We need to un-learn many things to make progress on climate change, but my imagination is limited by what I know & by "one of modernity's most effective weapons: the insistence that it has rendered other forms of knowledge obsolete." Amitav Ghosh The Great Derangement (http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1081118824)

Today's Twitter gem:
Lauren Weinstein - @laurenweinstein: True Fact: Even after all these decades, the Internet still pretty much runs on shell scripts of one sort or another. And cron.

Today's Twitter gem:
Nature 🌔✨Hope - @nature_meditati: “I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”

~ Galileo Galilei
https://twitter.com/nature_meditati/status/1491683363144433667

This just in from the socials: Summer Brennan - @summerbrennan: when can we start calling newsletters blogging again

Today's Twitter gem:
Joyce Carol Oates - @JoyceCarolOates: "Waiting for Godot" (1953) "Waiting for Mueller" (2018-19), "Waiting for Garland" (2021--)

2022-01-19: afternoon #cloudspotting in Austin, Texas, USA

Meanwhile, here in Texas:
Austin Monitor Quote of the Day:

“My friends, this is what voter suppression looks like."

–Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir, from “Clerk calls out voter suppression under new law” (<https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2022/01/clerk-calls-out-voter-suppression-under-new-law/)

Today's Twitter gem:

Paul Holdengraber - @holdengraber: "Like a tropical storm, I, too, may one day become ‘better organized.'"
~ Lydia Davis,
“The Collected Stories”

thanks to @gplewis

Twitter gem for today:
Ron Amaya - @juan_amayah: This month I’m doing something called January, where I try to make it through every day of January

The Sun Also Rises today.

Laura Keating - @LoreKeating: Winnie the Pooh is in the public domain.
The entire Lovecraft canon is in the public domain.

Do what you will with that information.

Yesterday's Twitter gem:
8 January 2022: The Paris Review @parisreview

“Rereading hooks has helped me to revel in ideas without necessarily articulating them to anyone but myself, lest I interrupt the process of recognition by blabbing what I think I know too soon.” https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/01/07/flip-it-a-tribute-to-bell-hooks/ (Niela Orr)

Zander says "sometimes life is serious business" (photo by Susan)

An interesting frame of Chinese/American international political science. One generative model is that of "shared sovereignty, partial sovereignty, and compromised sovereignty"
https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/tianxia-versus-plato
(A long-ish and meandering piece.)

Twitter gem for today (/ht @holdengraber):

Kim Dorman - @mkimdorman: The man who doesn't belong in a community is probably the man to pay attention to. The old idea of the stranger is still very strong ... a Greek idea - we may not honour him anymore - we don't ... But we certainly know who he is, and the stranger's fearsome.

-Ed Dorn
https://twitter.com/mkimdorman/status/1471364651061415942

Archivist Twitter FTW:

archivistmemes - @archivistmemes: YOU! HIGHER MAMMAL. Have you stored your files in at least two different locations in accordance with Level 1 of the NDSA’s Digital Preservation Standards?

https://twitter.com/archivistmemes/status/1468274614455476232

Parsosaurus - a lean and mean semantic meaning cleaning machine. 🙃