ALT Two trees stand on either side of a stump. The left tree is holding a book in a branch/hand, and gesturing toward it with the other branch/hand, as if speaking to the right tree. The caption reads, in quotation marks: Pains me to say it, but Greg is much more interesting as a book.
Anyway, I thinking about this because I’m at this conference and people keep asking me what’s going to happen with abortion and when I tell them, they’re like “the people will rise.” And I have to be “no, they won’t.”
A quick reminder that this was almost 9 months ago but nothing has changed. LAPD is still a gang of vicious white supremacist terrorists. Nothing has changed.
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“The Culture” in the Iain Banks novels is an explicitly atheistic, anti-capitalist, post-scarcity society.
The novel “The Player of Games” explores the ways in which people are vulnerable to manipulation, even in such a society, because of ego.
Just thought I’d point that out.
This is Clark. She wanted to play hide and seek with a sock. Decided swallowing it was an easy win, but her vet cheated and found it using an x-ray machine. We covered the cost of her surgery to get it out, and hope she picks a different hiding place next time. 13/10
ALT curly, black bernadoodle wearing a plastic cone sits on a wood floor with a sad sad look on her face
ALT screenshot of Clark’s fully funded GoFundMe campaign
I'm finally watching Dune and... it's POSSIBLE I also am maintaining a spreadsheet of my impressions as things go. 😆 I will share it with anyone who is interested when I'm done.
I am excited beyond comprehension.
I made a promise to myself that I would react to and assess this movie purely from memory, without looking details up. I may go back and do a second spreadsheet that "fact-checks" my initial gut reaction as well.
But either way, I'll share my initial impression if y'all want it.
Okidokie. If you are interested in my Dune (2021) "first watch" reactions spreadsheet, you can grab it from here:
dropbox.com/t/soP9zT3gu32Ogk…
Let me know what you think!