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Fly my pretties fly

#enddays
January 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Well bugger me it's snowing in Taunton #taunton #enddays
November 19, 2024 at 1:09 PM
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Das war unser Soundtrack zu Arcs 🎶
#arcs #soundtrack
#sebastianböhm #vision
#kingsandcreatures #monolith #genera
#brandonlau #enddays
August 23, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Almost #enddays
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October 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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EndDays: Religionism

"Why would we ever decide to downgrade ourselves into being merely a Christian nation?"

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This EndDays Story explains why we're not now, never were, and never will become a "Christian Nation." Amen! EndDays: Religionism "Why, in all that's actually holy, would we ever decide to downgrade ourselves into being merely a Christian nation?" One sure and certain sign of EndDays arriving lies in sustained religious zealotry. Any time might spark a temporary blip in religious fervor, but a sense that EndDays are upon us curses many with a sincere sense that they might be in desperate need of immediate salvation. People will agree to the strangest things when they believe their eternity looms. Charlatans proliferate then, as preachers and politicians, each purporting to hold special dispensations, as if they’d previously died and even gone on to heaven, only to return to council any late arrivers. Scripture starts being used for the strangest purposes. A prince of peace might be introduced as some latter-day god of war. Soldiers might be exhorted to behave like Christians, that kind of Christian who acted more like a Roman soldier. The lyrics, “Onward Christian Soldiers, marching as to war,” lose their allegorical nature in favor of a more literal interpretation. The Ten Commandments get amended to allow a few of the usually more egregious infractions into the lexicon as exceptions, like the prohibition that used to insist Thou Shalt Not Kill no longer applying to upstanding Christian personnel. The very concept of godly gets turned on its ear, and one wonders where we think we’re going, other than nowhere or Hell. ...
May 18, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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The People were granted dominion over TheBeast, not the other way around.

EndDays: TheBeast

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This EndDays Story follows the creation myth to continue building the stage upon which the balance of this series will perform. TheBeast and The People were reportedly created on the same day, though The People were granted dominion over TheBeast, not the other way around. EndDays: TheBeast "On the Seventh Day, The People rested." However unsettling the election results had seemed, TheBeast that emerged from that victory was much, much worse. It became clear even to those who had not before figured out the scam that they had been had, and not by any particular master. They had been fooled by a fool, which only amplified their sense of betrayal. The sacred promises he swore all along the campaign trail fell one by one into a gutter soon overflowing with treachery. His inauguration came off as more like a funeral, with fewer attending than at any such gathering in modern history. That first day in office set a fresh record for perfidy as each presidential proclamation seemed to amplify a sense that he was abandoning reason to pursue who knew what? A deep sense of dread and stunned recognition echoed out from the quickly despoiled Oval Office. We were being screwed. The resistance responded immediately. ...
March 26, 2026 at 1:31 PM
philosophicalone.bsky.social
The new generation realized what had been done to them.
Their hatred and rage became aimed at the trusted ones who had betrayed their trust and manipulated them into division The hatred that shaped their reality was redirected.
Blue blood spilled in the streets
#politics #religion #writing #enddays
January 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM
duvzo.bsky.social
The enddays are finally upon us then.
September 5, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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EndDays: ReceivedKnowledge

"as if I had become the genius I should have remembered I never was."

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This EndDays Story finds me wrestling with the growing challenge that ReceivedKnowledge poses. It has reduced thinking to an historical minimum while preserving prejudices ad nauseam. EndDays: ReceivedKnowledge "as if I had become the genius I should have remembered I never was." I was reading ‘my’ New Yorker over breakfast, when I encountered another especially glaring example of ReceivedWisdom. I found this instance particularly upsetting because the New Yorker has always been renowned for its scrupulous editing and fact-checking, yet here it passed off a popular prejudice as if it were a commonly understood fact. The article, Fools Rush In, was a lighthearted report from California’s new gold rush. With the price of gold hitting five thousand dollars, many had abandoned whatever their prior profession might have been, or after that profession had abandoned them, to work old abandoned placer mines in the Sierra Nevada. The author, Jennifer Wilson, was presenting a brief history of California’s State legislature’s attempt to regulate certain sorts of mining that dredges up long-buried mercury deposits that poison rivers and fish. She claims, “I wanted to dismiss that posture [miner protests against these regulations] as science denialism tinged with macho bravado. But then I imagined how I’d feel living near Silicon Valley, whose billionaire class shows up clean-shaven and well rested at Davos to pitch toxic, water-draining A.I. data centers.” I executed a full stop! In the popular literature, A.I. data centers are almost always characterized as toxic and water-draining, as if these were undeniably uniform attributes of all data centers, when they are most certainly not. ...
May 25, 2026 at 3:32 PM
porksweats.bsky.social
and ive said it before and ill say it again, rampage is best when it's in it's isolated jimmy hart booking saturday night in enddays wcw level
June 28, 2024 at 12:01 AM
watchingevil.bsky.social
In these enddays were seeing conflict between nations, this shall be. It is the cleansing of the wicked from the righteous, the wicked shall fall and be no more. Thereafter God's kingdom shall be fully established.
March 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
jrzc1962.bsky.social
The Tangerine Toddler IS the Antipope. And the Antichrist for good measure.

