@YouInMyEye

😂 Love it!!!

@JGSchaeffer

Perfect! ♥️💃🏻🤞🏻🔥🌊

@CanisPundit

@kel

Only if we're not all in a mass depressive fugue state by then!

@matuzalem

And here you thought you needed AI. :)

What's the happiest US-election-day story you can write in up to six words?

#Politics #Election

@LiseL @gemswinc @jenebene

This was tricky because I kept reading one word as another.

Clever puzzle today!

Connections
Puzzle #512
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Keyword | 6 guesses | 0:15
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Perfect score!

(Cindy won't believe me, but I hesitated "forever" because my mind struggled not to go vulgar at first. 😅)

Ladies, you're going to find my words silly. These are not haiku-friendly!

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The sale of the croft?
Upon examination,
wildly nepotic.

One of my favourite meeting types is the one I just had this morning: in which you know you're competent enough to be in the room at all, AND you know you have room to grow, in terms of both organizational knowledge and personal professional development. It's not like "imposter syndrome"; it's this delicious sense of "I have work to do on myself and now I know how to do it better."

I haven't been properly mentored in years, but BOY HOWDY, do I love it.

*I should add that the only time you'll hear me be an obnoxious twerp about Christianity is when atheists and liberal Christians try to act like conservative Christians have no Biblical founding for their beliefs. This isn't a gotcha; it's about teaching us to come better prepared to policy and moral debate with people who absolutely have New Testament support for their horrible views, and will just think you a cherry-picking fool.

Other than that, though: big-tent humanism, baby! Believe away.

The latest If Books Could Kill takes on Harris's The End of Faith, and is such a wonderful flashback to the second time I was disillusioned by a movement. (First was seeing a punk band in a jeans ad.)

The Four Horsemen taught me that atheism could be enacted *not* to question deeper social constructs built on religion, but to grant individual atheists power in a "debate" that needs to persist so speakers can retain fame within it.

Baby's first time with intellectual hucksters! Ah, memories. :)

Whew! It was *very difficult* to finish that Asimov's issue - but only because each story kept exciting me about the possibilities of #SFF in different ways.

Nevertheless, after pinballing from my computer after each excellent tale, it's now time for a walk, and for me to draft tomorrow's newsletter, so I can record the BookTube first thing ahead of a full day of work. 🤞

(But oof! Shivers! I can't wait until I have a window to write fiction this week myself!)

@cmskiera

And since you're too much of a gentleman for this, I'll provide the only appropriate counter to what I just said myself. 😅

@cmskiera

Oh shaving cream! 😬 Then maybe you ARE Elon Musk after all!

@cmskiera

Yeah, but this is, like, "Spock's Brain"-level storyboarding. 🙃

@cmskiera @evistre

I had a nice soothing fast planned for this month.

I don't think that's going to start until November 6 now. I've been tossing and turning all month - all stress, no "chill'!

@cmskiera

🤔 Is this a Ship of Theseus riddle? Because I'm pretty sure the latter attribute would cancel out you being the former!

@ecksmc

It seems they want him to retract his stance from '17, when those comments were made in interview after a tour expressly countering the BDS movement by having two shows in Israel:

"It comes after the Australian singer and his band played two gigs in the country on their 2017 Skeleton Tree tour, which Cave said at the time were in protest at the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement."

It makes sense they'd try to get him to change his anti-boycott stance now, but I doubt it'll work.

@Kaysymmetry @holon42

🫂 I'm so sorry you have to put up this boundary with family.

I'm so thankful you know you *deserve* to have that boundary in place.

I hope you can do something nice for yourself today/tomorrow/soon.

World stinks! We'd throw rocks at it, but it's already pretty good at throwing rocks at itself. 🫂

@S_r_stone

I would read this book/comic series and/or watch this movie/TV series in a heartbeat!

I was trying to think of the perfect name, but simplicity almost works better for terror here. You could simply be CAT, and your furry fury would still strike fear into the hearts of humankind by the end. 👌

😅 This is how highways get reopened after being closed for a major event.