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Might watch Michael Clayton tonight I apologize in advance for any live posting through it

ripcorp.biz/episodes/a-wing-an we wrapped this episode of RIP Corp way back in late Nov/early Dec but for various reasons it's dropping now—can't decide if reflecting on the legacy and limits of resistance grift is timely or just sad, but still think we did a mostly good job

I felt weird sharing this amidst posts about LA fires so: 50% of sales made this week will go to the ARC Firefighter Fund (for prisoners firefighters)

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Just added a collection of small-ish (8inx8in) plotter drawings to my store: wares.lifewinning.com/collecti if you have seen these "buy my drawings" posts but found them a little out of budget these ones are all $20-25! And pretty cute IMO.

Free our feeds snark 

I'm sorry I'm too cynical to believe that the person who ran The Markup into the ground can fix social media

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: piss bush, cultural homeland, untethered, Diet Coke, real shit, smells of exhaustion, struggling to incorporate cancer, a living insect, constitutionally bitchmade, superego, dead on their feet, waifu capsule, fight a mist, shower drain

Honestly she's delightful but that kind of joie de vivre in this economy?

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Resisting the urge to ask this person I met at a friend's birthday whether her parents are rich

Trying to make peace with a sinking suspicion my dissertation has to get into the history and political economy of remote sensing

Politics shitpost 

American imperialism seeking deranged expansionist projects, an Italian assassinating a millionaire, people sincerely debating the merits of pasteurization

2020s really are giving 1890s

It's a minor gripe but I find it so annoying that Jesse Welles is making some of the best anti-capitalist folk ballads of the 21st century and the dude does not sell his music on Bandcamp, man I want to own your MP3s why must we do this

My mom had a cold over the weekend and on Monday her next door neighbor not only shoveled the show from her bit of sidewalk but also shoveled her stoop, knowing she has a bad knee and wasn't feeling well. Unasked!

I'm so glad she has a little community around her to lend a hand as she gets older

my most deranged cope in the face of all the media and platform complying in advance is "maybe I should do a print publication again"

politics, life 

Update: I was so stressed out this evening I actually exercised lol

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politics, life 

Ramsey is going back to Lebanon today to see family and for various timing and life reasons I am not coming with. I'm not that worried about shit going down in the next few days/before Trump's inaugurated, but also don't love the uncertainty of it all

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Horsin' Around

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