Adam Trotter

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

how should contented fools of fact envision
the mystery of freedom?yet,among
their loud exactitudes of imprecision,
you'll(silently alighting)and I'll sing

while at us very deafly a most stares
colossal hoax of clocks and calendars

- E. E. Cummings

My local farmers market just surprised me with $100 in free SNAP tokens, courtesy of an anonymous donor, in case you need a little glimmer of human decency this morning

I'm in NC and just this morning got a deposit of about 65% of my monthly allowance (normally, funds are deposited on the 17th of the month)

I'm on Medicaid, and my script copay suddenly doubled with no explanation a few weeks ago.

I saw one I can't locate right now that was 700%, but I'm sure there's a range (fortunately -- or maybe not -- I'm on medicaid). But you're right, there has got to be a growing disconnect between what they're saying and what people are seeing in monthly expenses. The smokescreen is wafting away.

Their constituents are starting to get next year's rate increases in the mail (which I'm seeing approaching 1000%) and I'll bet their phones are starting to light up

Thank you for this consistently excellent strip, I look forward to it every morning

Yeah, my extended family has a condo at the far north end of Cherry Grove, and when I go there I stay there. Last time I went out some guys came into the restaurant and paraded around waving Trump flags in people's faces, and the staff just smiled and laughed.

Helene in Southern Appalachia One year later: An event analysis and how we move forward.

Did you know that NOAA has a major office in Asheville? They put together a story map about Hurricane Helene, and it’s the best data resource I’ve seen out there about the storm.

I might be a little biased, though, because I have a geography degree and love using GIS to share data.

I've found that culantro (aka recao or ngo gai) is less soapy, but otherwise similar. I've cooked with it for my mom, who can't stand cilantro, and she liked it.

Yesterday Curiosity took pix of jagged peaks in the distance with its ChemCam. I stitched them together, did some work on them, and... just look at that view... I've been doing this since Sojourner landed & this is one of my fave images ever... Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/S Atkinson

Fellow sober folks, a reminder: However bad things get, you don’t have to drink over it.

people who want other people to stay in sad little grey boxes forever and never be happy in their bodies or desires are villains and cowards and they may be winning right now but by god they will lose as water smooths stone and roots break it, because that fierce joy is roots and water and life

He "deserves" to never be given a public platform to spread his hate ever again. Praise? What is wrong with you?

I got this too. I live in North Carolina, six hours from this place. It's absurd.

The Sagrada Família, on a scale that I could not possibly finish it in my lifetime.

It's like staying up late to see if Santa is real but we're hoping Santa's dead

My local human-operated Bojangles drive-thru is perhaps the most efficient fast-food delivery system in existence, why on earth are they doing this (I know, money)

The Palliative

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep… The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

Modern AI tools emulate the classic con-man tricks of mentalism, tricking people into believing that they’re far more clever - and sapient - than they actually are.

Fantastic piece by @baldurbjarnason.com :

softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

This is not the quality of pseudoscience infotainment to which I have grown accustomed Teasing the public with fraudulent or self-deluded promises of aliens used to mean something. It took work. It meant slapping together…

I have a complaint about Avi Loeb's latest work and I want to speak to management.

medium.com/@steve.desch...

Oh so it does have phd level intelligence

AUGUST I want to read and nap and wake fresh to read some more and further out there is a raft off which kids clown and cannonball and beyond a straggle of mergansers steam serenely and then an empty lake and further still over all the points and hills every green thing goldens and last, clouds press the mountain’s rough nib.

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜

feel free to join by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)

here’s one by Bill Corbett; Peter Reading called this kind of poem the 13-line sonnet for unlucky people—& what an 11th line, “every green thing goldens”

A subway style map on a parchment background. The map's title reads: "Narnia Transit Map: Talking Beasts Ride Free." The map has seven keys, one for each of the seven books in C.S. Lewis's Narinia series. The main movements of characters and action in each book are traced by colored lines, like a subway map. Locations in each book are marked out as stops in the lines. There is a drawing of a lion above the title of the map, and in the lower right corner there is a compass rose.

Recently, I shared a Lord of the Rings subway map, & I had a bunch of people asking me to do a Narnia version. Well...here you go!

It's covers all 7 books, so it's a lot more complicated the the LoTR ones. And if you like it, it's available to buy on my Etsy store:
www.etsy.com/shop/Surpris...

Those replies were the most satisfying blocking binge I've had in a while. I feel refreshed.

The Medicaid expansion literally saved my life.

And the inside of the dome is sleek and pristine, and definitely not filled with shelf after dusty shelf of fifty-year-old broken equipment.

ICE in Durham, be safe and don't talk to the fucking cops

I gave up and bought a 12-pack of lens-cleaning cloths for my glasses, which are now distributed uniformly around my home, and I still struggle to find one sometimes.