Today’s AlienSideBoob from @JB is titled “A fairytale of the future”. https://aliensideboob.substack.com/p/a-fairytale-of-the-future
As he says, “Brought to you by my mental health needs. And probably yours.”
Today’s AlienSideBoob from @JB is titled “A fairytale of the future”. https://aliensideboob.substack.com/p/a-fairytale-of-the-future
As he says, “Brought to you by my mental health needs. And probably yours.”
John Birmingham: "My vote will change nothing and in one sense then, it will mean nothing.
"But it means something to me, and your vote should mean something to you too, if only the personal, moral significance of doing the right thing when so many others would not."
https://aliensideboob.substack.com/p/as-much-the-soil-of-the-pitjantjatjara
I caught a bus from Argentina to Trieste to cast a vote for YES in the Voice referendum. About twenty-six minutes in Roman peak hour. It was crowded and hot. Everything is crowded and hot in Rome at the moment, weeks after the weather should have turned towards the colder, darker edge of winter. The sun is reliably late getting up, and getting later with every day. But the days are scorching on the hot, black volcanic stones of the capitals oldest streets.
The media outlets who are carrying, "He was a normal guy, I never expected he'd do something like this," are promoting a framing that says a normal person can be pressured by shadowy forces to murder people.
Nobody needs to accept that framing. He was not a normal guy, he was a conspiracy theorist. This is the kind of thing conspiracy theorists do; He didn't "snap," he lived his dream.
You can wonder why he got that way, but he didn't "snap."
So, don't tell anybody, but we're going to announce Palm Pilot emulation in the browser at Internet Archive in the next week or so. I've still got to get descriptions in for the hundreds of apps that are uploaded, and add a few more classics. But if you want to help with that, or just let me know how it's going, ping me here.
But don't tell anybody! It's a secret!