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Not a good photo on my part, but some nice Professor X rim lighting on Geoffrey Baer here as we contemplate the Montrose hook

Me riding out various personal and national apocalypses at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social

Let us take a pause from the world being on fire to enjoy this team-up, the crossover event we've been waiting for, Because You Demanded It: Gail Simone and Lexi Alexander beat a fool. Guns to the left of him, guns to the right of him.

A huge part of Trumpism is just American Lysenkoism.

In the dream lecture or workshop, when the thoughts and insights start flowing for the mentor their spoken words form a flow of living water, ranging from a fresh thin cold stream to a warm salty tropical torrent, altering shape and course to flow around the learner, now soaked and wide awake.

My epiphany on Midjourney and similar: These programs promise to fulfill the fantasy of projecting the images in my mind's eye onto the screen or page so everyone can see my great concept as I do, without the years-long process of art skill acquisition and practice. But ... (1/2)

I'm endeavoring to reconcile the two foregoing re(tw/sk)eets. I think the overlap between trolls and private equity is "burn everything of value to the ground," but private equity wants to burn it to extract money while the trolls want to burn it for the fun of domination.

What's happening in America is that, in the most literal sense, internet trolls have taken over the government.