We're all born into systems of belief Versus facts do these act: as a reef They all have a Bible And "thoughts" that are tribal You agree or else come to some grief
Thirsty hedgehogs and heartbreak in the Anthropocene/Fafocene
I am in the library. There is someone from a wildlife charity doing a presentation - with live creatures - to a bunch of young boys and girls their mothers, in attendance. We have, over the last few generations, of course, rendered it harder and harder for young people to have any connection with "Nature".... Continue Reading →
Metaphors we live (and die) by
A friend wrote the following on Bluesky All the metaphors we use to describe heedlessly pursuing one's own destruction - lemmings, cargo cults, Easter island, etc. - are actually colonial myths based on mistakes or lies. The real analogy for heedlessly pursuing one's own destruction is the colonial society itself. Some responses Yes, yes about lemmings... Continue Reading →
The Pitt, Black Liberation, and what we are not told.
The Pitt, the medical drama on HBO, lives up to the hype. It is worth, as was The Wire, your time and attention, for the questions it raises about how we live (or don’t live) now. The two shows are both about, well, people of good intent (the metrics may vary) doing the best they... Continue Reading →
The “I fucking told you so” window
https://bsky.app/profile/allouryesterdays.bsky.social/post/3moy27lpdl222 I don't think this graphic needs any additional commentary. So for once in my wretched life, Imma stfu.
Pop go the rivets
At some point in the mid-late 1980s (I think), I read a novel written in the 60s or 70s (I think) about submarine warfare. This was pre-Tom Clancy stuff, not technoporn. More the gritty, sweaty industrial stuff. Anyway, in the book in question (Event-1000?) a submarine is damaged (I forget if due to hostile action,... Continue Reading →
Staring into Buridan’s ass hole
Yesterday I met someone formally for the first time (we’d crossed paths a couple of weeks earlier). And he told me some background about the person in charge of a current campaign that helped me see recent events in a new light. Without getting into libelous details, suffice to say that sometimes people are using... Continue Reading →
Pilate-Lite –Frank Hardy, “The Dead are Many” and drowning in AI slop
John 18: 38 Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all. I did not buy a copy of Frank Hardy’s Power Without Glory (that’s a lie). I did not spend a... Continue Reading →
What am I even doing here?
I met up with an old friend recently. Right at the end she asked if I wanted feedback on blog posts I had sent her. I knew roughly what was coming, because I have heard it once or thrice before. The main problems (before you get to the content) are around even understanding what the... Continue Reading →
Policy entrepreneurs and giving the ideal speech community a nudge (a fictional example)
Thanks to a rather brilliant writer (Beejay Silcox, since you ask), I read an 'Outback Noir' novel, by Garry Disher. It involves a cop (bent? Seems not, but who can tell and what is bent anyway) exiled from the bright lights of the (checks notes) big "city," Adelaide to - as the Americans say -... Continue Reading →
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