Dare I hope?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/04/11/companies-voting-bills-states/

Finally taking the time to listen to this.

https://godspeedyoublackemperor.bandcamp.com/album/g-d-s-pee-at-state-s-end

#CoSoMusic

Now reading:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/traffic-atlanta-segregation.html

Now reading:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/11/us/nra-bankruptcy-wayne-lapierre.html

Nothing like legal liability to make you reconsider your actions, eh?

https://www.axios.com/trump-lawyer-digenova-apologizes-krebs-a2157220-52c2-451f-9747-38438401e854.html

Might've been Australian...

"wait--you don't know what a wicketty bing-bang is? OMG, let me educate you for forty uninterrupted minutes..."

I have a studied ignorance of sports, but signed up for ESPN streaming as part of a Hulu/Disney+ bundle.

By chance I put on a stream of (I believe) New Zealand women's cricket & felt a strange hipster pull towards it. Seems like a good opportunity to be insufferable.

Now reading: https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/adls-jonathan-greenblatt-murdochs-foxs-board-and-foxs-advertisers-enable-tucker

Attempted Wiimote repair: unsuccessful. 🙁

I don't have any *formal* training, but I suspect I could play this by sawing back and forth over the strings with a cello.

re: https://twitter.com/scalzi/status/1380891688105820166

Zut alors!

WOO HOO!

Now reading:
https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-army-racial-injustice-riots-only-on-ap-480e95d9d075a0a946e837c3156cdcb9

Police Say an Antifa Activist Likely Shot at Officers. His Gun Suggests Otherwise. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/10/us/michael-reinoehl-killing-investigation.html

Now reading:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/553000000-reasons-not-let-facebook-make-decisions-about-your-privacy

Finally got off my arse to volunteer for one of my employer's (a large HMO) vaccine clinics, and they cancel it due to low patient demand.

WTF?