mastodon 4.7.3Award-winning author of AN INHERITANCE OF ASHES and ABOVE, editor, book reviewer, & food security/mutual aid organizer. Socially responsible dirtbag with her headphones on.
Also: #TOpoli, indie music, urban ag, circular economies, climate, #BlueJays, occasional celiac cooking, increasing levels of permaculture. For years I've ended these with "against entropy," a la John M. Ford, but recently realized: it's actually futility I have a problem with. Against futility.
The one major flaw in Cyrano de Bergerac (1950): No one can suspend enough disbelief to buy Jose Ferrer as anything but deathly, unimpeachably hot (and also the Emperor of Known Space).
Like, yes, Cyrano's a bit of an asshole, and I probably wouldn't want to share an art scene with him long-term, but no one's kicking an expert fencer-slash-slam poet out of bed on account of a nose.
RE: @merlinwisdom@mastodon.social
But I don't know yet, and that's why I have to go sniff it. It could be startling in there. It could be the informational equivalent of a bible in my front uniform pocket in ten years' time in a trench I never thought I'd be in, or the guitar chord you play over and over in your head, or a murmuration of starlings.
I mean, how on earth would I know until I get there? Who honestly knows in the moment what's long-haul going to be important?
All that creativity hoovered up to train LLMs and they're still not making these guys better bullshitters.
I could have bullshitted a better cover story *in my sleep*. An *evidence-based* bullshit.
That's the power of a social science and humanities education. 🍵
Thought while reading news today: The denazification process that'll have to come into the United States is going to take generations. It's going to be the biggest regional job creator of the century.
You!
I want to take you to the trade war!
I want to take you to the trade war trade war trade war
Now tell me
Do you have any money?
I wanna spend all your money
At the trade war trade war trade war--
@hamishb@mstdn.ca @corvus@mapstodon.space @hewer_of_code@mstdn.ca @pluralistic@mamot.fr He's my MP, so is there an ideal way to organize around this/get in his face? I am happy to call some friends and start getting in his face.
@hamishb@mstdn.ca @corvus@mapstodon.space @hewer_of_code@mstdn.ca For context: I am a working organizer, although municipally, not federally. So this is not a Process 101 question asked from ignorance; it's a tactics question asked from experience re: an issue that's outside my usual remit. Thanks!
After a few weeks writing a *lot* of book reviews (my fault, I scheduled this, no schedule survives contact right now)--
--suddenly a piece of literary theory tips over in my head -- this is why X is a common failure mode in climate fiction; this is how it functions; this is how I can go and *make it work better in my own stuff* -- and right. Enough flinging myself against people's work with the whole brain, and the pipes clear, the pumps prime, this is why I overbook myself doing this. 🙂
Team, riddle me this, because this is the third time I've found this weird little political meme and it's both so ahistorical and weird that I've got to ask:
The idea that colonizers invented clocks to impose linear time on innocent, free, unscheduled populations and force their bodies into the machine. That linear time and measuring time is a *plot* of some sort.
Who started this one? How's this getting passed around in a world of Stonehenge, Babylonian sundials, Egyptian water clocks?
#Poetry evening upcoming, do join in:
FEDIVERSE HIVEMIND:
Have you noticed a sharp 2026 increase in people just literally flaking off things they said they'd do?
Work commitments, deadlines, general promises, followup calls for things where *they actually want your money*, doesn't matter which, it's legitimately less than 50/50 if it's actually going to happen? "You said you would and then you didn't, what was I supposed to think?" is now apparently fighting words?
#TOpoli / #TOCouncil veterans: Does anybody remember who put together the very grassroots council/mayoral debates in 2014? Not City Idol but some overlap between the teams or format?
I need this for Positive Purposes. If anyone recalls, vastly appreciate it.