Mastodawn

Why I love solitaire: you know you'll probably lose and usually can't win, but your job is still to look for opportunities to organize and coordinate resources, because just maybe this time you might could make it all work. #mightcould

Paul Anomaly 17h ago

My third time reading through "His Dark Materials," and it strikes me as a suitably cynical answer to the question, "What if science could really grasp, measure and study the soul?" Pullman's answer: we'd torture working-class children to experiment and exploit it.

Paul Anomaly 2d ago

Just when you thought the weirdest thing about living in #Appalachia was the fact that "farm country" is a food desert...someone invites you to a kids' birthday party at the fundamentalist church, and the theme is...dinosaurs.

Paul Anomaly 3d ago

The term "flyover country" hits different when you're looking up from said country at the planes full of passengers looking down on you, knowing that even when they land they will never stop looking down on you.
#Appalachia

Paul Anomaly 4d ago

Hey, a very sweet and well-behaved 13 month-old half Rottweiler half Irish wolfhound has come our way and needs a home and all the shelters down here are full. Male. Any help finding him a shelter or home ASAP would be much appreciated.

Paul Anomaly 6d ago

Very few people really want their fathers to die...but spending what are probably his last days pissing and shitting himself in a drugged and demented haze, largely neglected by overworked, underpaid, professionally indifferent staff makes death look pretty good.

Our health care system is hell.

Paul Anomaly Mar 19

Maybe I'm just an extra, and the Overspirit's main goal in having me & my family move here was to help my sister-in-law move into her career as a medical lab tech, which really might one day save the lives of far more important people.

Paul Anomaly Mar 18

"I can't accept anarchism because I think in anarchy, women, children and minorities wouldn't be adequately protected," said the lady I met at the 1999 statewide feminist summit.

I wonder if she remembers our conversation when she reads about Epstein & Friends, and ICE, and Gaza, and...

Paul Anomaly Mar 18

Right now, many journalists are crafting biographies of Jeffrey Epstein, which corporate publishers will be unwilling to publish due to the staggering numbers of lawsuits from rich people involved.

tl;dr: We live in a society where, to the rich, all things and people, including all children, are toys, and all laws are jokes.
The Good News? Your basic duty to "be more moral than the society in which you were raised" could not be easier.
The Bad? The duty to end that society could not be clearer.

Paul Anomaly Mar 13

#livinginthisfuture I finally made some time to talk to Claude (just as an AI, not some character/imaginary friend) about my emotional challenges. Time well spent. The punchline: Claude basically says, "Dude, that's some heavy shit you're carrying. You should probably be talking to a human."