I know it varies, but still:

Latest co2 concentration at Scripps Mauna Loa Observatory: 420.07 ppm

I'm living in a world of tropes,
Banalities, mottos, sayings, and aphorisms.
A world of 'bon mots', wise sayings,
Other remembrances from a past I never knew.

But when Donna wrote
"meanwhile
past disappears into present
into future
indeed
there is no present moment"

I sat up straight.
Grateful for seeing, listening,
For this.
Thank you.

Twitter provides alternative to my previous melancholy post about hope:

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

American poet, Emily Dickinson died #OnThisDay in 1886
/via Read More Women -@WomenRead:

@th3j35t3r I tried to join (login?) to realms the other day, but I never rec'd an email. I checked the spam blocker at my provider. So I think I am missing something. Still curious about exploring that.

Twitter this morning: Samantha Rose Hill @Samantharhill
Is there hope?

Kafka: Yes, but not for us.
Arendt: Dreams never do come true.
Benjamin: It's only for those without hope that hope is given.
Horkheimer: I do not believe that things will turn out well, but the idea that they might is of decisive importance.
Adorno: No.

Today's Twitter gem: Fonda Lee - @FondaJLee: The one time I went to a nutritionist he said I should stop eating chocolate and dairy, so I decided to make some changes in my life. Henceforth, I do not visit nutritionists.

IN THOSE YEARS-Adrienne RIch
In those years, people will say, we lost track
of the meaning of we, of you
we found ourselves
reduced to I
and the whole thing became
silly, ironic, terrible:
we were trying to live a personal life
and yes, that was the only life
we could bear witness to
But the great dark birds of history screamed and plunged
into our personal weather
They were headed somewhere else but their beaks and pinions drove
along the shore, through the rags of fog
where we stood, saying I

In the metaverse / I met a verse / And now I wonder / which is worse.

Twitter gem: Samuel Beckett - @samuelbbeckett: To tell the truth, let us be honest at least, it is some considerable time now since I last knew what I was talking about.

Even though work in groups these days is less hierarchical there can still be too many cooks in the kitchen.

Sisters with transistors (#cosoMusic)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/apr/23/sisters-with-transistors-film-electronic-musics-forgotten-pioneers-clara-rockmore

Over in the Knowledge Management for Development land ([email protected]) there are discussions on topics like this one by Ann Hendrix-Jenkins:
"Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and… Supremacy, Neo-Colonialism, and International Development"

https://www.cdacollaborative.org/blog/maslows-hierarchy-of-needs-and-supremacy-neo-colonialism-and-international-development/

today's "on the socials" mood:

it’s like, um, impossible to have what once might be called a serious conversation, because serious is just some kind of virtue signal sh*t. so, hemlock or coffee? i’ll have coffee, please.

How capitalism will end is really clear. It’s still cool, in the entry exams for elite universities, to claim that «capitalism is the greatest system ever invented». But even the most confident voices now betray a tremor when asked if capitalism must survive.
The Future is over By Paul Mason
ARTICLE n. 18 / 2021 https://www.theitalianreview.com/the-future-is-over/

Latest co2 concentration at Scripps Mauna Loa Observatory: 419.40 ppm 😰

"Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again."
--André Gide
(/ht Twitter H S Joshi @HSJSpeaks)