#enddays
May 9, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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... the cynical leadership of the unserious who don't believe that truth matters most.

EndDays: Erosion

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This EndDays Story finds society Eroding under the cynical leadership of the unserious who don't believe that truth matters most. EndDays: Erosion We cannot maintain anything like a society of, by, or even for the people, if those people, We The People, are not absolutely committed to pursuing truth together. EndDays prominently feature Erosion. Whether Erosion causes EndDays or EndDays encourages erosion, I can’t say. Both contribute. This snake eats its own tail. It seems certain that once EndDays appear, Erosion increases, just as if some critical mass had been exceeded and gravity simply proceeded doing what she’d always done, only ever so much more so. Truth might have been the first stalwart to go, for it had always been essential and irreplaceable. Once truth starts slipping, a long, inexorable slide appears. There was never any way back from there. Then the end does more than just seem to be growing nearer. Cynicism might be the concerted lack of belief in truth’s beneficience. ...
May 24, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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Okay.. with it being December.. time to block Lifetime and Hallmark channels on every TV but the one in my room. Wife can stay there and watch that madness alone.

#Christmas #movies #Lifetime #Hallmark #EndDays
December 3, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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EndDays: Commerce

"…Commerce there will likely be no better."

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This EndDays Story covers what I consider the end of Commerce, where convenience has transformed what was once a simple acquisition into an often unresolvable dilemma. EndDays: Commerce "…Commerce there will likely be no better." It has never been more difficult for me to simply buy something. I blame convenience for the terrible state of Commerce; few things remain accessible except online. More than anyone could ever desire remains available online, though the price of purchasing anything there might convince a shopper that it’s not really worth the accompanying hassle. Convenience brings hassles all its own, completely different than the more familiar yesteryear in-person shopping hassles. Finding a product has been simplified to the point that it’s essentially impossible to find a single instance of any item. Trying to find something invariably yields an overwhelming variety of that product, leaving the shopper confronted with the Paradox of Choice. Comparing two ot three alternatives can seem fairly easy for most, but winnowing down two or three dozen choices produces less a choice than a dilemma, one that seems to damn this shopper whatever I choose. I often decide that I didn’t sufficiently want that item when faced with this dilemma, so I quietly delete it from my shopping list, lest my choice somehow damn me. I tend to be better for whatever I never chose to purchase. That’s the essence of EndDays Commerce. On those rare occasions where I decide to choose something, unseen externalities conspire to gang up on me. ...
May 13, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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EndDays: Weekly Writing Summary for the Week Ending 4/30/2026

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This EndDays Story contains a summary of each of my past week's EndDays postings and an update on my newly published book Cluelessness. Thank you for following along! EndDays: Weekly Writing Summary for the Week Ending 4/30/2026 This week’s EndDays dispatches moved from the surreal to the civic, from the undead persistence of a failed presidency to the tentative arrival of genuine prosperity on my valley’s western edge. The week held its familiar tensions — political exhaustion, garden disruption, the launch of a new book into an indifferent marketplace — while finding fresh angles on each. A new coinage appeared, Flacts, to name what we’d all noticed but couldn’t quite label. The series passed its fortieth installment, and sod arrived at the Villa Vatta Schmaltz just in time for the end of this Writing Week. Thank you for following along! ...
May 1, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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EndDays: Writing Week Summary of the Week Ending 3/26/2026

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This EndDays installment features a summary of this week’s writing. Thank you for following along! EndDays: Writing Week Summary of the Week Ending 3/26/2026 This was the most remarkable writing week I've experienced since I began writing this series of series 35 quarters ago. The flow quickly and easily established itself, and I found myself following two patterns I'd barely imagined before becoming entranced by them. I was pursuing deeper understanding of the EndDays sensations that almost everyone I'd spoken with lately had been remarking upon. It sure seems like something's coming to an end: civility, democracy, sanity, the rule of law, common sense. I sensed that EndDays belong to that class of sensations that cannot be wholly validated, or, indeed, really experienced until they're over, since there's no way to determine between actual and mere sensation until the EndDays end. Counterbalancing those sensations, I stumbled upon the remarkable Days of Creation hexaptych by Pre-Raphaelite painter and designer Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones — a single work composed of six panels. These six panels functioned both independently and as a unified whole, which was precisely how I employed them this writing week. Each panel stands alone as the image for its corresponding EndDays installment, while the complete sequence forms a single, coherent creation narrative underlying the entire series. In effect, each installment this writing week introduced a part of the universe that the bulk of this series will inhabit. ...
March 27, 2026 at 4:46 AM
drjt4real.bsky.social
Indeed. Because people gave this virus of a human power, and his endless pit where love should be will never be. #enddays
December 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
pureschmaltz.bsky.social
A HUGE announcement!

