Joel Cormode

Social media conditions us to think in tiny fragments. As evidenced by the three posts it required for you to post your thought on this matter. Tiny fragments do not lend themselves well to deep thought.

PTSD: Amygdala A War Within - One soldier. One mind. And a therapy session that spirals into madness.

A friend's film project.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mle...

Wikipedia page for Addison barger identifying him as owner of the LA dodgers.

Folks are quick.

With that premise, professional rulers are then seen as a sort of parasite class. Taking from the Demos, but providing nothing of real value in return.

I believe the counter argument is that in a democracy any member of the demos should be able to be part of the government. If professional rulers are needed then it is no longer a democracy.

the story of the 2025 toronto blue jays is a guy you've barely heard of who plays four positions and has been in and out of the minors for the last three years hitting .491 in scoring position

I'm listening to The Sword Guy Podcast | The Schielhau in detail, with Alexander Fürgut on Podbean, check it out! www.podbean.com/ea/pb-hck8s-...
I ended up buying the book they discussed.

I will stop and restart the sentence if I use are with the singular or is with the plural.
I cannot "speak to" a topic. I can "speak about" a topic.

I had to look up who Charlie Kirk was after he was murdered. I will need to look up Fuentes before I can say I know anything about him.
Starship Troopers I read, and enjoyed, as a teen. Haven't revisited it since but I am aware that many people dislike the book and Heinlein's thinking in general.

Screaming Cicadas. The punk band I can't stop listening to. ☹️
AKA tinnitus

Sadly, the spine growing seems unlikely.

First day of school. I joke I am in grade 44. Grade 13+Seminary+Grad School+Years of teaching.

Or maybe they're following you on Bluesky? 😁

Do you mean his health is bad and he may die? Or do you mean his people will become fed up with his antics and remove him?

From the tip of North Cape, PEI.

Three Maritime Provinces in three days. Won't be going to Newfoundland on this trip.

I'm still waiting for Tagolog too to be on Duolingo.

Graffiti spotted this morning in Quebec City. Now, was the graffito sincere, or merely being ironic?

Ah. Teenage boys being dumb as teenage boys do, and adult Augustine is repenting of those actions. Which he knew at the time to be wrong but still did anyway. His youth and immaturity being no excuse. I get it. And it is profound. "No sin has seized you except that which is common to man..."

Answer for levity: snacks.
More serious answer... Free Time? I'm not entirely satisfied with that answer but it'll do for now.

I've never heard nor heard of Augustine's story of the pears.

I measured from 0/0 Longitude and Latitude.

N: Ramsey, The Isle of Man (54.3N)
S: Sydney Aus (33.8S)
E: Brisbane Aus (153E)
W: San Diego Cal (117W) I did change planes once in San Francisco but I'll follow Michael's lead and only count places where I touched grass.

The August long weekend here in Ontario always feels like the fakest of all holidays. Faker even than the Hallmark holidays.
I'm a high school teacher so I'm on summer vacation for another month anyway. Each weekday is much like all the rest of them. To me anyway.

It's weird how, amidst all of the outrages, follies, and cruelties this administration inflicts daily, something like this can still sneak up and sucker-punch me with the nihilistic pointlessness of its vandalism. They just hate nice things.

Autocorrect just tried to turn "errors in methodology" into "eros in methodology".
🤦

Often what seems like a reasonable price for one person ends up being a major financial problem when the whole family is included.

Advertising my profile with a Simpson's picture.
As Michael told me to do.