Micro Posts

2024-12-20

# I'd started to write a post on the lie we tell ourselves about being a civilized nation that solves its problems through politics. LuckyBlackCat on YouTube has already taken care of it with their video "Violence Has No Place In Politics" OH REALLY?:

“Violence has no place in politics.” Politicians say this any time political violence is used by or on behalf of the victims of this violent system, and they’re saying it again after Luigi Mangione has been charged with the assassination of the CEO of United Healthcare, Brian Thompson. This video is a vehement response to that statement)

# Qasim Rashid on Mastodon:
"Dylan Roof killed 9 Black people with the motivation to incite a race war—NOT charged with terrorism.

Luigi Mangione killed 1 CEO with the motivation to rebuke healthcare injustice—charged with terrorism.

Class warfare is when wealthy CEOs are a protected class but working Black people are not."

2024-12-18

# This guy is burning a righteous fire on the violence of economic class war. And another. Honestly, I don't see much evidence that America will correct itself. The foundational genocide and violence for white male privilege will continue.

2024-12-17

# Recommended: Vulture by Lee Weyland.

# Recommended: United Health by Jessie Welles. Luigi Mangione, the surprise hero of 2024.

2024-12-15

# I'm too easily distracted. Reading Gurman's email about a foldable, mega large iPad Pro and now I'm experimenting with two iPads on my lap desk, side-by-side. With continuity and iCloud file sync, 2 iPads side-by side almost feel like one device. Handy for certain workflows/projects.

2024-12-13

# This post by Robert Evans about Luigi Mangione is worth a read. What sticks the most are the questions at the end. What comes next? Mangione may have changed the course of gun violence in the US. Will future shooters focus on corporate executives rather than school children?

2024-12-11

# On the question of violence as a solution to our problems, I'm generally agreed with the Liberal Redneck's take that fits with many others: "You can only push people so far before they push back with the barrel of a gun, in broad daylight, to near universal acclaim."

2024-12-1

# I've been listening to the From Under the Shadow podcast the past few days. I've long been aware of the broadstrokes of US policy in Central and South America. As I listen I think every US citizen should aquaint themselves with the details. This is the core truth of the US: It is an empire built on extreme violence in the name of democracy.

2024-11-30

# A local writer friend wrote this a couple days ago and I've found myself going back to it several times to enjoy the layers and tangles of it: Hachures.

# Reading Molly White's post-election post Wind the clock and want to recommend it. She gets it.

2024-11-29

# I deleted my Facebook account nine years ago. I'd stopped using my Instagram account couple years ago, deleted it tonight. Done and done.

# Other recent additions to my Blogroll:

# Added the North American congress on Latin America to my Blogroll. They provide ongoing coverage and critique of US imperialism and political, economic and military intervention in the western hemisphere.

2024-11-28

# Thinking about Leonard Peltier this morning. I wonder how many Americans know his name? Do you know who he is?

2024-11-27

# I love the photo and explanation of the differences between the Hubble (visual light spectrum) and Webb (infrared spectrum) on yesterday's Astronomy Picture of the Day. NASA is such a gem.

2024-11-26

# It's 30°F this morning, 52°F in my cabin and I'm layered up to keep warm. I just finished homemade pumpkin butter on waffles for breakfast. Sipping coffee and reading about the flooding in the UK.

Living in the early days of the collapse.

2024-11-15

# Long overdue, I've begun updating my blog roll to include podcasts, blogs and websites by indigenous people who continue the struggle against the ongoing white settler colonialism rooted in the US.

2024-11-11

# Have we finished our mourning? Because we need to move onto community defense organizing. Don't be a "Good German". We can't be "Good Americans". Now is not the time to keep our heads down.

A lot of liberal folks spent the past few months warning that "democracy was on the line", that this was different, that Trump was an authoritarian. Well, I hope that they really understood what that meant. Authoritarians and fascists do not share power via elections. If you're holding onto "get through the next 4 years" drop that delusion now.

2024-11-10

# Reposting this: Community organizing and active citizenship. An introduction to what we can do today to get started in our community. Some nuts and bolts descriptions. We've got 2 months before the transition. Keep that in mind. After that conditions will begin to change.

Folks, our previous lives and norms are coming to an end. Some of us are safer than others. We can be "Good ~~Germans~~ Americans" which is to say, put our individual safety first and ignore the violence and breakdown going on around us or we can resist.

Commit and prepare.

# Thinking this morning about community mutual aid projects. What can we do, on the ground, in small groups, to quickly build short-term beneficial and protective action while also building meaningful, longer-term relationships? Act>Connect>Build>Help

Blogging and social media is great for sharing ideas but it should be leading to additional, on-the-ground action. If it doesn't we're stopping short.

#If You Force Me to be Your Property I Will Become a Wood Chipper
Leslie J. Anderson

I've been many things in my life—
a scholar, a mother, a laborer, a love,

a singer of songs that are mostly puns,
a dancer with my dogs in the living room,

but if you force me to be an object
I will become very sharp—
A blender. A garbage disposal.

Arsenic served our ancestors well
but have you considered
that we are being threatened
with the room where the knives live?

Someone once told me
the best poems are threats.
Well,
so am I.