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Current Music: The Clash, "London Calling"

And I live by the river

The trees were ghost-green in the water with the hard white shine of the LEDs, but

spatch photographed me in the stoplight.

WERS came out with the menacingly catchy drive of the Clash's "London Calling" (1979) while I was running an errand and it felt just a little unnecessarily Ballardian. Nothing else has happened to me particularly, but reading any kind of news feels like choking on the future. I can remember not being this sick, this poor, this pressed, which differentiates me not at all from most of the people I know. The exhaustion feels unreal and the last ten years like a sociological demonstration in the capacity of things always to be worse.

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Yes, and there are mountain ranges that miss each other and weird deep subcontinental places for you to point out to me and, despite many factors, still some decent cheese and little fishy nibblies. And it takes a while to punch as many fascists as we have to contend with, so what can we do but get on with it?

And it takes a while to punch as many fascists as we have to contend with, so what can we do but get on with it?

I'm getting, I'm just tired.

*hugs*

That’s such a cool picture.

That’s such a cool picture.

Credit to

spatch and the traffic lights!

Mermaid sighted.

Mermaid sighted.

*hugs*

Wonderful image.

reading any kind of news feels like choking on the future

And this, though I wish you had not had to feel it.

Wonderful image.

Thank you!

And this, though I wish you had not had to feel it.

*hugs*

I am having a lot of difficulty with what feels like the everything.

Edited 2026-05-17 19:14 (UTC)