1. so stoked about the martian I didn’t notice spiderman

    selfie, man (me) in a yellow camp shirt w/ flowers on it, red kn95 mask and black SF giants hat. behind me someone with a “save NPR” sign is dressed like the martians from sesame street who panic every time the phone rings trying to figure out what it isfurther in the distance someone in a spiderman costume pushes a bike

  2. it was kinda nice to get to civic center and not really find any electeds going on about some nonsense on a PA system, it was just like, well we’re here, that was nice, there’s the avakian revcom weirdos [wayne’s world wayne seeing-stacy-face] there’s the people from salt tabling, ok, well let’s walk back up market and see how long it is, wow this is a lot, very cool

    ah well I guess that’s it, ok, cya, I’m gonna go get a beer, ok cya I’ve got plans, yeah cool, later

  3. yipyipyip

    A two and a half mile (four kilometer), 72 foot (22 meter) elevation walk over one and a quarter hours, (half an hour moving) in San Francisco, California. About 4900 steps.

  4. relaxing this morning after breakfast reading a bit before heading to the Dolores Park to Civic Center “No Kings" march later today and I get to Inferno III ( https://archive.org/details/dante-dantes-the-divine-comedy-the-inferno-2012-dante-alighieri-robert-hollander-jean-hollander/page/n61/mode/2up), beginning with the famous “abandon all hope, you who enter here” gate of hell, and where Dante and Virgil encounter the damned for the first time, in the vestibule, who in life were neutral and never took a side.

    Dante - Dante's The Divine Comedy - The Inferno (2012) Dante Alighieri, Robert Hollander, Jean Hollander : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveDante - Dante's The Divine Comedy - The Inferno (2012) Dante Alighieri, Robert Hollander, Jean HollanderInternet Archive

    😬. Well, ok then.

    Annotation in Hollander’s Inferno translation (https://archive.org/details/dante-dantes-the-divine-comedy-the-inferno-2012-dante-alighieri-robert-hollander-jean-hollander/page/n603/mode/2up) cropped to the note for lines 34-36, which says:34-36. For the history of the interpretation of this tercet, nowgenerally understood to indicate the presence in the "ante-inferno," orvestibule of hell, of the neutrals, those who never took a side, seeMazzoni (Mazz. 1967.1), pp. 355-67. And, for the existence of exactlysuch a "vestibule" in hell in the apocryphal Visio Pauli, describing St.Paul's descent to the netherworld, see Silverstein (Silv.1937.1). InPaul's vision (for the most recent text see Silv. 1997.1) there is a riverof flame separating "those who were neither hot nor cold" (Revelation3:15-16) from the other sinners. [return to English / Italian]

    Annotation in Hollander’s Inferno translation (https://archive.org/details/dante-dantes-the-divine-comedy-the-inferno-2012-dante-alighieri-robert-hollander-jean-hollander/page/n605/mode/2up) cropped to the note for lines 52-57, which says:52-57. Dante's essential technique for indicating the crucial moralfailures of his various groups of sinners is here before us for the firsttime. The neutrals, who never took a side, are portrayed as anorganized crowd following a banner: exactly what they were not inlife (e.g., the neutral angels who neither rebelled directly against Godnor stood with Him, but who kept to one side). And in this respect theneutrals are punished by being forced to assume a pose antithetic tothat which they struck in life. At the same time, the banner that theyfollow is the very essence of indeterminacy. Not only is there noidentifying sign on it, it is not held in the anchoring hand of anystandard-bearer; it is a parody of the standard raised before a body ofmen who follow a leader. Elsewhere we will encounter other suchsymbolic artifacts. In Dante's hell the punishment of sin involves theapplication of opposites and similarities. This form of just retributionis what Dante will later refer to as the contrapasso (Inf. XXVIII.142).[return to English / Italian]

  5. as a bonus, this helps me feel ok not passing along second-hand “advice" or information, or even posting much at all anymore

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