היטלערן ווארפט עס אין היץ און קעלט און ער קאָן אונז קושן נאָר אין תּכת

[sovay]

I was woken shortly after noon by a spam call. It wanted to tell me there was a problem with the warranty of my nonexistent car. When I hung up on the spam, I saw that I had messages waiting from family and friends. They wanted to tell me Biden had won the election.

It does feel like the end of a war. Which means that what's ahead is the hard work of rebuilding—and building on, not merely settling for what we accepted once as the status quo. Too much of our government has still turned out to be three gentlemen's handshakes in a trenchcoat. Let's not do Reconstruction 2.0. Also we still have a plague.

But there is a new tree planted in the sidewalk out front of our apartment and I can think about a future that is not merely the endurance or resistance of destruction.

Just for the change, I think repairing things could be fun.

Comments

[owl]

There's a lot of work still to do (there always is), but for now, there's time to breathe. I'm enjoying seeing the Tories sulkily congratulate Biden too.

[sovay]

There's a lot of work still to do (there always is), but for now, there's time to breathe.

It does feel possible to, which is kind of amazing.

I'm enjoying seeing the Tories sulkily congratulate Biden too.

I can see that! I believe he still hasn't received congratulations from the major authoritarian suspects, but the way the rest of the world has been pouring on both appropriate ordinary acknowledgements of a president-elect and BRAVO ON PUTTING THE BRAKES ON YOUR DICTATOR has been very warming to watch.

[julian]

Dunno about Putin or North Korea, but both Bolsanaro in Brazil and Modi in India did. Only non-dictator type who hasn't is... AMLO in Mexico. He's waiting on lawsuits.

[sovay]

Dunno about Putin or North Korea, but both Bolsanaro in Brazil and Modi in India did.

I hadn't seen that! Okay, that's . . . A number of years ago, spatch and I were both woken early by a persistent bird call that I can't remember that we ever identified, but it was penetrating, repetitive, melodically not very interesting, and relentless. After we had lain awake for far too long trying to sleep through nature's equivalent of the beeping truck backing up, Rob finally shouted through the window, "SHUT UP, BIRD! NODODY WANTS TO FUCK YOU!"

That.

[julian]

*splorfles*