sovay: (Sovay: David Owen)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2025-11-04 08:13 pm

A lie you told to the maze I'm in

[personal profile] spatch and I have performed our civic duties and received stickers in exchange for the exercise of democracy. It's been at least a year since we had to prove our residence in this ward and precinct, but the original experience was so scarifying that we still show up carrying utility bills just in case. The moon was brilliantly full and some of the leaves streetlight-orange in it. Earlier in the afternoon, I walked some distance by the side of a road where the afternoon sun had tinted the conservation meadows like ambrotypes. I have seen the news of the death of Dick Cheney. Twenty-five years sooner would have been better, but I had begun to wonder if he was even in the machine. Since Halloween, WERS has been playing a lot of the Last Dinner Party's "This Is the Killer Speaking" (2025). I am completely unsurprised that the band has covered Sparks.

P.S. w00t, Mamdani!
lauradi7dw: full moon behind tree and birds (full moon)

in the machine

[personal profile] lauradi7dw 2025-11-05 12:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I looked up "Dick Chaney in the machine" and got an instructive article from Popular Mechanics, to my surprise.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a69248937/dick-cheney-death-heart-history-no-pulse-device/

Someone on twitter pointed out that he and Liz were the only prominent Republican government officials to attend a memorial for a Capitol police officer who died due to the January 6th insurrection. I can't vouch for that, but it's interesting.
lauradi7dw: (abolish ICE)

Re: in the machine

[personal profile] lauradi7dw 2025-11-05 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
The world would probably have been better off if he never existed, but I hate thinking like that about people because (at a minimum) it would uncreate his children.