you. within this place you have the ability to discuss, contemplate & define your own inner peace. this is a place that strives to educate in order to achieve a more harmonious balance with the world & grasp the actions needed to perfect our life, our world or our own personal corner of the planet. within this place, your ideas, current education, ideals, traditions & religions may be tested. this place will challenge your mind, build your courage & embrace your fears. this place encourages you to understand your place in the universe. just like the world we know, this will not always be a safe place. this place is not a room to hide in, it is a gateway to a higher sense of purpose. this place is an open door that allows you to move freely at your own pace without prejudice or judgement. this is that place. and it's yours. and ultimately, it's whatever you need it to be in your place in time. peace & love to each of you. enjoy.

[bogleech]

Saw this Trucks Discourse on facebook and I'm not part of that world but yeah that one on the left is delightful and I really had no idea just how wasteful and pointless the other kind is until this comparison

[fucking-what]

[crevicedwelling]

it’s so sad that they’ve been selectively bred for size and aesthetics over their health. look at that pushed-in muzzle—there’s no way the one on the right can breathe properly

[vbartilucci]

Maybe I was just never around the type of people to get me into it, but I've never had the desire or felt the need for one of these oversized behemoths. Or any multi-hundred thousand dollar vehicle, or watch, or anything like that, I simply don't see the point in them.

[wilwheaton]

I always feel a little sad for the guy driving that huge, expensive, monument to performative capitalism. He's so insecure and weak, and he announces it every time he gets behind the wheel. (I mean, I'm sure he announces it everywhere he goes -- they all do -- but this is especially loud.)

[glitchblackmusic]

BEACON

[popepauljohn]

[sagansense]

[inspirement]

Trump is a sociopath, but you have to be ignorant to not realize that Clinton is just as much of a sociopath. She just doesn't openly express her homophobia and racism and knows how to work the system.

Phew.... this submission really dated itself. Wonder if whomever sent this would take that back...lol. 

[sagansense]

Chapter 10: Believe In Truth

“To abandon facts is to abandon freedom; if nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.”

Timothy Snyder, author ‘On Tyranny’

[artfilmfan]

The Booksellers (D.W. Young, 2019)

[inspirement]

CAN RELATE

[northsul]

[89rooms]

“He throbbed inside her every night, deep inside her beating heart.”

— O. Leary

[sagansense]

[sagansense]

“An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it… The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment…

For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence—on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations… Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed….

….Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed—and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian law-maker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment—the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution—not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and the sentimental, not to simply “give the public what it wants”—but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mould, educate and sometimes even anger public opinion. This means greater coverage and analysis of international news—for it is no longer far away and foreign but close at hand and local. It means greater attention to improved understanding of the news as well as improved transmission. And it means, finally, that government at all levels, must meet its obligation to provide you with the fullest possible information outside the narrowest limits of national security… And so it is to the printing press—to the recorder of man’s deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news—that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.”

– President John F Kennedy, “President and the Press“ address, 1961.

Carl Sagan on Skepticism | Think For Yourself, Question Authority

Carl Sagan | Last Interview 1, 2, 3

[sagansense]

Worth a thorough listen 🎧 and paying it forward to anyone and everyone. This is from 1 9 6 1. Half of this country has some kind of selective memory loss. There’s a word for that — cognitive dissonance.

[sagansense]

Rich Evans, who lives in Springettsbury Township and works remotely for companies in the space industry, said he has read a lot of what astrophysicist Carl Sagan had said and written about the full legalization of cannabis. “I’m all for it,” Evans said, from the lobby inside of Wolf Hall. “I think we’re beyond — I think the whole aspect of it being a gateway drug is reverberating from the 80s.”

Evans said people who say they’re opposed to legalizing recreational cannabis often base that opinion on misinformation. He recommended they read up on the topic, and “start out with actual science journals,” or, he said, “call up universities” and get information from those who have studied cannabis. “Take the time and learn,” he said.

[sagansense]

Should Pennsylvania legalize marijuana? Here's what people said about legal weed in York

Dozens of people waited in the lobby of Wolf Hall for more than an hour Tuesday for a chance to speak during Lt. Gov. John Fetterman's listening tour.

Here’s the interview where I’m quoted :) 

[raffaella342utopie]

Jean Cocteau

“Les amoureux”

[sss]

[anarchistmemedistro]

[universitybookstore]

“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”  – James Baldwin, born August 2, 1924.

[sss]