Tootfinder

Facts didn’t build this collective delusion, and facts won’t puncture it.
So yeah, I’m trying to stay diligent about facts where facts matter. I’m trying to stay clear in my own head about what we •know• with high confidence as distinct from what merely seems •likely•.
And I’m also studying — with careful attention, as a serious matter — what popular imagination is doing to the “100% vibes” foundation of Trumpism. Popular imagination. Not the facts. The vibes.
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WB Yeats and the Occult Imagination
https://daily.jstor.org/yeats-and-the-occult-imagination/

Imagination isn’t just for humans, this famous ape shows #AnimalRights

They told you to pick one thing. To find your niche. To make yourself smaller.
But what if your many interests aren't scattered? What if they're connected?
What if refusing to fragment yourself is exactly what the world needs now?
On why being multi-passionate might be your greatest strength, not a flaw to fix.
Read more: [link]

The Lie of the Niche: Why Being Multi-Passionate Is a Strength
In a culture obsessed with specialization, curiosity is treated as a flaw. This essay explores why wholeness, imagination, and multi-passionate lives may be exactly what this moment requires.

The Metropolitan Opera is Dying Because It Wants to Die
The pinnacle of the Performing Arts in America is collapsing not from the weight of its chandelier, but from the brittleness of its imagination. The Metropolitan Opera has chosen extinction over evolution, and the evidence is no longer circumstantial.

The Metropolitan Opera is Dying Because It Wants to Die | David Boles, Blogs
The pinnacle of the Performing Arts in America is collapsing not from the weight of its chandelier, but from the brittleness of its imagination. The Metropolitan Opera has chosen extinction over ev…

"Pigments of the Imagination: Art & Archaeology from Across the Colour Spectrum" Bodleian Libraries blog: https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/sackler/2026/01/23/pigments-of-the-imagination-art-archaeology-fro…

You've been told to pick one thing and stick to it.
But what if your curiosity across many areas is not a problem to fix?
What if it's actually a signal?
In a world that can automate execution, imagination is the real constraint.
And imagination does not live in narrow corridors.
New piece on staying whole in a system that wants you smaller.
What parts of yourself have you been told don't fit?

The Lie of the Niche: Why Being Multi-Passionate Is a Strength
In a culture obsessed with specialization, curiosity is treated as a flaw. This essay explores why wholeness, imagination, and multi-passionate lives may be exactly what this moment requires.

OA Book, looks interesting:
Climate Imagination: Dispatches from Hopeful Futures | Books Gateway | MIT Press
#cllimate #speculativefiction

Repost: CLANS Workshop 'The Trade in Religious Imagination in Late Antiquity' (24 April) | Call for Abstracts https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20143177/repost-clans-workshop-trade-religious-imaginatio…

Repost: CLANS Workshop 'The Trade in Religious Imagination in Late Antiquity' (24 April) | Call for Abstracts https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20143177/repost-clans-workshop-trade-religious-imaginatio…