A lie you told to the maze I'm in

[sovay]

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!

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Re: in the machine

[sovay]

I looked up "Dick Chaney in the machine" and got an instructive article from Popular Mechanics, to my surprise.

As a sign of my disconnection from the times, it had not occurred to me that he would even have had to take his pacemaker offline because I would have thought the human heart should not be part of the Internet of Things.

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.

Understood. I just wish him not to have been so instrumental in lighting a forever war, or paving so much of the path we're trapped on.

Re: in the machine

[lauradi7dw]

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.