ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

There is an exoplanet less reflective than coal. It's the darkest planet ever discovered orbiting a star, and its atmosphere is hotter than lava! It would incinerate any stocking it found itself in. Happy holidays from your exoplanet friends!
https://go.nasa.gov/3hIGMB3
#NASAExoplanets

Cream-coloured Poinsettia.

#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #xmas #christmas #winter #SilentSunday

#Baking with #Cats, the #Struggle is #Real! 🫣😅🐾

#Dough #PawPrints

Hey, it turns out that community defense works really well against far-right thugs.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/22/2143362/-Far-right-s-armed-thugs-unable-to-intimidate-LGBTQ-community-thanks-to-large-crowds-of-defenders

Did a paint party at home with family yesterday. Merry Grinchmas!

Enjoy this little woods walk with me.

A #frostodon #mostodon #LichenSubscribe #ForestFolk mashup for #JoinIn.

As a human rights lawyer who has done extensive immigration work, let me make something absolutely clear.

Asylum is legal immigration.
There's no "port of entry" requirement.
There's no "visa" requirement.
There's no "first country" requirement.
You enter the United States, and you apply for asylum.

Because asylum is legal immigration. Period.

Period.

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas from #Shetland #horse #snow #Scotland

Best wishes this holiday season from Kerensa and her human housemates. #dogs #Christmas #photography

#Hyperlexia can look and feel like #Dyslexia.

I read faster than my ability to process it. My brain is word-hungry and forages for delicious information like a hunter-gather looking for the juiciest fruits. The words jumble up because I jump from place to place in the sentence/paragraph.

As a child I was an advanced reader, but now as an adult I would probably be picked up on a dyslexia test. I often wonder if some dyslexics are actually hyperlexics.

#actuallyautistic #adhd #autistic

My parents got me this lovely artwork done by an artist they met up north and I thought people might enjoy it here! The artist is Matthew Ellwood. #London #Art

In 1963, Muhammad Ali released a record of trash-talk poetry called "I Am the Greatest," and the liner notes were written by Marianne Moore

#OTD 25 December 1066 Guillaume the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy is crowned king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London.

Children Of The Deer
© Surazeus
2022 12 25

Where in the wild forest of laughing skulls
do children of the deer still run and play?
When Icarus leaps on glass wings of light
the eyeless princess of the lost lake weeps,
but he cannot hear her calling his name
so he falls to Earth and rise again lame.

Whole Poem:
https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2022/12/children-of-deer.html

#Poem #Poetry #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Romanticism #MetaRomanticism #Symbolism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism

There is no such thing as the tragedy of the commons: a thread.

The oldest published reference to the idea is in a lecture by an early political economist at Oxford, William Foster Lloyd, in 1832 titled "On the Checks to Population." Lloyd first articulated the argument that many of us have been taught as an inevitable and immutable fact of economic life: that any resource owned in common will be exploited to the point of ruin.

"Why are the cattle on a common so puny and stunted? Why is the common itself so hare-worn, and cropped so differently from the adjoining inclosures? No inequality, in respect of natural or acquired fertility, will account for the phenomenon."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1972412

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#capitalism #commons #tragedyofthecommons #anticapitalism #ostrom #anticapitalism #anarchism

#books #reading

The older I get, the more aware I am that being critical rather than enjoying things is not a sign of intelligence or wisdom. Not loving things - movies, art, music, people, situations - because of their weaknesses doesn't make you better than them, it means you're unable to see past imperfections. Sure, some things absolutely are bad & should be left behind - but being hypercritical denies you joy. I need reminded of this every day. Too many things are legit bad to throw out good ones too.

Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!