Jay Hannah @deafferret@octodon.social

Nice to read a little book review / journal entry I wrote a year ago and it holds up. :)

"God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" by Kurt Vonnegut
http://jays.net/mr_rosewater.txt

Lucille: Oh Buster I feel so foolish!
Buster: No!
L: Yes! I'm foolish. And I'm funny. And I'm needy. Am I needy?
B: No
L: Are you sure I'm not needy? Cause I feel needy sometimes.
-- Arrested Development S1 E8

Near-crushing depression yesterday. After a couple hours of that I finally remembered "oh right, this is nicotine withdrawal." It's a hell of a drug that twists your mind SO HARD to feed the addiction forever.

whoah, surprised #TIF (#TaxIncrementFinancing) is on my ballot. One of my way-too-many hobbies is maintaining this Nebraska database: http://ne.tif.report

Per-capita per state per day testing stats:
http://dangoodspeed.com/covid/total-cases-since-june

Scottish + Mongolian is epic! https://youtu.be/vztRqe_CHC0

But now a great thing in the street
seems any human nod,
Where shift in strange democracy
the million masks of God.
-- G. K. Chesterton

https://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Poetry/gold_leaves.htm

There's No Such Thing As Orange (a metaphysical / spiritual exploration of The Hard Problem of Consciousness)

Brown Is Not A Color (a science-y explanation that brown only exists in context (its actually dark orange))

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX0xWJpr0FY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU

(well, I mean "enjoy" is a strong word in 2020, but I do find them very informative. sigh lol)

Lefty podcasts I enjoy: Revolutions Per Minute (RPM)(NY DSA). Midwest Socialist Podcast (Chicago DSA). Socialist Rifle Association Podcast. And my friend recommended https://srslywrong.com/

Frog inner monologues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N37lWmhFnO4

I demand everyone go watch shay paint my new motorcycle helmet RIGHT NOW :) https://www.twitch.tv/shayshayface

lol crazy... 31 acres. Tax assessed for a decade at $220K. Now they're trying to sell it for $430K. Discouraging for people like me looking for properties like this...? https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/76830624_zpid/

... to enjoy / understand the humor of the speakers. A lot of far-left messaging seems to turn a corner wherein the tone assumes all listeners already come from a mental model of the world that already buckets so many things as obviously bad that they're just punchlines. I need explanations and teachings from history, not the constant assumption that I'm on the same page. Far left or right, I listen to podcasts to understand more, not sing with a choir that I already dis/agree with.

(1) If you're unfamiliar with the School of the Americas, this is one place to start https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-the-deadliest-school-in-71503766/
(2) I've unsub'd from the Behind the Bastards podcast because apparently I'm not far left enough. A pattern I keep finding is that I keep trying to gather information about neoliberalism / socialism / communism, but this podcast (and others) are presented so flippantly / sarcastically that to consume them you have to be deeply embedded, unquestioning in far-left frameworks... (cont'd)

so do I vote for an openly gay (+) asshat (---) bakery owner (+) in the hopes that being printed on the ballot as D has the best chance of unseating an R? 🤮 https://apnews.com/article/197c31ee71292ee85efe11651ab5874b

Oooo! Mail-in ballot received!
So who's done a bunch of down-ballot research on these judges and such?