Tootfinder

There's a word at the beginning and end of Dawn of Everything that feels self-referential right now: Kairos.
> We began this book with a quote which refers to the Greek notion of kairos as one of those occasional moments in a society’s history when its frames of reference undergo a shift – a metamorphosis of the fundamental principles and symbols, when the lines between myth and history, science and magic become blurred – and, therefore, real change is possible. Philosophers sometimes like to speak of ‘the Event’ – a political revolution, a scientific discovery, an artistic masterpiece – that is, a breakthrough which reveals aspects of reality that had previously been unimaginable but, once seen, can never be unseen. If so, kairos is the kind of time in which Events are prone to happen.
> Societies around the world appear to be cascading towards such a point. This is particularly true of those which, since the First World War, have been in the habit of calling themselves ‘Western’. On the one hand, fundamental breakthroughs in the physical sciences, or even artistic expression, no longer seem to occur with anything like the regularity people came to expect in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet at the same time, our scientific means of understanding the past, not just our species’ past but that of our planet, has been advancing with dizzying speed. Scientists in 2020 are not (as readers of mid-twentieth-century science fiction might have hoped) encountering alien civilizations in distant star systems; but they are encountering radically different forms of society under their own feet, some forgotten and newly rediscovered, others more familiar, but now understood in entirely new ways.
Reading this as I write something very inspired by this work feels especially serendipitous, especially at this time. When they wrote the book, I think that kairos felt more serendipitous itself. But as the frequency of opportunity increases, the veil between realities feels more malleable... that perhaps we can poke a finger through and open a portal to a completely different future than the one we've felt locked into for such a long time.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/the-coordinated-swarm-lyhr

NFL Coaching Hot Seat Rankings: Pete Carroll's Seat Feels Hotter Than Ever https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-coaching-hot-seat-rankings-pete-carrolls-seat-feels-hotter-than-ever

The Kash bureau doesn’t seem to be doing so well. This is, what, the 4th or 5th high-profile case where they’ve “caught” the wrong person, or announced that someone was in custody when that wasn’t true…
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/providenc<…

I always know @… wil have a clear view.
https://www.readtpa.com/p/the-rules-of-grief?publ…

Raiders 1-Round Mock Draft: GM John Spytek picks the next defensive star https://raiderramble.com/2025/12/15/raiders-1-round-mock-draft-gm-john-spytek-picks-the-next-defensive-star/

Seeing the built-in drink holder for the first time...

Excellent Scrappy Hour Group Ride today. Weather was nice and warm, fall colors were awesome. Small group from Tosa (just four this time) but me, Michael, Nick, and James had a blast!

#ScrappyHour #cycling

Retrocedamos solo un año, hasta 1983, cuando R.E.M. publicaba su primer larga duración (antes habían publicado el EP Chronic Town). ¡Cómo no la iban a romper en los círculos universitarios y underground con este discazo que aún sigue sonando fresco y original!
Murmur
#REM #NowPlaying

Raiders’ Win Over Titans: Step Forward or Fool’s Gold? https://raiderramble.com/2025/10/14/raiders-win-over-titans-step-forward-or-fools-gold/

Ok, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol