Monoid Mary

did Russian monks make beer and wine, at least?

he offered to carve an extra pumpkin and bring it over (he lives an hour away) but it's probably time to rip this bandaid off

this year is going to be the first halloween IN 20 YEARS that i haven't had a pumpkin carved by my elder son on my front porch and i'm having an unexpectedly hard time with this seemingly insignificant rite of passage, a milestone no one tells you about

this is praxis

i think things got a little broken around the pandemic, and then humans bifurcated into extremely online people who never recovered socially from the pandemic and the rest of us who gradually returned to regular life. it hasn't always been easy to rebuild, but it's happening, slowly.

if you live in a town like this long enough, you just become the kind of person who shows a chicken to the county fair.

yeah idk man that doesn't seem to be how it works out in practice

i've just been through so much with people questioning why i had the kids memorize so much stuff, but it doesn't seem to have hurt their other mental faculties at all so. they can still remember poems they memorized when they were 3!

i understand we don't need that industrial iron at all, but it's fucking killing me that she's going to take it to the dump

i've never been very clear on what the benefits of offloading mental storage to the cloud were supposed to be anyway

... so that your brain can do what exactly?

is it like Goodreads but for movies? is it the right place to try to convince my friends that they need to watch Ghost Dog?

"jump up?"

my favorite thing is when i do something to a computer and it doesn't work, and then chris comes over and does the exact same thing and it does work. it has happened enough times that i'm going to embroider "bring your dick over here, honey, the computer isn't working" on a throw pillow.

oh, well, we also grew fava beans and still have some fava bean plants out there, which may or may not produce another small crop before it gets too cold

my lima beans never germinated (probably too cold when i planted them?) so i'll try again next year

over the course of the season we grew six varieties of beans. some we ended up eating only as green beans (Provider bush bean, which produces green beans quickly) and some we let almost entirely dry down into dried beans (Rattlesnake) and we have beans put up in almost every conceivable form now

yeah, this is the dream!

fresh shelled scarlet runner beans, all mottled hot pinks and purples, in a mason jar, getting ready to go into the canner

once again: BEANS

there are a lot of humans who will kill you if the mood strikes them, but i am not sure that makes it ok to eat them

the first time i saw a grizzly (brown) bear in the wild, it was sitting on railroad tracks eating grain that had apparently spilled off a rail car.

alaska has really abundant raspberries (possibly feral, rather than truly wild) growing like that. i imagine the bears there love it.

if one more guy comments on all the berries in the bear scat without immediately looking for the berries the bear is eating, i'm going to scream

if the berry calories are good enough for a bear about to go down for the winter, they're good enough for you

post-literate society is going to be *wild*

it's still sort of crazy to me that you can come right out and tell people exactly what is happening and nothing will change. you don't need a grand secret conspiracy.

bannon can be right out in the open about his "flood the zone with shit" strategy, and people still react to every turd.

i was trying to pretend i didn't hear that and then you just go and tweet it out

it's true

i just brought in like ten pounds of vegetables from the garden, then realized i was very hungry and thought, huh i wonder if there's anything to eat

omg i haven't seen anyone mention monad burritos in so long

The deficiency of traditional software is failing to ever take *any* cues from knowledge of what is statistically likely to be wanted.

unfortunately i think it has become better at reading context clues than your average online human

a lavender English angora rabbit, crouched in the corner of his hutch, hoping i will give him surplus kale from our garden, but alas, i brought no kale

fun fact: my kids named this rabbit winston, after churchill

you have to have a line that cannot be crossed. to do politics in a democracy, you cannot have a thousand lines that cannot be crossed, but you have to have one.

A Popular Front of Memory As the right begins to revise their view of Hitler, we must revive the example Churchill set in that era.

oh i see i'm not the only one thinking of winston today
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