Richard Knott

I submit that authentic selfhood is both the bloom out of and the counterpose to the Nevermore of death--that abyss within ourselves.

.@nikitabier why are you only showing my tweets to a handful of my followers? It says over 200,000 of my followers were active in the past 24 hours yet less than 1% of that sees my content? What's the point of building a following if they just won't see any of what I post? With all due respect, it seems counterintuitive to use this app, my threads account had fewer followers with more activity.

@CBSNews Shut CBS down! Boycott them. Lied to staff. Lied to press.

One day we will look back on the murder of “60 Minutes” as one of the travesties of Trump’s reign. In the meantime, thank you Scott Pelley for telling the truth. Thank you, former “60 Minutes” producers, correspondents, and staff, for telling the truth. And now, we should boycott CBS. ms.now/news/scott-pel…

A subtle detail that few noticed in The Shining.

Only thing left to say to CBS after reading that powerful Scott Pelley statement is…..with a little help from David Letterman: "In the words of the great Edward Murrow, 'Good night and good luck, motherf*ckers!'"

@brindaadhikari What boomer ways had to be forgiven? Boomers rock.

I worked at CBS News for almost 6 years. It was a place that frequently drove me crazy bc of how resistant it was to change. How difficult it was to get things done bc you had to fight so many people and their “Cronkite and Murrow would roll over in their graves if they saw” mentality. For those who think Scott Pelley was part of the problem, you are wrong. Yes he could be rigid and a stickler for certain traditions. But I will tell you now the Gen Z people I worked w all loved him. Like me, they forgave a lot of his boomer ways bc we were in awe of investigations he did using hidden cameras exposing snake oil salesmen hurting Americans; showing us how Assad was using chemical weapons on his own people; the pain of rural Americans waiting for half a day to get affordable healthcare in a parking lot of a mobile clinic; his searing interviews w survivors of mass shootings. Yeah he was old fashioned in some ways. I used to tease him bc he always had trouble pronouncing Beyoncé’s name. But he was willing to be pushed. He was open to new ideas. The fact that someone like me and someone like him got along so well is proof of that. The guy made me a better thinker and a better journalist.

@WalshFreedom Still hiding behind masks and badges, I see-- that is, if they were wearing their badges.

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"I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news." — John Muir

@N0tThatSimple @cljack Bingo! Bingo again!

@cljack Women are funny. Half of them will expect you to know the color of her blouse tonight means no, and the other half will expect you to understand that "no" didn't actually mean no, just be a man, not a little wussy. Kidding, of course. Both of these are the same women.

men are funny because half of them will misinterpret any polite attention as flirting and the other half won't get it unless there's visible nipples

as the evening settles another ordinary day becomes eternity Ogawa

@Tablesalt13 If anyone is scaring or disrespecting you, don't see them. Don't worry about other considerations, or what others might think of you. Safety first.

❗️Canadian pro$titute bans Indians and Pakistanis because they ask for a discount ...and they often refuse to shower before services ... are also "very aggressive" because of their "r@pe culture"

a soft blossom where certainty used to be Aiko

The Great Ziggurat of Ur has towered over the Iraqi desert for over 4,000 years. Sun-dried mud bricks, bound with natural bitumen (asphalt), reinforced with woven reed mats to stop cracking, one of the earliest examples of smart engineering in human history. Ancient builders were on another level. (clip by iggs89)

This is the single greatest paragraph in American literature. It comes at the close of chapter 93 of Moby-Dick. Young Pip, a Black cabin-boy, beloved by the crew of the Pequod, is inadvertently stranded alone on the open sea. The experience of being lost for hours in the middle of those “heartless immensities” drives the boy to insanity. But in that madness, Melville argues here, is a kind of wisdom. Pip had a vision of the inner workings of all things, and it drove him mad. On the first day of my final year in college, my literature professor, Dr. Gaines, asked each of us to name a favorite work of art: song, book, film, it didn’t matter. When my turn came round, I opened a copy of Moby-Dick that I happened to have brought with me and read this passage aloud. By the time I had finished reading, Dr. Gaines was in tears. He said, “Class dismissed.” In all the years I knew him, he could never get through this paragraph. It haunted him. It haunts me.