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Humans did see these animals before they became extinct. Island hopping from Asia, humans crossed into Australia sometime around 50,000 years ago. These two bipeadal mammals overlapped for around 20,000 years before the giants vanished. There are still stories amongst the Australian aborigines with descriptions of what could only be the Giant Short-Faced Kangaroo.

Although they overlapped, there is little evidence of human butchery on fossil remains. Australia was a continent where the climate was changing constantly. Forests shrank as the climate became drier, and some areas experienced extreme droughts. Local extinctions may have taken place, leaving small refugia clinging on which never managed to regain the numbers they once had. To witness a mob of flat-faced, big bottomed kangaroos walking across the landscape surely must have been one of the most wonderful sights our species has ever witnessed.

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For each person there is a sentence — a series of words — which has the power to destroy him … another sentence exists, another series of words, which will heal the person. If you’re lucky you will get the second; but you can be certain of getting the first: that is the way it works. On their own, without training, individuals know how to deal out the lethal sentence, but training is required to deal out the second.

Phillip K. Dick “VALIS” (via autumnalwolf)

Which is why the Work is hard. By the time we learn language, we have subtly been entrained by culture.

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“We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and invocations of equations. These are the tools we employ, and we know many things … The true secrets. The important things. Fourteen words to make someone fall in love with you forever, seven words to make them go without pain; how to say goodbye to a friend who is dying; how to be poor, how to be rich, how to rediscover dreams when the world has stolen them from you.”

-Elric the Technomage, Babylon 5 ‘The Geometry of Shadows’

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excerpt from “The Blood of the Earth” by John Michael Greer – an introduction to Political Thaumaturgy

To begin with, the failure of the established order of industrial society, and of the political classes who manage it, is becoming hard to ignore. Consider the way that the world’s leaders have reacted to the ongoing implosion of the global economy, or nearly any other recent crisis you care to name: in each case, […]

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there’s your future right there, an angry libertarian with a shotgun and a dead drone.

prompted by interdome

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Tropical Cyclones Diamondra and Eunice by EUMETSAT on Flickr.

“Tropical Cyclones Diamondra and Eunice”

– like watching two galaxies collide

weather, dynamic systems, the mysteries of form repeating across scales of time and space.

good morning

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We were promised jetpacks to go to the store and instead we’ll have quadcopters bringing us our groceries. — Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) January 24, 2015 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

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