Nadie 📎

evening sun casts long shadows.

I was an artist once.

but, I also grew up thinking that if I only knew what drove the behavior I could understand the communication. that thinking has motivated all of my professions.

how many of us carry the weight of a book we've never written

They all say I'm such a good listener now but what they don't know is that I got this way by watching the room for the slightest sign of discord as a child. I was the peacemaker

I center by writing books in my head and keep the narrative and observations (mostly) to myself

I used to have this exercise in which I would write down phrases I heard in the café here and there as I drank my own coffee.
Like the beginning of a sketch that I could later develop into a drawing.

If I were still a writer I would just sit in coffee shops and absorb the conversations I hear casually while drinking my own coffee. People really say the most remarkable things in public spaces with no self consciousness whatsoever. A cup of coffee in your hand does not make you invisible.

YouTube video by Genesis - Topic Land of Confusion

Crazy how relevant this still is. Phil nails it 🔥

Instagram, TikTok and Facebook are actively shutting down anti-Israel views or criticism of the illegal war with Iran; X (Twitter) is manipulating the narrative by boosting MAGA and Israeli accounts while limiting the view of others. It’s a full censorship regime on US media.

Live updates: Tehran launches retaliatory strikes as Trump calls for regime change The U.S. and Israel struck Iran on Saturday. President Donald Trump said the Iranian public should “take over" their government. The first strikes appeared to target Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Al...

woke up on five hours of sleep to learn more horrible news. apnews.com/live/live-up...

I am not a cat

Because someone needs to create a distraction, that's why.

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We need to be kinder to humans, the animals, and the Earth.

It really is that simple.

OK you hep cats, time to get loopy

sorry Pink Floyd, turns out that we needed education. a lot of it. all of the education, really

"...and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in."

YouTube video by Willoughby Alley 'The Speech' - Secondhand Lions (2003)

"Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil...

youtu.be/y1-KbmIagFw?...

If the right to vote wasn’t powerful, Trump wouldn’t be trying to take it away.

Thread of some services/software I'm using instead of various billionaire-owned surveillance/fascist/"A.i." trash products:

For my newsletters, @buttondown.com. Does the job! Great customer service - usually get personalized responses within 24 hours. (Never gonna join Substack.)

Cormac McCarthy’s Valentine’s Day Candy Hearts Taken from works of the late great Cormac McCarthy. - - -

Happy Valentine's Day?

A four panel comic. In panel 1, there are three beautiful blooming roses, and the text says "Roses are red..." In panel 2, there are some lovely violets budding and blooming, and the text says "Violets are blue..." In panel 3, there are some terrifying red and flesh colored plants with toothy maws and the text says "Hydnora are leafless, bizarrely fleshy, and incapable of producing chlorophyl..." and in panel 4 there are some cute hearts and the text says "And so are you. Happy Valentine's Day"

Botany valentine. Another oldie.

INBOX: Rep. Thomas Massie, who has enraged Trump for his insistence on blocking tariffs and releasing the Epstein files according to the law, just issued what is widely known among Chinese dissidents as "a declaration of no suicidal intent" (不自殺聲明), a sign of extreme distress.

Rep. Massie wants it known publicly that if something bad were to happen, it would not be something he did. It’s a good tactic.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

- Rush

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Krishnamurti

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Bud Cort.

FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport.

The FAA is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport, for “special security reasons."

The FAA's notice did not provide additional details.

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

this has been my mantra for the past ten years: "Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better" (French: Tous les jours à tous points de vue je vais de mieux en mieux). Every day I said it - say it to myself.

your brain, body hears what you tell yourself. it makes a difference