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More of this, please. A LOT more of this, please.

Wordle 1,351 4/6* ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

So I'm weaning myself off of Facebook and all things Meta. Question: can I share my Wordle score here??? 😁

A break from politics would be nice. Who's watching Paradise?

I'm trying to learn how to avoid Meta tracking data on Facebook and Instagram - I want to avoid Mark Zuckerberg making any more money off of me! One suggestion is to not post directly to FB, but post elsewhere and then link to FB. Let's give it a try. 😊

It just occurred to me that my two favorite television shows currently are Severance (Apple TV) and Paradise (Hulu) - and both shows have a theme of extremely powerful people who control a dystopian world. Truth is stranger than fiction, isn't it?

rom Russian author and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn: "To stand up for truth is nothing,” he wrote. β€œFor truth, you must sit in jail. You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”

In 55 days, this building will become the epicenter of corruption on our planet.

Time to read Tolkien again... it was my solace in 2016. πŸ₯Ή

But as Gandalf and Galadriel [from Lord of the Rings] could teach them, the height of wisdom is to fear their own drive for power, to fight the fight in a darkening world even if it looks likely to end in failure, and, above all, to choose to remain their better selves. (3)

They do so not because their original judgments have been proved unjustβ€”far from itβ€”but because, weary of unyielding opposition, they would like to shape things, or at least to hold communion with those who are in the room where the deals are done. (2)

Advice to conservative intellectuals (and also Joe Scarborough) (from Cohen in the Atlantic): Some of them wish to walk back their condemnation of Trump, the animosities that he magnifies and upon which he feeds, the prejudices upon which he plays and the norms he delightedly subverts. (1)

Dickens Village goes up before Thanksgiving, but the tree is after. ☺️

Heading to the Deep South for Thanksgiving with the Trump-loving in-laws. I hope they will play nice. 🫀