…ye gads, just imagine how bad the mosquito clouds are going to get…

…yeah, last year i was telling everyone to enjoy the hundred-degree weeks while they can because it would be the coolest summer for the rest of their lives, then this year comes along and spoils it…

🤔

…i apologise for the long letter; i didn’t have time to write a shorter one…

…i try to leave enough space not to touch bumpers when the front car’s suspension rocks back under acceleration…

…i reset my browser daily, so i only have the past twenty-four hours of browsing history…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2025_Central_Texas_floods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon_Altar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar_Gate

…that’s really only an hour or so of browsing between returning home last night and this morning, not including the bulk of my time at work yesterday…

…i tried to live with public transit in marin county: just commuting to my job was three hours each way, with a very narrow window of opportunity for walking to a grocer at my transfer hub and no recourse on nights when i had to work late…

…teabagging, of course…

…two-stroke honda generator…

…my game gear case carried an automotive-sized external rechargeable battery…

…that’s how i find nouns in my head…

…that’s the thing with autonomous world-machines: no easy target and their amorality fosters an insidiously pervasive sort of evil…moustache-twirling balls-out cartoon fascists foster the hope that upon their oblivion, good will rightfully inherit the earth, although history seldom supports that thesis…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4svv0lvizXQ

…at a quick glance-scan, i though that third row under gen X read ‘starfleet’: did a double-take and was disappointed…

…i thought someone stuck googley-eyes on its closed eyelids…

…with uniformly-tessellating paper sizes, you’ll have cave geomorphs…

…i give everyone i work with stickers when they do a good job, and they all go crazy for them: interns, bosses, the lot!..

…our CEO rolled his eyes at first and said they were patronising, then the entire staff catcalled him over it, so he changed his mind and loves getting stickers now, too…

^{(i think that’s half the reason why armed forces do ribbons)}

…f*cking balls-out cartoon fascists…

…when i was growing up, my well-meaning parents pulled me aside to express their concern over a jewish friend dating a black friend; aghast at their comment, i immediately confronted them over its apparent racism, and they replied that they had nothing against it personally, but were instead concerned about what other people might think…

…they’re f*cking balls-out fascists fourty years later, and i want no part of them in my life…

…to anyone tempted to compromise their own best interests on behalf of what other people might think: don’t give them that kind of power over you, or they’ll drag you down in it…