mikewhelanjr.bsky.social
I write and garden and love my wife while living in the middle of nowhere. It’s a pretty great gig. Used to lawyer, now I legaltech.
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How dare you respond to my impotent rage with informed facts?!
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Yeah, he seems nice. Makes me wonder if he uses thee/thou instead of the plural “you” as singular, just to make the king happy about his grammar.
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Man. And peonies take so much patience. To destroy what’s maybe the most hope-driven plant in the garden is particularly awful.
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My son asked me how OKC was winning game 1 when SGA struggled so much. I told him that, unfortunately, even when they’re bad they’re good. They just make it so tough on the opponent to capitalize. That’s a characteristic of many championship teams.
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The people who are most against the Constitution are the people who wave the biggest flags and fire the brightest fireworks. Reminds me of Jesus criticizing people who prayed loudly and covered themselves in ashes. Performative faith, nothing more.
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Oh that uses a bunch of stuff I have to harvest from the garden. Nice.
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It was rough here. Every farm near us had just turned the soil before it suddenly got really hot so it was dead and dry. The wind tore the plastic on my new greenhouse which was really just a matter of time. Freaked chickens out. Normal northern Illinois stuff, I guess.
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Just watched him go crazy with a torch on some space slugs just to teach the other slugs a lesson. That’s the right vibe.
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So there are characters who used flattery and others’ rage to gain power—Korihor, Amalikiah, King Noah, etc.—but the biggest signal came from the Nephites’ shift in government. They decided kings were bad because bad kings could do a whole lot of bad.