aaron matthew of the meskousing

there are yet better desires {🌲❤️‍🔥🌲}

[aaron matthew of the meskousing @ameskousing]

like, as I want to imagine @MassageMcLuhan saying, "twitter's message is the raw, networked structure of human consciousnesses in ever shifting relationships" or smth. he'd prolly be more profound and poetic tho :/

[aaron matthew of the meskousing @ameskousing]

I'm fascinated by how well the twitter app functions for depth first searches through relational networks. single page/single back button ftw

[Birch Brother 🪓 @BjorkBrodern]

Japanese carpenters have a tradition of always installing wood in the correct direction, root end down and top end up. It has no function other than treating the wood with respect.

You would probably not like being installed standing on your head for the rest of your lifespan so why would the wood like it?

[𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙜𝙖𝙗𝙚🏴 @g_abe2]

there's a very good jacob geller video about the history of the headshot as a cultural phenomenon that gets into why this change happened. worth a watch

[aaron matthew of the meskousing @ameskousing]

bookmarking. pope leo francis traditions

[Rorate Caeli @RorateCaeli]

Pope Leo, in just 8 months of pontificate, has recovered 17 small traditions that had been abandoned by Francis:

1. Leo XIV celebrates Mass, and he does so devoutly, making it clear that he believes in what he celebrates.

2. He not only celebrates it, but he sings it, and in Latin.

3. He uses beautiful vestments, far removed from the costly pauperism of the Franciscan style.

4. He wears a dalmatic under the chasuble, as the ritual prescribes.

5. The cross and the seven historic candelabra have returned to the Altar of the Confessio. For now, placed obliquely, but I presume they will soon occupy the center of the altar.

6. The "midnight Mass" has returned to being celebrated at 10 p.m., as in recent decades, and no longer at 7 p.m., the absurd Bergoglian hour that stripped all meaning from the celebration.

7. The tradition of publicly celebrating the Mass of the day (of Christmas) has been resumed, which had been lost in 1993 (Did he also celebrate the Mass of Dawn privately?).

8. The four assisting deacons of the pontiff have returned.

9. The Pope uses a cassock made of a dignified fabric—not transparent like Bergoglio's—and with sleeves.

10. He has returned to using the sash with the pontifical coat of arms embroidered on it.

11. He uses the choir habit when required: surplice, red mozzetta, and red stole embroidered with his coat of arms.

12. This week, the red velvet and gilded wood throne, with the pontifical coats of arms, reappeared, both in the Clementine Hall and in the loggia of St. Peter's.

13. He uses Castel Gandolfo weekly to rest and do sports.

14. He attends the musical concerts given in his honor.

15. At the beginning of next year, he will move to live in the Apostolic Palace.

16. He parked Francis's white Fiat 500 on some pontifical block and uses a car befitting his rank.

17. Ignoring the provisions of his predecessor, he graciously grants the title of "Chaplain of His Holiness" to priests whom he wishes to particularly distinguish.

Some will stupidly say that it is an "assault on intelligence" to focus on those changes. Others will say that these are merely cosmetic changes, and they are right. But the fact is that traditions (with a lowercase "t") are always cosmetic, but that does not mean they lack importance. In fact, it is they that reveal truths and mysteries, just as accidents reveal the substance. If we remove many of an elephant's accidents (trunk, tusks, ears), it will no longer be recognized as the pachyderm it is. It would not be serious to omit some of the "superficial" details we have listed; the problem is that if they are all removed, the Catholic truth of the Roman pontificate is obscured.

[aaron matthew of the meskousing @ameskousing]

what is a word but that emerging from earth

who is the word save he who did so himself

[aaron matthew of the meskousing @ameskousing]

to suffer, to move towards, to bear up under, to bear (carry), towardsness of effort and work…

[aaron matthew of the meskousing @ameskousing]

@michaelcurzi Archangels on notice

[aaron matthew of the meskousing @ameskousing]

@durdfarm Flashing your hazards twice is a sort of ‘thank you’, esp for letting you merge/pass

[aaron matthew of the meskousing @ameskousing]

Oedipal conflict deep in the structure of the American psyche

[aaron matthew of the meskousing @ameskousing]

@paulsummergrad @JonathanShedler What is dharma combat?

[aaron matthew of the meskousing @ameskousing]

@s_r_constantin @relic_radiation how did that knowing he was the one feel? how could you tell?

[aaron matthew of the meskousing @ameskousing]

Why is the evangelical and tech right death drive so prominent, where did it come from, why those movements

[aaron matthew of the meskousing @ameskousing]

@christineist @Prigoose Ah, get Layna Fisher if you can

[aaron matthew of the meskousing @ameskousing]

@christineist @Prigoose oops, link is https://t.co/4ks1X80d8n

[aaron matthew of the meskousing @ameskousing]

@christineist this is excellent, @Prigoose and I have taken classes there. very theatrical, very technically good and very fun.

There's one instructor in general I loved, could probably find her name

[aaron matthew of the meskousing @ameskousing]

@profoundish What is her expression but the edges of a ripple, belying their own attenuation?

[Mary🌙 🌔 @profoundish]

@ameskousing Kataphatic assertion couched in veiled concession and feigned negation. A glint. An adjustment.

(i'm not sure i've understood the full significance but i can try to play along?)