They’re fast, faster than you can imagine, don’t look away and don’t blink. Blink and you’re dead.

you can’t run on the status quo when the status quo isn’t working for people.

That was the thing that killed me about the Biden campaign. People literally told Biden the economy sucked and they were hurting. They wanted Clinton’s “I feel your pain”. They wanted Carville’s “it’s the economy, stupid!”

They got “What are you talking about, Jack? Economy is doing GREAT! Best in the world! We recovered! It’s over!”

Then, when asked what she’d do different, Harris responded “I can’t think of anything, really.”

How about this…

“I’d have more empathy when people come to me outlining the challenges they are facing or the failures of the administration. There are things Biden absolutely could have done better, and I will do better.”

I’ll just say this, I DID read the details and it is incredibly, deeply fucked up. Fucked up to the point I’m not ashamed to say I’d like to see Gaiman criminally charged. If you do not know, then you’re better off for not knowing.

He was a rad guy.

I’m 55, had my first heart attack and open heart surgery at 49. I feel you.

It does raise the spectre of “how much did Terry know?” I really hope he was blissfully ignorant of all of it because, frankly, it’s more than I personally ever wanted to know.

Writing has been on the wall for a while ever since DC dropped them in 2020:

https://smashpages.net/2020/06/05/dc-comics-drops-diamond-as-they-shift-completely-to-lunar-ucs/

Will likely be similar to this:

https://youtu.be/GlCFPo6YYbU#t=40s

90 / 7 = 12.86 hours a day, every day.

In America that would be 50 hours of overtime.

So let me ask him this… are you PAYING me for 90 hours? I can do it, let’s see the money.

My current salary is $69.23/hr.

OT hours would be $103.85.

Pay me $414,010 a year and you’ll get your 90 hours a week.

Machined badge reading “Built Not Bought”.

My dad used to put them on the cars he built.

That’s actually a complicated story…

It goes back to a book called “Holy Blood, Holy Grail” back in 1982.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Blood_and_the_Holy_Grail

Then you have Foucalt’s Pendulum (1988) - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault’s_Pendulum

The comic book series “Preacher” 66 monthly issues from 1995 to 2000. - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preacher_(comics)

Da Vinci Code (2003) - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Da_Vinci_Code

It’s the book that kicked the Davinci Code to death and left it bleeding in a gutter.

There is not a lot “light” about Umberto Eco, but How to Travel With a Salmon is one of them.

I highly suggest the Umberto Eco book “How to Travel With a Salmon”. It’s a collection of short essays on a variety of topics.

There is a border check entering CA but they only ask about fruits and vegetables.

You can also report PMs, that also goes straight to the Admins of the instance.

Fishdom 0.0000004 :)

They just need little numbers over their heads.

A sense of humor.

Collecting books for show was such a thing it was used as a literary device in the Great Gatsby.

See back then, books were mass produced via multiple stitched together folded booklets, much as they are now, but they didn’t have the cutting technology to trim the edges.

So readers would have their own “book knife” or “paper knife” and cut the folded pages apart to be able to read them (resulting in a “deckled edge” which is now simulated these days in some printings.)

So when Gatsby’s library is carefully inspected:

"A stout, middle-aged man, with enormous owl-eyed spectacles, was sitting somewhat drunk on the edge of a great table, staring with unsteady concentration at the shelves of books. As we entered he wheeled excitedly around and examined Jordan from head to foot.

“What do you think?” he demanded impetuously.

"About what?’

He waved his hand toward the book-shelves.

"About that. As a matter of fact you needn’t bother to ascertain. I ascertained. They’re real.

“The books?”

He nodded.

“Absolutely real - have pages and everything. I thought they’d be a nice durable cardboard.  Matter of face, they’re absolutely real. Pages and - Here! Lemme show you.”

Taking our scepticism for granted, he rushed to the book-cases and returned with Volume One of the Stoddard Lectures.

“See!” he cried triumphantly. “It’s a bona-fide piece of printed matter. It fooled me. This fella’s a regular Belasco. It’s a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop, too - didn’t cut the pages. But what do you want? What do you expect?”

He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse."

Card is also a giant piece of shit in other ways, which is unfortunate because he is a good writer and his essays on the methodology of writing are excellent.

https://www.wired.com/2013/10/enders-game/