Mike Delta
@mikedelta
Spaced out invader
Saw this two years ago on a walk nearby... 🌊 #blueskyartshow #wide #portugal #atlantic #ocean
As he became famous for, Congo team supporter Michel Mboladinga assumed Patrice Lumumba's statue pose for the duration of the match with Colombia, last Tuesday, June 23rd, in Zapopan, Mexico. ✋ (Via www.france24.com/fr/sur-franc...)
Sara Montpetit in "Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person" (2023)
"For Henry Wood, the potential for inhabiting Mars, in particular, has inspired a series of wooden figures with quite a turbulent backstory." www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/henr...
"The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling -- their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them." -- Arundhati Roy (source in ALT)
And today, Portugal has a general strike. #workersrights #generalstrike #laborlaw
Mood: a frame from "Le garage hermetique" by Moebius (Jean Giraud, 1938-2012)
"It’s important to examine just what, exactly, fascism is." Posted by @filmsforaction.bsky.social (Read article at www.filmsforaction.org/articles/rep...)
Always look skyward. (Something I put online on this day, ten years ago.)
"When you set sail for Ithaca, wish for the road to be long, full of adventures, full of knowledge. ... "Ithaca" by Konstantinos Kavafis (1/) (full poem on thread and at source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constan...)
"This train stop in Japan has no entries or exits; it has been put there merely so that people can stop in the middle of a train journey and admire the scenery". #existential #komorebi
Waves of scorching heat Smear across the land while flames Devour our future #haiku #shortpoetry #climatechange #spain #portugal
Coda: There's the door Outside, sun shining fiercely Spirit's shaded in #haiku #shortpoetry #depression
It's probably high time you appraise where you stand... leftvalues.github.io #politics #leftism #evaluation
Martha Kivelson Reached the very core of the Machine: Cognizance #haiku #micropoetry #scifi
Sweet daughter of mine Now licensed to soar the skies -- Me, leaning to ground #haiku #micropoetry #flying
"I met an Aborigine in Arnhemland, Australia -- his nephews showed me symbols where I saw trees and rainbows through smoked glass. They could see fish through clouded water. I couldn't even see my own reflection. I must have forgotten how." -- Nitin Sawhney www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000...
"Do you imagine your suffering will be any less because you loved goodness and truth?" Terrence Malick's "The Thin Red Line" is an all-time favorite. #warmovie #auteur #visualpoetry
May be still chilly Sunny days put hopes' glimmer In my wretched soul #haiku #poetry #doomscrolling
This the Sommerschield neighboorhood in Maputo -- Mozambique's capital -- in a fairly recent photo.