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Welcome to Lost in Mist: A Collection of Outrageous Magical Objects [fusing together the poetic, memetic, and programming senses of ‘objects’] !đź’Ą !đź’Ą ! This is your world and also our world, beautiful, incredible, tragic, ever-evolving, ordinary and yet transcendent, where every moment is an opportunity to make your mark on the canvas of existence.

  • Psychotic and The Empty Set of Clouds

    Doomed to repeat the mistakesUnlimbered from the snares and traps of the every dayThe Passive Voice demands it of youShe asks for nothing but all that you had and all that you wereTaking time to consider. And throwing the dice on a breakdown of the watersA return to grace; A Moment of SilenceA taking of…

  • Measuring Climate Change Progress by Infrastructure Deployment Rather than Temperature

    In a new video, Climate Targets MISSED. What happens now?, the Just Have a Think YouTube channel discusses a new paper about measuring climate change progress with clean energy targets, not temperature targets, “to avoid the insidious narrative of climate failure, which risks backlash and doomerism.” They go on: […]

  • Trump NSF Backs Down from Dismantling Critical Ocean Monitoring Systems – CNN

    After bipartisan backlash Trump admin backs down from unilateral and sudden dismantling of ocean monitoring network to ‘consult’ and ‘study’ ‘path forward’. Some of the kinds of news coverage / content that can be expected to disappear if the Skydance-Paramount / Warner Bros. Discovery merger is able to go through […]

  • Awakenings

    “This isn’t really a democrat vs republican thing. This is like, people who want America to not die vs people who are fine with it happening” — Politics Girl at 21:00: #MEGA: Make the Enlightenment Great Again Characterized by an emphasis on reason, empirical evidence, and the scientific method, the Enlightenment promoted ideals of individual liberty, religious tolerance, progress, and natural rights.…

  • Why Democracy May Prevail – 6/5/2026

    Direct link to my original post:https://verysmallocean.org/blog.html#democracy-may-prevail An interesting YouTube video, 31.5 minutes, called Why Trump’s Power is Fading by UK person Brendan Miller. I was somewhat heartened by it. He says he’s more persuaded by this one but there’s also another he made called How Trump is Building an American Dictatorship. This is of course important for mitigating…

  • VerySmallOcean.org and Life Updates

    Updating verysmallocean.org is actually quite a bit of work. Today, I removed the old featured off-site content from every page and moved them to the suggested media and suggested reads pages, moved the 2024 blog posts to their own page and updated all the links to reflect that, updated the footers, added the table of…

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