the velvet galactic

The Universe is silent; the Universe is violent.

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I got a lot to be mad about.

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Mistakes

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Commencement

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This blog will be deleted soon. Follow me at @humaninfluence or at www.humaninfluence.wordpress.com if you haven’t already. 

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My boyfriend’s band, Sinful Sons, just released their first single today. Check them out if you’re into psychedelic bluesy rock n’ roll. 

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Big Bend National Park

March 2016

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Premont, Texas

March 2016

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I made a Wordpress a while back:

https://humaninfluence.wordpress.com/

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A quotidian morning in Buenos Aires.

Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2016

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Visit Original Link

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“I’m sorry I left but it was for the best, though it never felt right”. 

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Nothing

[worth-quoting]

You go up to a man, and you say, ‘How are things going, Joe?’ And he says, 'Oh, fine, fine–couldn’t be better.’ And you look into his eyes, and you see things really couldn’t be much worse. When you get right down to it, everybody’s having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everybody. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much.

Ransom K. Fern

Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan (1959) Chapter 3, page 66

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Diego Rivera, Threshing Floor, 1904.

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Marc Johns

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These weren’t natural formations, and they weren’t the work of bears. They were built by people.

Ed Yong reports on a recent, major discovery about the distant ancestors of homo sapiens in A Shocking Find In a Neanderthal Cave In France:

Some 336 meters into the cave, the caver stumbled across something extraordinary—a vast chamber where several stalagmites had been deliberatelybroken. Most of the 400 pieces had been arranged into two rings—a large one between 4 and 7 metres across, and a smaller one just 2 metres wide. Others had been propped up against these donuts. Yet others had been stacked into four piles. Traces of fire were everywhere, and there was a mass of burnt bones.  

These weren’t natural formations, and they weren’t the work of bears. They were built by people.

Recognizing the site’s value, the caver brought in archaeologist Francois Rouzaud. Using carbon-dating, Rouzaud estimated that a burnt bear bone found within the chamber was 47,600 years old, which meant that the stalagmite rings were older than any known cave painting. It also meant that they couldn’t have been the work of Homo sapiens. Their builders must have been the only early humans in the south of France at the time: Neanderthals.

Read the entire story here.