Not So Wicked Which

A view from a balcony on a sunny fall day. The sky is blue; there are a few wispy clouds. Trees and rooftops can be seen past the plants hanging on the balcony railing.

Another grim day here in war-ravaged Portland

“ohh i love the summer, i love the heat, i love sunshine, i love when the sun is everywhere” that’s a flawed mindset. that’s chaotic anxious attachment. that’s spiritual psychosis. that’s an incorrect opinion. that’s propaganda. that’s a personal attack.

Watching this video 10 times has significantly improved my mood.

probably the most embarrassing thing on earth is having to answer questions from an electrician. “Where’s your emergency disconnect?” sir all i know is somehow we have put lightning inside the wires

I currently have a case that started out as a pretty routine unpaid wage case, but in discovery I got a copy of the company's contract with its HR outsourcing vendor, who used AI to draft an agreement that attaches ~personal liability~ to the vendor's shareholders for wage underpayments by clients.

Message me, I have some potential referrals. Or have your friend reach out. Thanks!

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

People who feel obligated to leave the house just bc it’s warm out, please leave your hermit friends alone. The weather doesn’t make the public tolerable all of the sudden.

Cat singing

I PRAY EVERY SINGLE DAY
FOR A REVOLUTION

something im a little concerned about - and i admit, a lot of this may just be that I am steadily moving towards middle age - but it seems like pretty much everyone is completely bugfuck nuts now. and it seems like that might complicate things, in the future

No Country for Literally Anyone Except Old Men

I own a cardigan for every mood swing I have.

One third of the whole federal government is an unelected bunch of people in dresses who went to law school to learn magic spells and their whole job is to talk to some dead racist ghosts about how we get to live but I'M CRAZY for saying ghosts are real & are my friend

bothered. flaky. agonized. swerving across lanes. unfocused. disintegrating.

Higher-ed moves very slowly and that's usually taken as a negative. But some things are supposed to last centuries. And I'm confident that if not for the power of committees we would definitely have had a NFT certificate program in 2021.

a bloody unicorn stuck in barbed wire in a dark wintry forest, eye glowing with malice: "inner darkness aside I am filled with whimsy and love."

"I am not totally useless, I can be used as a bad example" - an exceedingly cute possum with bright white fur at a vet.

a tweet indicating that The Washington Post has now lost 10 percent of its paid subscribers

"decimate" pedants, rejoice!

Terrifying.

a real “you fuck one goat” moment for the second richest man in the world

God what if elections worked like Reddit posts. Mayhem. But so much FUN.

Public safety system?!?!! Christ in a fucking bucket. I wish the ranked choice system let you trade two of your picks to downvote someone.

New York could make housing affordable by simply having Rudy Giuliani defame everyone below a certain income threshold

Muddled that in my brain and briefly thought your library stocked tiny houses… got very excited for a moment.

The falconer says, "go slow";
the falcon falls behind.
The centre, it unwinds.

It is true that those particular sliders default to fairly far over… but even so, yeah.

bro is that your gyre? shit is widening my man

OMG @darthbluesky.bsky.social this raccoon had the zoomies and was bouncing around trying to get the others to wrastle so I recorded thinking I’d get that, and I got him playing adorably by himself with a rock.

an orange and white cat is dejected. things are outside that should be in his belly and this is troubling for him.

you know how it is. you took a nap. everything was fine.

when you wake up, though, the squirrels are everywhere. planning their plans. scheming.

they are a menace.

the humans aren't concerned. they are fools. hubris; sophistry. life is confusing.