basilsimon.bsky.social
"You are Enrico Palazzo, but not the actual one." - my baby brother.
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I had originally written that my "sons" are often "misgendered", but that assumes a lot about my kids' gender - both now and later.
I tell my kids it's like musical taste - it's okay for other people to be wrong until they make it your problem.
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Has anybody warned Cambodia 😬
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The elder yells and wakes the younger unless I hold him and merengue. The younger's last nap relies on me constantly walking up and down the stairs. They both weigh 20-30lbs, one in each arm, neither bothering to support any of their own weight, I dance up and down the stairs - no pausing.
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Didn't Pythagoras's cult believe in all of that? Like they were violently hostile to heretical geometry?
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I hear of this legendary father, who mastered the ancient art of refusing "Dada up please!"
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It's complicated being an artist when the moment calls for Guernica and you realize you're closer to coloring books than Picasso. I'd love to sit down today and write the next Fortunate Son but emotional muscles alone don't get the job done.
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It was not the machismo that impressed. It was the care and the competence - traits I believe transcend gender. Now, whether you believe remembering to put the screwdriver away afterwards has somehow become a foppish affectation in modern society is a different matter entirely.
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It seems obvious but I thought perhaps if it took me decades to figure this out, other failed perfectionists might benefit from this push. When perfection isn't reachable from where you are, get to adequacy. Then refinements can happen piece by piece over time. "One and done" is the *last* step.
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That's a smile? I make that face when I'm deciding if the milk has one last day before going bad.
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Perhaps it made me feel young again, that magical time between web rings and Ask Jeeves when email was only slightly slower than taping a letter to a passing mammoth 🦣✉️
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Thought he already confessed to claiming he had that job for 85 years
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I assume to replace rest and food. Rumor has it up to 8 hours of daily sleep can be replaced with powerful stimulants.
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Can't have "suspected" without "due process" - clearly NYP should be accused of advocating for Garcia's return. Just to see the editorial staff scramble.
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Of course! That's why the rabbit goes around hiding nest eggs under cafe tables!
Either that or I've been walking off with a lot of other people's ransom money 😬
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You'd think it would show great promise as an assassin or serial killer but weirdly it doesn't work that way either. Nobody sends letters to the FBI saying,
"Won't stop unless you catch me. These have all been accidental. I have no clue why it keeps happening. Looks bad though!
- The Oopsie Killer"
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"We as a a people demand edit buttons on bluesky, Newsom show some genuine humanity, due process for all, corporations aren't people, we all need clean food&water, money≠speech, nobody's above the law, and socialism is mostly the option to fire your ISP and medial insurance CEOs every few years."
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Nevertheless I, as permissible
by US law and the Constitution (which I will defend), and with the support of the best constituents in the whole wide world (all of whom deserve equal protection under the law), do hereby announce my run for office under the platform "
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Noticing Newson has an unfortunate habit of sacrificing real people with real lives and real problems whenever convenient is a wild metric for candidacy - I thought at least a little paperwork would be required.
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We have two NMs playing. The format is Swiss. I feel like I spent a year blowing off steam at the batting cages and got roped into being a minor league ref. I'm fine with losing the games as long as my director jobs go well. Chess is a fun board game, but event crew stuff is my whole deal!
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These folk seem to be organized and making an impact.
bsky.app/profile/artc...
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I'm not a bot or Chuck Schumer. A free and democratic America isn't negotiable. I'm just saying people don't all have the same amount to lose at the same time,
and finding an mobilizing those who're ready to act is more complex than most realize.
Unless you're skeeting this from El Salvador already.
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That's wonderful for you. I'm calculating how my actions change the odds of agents walking up to my home, shooting one of my kids, and asking how I feel about the other ones. There are many ways to extract compliance.
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...and I'm not a recently unemployed high ranking military leader with experience, phone numbers, a love of the constitution and an axe to grind. I'm not a hacker or an anti-AI specialist. But if I was trying to rally patriots who believe in the old promise of America, those are the people I'd want.
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Glad I'm more helpful than obnoxious. It's always a concern with these interactions. I'm sorry I'm not the civil rights leader or fearless activist this moment requires. I don't give weekly sermons about how loving your fellow man means death cannot scare you...
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Of course assuming he gets home safe, he'll get to skip a LOT of family arguments."Sorry honey, your birthday present will be late because I was an inadvertent political prisoner.
Son, whether you think I'm a hero to our people or the scariest gangster in the western hemisphere, it's still bedtime."
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This is the part of "greatness thrust upon them" that nobody really talks about. He's going to need PR. People will want to use his face, his story, for all kinds of things. He will never again have the option of being "acceptably meh". I didn't need another reason for "don't gulag people" but yeah.
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Based on what I'm already seeing online he'll be fighting the Mandela Effect for the rest of his life. Which, to be fair, I hope will at least be long, much happier, and at home with his family.
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Not saying you're wrong - we all just have a few thresholds to figure out. When does obedience no longer provide acceptable protection? Is that evaluation different for you, family, neighbors, or strangers? If we must all act as one, who makes that call? It's only clear in hindsight and poetry.
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You had me at "hoping that leadership". Civil rights movements need leadership. Motivated, stable, consistent, honest, reliable, visible leadership-with coordinated consistent safe IRL community centers. Anything less will severely inhibit successful mass direct action-the time will come, and pass.
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You planning on being the first rioter, just really hoping other people join in? Most people aren't in the habit of starting a high stakes conga line.
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Hyper-focus and special interests save lives.Thank you for your service. Being you sure isn't easy.
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I'm out here giving my toddler dill pickles if he takes out the trash, does the laundry, and vacuums under the furniture. We're building fraternal cooperation with his baby brother via concepts of collective bargaining and growing long term soft power. Attempting arbitrary tariffs earn a "time out".
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Show me a man who's excited to make deals and I'll show you a man who spent zero time with his own toddlers.
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Nancy Mace seems to have the same problem with "and sometimes Y" for both vowels and gender. It's not always simple. Sometimes there's some weird old stuff hanging around both grammar and genomes that make the world just a little more complicated and interesting.