from the socials:
Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @[email protected]
Even when powerful forces act like it is not true the world remains
whole, interconnected, and indivisible.
Nov 14, 2024, 04:05 PM

from a neighbor social:
Greg Pak @gregpak.bsky.social‬
November 7, 2024

A thing you can do if you have D local officials: call them up and ask what their plan is for preventing the deportation of your immigrant neighbors.

from yesterday:
Susie Dent @susie_dent • 06 Nov 24

Word of the day is
'recrudescence' (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

this was a helpful read: https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-things-to-do-if-trump-wins/

a little gem from a murder mystery:

"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end."

- Molly's gran, from The mystery guest by Nita Prose
https://search.worldcat.org/en/title/1380998276

the reason i use the phrase "heart-warming" about this essay (posted earlier) is that i found it to be true and truthful. and i need more of that in what i read and write.

a generative and heart-warming essay:
Apology Not Accepted - A.R. Moxon, Nov 3, 2024
How to heal a hateful spirit that has gripped tens of millions of broken people? Reclaiming lost humanity by finding unacceptable things unacceptable.
<https://www.the-reframe.com/apology-not-accepted/>

my morning work is done:

today's gem from the socials:

productive day:
- Mistletoe RawHtml extension deployed on in-test Python package
- troubling GitHub pages output, problem resolved (help from Claude-3)
- missing? notes for other wiki updates found (in the wiki, of course)

Biden's UN speech - Douglass Carmichael Sep 26, 2024
A good sane speech. But it points out the limits of current models of sanity. The whole speech never mentioned climate. Like so much sane thought, it was an exercise in the practice of denial, mixed with active repression.
https://douglasscarmichael.substack.com/p/bidens-un-speech

from a neighboring social:

testing, please ignore this post:
https://bandstands.praxis101.net

@Alfred is there a way to post urls and not have the webpage image displayed? that is, just post the link

A sobering essay on why "police state" is an apt characterization of Trummp and MAGA plans.
Trump Is Planning to Establish a Police State: An essay by pfuhlir
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2262711

In 1994 Marina Warner lectured on Six Myths of Our Time
- in the section Boys Will Be Boys, talking about popular myths, there is this gem:
"... Blade Runner. The film -- and the book -- touch a live contemporary nerve when they imagine that the robotic monsters look just like humans, that their nature isn't apparent -- neither to us, nor to them."
Link: https://archive.org/details/managingmonsters0000warn

this from threads this morning was amusing:

This 1984 Martha Gellhorn paragraph I titled "politics is everything" seems on point these days:

stupid and silly, but it is a humor break (from threads):

/amusement (YMMV) via threads: steven.cookson
Drunk American Jazz enthusiast passenger: It's really about the notes they DON'T play.
Me: Yeah I'm constantly not playing notes. I'm actually not playing notes right now even.