Chag tu b'shvat sameach

YUGE

“I don't think the point is: Why are we different? Why have we refused to walk one of two narrow paths, but instead demanded the right to blaze our own? The question is not why we were unwilling to conform even when being beaten to the ground by ridicule and brutality. The real burning question is: How did we ever find the courage? From what underground spring did we draw our pride? How did each of us make our way in life, without a single familiar star in the night sky to guide us, to this room where we have at last found others like ourselves? And after so much of ourselves has been injured, or left behind as expendable ballast, many of us worry "What do we have left to give each other? Upon what basis will we build something lasting between us?" I think we have a whole world to give back to each other.”

Leslie Feinberg

SEIZE JOY FROM THE JAWS OF PAIN. DO YOU NEED TO ASK FOR HELP?

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This makes me really want an xkcd astrology book

i like how literally every time odo is talking about the limitless possibilities of being a changeling he just goes “i can be anything .. like a tarkalean hawk!!”

just be a hawk all the time bro it’s fine people already call you slurs

David Lynch in sunglasses saying ‘I hope you are all having a lot of fun working on your favourite projects’

How to spend today

a sweet little mouse chilling inside a no-kill mouse trap. he looks nervous

pov yr boyfriend has caught the mouse but its like 10 degrees outside and youre both too fucking liberal to kill him

two tweets by david lynch, 2010-06-18 and 2010-06-21: - This weekend I'm going to try to find out if I'm connected to the moon. - I'm pretty sure I'm connected to the moon.

#whatsmoon

Update: the light to the theater was out of order and I have it all to myself

OMG this is such a good idea

Chaos at the Heart of the Orion Nebula.🔭

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech STScI

Hubble Space Telescope

The image shows a bright white point of light surrounded by 17 regularly spaced, hazy dust shells at the bottom, right, and upper right, which look like tree rings. There is noticeably less color in the upper left. The central point, where the two stars are located, has a roughly hexagonal shape.

First JWST image of 2025.
Wolf-Rayet star WR 140.
🔭 🧪

Anyhoo I made a Google calendar with the moon's ingresses into each mansion (for 9 trips around the lunar zodiac) in case you would also like to spy on the moon with me. I use the same notation as Jay does in "The Night Theater". May it serve you well! (fin)

calendar.google.com/calendar/u/1...

I'm so grateful for Jay's work because it makes greater intimacy with the mysteries of the moon--celestial grape-vine, great gossip-maker, lamp of the masses--much more accessible. (4/5)

observation and artistic expression, and developing the fecund intersection between tradition and disciplined innovation. Times are desperately urgent and cloistered wizardry is only a good look on Willem Dafoe right now, but being with the moon is such sweet solace. (3/5)

Jay's "Procession of the Night Theater" served as a guide for the class and I can't recommend Jay's teaching or the book more emphatically. At the risk of sounding click-baity, I feel like "Procession" is essentially "36 Faces" for the mansions--researched with devotion, annealed with personal (2/5)

I had the absolute pleasure of jumping into the lunar mansions with @starnightdwell.bsky.social 's Lunar Lab sessions at #CAeLI back in dec. One trip through the lunar zodiac wasn't enough for me, so I think I'm going to continue making field notes as Mom™ visits each of her mansions. (1/5)

Barnard to Host the First Zora Neale Hurston Summit The Zora Neale Hurston Trust will honor the famed storyteller this winter, in serendipitous alignment with the centennial anniversary of her time as a student on campus.

Born on this day in 1891: the incomparable Zora Neale Hurston '28. Later this month, we’re proud to host the Zora Neale Hurston Summit with the Zora Neale Hurston Trust, celebrating her life and lasting impact. Read on to learn more about the summit! bit.ly/48nHUj8