EndDays: Weekly Writing Summary for the Week Ending 4/23/2026

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This EndDays Story contains a summary of my last week's writings and a HUGE announcement. Thank you for following along! EndDays: Weekly Writing Summary for the Week Ending 4/23/2026 This week's EndDays dispatches moved from disorientation to defiance, from the poisoned noise of deliberate falseness to the quiet dignity of pea-shelling, from the billionaire class's ravenous absence of Enoughness to a small-town civic supper where a librarian earned a blown-glass heart on an engraved stand. The week asked what sustains a serious person when the signals arriving from the world can no longer be trusted at face value, and found its answers not in grand political resolution but in dirt, in preparation, in recognition, and in the stubborn practice of generous interpretation. Thank you for following along! ...
April 24, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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EndDays: Weekly Writing Summary for the Week Ending 6/11/2026

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This EndDays Story contains a brief summary of each of my posts from last week, as well as an update on the marketing effort for my Cluelessness book. Thank you for following along! EndDays: Weekly Writing Summary for the Week Ending 6/11/2026 This week’s EndDays dispatches arrived in the company of a deep tiredness, RattleFatigue, named outright by week’s end. The writing ranged from the Tibetan Buddhist speculation of InBardo to the frozen-in-place sardonicism of InLimbo, from the Scopes Trial parallel of MonkeyTrials to the contagious cynicism of Beleafing, from The Muse’s standing-room presentation in Opting to the rattly jalopy of RattleFatigue itself. The Muse presented “Why I Voted For The Data Center” to a packed Democratic Central Committee meeting and received thundering applause for calling out the ad hominem attacks she’s endured. The Villa Vatta Schmaltz will sit empty for a few days. We're heading to Newport (Oregon, of course), then home to mow and freeze cherries, then Spokane for a Washington State Democratic Convention. The series will continue regardless of backdrop. Thank you for following along! ...
June 12, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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EndDays: Weekly Writing Summary for the Week Ending 6/04/2026

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This EndDays Story contains a summary of each of my past writing week's postings and a glimpse into the author of Cluelessness. Thank you for following along! EndDays: Weekly Writing Summary for the Week Ending 6/04/2026 This week’s EndDays dispatches arrived as the series rounded a philosophical corner it had been approaching for seventy installments. Truth preceded justice and justice preceded reconciliation, and the week traced all three: from the TRC model of Truth& to the paradox of &Retribution, from the structural inadequacy of Impeachable to the bicycle that won’t float in TheMidasPoint, from the bleak arithmetic of Retirement to the quiet accumulation of limits in Resigning. The series found its destination this week; then, suddenly, it was, in the best possible sense, already Thursday again.
June 5, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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EndDays: LongTail

"…I would have never bothered to create them in the first place."

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This EndDays Story stands in for what might otherwise be mistaken for an ending. Searching for any ending inevitably becomes another new beginning. EndDays: LongTail "…I would have never bothered to created them in the first place." As the EndDays drew closer to their end day, The Muse and I drove to the edge of our experience, the Oregon Coast. Neither of us had ever held any desire to go out on the salt. I learned that while The Muse has always been unfazed by height, depths terrify her. I do not know if I’m prone to seasickness, but I have never felt terribly moved to discover whether I might be. We cling to the edge, me finding a beach read, though the town we chose no longer holds a single bookstore, new or used. The world we’d known had been throwing off hints that it was disappearing. This missing bookstore experience seemed like just another bit of evidence. We were not precisely helpless, but more acknowledging that we were increasingly floatsom, no longer the center of anyone’s attention; hardly even our own anymore. Anyone seeking to witness an ending pursues one of the greater paradoxes, for this world was never contained in such definitive boxes. ...
June 18, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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EndDays: Recognizing

"If only we could remember this inescapable fact and more frequently act upon it."

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This EndDays Story finds me Recognizing the power we still possess, regardless of how harrowing our EndDays become. EndDays: Recognizing "If only we could remember this inescapable fact and more frequently act upon it." No week passes without The Muse, in her Port Commissioner role, being invited to some ceremonial supper or solemn civic society gathering. Her presence is expected as a part of her charter to represent the citizens of the county and, especially, of her district. She only sometimes expects me to string along in what I explain amounts to fulfilling the underappreciated role of Arm Candy. We arrive, with her remembering names from last time, and constituents somewhat pleased at her appearance. The majority don’t know her from Eve, and even fewer know the first thing about me. We’ve registered online beforehand and dutifully purchase our raffle and 50/50 Split tickets, the latter of which awards half the evening’s raffle and drinks takings to one fortunate attendee, which amounted to $61.50 that evening. These gatherings are typically small towny. ...
April 22, 2026 at 3:43 PM