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Published: October 21, 2024 18:48

This was a fun challenge: use only the 4 colors of a 4 color ballpoint to draw this, a view of a hothouse at the Missouri botanical garden

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Published: October 21, 2024 01:51

Why so few Fermat primes? 3, 5, 17, 257, 65537. And that's potentially it?

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Published: October 21, 2024 00:36

Idk but the moral saint is a bit of a straw figure? (From Susan Wolf's "Moral saints") The conception of a good life from e.g., Mengzi or Aristotle does include some development of yourself and your interests.

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Published: October 20, 2024 14:13

Some detail on what's happening. I'm still in quite some pain, which is debilitating (but I can manage w pain meds). I don't know what the future looks like, but it looks brighter. …

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Published: October 20, 2024 02:12

Quick 15 mins charcoal sketch of cacti at Missouri Botanical Garden

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Published: October 19, 2024 18:26

The lots of pain I have now may well be the immunotherapy causing inflammation, which is not bad, it's managed with powerful pain killers. I feel like a 19th c romantic on laudanum, maybe I should try writing some poetry.

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Published: October 19, 2024 17:07

As the block function is being removed on Twitter/X I'm contemplating several male academics who have in the past taken screenshots of my tweets and put these on their blog to mock and harass me. In the discipline, ppl say"just ignore them" or even "it's a…

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Published: October 19, 2024 15:21

Thinking of the nth upcoming Pride and Prejudice adaptation by Netflix. Imagine that you could choose whatever book or life story/event that Netflix would adapt. What would you choose?

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Published: October 19, 2024 13:32

Ginkgo tree in Missouri Botanical Garden. Added birds bc my son wanted birds

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Published: October 18, 2024 01:16

My prognosis was quite bleak (20% or so survival rates over 5 yrs) but has now enormously improved to over 50%. I am so, so happy. (Not cancer free but got next best news I could hope for, partial response and no longer stage 4). I can now write those 2…

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Published: October 17, 2024 19:41

Came back from dr appointment, first post-treatment (radio, chemo, immunotherapy) PET scan. Not cancer free but some sites resolved (particularly those that went stage 4), and tumor increased in size but seriously decreased in metabolic activity, so likely…

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Published: October 16, 2024 02:17

I realized now why I was not able to write fiction for a year or so. The stakes (subbing to magazines) had become too high, and I don't write stories just for me (I admire people who do this!) But now I wrote a story for a friend, and it went so easy and…

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Published: October 16, 2024 01:57

I love the baroque aesthetic--the too much ness, the off-kilter, the fugue. Why is the adjective derogatory? As Eugenio d’Ors writes, classicism is “normative and authoritarian", but “the Baroque is vitalist, it is freedom-loving; it entails…

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Published: October 15, 2024 18:10

There is an misogynist undercurrent in describing a woman this way, but I'm still very intrigued how Henry James describes George Eliot (in a letter) upon first meeting her in 1869:

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Published: October 15, 2024 01:34

My daughter saw Heilung live last year, including this healing ritual which she showed to me tonight. You can hear the crowd cheer when the woman who was put in fetters is freed. The atmosphere in the audience was very tense and palpable, apparently 1/ …

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Published: October 15, 2024 00:15

Has the prevalence of AI art changed at all how you look at/evaluate artworks? For me it has. When I see an artwork I don't know, I look at the name and date, and if it's like a pretty landscape and says, "Bierstadt, 1888" I think, "well at least it's not…

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Published: October 14, 2024 03:10

About halfway Murdoch's The sea, the sea... and oh boy. It's such a romp. I got the impression these would be philosophical reflections by a retired theater director but it's taken quite a few wild turns, and I'm like, okay, how is this going to end?? 🐉

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Published: October 14, 2024 01:12

My daughter has a theology class in college and was quoting from the letters by Mother Teresa on her spiritual dryness, "If I ever become a saint, I will surely be a saint of darkness." -- remarking, "this is the most metal thing a saint ever said."

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Published: October 13, 2024 14:59

Hey beautiful, could you please follow me back? Could you DM me? That's a block. Do they not realize how creepy it sounds, or do they want to amass record numbers of blocks. (Invariably these are profiles of men, often military men, with no posts, except…

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Published: October 13, 2024 13:59

Missouri botanical garden , watercolor pencils