Mostly I'm here to talk about climate and feminism and stuff, but I believe beauty helps us get through the days and the years and the burdens of history and sometimes points toward the possibilities. Ocean Beach, San Francisco. #beautyintermission 1/5
Yesterday was a good day for seafoam, leaving its signatures upon the shores. 2/5
"The city turned into sand and the sand into surf and the surf into ocean and just to know that the ocean went on for many thousands of miles was to know that there was an outer border to my own story, and even to human stories..." --The Faraway Nearby 3/5
"It was the familiar edge of the unknown, forever licking at the shore." --The Faraway Nearby 4/5
"The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary, but so is the other route of getting out of yourself..." 5/5
p.s. Yesterday evening, I should've mentioned! We are blessed to live in a city with this as its western edge.
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This 2015 sentence-become-meme was brilliant, but I want to modify it for the Age of Information Corruption. I'd say a lot of voters thought 1) they are leopards 2) they were voting for the Leopards Will Save Us Party...
3) didn't read the news coverage of the face-eating details.... There's gonna be schadenfreude/I told you so going forward. But while a lot of people voted for the punitiveness of the idiot-criminal, a lot of people didn't have a clue what each candidate was offering.
And the famous line about too many Americans thinking of themselves as temporarily embarrassed billionaires when it comes to what their interests are, it might as well be "they think they're the leopards." Some are. Some will find out they're fawns.
"as no-fault divorce became the norm in state after state, domestic-violence rates dropped by some thirty per cent, suicides among women dropped by as much as sixteen per cent, and the number of women murdered by their partners dropped by ten per cent." newyorker.com/culture/the-le…
I'm hoping that all the wives who are being bullied and intimidated out of their voting rights strike out for freedom and equality--aka leave the bullies-- after the election and meanwhile vote against misogyny.
Decontextualization, leaving out vital information, isn't quite lying, but it's at least cousin to it. Here's a Washington Post piece on declining Black voting rates in Wisconsin that can't talk about voter suppression. 1/7 washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/10…
"The causes for the drop in turnout are complex, experts say" in the Post story. Here's a bombshell piece by @AriBerman about voter suppression (primarily impacting Black voters) in Wisconsin and how it basically won the state for Trump in 2016. 2/7 motherjones.com/politics/2017/…
Same thing in this piece. Who could these antisemites be who are also spreading misinformation about the 2020 election and Haitians eating pets in Springfield? No idea, nothing to do with the election or any particular candidates. 3/7 washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
With its unparalleled resources and relentless thirst for truth, the New York Times has made an investigative journalism breakthrough late in the campaign: Trump is old. Who knew?
Some say you could have added up the numbers, which added up to...old. But Biden was using up all the oldness in the room, according to the NYT, so there was no oldness left over for the other guy. Only now can the shocking truth be told: Trump old.
Of course there were other reasons to question his qualifications, given that he is an adjudicated rapist, convicted felon, leader of a coup attempt, authoritarian, and always was a liar and idiot, but lots of us hate old people more, as Joe Biden inadvertently demonstrated.
The word looting is an incendiary term for petty theft, and it's used to make protecting private property and not human life a central concern in a disaster. Most only needed food, water, medicine, and supplies like diapers and clean clothes in the absence of any other way. 1/4
They're often altruistically foraging for others, including babies and the elderly. So I'm sorry to see a local sheriff threatening to murder people--that "shoot to kill" against shoplifting just adds to the troubles and fears in a desperate time. Poster from 1906 SF quake. 2/4
It suits the right-wing mindset to believe that human nature is basically selfish and corrupt and thereby we need lots of law and order and stern authority, even authoritarianism. And to prize protecting the social order, including property relations, over human life. 3/4
Mainstream errand boys like Tapper routinely turn Trump's lurid accusations, delusions, and smears into "legitimate questions" with which to task his opponents. It's another form of normalized bias that needs naming.
Here it is again. Any rubbish that comes out of Trump's mouth must be treated as serious discourse, any smear must be smeared further, by people who call themselves journalists.
I mean journalism rule #1: your subjects do not set the agenda. If Donald Trump says Jake Tapper is part of the Sinaloa Cartel and his back yard is full of bodies, you might ask why he's saying that but you don't just repeat it unquestioningly .