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Happy New Year!
Happy 2019, everybody! May it be many orders of magnitude better than 2018, for all of you, for all you care about, and for all the world!
For me 2018 was weird, particularly the last few months of it. Here's hoping the bad weirdness comes to an end and that at least some of the good weirdness continues. -
Minor Update (quiet as a hummingmouse)
Yesterday evening I discovered rather to my dismay that we had mouse droppings in the kitchen. Wasn't sure if it was a good thing or a bad thing that I noticed this after eating supper.
Since we had a bunch of snap traps left over from the last mouse invasion (in 2011? the year of this earthquake), I baited and set half a dozen of them in and ( Read more... ) -
Happy New Year!
Happy 2018, everyone! May the new year bring more joy, love, and other goodness to us all ( Read more... ) -
Post-8/12
Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old paralegal, was killed on August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia in an act of terrorism by a white supremacist. Heather Heyer was protesting against hate when she was murdered by a white supremacist terrorist who had been standing alongside members of the Vanguard America hate group mere hours before and who was ( Read more... ) -
Hello, LiveJournal
Because LJ has made it intensely difficult for me to sign in on my dial-up connection, and because I can't guarantee that none of the entries I write will violate the laws of the Russian Federation, I am pretty much a Dreamwidth-only creature these days. My recent entries have been access-list only, but if you'd rather not get your own account on ( Read more... ) -
Cheering up
Started out yesterday still feeling gloomy about the general state of my life, but by late afternoon I was feeling considerably more energetic than I generally do on the day after a farmer's market. So I went out to enjoy the relatively not-humid weather and walked a little over two miles total. Whee ( Read more... ) -
Nonrandom quote from a middle-aged encyclopedia
Sheep may be marched without protest to slaughter, even though they can look ahead and see the results at the end of the line, but people have an instinctive sympathy for others and will fight to save them, not only for humane considerations but because they can see that they, themselves, may be the next victims ( Read more... ) -
Doubleplus alt-fact
*whispers into the void* In contemporary use, fact is understood to refer to something with actual existence.
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So, I'm kinda fascinated by the whole concept of news conferences in an alt-fact nation. Reading, as usual, Daniel Dale's Twitter feed, specifically this thread on the "millions of immigrants voted illegally!" meme.
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When you enter the woods...
Now that I'm getting back in the habit of reading Terri Windling's blog, I want you all to go to her post When you enter the woods...
Don't worry, this is not another post about politics--unless you see anything involving darkness, confusion, and reversal of fortunes as being about current politics, which is where I seem to be these days. -
The latest alternative lifestyle choice?
‘Alternative facts’? Journalists from Venezuela to Turkey have ‘seen this movie before’
The early months of the Trump presidency will involve fierce battles about such policy matters as health care, trade and immigration. As its very first fight, though, his administration chose a target that has alarmed observers of authoritarian leaders: ( Read more... )