mastodon 4.6.4I’ve got a to-do list longer than a fucking Leonard Cohen song.
Teacher by trade, classicist by training, baseball fan by calling, Communist by choice. Member, Rochester DSA.
Various vein-openings at:
https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon
smoking that shit that made Graig Nettles' mom name him that
smoking that shit that made Sherlock Holmes think Cornish was a Semitic language
Vein-openings I promised, and vein-openings you shall have.
In this one, I finally exorcise a demon that’s been sitting on my chest for six years:
https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon/archive/no-such-thing-as-unskilled-labor-and-other-things/
On guilt, shared responsibility, and watching the United States government destroy both the islands whose heritage I claim:
https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon/archive/history-will-not-absolve-us/
We're rewatching Mockingjay, and I had never had this thought before: imagine being the soldiers who had to cut a million fucking white roses *and* figure out how to store them efficiently on bombers so they could be airdropped over District 13.
Judging by its place on the draft list, I've been trying to write this one for over two weeks.
I would've gotten it out sooner, but I kept having to fix other people's problems. That'll be a much funnier sentence once you read the article.
https://buttondown.com/nsmckinnon/archive/mentats-in-search-of-a-butlerian-jihad/
This poll was inspired by overhearing @MagicIsTheCause@laserdisc.party quote The Birdcage.
How do you naturally pronounce "gazongas?"
She skitters darkly, like the night
Of cheerless climes and smoky skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bug
Meet in her aspect and her mug;
Thus sitting in that spider face
Which sits in Mordor’s deathly caves.
- Lord Byron, circa Third Age 3019
Every time USians on here get get up about doomers/defeatists/pessimists/buzzkills/downers, I'm reminded that the prerogative of every imperial citizenry is to demand someone else fix their problems—including, especially, the ones they themselves created.
One last time: if you thought this year’s Team USA was an aberration, j have news for you. They’re not good news.
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