🕊️🗳️ The thing I keep thinking about:
As the behavior and rhetoric worsened, more and more people chose villainy.
Fear is what makes villainy “acceptable.”
One can’t reason with fear. Fear is deeper.
Virtue and hope must be cultivated in advance, to undermine fear’s ability to take root.
Profiles/about updated.
Woke up to find that Russia won the election.
Hoosiers: you can be better than this.
Tonight I noticed for the first time that the “Seven Dwarves” have Anabaptist beards.
🗳️ reminder: long voting lines are a symptom of voter suppression and anti-democratic sentiment.
As you’re in line, remember that Republicans didn’t want people (especially in certain areas) to be able to easily vote (including early or mail-in).
🗳️ Anybody with an NYT subscription know if they updated this graphic?
Yesterday I got to watch “the algorithm” work.
I replied to a Thread with a pretty simple comment.
For a few hours it was somehow highlighted and getting lots of replies and likes (>1400). I could watch the counter go up every few seconds. Then it stopped on a dime.
Result: 0 new followers.
🪵 Team Warbler did a little bit of light lumberjacking this morning.
Always more trees down. Just hope more are going up faster than the deer etc. can wreck them.
🗳️ Economist, the newspaper of free markets and individual rights:
endorses Kamala Harris
They see too many “unacceptable risks” in Trump.
Distinction is between a likely “mediocre president” (Harris) and a clearly “malignant president” (Trump).
🎶 Heard this new track and thought it sounded familiar.
Oh, that’s because it’s a Jason Köhnen cover of one of his other songs! This one is a doom metal project (The Answer Lies in the Black Void), the original was one of his dark jazz projects (The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble). Breakcore next?
🎶 it’s almost Halloween:
Time to break out Daveed Diggs’s industrial rap horrorcore albums:
There Existed an Addiction to Blood
And
Visions of Bodies Being Burned
Or:
watch their NPR tiny desk concert
Yes, Diggs of Hamilton, Snowpiercer, Central Park.
🗳️ WFYI made a voter guide for Indiana.
🛠️ had to get my Lightning port cleaned out today. They used (basically) dental tools.
Note to self: it’s safer to scrape towards the screen, not the back. The pins for the connector are on the back side.
Kiddo: “look, a Dalmatian!”
Us: “Yep!”
Kiddo: “what’s a Dalmatian?”
🕊️ “Christian Nationalism is bad for the nation and it is bad for the church.”
Amen, pastor Richard
Sometimes I think about “what are the Dude Wipes of other categories”? (As in: making extra money on fragile masculinity.)
Today:
- Liquid Death vs. water
- “Really getting into Stoicism” vs. meditation Buddhism