Diggle was the college nickname of one of my best friends. He passed in 2018 of a rare cancer. Unrelated to DC, but seeing Diggle brought a grin anyway.

The top part of the Moon is illuminated. The gray cratered surface stands out against the blackness of space. The Earth appears in the far distance as an upside-down crescent moon shape. There is some lens flare in the top part and center of the image. Credit: NASA

okay i change my mind, THIS is one of the best and most beautiful images from artemis ii

The dripping blood our only drink,
The bloody flesh our only food:
In spite of which we like to think
That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood-
Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.

The chill ascends from feet to knees,
The fever sings in mental wires.
If to be warmed, then I must freeze
And quake in frigid purgatorial fires
Of which the flame is roses, and the smoke is briars.

The whole earth is our hospital
Endowed by the ruined millionaire,
Wherein, if we do well, we shall
Die of the absolute paternal care
That will not leave us, but prevents us everywhere.

Our only health is the disease
If we obey the dying nurse
Whose constant care is not to please
But to remind us of our, and Adam's curse,
And that, to be restored, our sickness must grow worse.

The wounded surgeon plies the steel
That questions the distempered part;
Beneath the bleeding hands we feel
The sharp compassion of the healer's art
Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.

Tom Weber

My favorite supporter and our strongest volunteer. 💚

If I’m getting angry at randos, then it’s time for a Lenten break. See y’all at Easter.

Everything feels completely fucking pointless right now, but here I am “back on my old shit,” w/ a new typewriter for the start of March - just a few weeks away from 1yr since my father died on my birthday.

For March, I’ll be typing on this beautiful 1962 Olympia SM5 w/ Congress typeface.

Sorry if I’m coming off as rude. I have had a stressful weekend and I’m not at my best right now. Probably true for most folks given the current situation.

Yeah I definitely have my own stuff going on today. It’s a stressful time! Thank you. It’s the internet and it’s hard to be kind here, but worth the effort.

Next time, start by praising the harm reduction and advocacy that the person is already doing, then suggest next steps even before describing the problem. “Good start! Next, we need to reduce and replace the use of fossil fuels in production and roadway materials!” That would have won a friend here.

Sorry to be in a lecturing mood about it. Maybe I’m being insubordinate. But I wanted to feel good about buying and electric car and you seemed to being saying “don’t, in fact nothing you do matters,” which isn’t so, but that’s how it sounded. Anyway. Good day to you.

What you did say was that my recent $30k decision didn’t achieve what I’d hoped, which, I guess you’re right, but also that’s a shitty opening line if you’re trying to win allies. You’re an experienced elder in this, and you need to be training hopeful young people who can take up the cause.

Specifically, you reminded me of a Facebook copy pasta titled “Greta Thunberg’s perfect petroleum-free world” which argues that the world can’t function without petroleum. Your position starts there, then says “we need concerted global action to change that.” But you didn’t actually say that.

I didn’t look at your profile before quoting — you seemed to be repeating rightwing doomerism and denigrating EVs as harm reduction. We’re natural allies, so adjust your approach. Come in my replies saying “you live in chains and nothing you can do will fix that” put me on the defensive. Do better.

ICE engine, ATM machine, lol. I’m chasing a toddler while I type

They stop polluting the moment they hit the road. An ICE engine burns its irreplaceable fuel. These are not equivalent harms, economic propositions, or degrees of investment in fossil fuels. Also, if those materials are so important maybe we shouldn’t burn them!

All the hearts. This has been helpful. Thank you! I’m excited to learn what I don’t know and adapt my thinking to the way of the future.

Gotcha!

My FiL suggests getting a second level 1 cable to keep on the car at all times. Maybe get a long heavy duty extension too?

I’ve been trying to think of a use case for utility mode. I haven’t ever used a car like that.

Pre-conditioning is a whole thing I need to understand. That’s the mode that uses battery to warm the battery, right? My guy recommended keeping it on until we get above freezing… or is it something else?

What’s something that you know now that you wish you’d known when you first bought it?

Hyundai Ioniq 5, 2023 SEL AWD. Perfect car for us.

This is me starting today!!

@mikeduncan.bsky.social Made a great point about this in The History of Rome, how a person born in Rome c. 100 could be a child for the Social War, adolescent for the 1st Civil War, adult for the 2nd, elder for the 3rd, and die old before Augustus comes back from Egypt.

Illustration of Alysa Liu.

Illustration of Alysa Liu. - close up

Alysa Liu!

Damn autocorrect

Patient ID: 4569 Patient Julio Name: FELINE Species: DOMESTIC MEDIUMHAIR Breed: MN Sex: Orange Color: 9/14/2015 (10 years 5 months) Birthday: 11.38 LBS Weight: Microchip:

My parents took Julio to the vet and they listed his sex as orange.