https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-61/ this week in sentences: a crystal without faces, where there is dirt, expensive, one's hammer, mistaking a melancholy, something forgotten, another problem
@bookish nothing rude about getting enough fiber imo
Nex Benedict's death in Oklahoma is a story of the hate that has been unleashed in recent years. Following ongoing bullying because they were nonbinary, Nex was severely injured in a fight at school on Feb. 7 and died a day later. This story, and their life, matters. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/nex-benedict-dead-oklahoma-b2499332.html
dog health stuff
the vet confirmed something I'd been worried about which is that Kitty is showing signs of degenerative myelopathy, which means she's slowly losing mobility in her hind legs and there's kind of no way to stop or slow it down. she's not in pain, and she's in early stages, but it's a reminder that we're probably not going to have more than 1-2 more years with her.
https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-60/ this week in sentences: apprehension, anthropocenic geology, the decency to unscrew, wither, withdrawn, an avoidable duck, Antarctica
I just published a letter in @washingtonpost on the CDC's potential change in COVID isolation guidelines.
"COVID isn’t over, and we shouldn’t act like it is"
Link: https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/16/covid-isnt-over-we-shouldnt-act-like-it-is/
Went to a talk by Eyal Weizman and he basically just riffed for an hour and a half--brilliantly, amazingly, poetically--without slides and then went "ok now I'll show you some forensic architecture" and showed us some evidence of war crimes and THEN after the talk said "no questions, for I have no answers--please rambling comments only"
Incredible, no notes
just added some new plotter prints to https://wares.lifewinning.com, including some cheaper items like this new pseudo-isometric vibe https://wares.lifewinning.com/products/isometric-topography-grid-01-print-a3-gray-graph
https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-59/ this week in sentences: truculent realities, relationship with geography, dread sustains, overladen, courageous (and not altogether successful), this exotic example
@jenlowe NYC hellos still happen! Though most of the time when I experience this children are saying hello to Kitty