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"I wander in a city that feels ghostly, depopulated, even when bodies are on the street, and I feel like a ghost myself in the lack of acknowledgment..."

"Pray
the stars
are all the feelings

we refused to love
and somehow
they have forgiven us

our refusal
to address them
by their animal names"

– Robin Coste Lewis, Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems via @jacobwren.bsky.social

"A moral fatigue and paralysis seems to have overtaken much of the world. Individuals, organizations and institutions seem to have reached the end of their credulity and ability to be outraged at the ongoing genocide in the Middle East. We protest, hold sit-ins, challenge politicians, appeal to international tribunals, yet it seems nothing works."

"This process includes the replacement of all first-rate talents, regardless of their political loyalties, with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is the best guarantee of their loyalty." (The Origins of Totalitarianism, renewed version, A Harvest Book New York, 1976, 339) via @tamardewaal.bsky.social via @joriegraham.bsky.social

Invasive Species.