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"At some point basic human decency has to walk in, look around, nod, and begin kicking ass...
"Because whether you believe in Jesus or Allah or no one, whether you believe in a strong market economy or collective farms, there’s ideology, and then there’s decency, and if you can’t have decency, then fuck ideology..."
Paul Ford, 2003
"The environment will be thick with grief. All the while, our rituals and mechanisms of survival, be they social or chemical, have been taken away from us.
"We will have to be creative to survive this thing, both physically and emotionally...This is not normal, and nor will be our worst reactions to it, and nor can be our best reactions to it."
daniel.industries/2020/04/03/blogging-during-the-apocalypse/
Fediverse invitation | Stefan Bohacek
I live in a historic conservation district. You aren't normally allowed to just tear down houses. A woman who lived there was a hoarder. Could have been on the TV show level hoarder. Her wife/partner died a couple of years ago and it took the police and fire department a long time to figure out how to get her body out of the house.
Before flattening it with a the biggest backhoe I've ever seen, we speculated about the unusually authorized razing. We wondered if they would keep the facade, a common technique for skirting the historic designation constraints. But apparently the hoarding inside left the structure in such a state that that backhoe was allowed to just drop down on that 100-year-old brick, that exquisite chimney with two ornate brick caps, the stained glass in the entrance window, the arched living room window.
Yesterday I saw someone on here I have respected for decades drag Paul Ford based on his recent op-ed in some NYC publication, which somehow led me to the newly revived garden of delights that is ftrain. Many times over the last 15 years or so I would visit ftrain and feel a little sad staring at that last post from years ago. This morning I read and read, the way he weaves a mundane story into an emotional gut-punch.
Anyway, I've been listening to Damien Jurado all morning. I forgot to add him to my new /important page. Will remedy that on my next deploy.
"Still, I stare. What else is there to do?"
pointsincase.com/articles/im-a-phone-and-im-wasting-my-life-staring-at-this-human
