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nickinick@nickinick· 10d

3/ Helen of Troy by Sara Teasdale

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My dreams are over, I have ceased to cry
Against the fate that made men love my mouth
And left their spirits all too deaf to hear
The little songs that echoed through my soul.
I have no anger now. The dreams are done;
Yet since the Greeks and Trojans would not see
Aught but my body's fairness, till the end,
In all the islands set in all the seas,
And all the lands that lie beneath the sun,
Till light turn darkness, and till time shall sleep,
Men's lives shall waste with longing after me,
For I shall be the sum of their desire,
The whole of beauty, never seen again.
And they shall stretch their arms and starting, wake
With "Helen!" on their lips, and in their eyes
The vision of me. Always I shall be
Limned on the darkness like a shaft of light
That glimmers and is gone. They shall behold
Each one his dream that fashions me anew;—
With hair like lakes that glint beneath the stars
Dark as sweet midnight, or with hair aglow
Like burnished gold that still retains the fire.
Yea, I shall haunt until the dusk of time
The heavy eyelids filled with fleeting dreams.
I wait for one who comes with sword to slay—
The king I wronged who searches for me now;
And yet he shall not slay me. I shall stand
With lifted head and look within his eyes,
Baring my breast to him and to the sun.
He shall not have the power to stain with blood
That whiteness—for the thirsty sword shall fall
And he shall cry and catch me in his arms,
Bearing me back to Sparta on his breast.
Lo, I shall live to conquer Greece again!

nickinick@nickinick· 10d

2/ Helen of Troy by Sara Teasdale

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I will not give the grave my hands to hold,
My shining hair to light oblivion.
Have those who wander through the ways of death,
The still wan fields Elysian, any love
To lift their breasts with longing, any lips
To thirst against the quiver of a kiss?
Lo, I shall live to conquer Greece again,
To make the people love, who hate me now.

nickinick@nickinick· 10d

Helen of Troy and Other Poems Helen of Troy www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4...

Helen of Troy
by Sara Teasdale
from "Helen of Troy and Other Poems"

Wild flight on flight against the fading dawn
The flames' red wings soar upward duskily.
This is the funeral pyre and Troy is dead
That sparkled so the day I saw it first,
And darkened slowly after. I am she
Who loves all beauty—yet I wither it.
Why have the high gods made me wreak their wrath—
Forever since my maidenhood to sow
Sorrow and blood about me? Lo, they keep
Their bitter care above me even now.
It was the gods who led me to this lair,
That tho' the burning winds should make me weak,
They should not snatch the life from out my lips.
Olympus let the other women die;
They shall be quiet when the day is done
And have no care to-morrow. Yet for me
There is no rest. The gods are not so kind
To her made half immortal like themselves.
It is to you I owe the cruel gift,
Leda, my mother, and the Swan, my sire,
To you the beauty and to you the bale;
For never woman born of man and maid
Had wrought such havoc on the earth as I,
Or troubled heaven with a sea of flame
That climbed to touch the silent whirling stars
And blotted out their brightness ere the dawn.
Have I not made the world to weep enough?

nickinick@nickinick· 12d

I think about this often. Most of the infrastructure that makes my life better — from clean water to subways — exists because generations ago, a public servant said "this is a good idea." Then it got built with taxes. I usually say shopping bags. This is longer so coffee cup stoppers? Water bottles?

nickinick@nickinick· 22d

The El Niño that began in June 2026 is on track to be the largest in 150 years, making 2027 the hottest year ever and 2026 a record breaker. Amplified by human-caused climate change, 2027's global average temperatures may hit 1.7°C, breaching the 1.5°C threshold in the Paris Agreement.

Chart shows peak sea surface temperatures above baseline* since before 1880 to today. The strongest ever observed was 2.75°C in 2015 - 16.
Modelling indicates that the El Niño that began in June could become the strongest ever observed, with peak temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean rising around
3.6 °C above average - 0.8 °C above the previous record intensity.
*Baseline is the 30-year average sea surface temperature measured in a designated region of the Pacific Ocean.

nickinick@nickinick· Jul 8

yep.

Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart. Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize.

post by Pranay Pathole
@PPathole
8:51 AM • Apr 12, 2019
on xitter

nickinick@nickinick· Jul 4

plus ça change

nickinick@nickinick· Jun 27

I would love something on my watch like this. It feels very meditative watching it.

nickinick@nickinick· May 29

Bleachers call-and-reaponse, #BlueJays take to outfield vs Marlins. Call yelled by guy in bleachers: “Jesús Sánchez, your smile lights up a room!” Response from crowd [much louder]: “You STUD!!!” Sánchez turns to look at the crowd. Unrelated, story on the grandslam by @keeganmatheson.bsky.social

nickinick@nickinick· Apr 22

RIP.

Pic of Prince from the back cover of his album "Musicology." The photo shows Price with his eyes closed looking meditative in front of buildings. (Prince photo credit)

nickinick@nickinick· Apr 19

The climate crisis is a crisis for both individuals and society. Like in uninsurable areas, what took a lifetime achieve can be wiped out in an instant by flood, wildfire, hurricane. What about tipping points? See the original report jpmorgan.celero.site/s/ab29c67c/c...

