quick note
library updates will be less frequent in the future (i am planning on v v roughly once a week) so please don’t worry that you will be subjected to these every day! i wanted to get all of the pages and templates involved out of my drafts which is accomplished with this update.
newest additions to the wikipedia collection
- cupola - traditional small dome-like structures on top of buildings that admit light and air
- dōgen - founder of the sōtō school of zen and author of the shōbōgenzō
- eihei-ji - staggeringly beautiful, it is one of the main temples of the sōtō school of zen
- shikantaza - ‘just sitting’ meditation where one strives to be aware of the stream of thoughts without interference
- shōbōgenzō - the collection of works which encompass the philosophy and teachings of dōgen
- sōtō - largest of the three traditional sects of zen in japanese buddhism, which emphasizes shikantaza
newest additions to the foss projects collection
- xwallpaper - excellent minimalistic wallpaper utility
newest additions to the link library
- whale following mouse - exactly what it says
- simple icons - a collection of 3407 svg icons for projects & brands
newest additions as finished to media lists
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- u.s. coast guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols via the washington post
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the old guard 2 (2025)
the original old guard movie is one of my absolute favorites and this is not at all a worthy successor. the lovely cast is back, there are some delightfully extravagant fight scenes, and it’s queer as fuck. on the other hand, the ending is.. comedically poor, the pacing is truly all over the place, and on the whole it is executed so egregiously that there is almost no chance now that fans will ever get any kind of resolution which especially sucks given how it ends (but i wouldn’t spoil that, now would i)
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- unsweetened lemonade (amélie farren)
- goddammit. (bodyimage, sophia black)
- catherine never broke again (saoirse dream)
- i like the way you kiss me (artemas)
- gladstone (blair lee)
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the country (billy collins)
i grew up with this poem. i heard it for the first time curled up in the back seat of my parents’ car on a roadtrip and it stuck with me. i think it might have been the first poem i ever loved. the personification, the grandeur of the mundane scene, the humor, and the indifference to rhyming.
wild geese (mary oliver)
add a tally to the ’left sobbing’ board. the sound of geese now always brings to mind this poem for me and my day is always better for it. i perceive the imagery is so intense, rapid, and surrounding - it reminds me of the feeling of standing on a dock as a kid by the ocean and watching the clouds move /so/ fast over my head. it isn’t just the perceived speed, for me, it is the visceralness of it all. it isn’t close and intense and intimately visceral like many poems i cherish - it’s the world - it’s the feeling of being awash in a profoundly uncaring but painfully beautiful world; there is so much room and so little time to love yourself.
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the alt-right playbook (2017 : youtube series : ian danskin)
the series (now with 26 videos as of 2025) highlights specific rhetorical strategies that far right people often use either in one on one conversations or online in front of a larger audience. it is an /excellent/ series to show to less politically clued in but well intentioned progressives. the videos collectively provide a palette of language and understanding which aids in engaging with political opposition in a productive way (productive here being less about convincing the far right person and more about not falling unawares into common traps or a losing rhetorical posture intended to give onlookers the impression that the right wing position is correct)
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newest additions as planned to media lists
shows to watch
- burn the house down (2022)