Mae Flowers

I'm sending my wife.

@momfriend64.northsky.social

SAD: I can't take good pictures of my pets sleeping on the couch because we're a No Big Light household.

MA'AM

(respectfully)

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test

Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)

Good tech.

Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)

Bad tech.

Today, on the 125th anniversary of his birth, I'm reminded that Langston Hughes wrote what for me is the most compelling response to the false dichotomy of patriotism vs the brutality of our national history.

I'm privileged to hear you read posts like the aloud, with the voices and everything.

That... was a depressing read. But very informative!

Letting moderates claim they were always against this blurs history. It hides the many ways we got here, which is in part due to the fascists themselves — but in larger part due to the centrists who conceded to fascist rhetoric. We could have prevented all of this. We need to remember how we didn't.

A truth that should be more universally acknowledged: once you accept that *some people* deserve to be killed in broad daylight, you accept that *anyone* deserves that fate.

I saw this in the folded comments on a TikTok video and I felt it needed a wider audience.

"Kelly Clarkson was the first person we as a country actually elected democratically, so she should be president."

Page from my journal that reads: "ICE isn't like the Gestapo, culturally and historically, ICE moves like slave patrols. Paperwork is treated like morality and family is treated like inventory. We didn't take notes from Nazi Germany; it took notes from the Unites States."

We keep making Gestapo comparisons with regard to ICE, but the darker truth is that the Nazis were inspired by Jim Crow laws in the U.S.

One reason I need a job is so I can pay for redesigning our house to look like Sophie's Tacky Little Hatter (aka Howl's Moving Castle).

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words.

But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

I'm married to herrrrr

Steven, if there is anyone in the world who should read these books, it's you.

I highly recommend the books! They're basically all it's internal monologue, which is part of the reason I'm even wondering how the TV show works.

Holding The MurderBot Diaries Volume 3 in my hand

The MurderBot books are my Sanctuary Moon.

Should I watch the TV adaptation, or nah?

Correct!

I mean, you know, that one has already been addressed, so I didn't want to rehash it, lol.

Charting Time: Past, Present, and/or Future (pick one) a.) Straight line, b.) Circle, c.) Pie chart, d.) Venn diagram, e.) Bar graph, f.) Exponential

WHAT IS TIME

[I made this several years ago, depending on which one you choose, I guess.]

Feel free to make your own.

Spotify wrapped-style graphic, but instead it says "Your top artists- 1. starlings 2. Crickets 3.Magpies 4.Treefrogs 5. Gentle Breezes" and "Top Genre: Summer Evenings"

The starlings say, "Thanks for listening."

Wow I do not stand corrected.

Now I could be wrong but I don't think this is how it's supposed to work.

Brass memorials, placed at the last place of residence of people who were victims of the Nazi regime. Each memorial is 10 cm square and engraved with the name of the person, their dates of birth, deportation, and assassination.

Now that I live in the Netherlands, I occasionally come across these Stolpersteine ("stumbling block") memorials installed on sidewalks outside of the homes of people who were victims of the Holocaust.

Every time I see one, I think of what's happening back home.

misogynists are both too afraid of women and not afraid enough of women, in different respects

Yes. I have no desire to read the emails, to hear about who is sweating under the pressure, who is being strong-armed into what, etc, etc. I want to hear about consequences, full stop. Those girls, now women, deserve justice. Those perpetrators deserve to be brought to justice.

Limburg demands answers over U.S. whitewashing of Black history at WWII cemetery The province of Limburg has asked the American ambassador to the Netherlands to replace the information panels about Black soldiers in the visitors center of the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margr...

The Heritage Foundation strikes again, removing a memorial to the men who built this cemetery.

The African American 960th Quartermaster Corps used picks and shovels to dig graves in muddy and frozen ground. They couldn't have sat with the men they buried, but they could lay them to rest.

A book open to the contents of the manifestos. It includes selections titled,"A Transgender Manifesto," "RadicalQueens Manifesto," "Sexual Relations and the Class Struggle," and "The Combahee River Collective Statement."

The editors went to great lengths to seek out and represent a wide array of groups. Here's a selection.

Book titled, "Love & Lightning: A Collection of Queer and Feminist Manifestos" photographed on my desk in front of other books and my journals.

Review of "Love & Lightning: A Collection of Queer and Feminist Manifestos": On the way home from the book launch event, I was so immersed in reading that I missed the announcement that my train was being rerouted and I started heading the wrong direction. @valizbooks.bsky.social