When they wanted to primary an obnoxious reality tv show star I was disgusted. When he received klan endorsement and as an old white man who also knew David Duke suddenly had never heard of either my ears perked up to that dog whistle. When he warmly embraced his alt-right supporters, we had Milo singing America the Beautiful with Richard Spencer, and "conservative history lovers" defending confederate statues while waving swastikas I was off that damn bus.
I started a fire in the wood stove instead of turning up the furnace. The cats are glaring at me like I'm trying to freeze them to death.
First, it's 65F in here, you will not die. Second, in an hour you'll be lying under the hearth baking your faces. #caturday
"Moses" Mike Johnson is backpedaling full speed. Don't believe the backpedaling, they do intend to repeal the CHIPS act.
Longest walk yet for #selfimprovement. On doc's orders I am also doing the intermittent fasting thing.
Getting back from the cold damp to a house that smells like pozole. That's a quality experience that's also very hunger-inducing. 🙃
Stochastic Geoengineering
It’s useful to think about humanity’s present activities in terms of terraforming. I’m tempted to stop using the terms ‘climate change’ and ‘global warming’ at all and just go with ‘stochastic geoengineering’ to describe what we’re doing. This is a good framing because it acknowledges that Western civilization is already engaged in terraforming our world; we’re just doing it in an unplanned way.
Karl Schroeder
https://kschroeder.substack.com/p/cozying-up-to-the-law-of-unintended
Bonfire + 1 second exposure time #photography #shutterspeed #fire #australia #bonfire #Motion #Glowing #Night #LongExposure
"I work in data security, is it a problem if my boss believes in blood-drinking, Jewish lizard-people?"
I'm leaning toward "Yes" here.
😶
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/30/magazine/boss-lizard-conspiracy-theory-ethics.html
As I pulled the hideous paneling off in the basement, the walls looked good. A couple little spots needed patching, but no biggie 👍🏼
Then I pulled the last bit off, and it was bad. As I cleaned away debris, it got worse. Ended up having to carefully rebuild most of the wall 😫
It’s like whoever built out the panel walls just said fuck it and closed it in without fixing that single wall. They signed their names in the mortar. I cursed them as I fixed their mess 🤬
I'm here now. Views are my own. More to come. Maybe I should add some snazzy emojis or something. Cool cool cool.