@stueytheround

It really sucks that so many of our coherent mental responses to a stressful world can only be addressed via individual medical treatments. Imagine a world where socioeconomic drivers of anxiety were addressed collectively as well!

(But I'm super glad you sought out and are receiving the care that's available - even if we all 100% deserve better. 🫂)

@gemswinc

Oh, that looks like a beautiful prompt for a poem. Thank you, Cindy!

@Susandoyle @awnaves

#LifeGoals

@gemswinc @LiseL @jenebene

Cindy! Very nice use of the form. I love that your first line is gentle - "grace", "embers" - and then that turn to the second line gives us a whole new energy with "rips". When we get to the civility of the third, we're left to question what else lurks between humanity's illusions of order and calm. :)

I gambled on an old English word today, so this was tricky:

Earth, in its kingy
wisdom, embarks on quests that
pierce through human time

🤔 More news?

No! More moos.

#MooCows

@poemblaze

Morning, Matt!

This Tough Times Tuesday is a little different--an elaborate analogy written to get at the emotional heart of US election anxieties--and next week I'll be posting a short story on the big day instead.

There's just no point to adding directly to all the gamified election coverage we're all going to be enduring for the next while.

Stay as sane as seems reasonable! Touch grass! And vote if you can!

#Democracy #Politics #US #Election2024 #Extremism
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/on-pizza-and-cannibals-or-why-this

@stueytheround, you get yourself over here and I'll fix a plate for you and Eleanor with dessert to boot!

Wee working break to make guacamole and eggs. Sometimes I just have to stare lovingly at the avocado, though. So fresh, so juicy, so big. What a gift the little pleasures in life always are. #CoSoFood

All right. Enough dithering.

A long workday with one difficult meeting ahead.

Be good to your noggins.
Be good to your hearts.
Disassemble faulty billionaires;
we could use the spare parts!

@b4cks4w

Oh HECK yes! All aboard.

@BosmangBeratna

@gemswinc

Oh, drat, I thought it was in the CW field as well. My apologies!

@LiseL @jenebene

@gemswinc @LiseL @jenebene

I... did not have immaculate plays. 🙃 I need to sharpen my attention when puzzling! Too many finger slips!

Connections
Puzzle #506
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟪🟨🟨
🟨🟪🟨🟨
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

Strands #240
“You and me”
🔵🔵🔵🔵
🔵🟡

Keyword | 8 guesses | 0:16
1️⃣2️⃣1️⃣2️⃣1️⃣1️⃣

🚨 Silly senryu about alarming stickers
.
.
.
.
The decal, when probed
was lifted for fun--she's not
pro-narc, thank goodness

@gemswinc @LiseL @jenebene

I don't have WaPo and I can still play the games just fine!

(Well done on those immaculate plays today!)

@BosmangBeratna

You know you wanna run on the same anarcho-syndicalist space station as me. :) We'd have a blast.

@BosmangBeratna

Not a full spacing! Just a lil' airlock time! 😅

@BosmangBeratna

I'm not saying we should space 'em, beratna... but can we at least drop 'em in an airlock overnight to think about things a little? 🙃

Today I have a meeting with someone a little more stressful. I almost prefer full-on MAGA to folks living in a state of denial about how far-right curious they are. Always leaning credulously into far-right pundits, never showing an awareness of baseline news reports (only far-right reactions to them)... More concerned, really, about *appearing* to be far-right than interrogating their views.

I wish there weren't so many GOP-curious Canadians right now, but good grief are these ever bad times.