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Saint Paul and sometimes Brooklyn, occasionally Covington Sober one day at a time for 4037 days No gurus No gods https://sixnotebooks.com/nb2_poetry/metta/
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Spare a thought for the IDF today. They were out all day yesterday shooting innocent people trying to get bags of flour, and when they got home they had to find out the heartbreaking news that some people at Glastonbury don't like them. That cannot be good for your mental health.

That looks like a tremendously uncomfortable way to sit. Perhaps the most uncomfortable. I think the the side of the truck would really dig into the shoulder painfully

Less a #MusicChallenge than a 'music thing', but please join me in helping turn Bluesky nicely GBV-y during July with #JulydedByVoices! Feel free to pick from their countless million-selling chart-toppers, or perhaps dig out something a bit deep cuttier with a weird title - there must be a few...

My 2017 Toyota Corolla with 175,000 miles is a smoother ride than this brand new Jeep Grand Cherokee.

The car we reserved wasn’t there, so they gave us a Jeep Grand Cherokee hybrid Which my friend accurately described as “A conglomeration of accessories that doesn’t add up to a car” Absolutely terrible car Terrible ride Terrible turning Terrible off noises Absolutely terrible

I am So Angry and resentful about Everything That 11 years after getting sober and 58 years after being born I have taken up running You have no idea how angry I have to be to actually run every single Day

Exactly this We have to accept that 40% of the population is some Mix of dumb and evil Then plan our strategy around that

Listening

So dumb So evil So evil So dumb

Found one of my favourite music clips again, which always feels like it has drifted in from another dimension. From the introduction, to the stage set, to the cast of characters, to the music itself, it all feels like a dream: Pete Drake & His Talking Steel Guitar - 'Forever'

We have stopped saying “bipartisan”, right? Right?

Hear me out: why?

Thinking a lot about an Updike phrase, "the maddening invulnerability of the stupid"

Enjoying this

Just saw the Moon and Mars are only half a degree apart! They're in the southwest after sunset, with the Moon a thinnish crescent.

I would ask the tourists on the balcony next to mine to stop feeding the gulls But nothing matters anymore

And then the rains came

The Mets have come completely unglued

jfc this whole thread is a trip down memory lane 😂

Good morning

Toni Tennille

The big lake

29. Bop Hard bop from 1959 - Clark on piano, Donald Byrd on trumpet, Hank Mobley on tenor sax, Paul Chambers on bass, Art Blakey on drums. Not a bad little band... Sonny Clark - Junka song.link/y/-tIG3nrsL6w #MusicLingo

Being a liberal law professor must be kind of terrible, you worked super hard, had really amazing clerkships, published important work and your colleague has had a bunch of no-show jobs funded by conservative dark money and is on the board of the phrenology and administrative law journal.