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Some mornings I still wake thinking I'm reaching the point where I'll have to give up. The possibility becomes more pressing every time I release more content (like today, my final miniseries on migration & mobility rights).
One comfort is Robert Walser. When he consigned himself to an asylum, some tried to get him to create more work. His reply? "I've come here not to write but to be mad."
It's all about conviction. :)
Time to focus on today's launch, not tomorrow's losses. Morning, CoSo. π
If you've heard the story that Lithium Ion Phasphate batteries are the safest form of #Lithium #battery, listen to this auto engineer read the material safety data sheet. The link below goes directly to the place where he's describing what's in a huge battery system that's on fire in the small town of Bouldercombe in Queensland, which has no town water supply. He's against green energy but right about this installation.
/nosanitize
I hate how hard our fragmented, gamified social media is making the dissemination of key civic data.
Take this video of NC Senator Natasha Marcus outlining how many so-called pregnancy centers are just fronts to siphon public money into private hands (& of course, under the veneer of US political Christianity).
Posted on TikTok. Reposted on reddit.
What we need is responsible media to make civic knowledge easier to attain. But how do we build better public platforms?
I love English translation quirks on clothes here. :) I bet we have tons of Spanish errors on clothes up north, too, but it's just hilarious to think of English-ese as enough of a draw that errors don't matter.
I know there's a lot of talk about one person's scandalous financial lies & how much they served as the foundation for a career of lies...
But don't forget to sit with the twinned grief in this horrible story: the illusion of wealth that runs this world while most people agonize over an inability to make enough to live with even a little security.
The headline is clickbait.
The reality is a painful reminder of systemic injustice.
Be gentle with yourself for doing what you can in rigged games.
Ah! Brilliant!
@JakeA is online, so I'm seizing the moment to celebrate this wonderful person the way I did many others while soused.
The thing is, I met Jake on the X-bird, & he was *immediately* so much kinder and genuine-interaction focused than most folks who perform/market themselves in our SFF world there.
He stood out as a thoughtful presence who loved reading, writing, and exploring with a genuinely curious and questing energy.
Also: Endorsed by a lovely cat. Bonus points for that. π
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Itβs cathartic to talk about dirty public figures but I would love to hear folks relay stories of real people who inspire:
A waitress at my favorite diner is a young momβsheβs studying nursing part time with hopes of becoming a palliative care nurse one day.
Such folks feed the soul.
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Okay, CoSo.
I wrote a piece to offer some deeper and important history surrounding the latest mess in Canadian Parliament.
Yes, the Speaker has resigned.
But that's where the danger begins: when we have an easy target, which allows us to avoid thinking about the historical illiteracy that underpins these errors and allows old wounds to be opened and leveraged in current wars.
History is always a casualty of war. But if we can lessen the size of the wound, we should.
https://onlysky.media/mclark/war-makes-us-terrible-historians/
I'm revising 3-4 chapters of the "anti-memoir" right now, so I'm especially attuned to good examples of the original form.
The first act in this episode of This American Life is a wry, tender, thought-provoking look at an assisted suicide as planned by an older couple: told from the perspective of the surviving wife, about her larger than life husband in his declining years with Alzheimer's.
It's wise in the details, honest where it hurts, and deep in its humanity.
@tyghebright @MLClark
We are secrets to each other
Each one's life a novel
No-one else has read
Even joined in bonds of love
We're linked to one another
By such slender threads
We are planets to each other
Drifting in our orbits
To a brief eclipse
Each of us a world apart
Alone and yet together
Like two passing ships
We are islands to each other
Building hopeful bridges
On a troubled sea
Some are burned or swept away
Some we would not choose
But we're not always free
"Entre Nous"
Neil Peart
A lil' Hegel with your morning β, CoSo. π«
I was thinking on Phenomenology of Spirit while trying to put my finger on a major problem with online discourse: the absolutism of truth & falsity it cultivates; the rush to refute or affirm placed well above the value of holding ideas in tension.
Reflecting on ideas in tension isn't apolitical, sadly.
Nuance is a privilege when surrounded by bad actors.
But man, we've lost *so much* to the ongoing work of limiting the harm they all do.
π No lie, no liquor --
I love you rotters something fierce.
I am *a lot*. Life is, too.
(I'm starting to think none of us gets out of this alive! π)
But when I pop on here, I see people who know how to live with a spirit of convivencia: neighbourly conduct.
We're messy. Quirky. Uneven. Carrying burdens all our own, through personalities and worldviews that don't always agree... but also *don't have to*.
We're here. We're trying.
And we're giving grace to others trying, too.
Thank *you*. ποΈ
Writer (SFWA), translator, humanist, general odd duck β’ π¨π¦n in π¨π΄ β’ avoids pronouns, they/them if key