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> The world is not a set of things with properties - it is a network of interactions.
pull-quote from "Consciousness is irrelevant to Quantum Mechanics"
An Interview with Carlo Rovelli
<iai.tv/articles/consciousness-

Beth Sawin FTW:

Dr. Elizabeth Sawin - @bethsawin: Time to trust and align with billions of years worth of life intelligence on earth and walk away from 500 years of a messed up theory based on domination, coercion, extraction, and separation coming from a tiny splinter of a sub-group of one species of many.
<twitter.com/bethsawin/status/1>

Zeeshan Pathan - @ZeeshanJaanam: There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

― Adrienne Rich

Eve Gaumond @eve_gaumond
Do I have an em dash problem?

(Thanks to @pomeranian99 for one of the best tools on the internet : just-the-punctuation.glitch.me) twitter.com/eve_gaumond/status

A friend came up with a handy new acronym talking about the USAF interest in unidentified-aerial-phenomena -- WTFIT (WhatTheF*ckIsThat). i'll be puttin' it to use.

Ada Limón Is Named the Next Poet Laureate
“I think that we’ve lost our reciprocal relationship with the earth,” she said, “and poetry has the ability to draw attention to the natural world, even if it’s the tree in your backyard or the pigeon on the street.”
<nytimes.com/2022/07/12/books/a>

And the last lines _Notes on the Below_<poets.org/poem/notes-below>

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When we're believing, we're not really thinking, because the belief has walls: "This is what I believe."

So what I believe is like a box, and we're taking the energy of our thinking and putting into a box of beliefs, pretending that we're thinking.

But we're really stifling our own energy. We create these mental stresses and frustrations, because we're blocking our spirit, so to speak.
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John Trudell

today's bird-site gem:
jason wilson - @jason_a_w:
a chef is just a person who will use more butter than you

"Now what’s going to happen to us without barbarians?
Those people were a kind of solution."

[Waiting for the Barbarians by C.P. Cavafy](poetryfoundation.org/poems/512)

Mushrooms
Are they talking?
Mycelial Team Six;
Are you ready?

associations for Friday

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I learned a Hawaiian word yesterday… it’s a perfect word to me. It’s about wonder and curiosity, discovery and exploration. 😍

My new favorite word.

Imiloa

"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep"
- Saul Bellow, writer
/via Agnieszka Górecka🇵🇱🇪🇺 @trsgrob

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