Sirnesto
@sirnesto
Believer in a bright future for humanity. Alarmed at current trajectories. Dad building the plane while flying it. PKM nerd.
Sirnesto
The Notecard System: Capture, Organize, and Use Everything You Read, Watch, and Listen To
Billy Oppenheimerbillyoppenheimer.com
“Hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency." - Rebecca Solnit
“He was coming in hard and low: a squat missile. I got to my feet and watched him come. I didn't try to run. I was transfixed.
It had been thirty-three and a half years since the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's notorious death order against me and all those involved in the publication of The Satanic Verses, and during those years, I confess, I had
... See more“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” George Orwell from 1984
“I had no idea, as I remembered the image of the spaceship wounding the moon's right eye, of what the next morning had in store for my own right eye.” Salman Rushdie from Knife
“I'm looking back at that happy man, myself, as he stands there-soaked in summer moonlight on that Thursday night in August.
He's happy because the scene is beautiful; and because he's in love; and because his novel is finished—he only just did the very last thing, correcting the galleys-and its first readers are excited by it. His life feels good.
... See moreThe world is burning, and there is no time to put down the water buckets. For just an hour, put down the water buckets anyway. Take your cue from the bluebirds, who have no faith in the future but who build the future nevertheless, leaf by leaf and straw by straw, shaping them into the roundness of the world.... See more
Turn your face up to the sky. Listen.
Katie Hawkins-Gaar • A Chance to Start Anew
Despite Trump’s Win, School Vouchers Were Again Rejected by Majorities of Voters
Eli Hagerpropublica.org
“Douglas firs, cedars, hemlocks, and big-leaf maples surround the house so tightly they take away the horizon. Some-times, when their crowns sway in the wind, I have the sense that I'm living at the bottom of a kelp forest. The expanse of this montane forest, like the expanse of the Pacific Ocean, is something I feel, and against this volume of
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