ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

You know, being a multispecies symbiotic complex that has sapience as an emergent property is weird enough. I never thought to check if any of my component species is sentient on its own. Would that be too much, if I kept a part of myself as a pet? Take myself out for a roll every morning, to spore on the mulch piles...

Nah. It's hard enough getting an appointment with a mycologist as it is; there's no way I could find one that's also a veterinarian.

Also, I'm going to block your arse.

#religion #atheist

"NOBODY WANTS TO WORK ANY MORE!"

A brief history of capitalists complaining that nobody wants to work for starvation wages

A quick reminder that "table the motion" means to stop debate American English and to begin debate in British English.

https://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2007/10/to-table.html

Preliminary results from the Denver Basic Income Project that's providing cash to hundreds of unhoused people for one year, using the first 6 months of data:

• NO ONE receiving $1,000/mo still sleeping outside
• Full-time employment increased
• Fewer visits to the ER
• Fewer nights spent in jail
• Reduced use of social and public services

Read the full report: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gqtOfZG2sSanWgUdzn-lx-pwSXZKabj-/view?pli=1

REQUIRED READING

don't know Elizabeth Lopatto’s academic background but this is a master class in historical narratology:

1. spot the unreliable sources
2. find the unreliable narrator(s)

now go back and re-read from the POV that:

3. a biography is the biographer’s manifesto masquerading as the subject’s personal history

4. #3 is even more true if it is an autobiography; especially if by proxy, like this book

❝ How the Elon Musk biography exposes Walter Isaacson
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/1/23895069/walter-isaacson-biography-musk-review

It's my birthday!

For my birthday wish I'd love it if you read my favorite story ever, "There's Magic In Bread".

This is for everyone who's had a hard pandemic, everyone who sees nothing but bleakness but fights for hope anyway, and anyone who just loves bread.

https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/fiction/theres-magic-in-bread/

#SFF #covid #shortstory #hope #fantasy

"We don't need to visit Egypt, we've got Suez at home."

Suez at home:

While America hurtles to a government shutdown, all House Republicans can do is try to soothe Lord Trump's ego!

House GOP’s impeachment witnesses say there's no evidence yet Joe Biden committed a crime
#AureFreePress #News #GOP #Politics #USA #Trump #MAGA #Republicans

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-republicans-hold-first-hearing-biden-impeachment-inquiry-rcna117657

Lucian K. Truscott says the media totally missed the story of Trump's visit to a gun store in South Carolina, which was this:

"He made a decision to stop at Palmetto State Armory in Summerville, South Carolina, because he knew that that specific gun store was where the racist shooter in Jacksonville, Florida bought the guns he used to kill three Black people at a Dollar General store in late August."

#Trump #guns #violence #racism

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-mainstream-media-completely-missed

#Satire #NYTimesPitchbot

Via New York Times Pitchbot @DougJBalloon
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In this Indiana diner, everyone has three questions: How's the breaded tenderloin? Is the quarry hiring? And if Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy weren’t splitting the Indian American vote, could one of them beat Donald Duck for the Republican nomination?

Brewster goes to Washington (congressional hearing on the Copyright Office Modernization Committee)

"The key thing I would suggest is the role the Library of Congress plays of preservation and access.

I mean, fundamentally, it's the Library for Congress, and they're building this collection of mandatory deposits as well as copyright registrations and everything that goes into their collections to try to preserve and create a better democracy."

https://blog.archive.org/2023/09/28/brewster-goes-to-washington-sep-26-2023/

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In order to become a billionaire, you have to steal a thousand $ each from a million people. It really is that simple.

There is no way to “honestly earn” that kind of money.

The San Francisco Petrofuture. My first new work in a while.

66m sea level rise on a 1964 #Chevron gas station map.

Base map courtesy of David Rumsey Maps.

#SanFrancisco #BayArea #GoldenGate #TreasureIsland #vintagemaps #retrofuture #solarpunk #clifi #petrofuture #sealevelrise #sealevelrisemaps #climatechange #climateemergency #maps #cartography #conspiracyofcartographers

We are all on the internet too much.

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