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I was so busy rewinding you into my mind
Rabbit, rabbit! This month is going to need all the luck it can get. We still have an escalatingly lethal pandemic and we still have a man in the office of President escalating lethal violence. I wanted to do so many other things with my weekend, never mind my life, and right now I still have a life, which is not true of so many other people at this man's hands. The earth should not suffer his weight.
1. Linked all over the place: Tochi Onyebuchi, "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: The Duty of the Black Writer During Times of American Unrest."
2. Charlie Baker on the president and the protests: "At so many times during these last several weeks, when the country needed compassion and leadership the most, it simply was nowhere to be found. Instead, we got bitterness, combativeness, and self-interest. That's not what we need in Boston, it's not what we need right now in Massachusetts, and it's definitely not what we need across this great country of ours either." Do better in this state, then, Governor, and do it now.
3. The Paleontological Research Institution has just launched the Kickstarter for their latest Paleozoic Pal: Orthoceras regulare, a nautiloid cephalopod from the Middle Ordovician. It is purple and tentacular: what's not to like? Everything else is true right now and science is still important. Besides, I want to give one to my niece.
[edit 2020-06-01 20:34:00] Oh, good, we're ending the day trying to figure out if the Insurrection Act of 1807 has been invoked or not. What was even the point of constituting a federal government if it couldn't protect against a president who wanted to be king? May the earth weigh him down instead.
1. Linked all over the place: Tochi Onyebuchi, "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: The Duty of the Black Writer During Times of American Unrest."
2. Charlie Baker on the president and the protests: "At so many times during these last several weeks, when the country needed compassion and leadership the most, it simply was nowhere to be found. Instead, we got bitterness, combativeness, and self-interest. That's not what we need in Boston, it's not what we need right now in Massachusetts, and it's definitely not what we need across this great country of ours either." Do better in this state, then, Governor, and do it now.
3. The Paleontological Research Institution has just launched the Kickstarter for their latest Paleozoic Pal: Orthoceras regulare, a nautiloid cephalopod from the Middle Ordovician. It is purple and tentacular: what's not to like? Everything else is true right now and science is still important. Besides, I want to give one to my niece.
[edit 2020-06-01 20:34:00] Oh, good, we're ending the day trying to figure out if the Insurrection Act of 1807 has been invoked or not. What was even the point of constituting a federal government if it couldn't protect against a president who wanted to be king? May the earth weigh him down instead.
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May God bless and keep the tsar underground.
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I remain confused about whether last summer's panic was an overreaction --yes, the effects are horrible, but it seems the number of people infected was fairly low-- but clearly it would but an unwelcome additional worry.
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I one hundred percent do not want any extra public health concerns, thank you. Nor do I want the Yellowstone supervolcano to blow off. Or the Cascadia subduction zone to slide into the sea. This storyline has too much horror in it already.