Most widely identiﬁed tipping points by region. FIGURE 2.
summarizes tipping points that may begin occurring around 1.5°C of warming (which already happened based on the 2023–25 average temp).
(1) ecosystem collapse, where current ecosystems are no longer viable in present-
day locations; (2) changes in major ocean currents that move heat, nutrients and water from one region to another; (3) cryosphere loss, where sea ice, glacier ice (land ice), permafrost (soil ice) and snow are no longer present.

nickinick@nickinick· Apr 11

Competence porn is my new fave genre. NASA uses the Navy’s LPD-class amphibious transport dock ships, the floodable well deck that allows the safe recovery of the space module. The module can provide valuable information on flight and reentry performance, & can be repurposed bsky.app/profile/cage...

The Navy's medical dive team with Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 1 poses for a group photo while underway on the USS John P. Murtha in the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, April 9, 2026. The team will be first to meet the four Artemis II astronauts after
their splashdown at sea. (August Clawson/U.S. Navy)

nickinick@nickinick· Mar 12

Laptop with night mode and I absolutely moved my head while doing it. www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/

nickinick@nickinick· Jan 2

I'll take it.

nickinick@nickinick· Dec 29

"You will be visited by three spirits." The spirits:

Pic of Dorothy, Blanche and Rose from Golden Girls, sitting together in their livingroom.

nickinick@nickinick· Jul 3

"There is no consent in a domestic violence relationship. Period. Once the threat of violence is there, you comply. You do not consent. It is self preservation and survival. It is not freely or willingly given. It is forced and coerced out of you. We clearly have a long way to go in our understanding oof this."
~Evan Rachel Wood

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nickinick@nickinick· May 21

Police: If you had any type of relationship or interaction with Bryan Hayward of Hamilton ON Canada contact Hamilton Police. Hayward may have contacted his victims through online dating sites. Police believe there may be more victims, including those who may not realize they were abused.

An undated photo of Bryan Hayward, 36, charged with assault with a weapon; administering a noxious substance; distribution of intimate images; and voyeurism.

nickinick@nickinick· May 5

US is a whale. Everyone can increase funding, but the loss is just too big for other countries to absorb US cuts. Compare 2024 US HHS spending: $1.7T to 2024 GERD (in local funds): Canada: $56.8 B Australia: $14.8 B Japan: 20.55B yen ($152.9 B USD) EU: €381 B (2023) ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb2024...

Chart from Science and Engineering Indicators U.S. National Science Foundation National Science Board website.

Gross domestic expenditure on R&D (GERD) and GERD-to-GDP ratio, by selected region, country, or economy: 2021 or most recent year

(Billions of current PPP U.S. dollars and percent)

GERD by Region, country, or economy
Region, country, or economy GERD
United States 806.0
EU-27 474.1
China 667.6
Japan 177.4
Germany 153.7
South Korea 119.6
United Kingdom 97.8
France 77.2
Taiwan 55.6
Russia (2020) 48.0
Italy 40.1
Turkey 36.2
Canada 34.4
Spain 27.6
Netherlands 25.7

GERD-to-GDP ratio per cent by Region, country, or economy

Region, country, or economy GERD-to-GDP ratio (%)
United States 3.46
EU-27 2.16
China 2.43
Japan 3.30
Germany 3.13
South Korea 4.93
United Kingdom 2.91
France 2.22
Taiwan 3.77
Russia (2020) 1.10
Italy 1.45
Turkey 1.40
Canada 1.70
Spain 1.43
Netherlands 2.27

EU-27 = European Union; GDP = gross domestic product; GERD = gross domestic expenditures on R&D; PPP = purchasing power parity.

nickinick@nickinick· Apr 5

Who was at the game to see the record change from being held by an American to a Russian. +alt text cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thu...

Screen grab of post by @KeithOlberman shows a pic of American former NHL player Wayne Gretzky with Patel and others applauding at the Ovechkin game. The text with the image says: Good evening and welcome to the end of Wayne Gretzky's career He's at the Ovechkin game tonight - along with Trump Con Man and @FBIDirectorKash
Popeye Patel If there was one moment when Gretzky's path towards self-destruction became unalterable, it was tonight.

nickinick@nickinick· Feb 24

Incredible performance! cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thu...

Do you hear the people sing?
Singing the song of angry men?
It is the music of the people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!

Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?

Then join in the fight
That will give you the right to be free!

nickinick@nickinick· Jan 27

If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery.

Bright beam of sunshine hitting a bumble bee on a bed of yellow daisies.

nickinick@nickinick· Jan 15

My mushroom migration was to porcini, 2023-11-13. Porcini, (aka boletus edulis, cep, penny bun, or porcino) is a great soup and risotto mushroom, so I’m happy.

Image is a close up of two porcini mushrooms growing close together in the forest. The forest floor detritus around the mushrooms is broken up by small patches of bright green moss.

nickinick@nickinick· Jan 3

It is one thing to think that porn shapes many people’s sexual expectations. It is another to think that porn is entirely constitutive of men’s sexual agency. This sort of vulgar determinism gives up on men as ethical agents capable of distinguishing between wanted & unwanted, & choosing accordingly

Screen grab from the article:
"Some of the defendants seemed to claim that pornography made it difficult, if not impossible, for them to distinguish between real life and the screen. The argument that porn can lead men to do bad things, perhaps even unwittingly – precisely because it encourages its viewers to suspend the distinction between fantasy and reality – is usually associated with conservatives or anti-porn feminists, not with the people who consume it."

nickinick@nickinick· Jan 3

The Telegraph did not disappoint, describing her choice of an open trial as an act of ‘public revenge’. The Daily Mail issued obsessive updates on the atrocities of the man they will only call ‘The Monster of Avignon’.