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jfcatlett.bsky.social
Father, husband, friend, polyglot, music lover, nature enthusiast, world traveler, foodie. I think capitalism is ruining our world and money should never be more important than the people it was invented for.
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I wonder how many Ford F-150 owners will switch to a Tesla now, LOL.

BUST: a haiku bubble bursts again electric wealth disappears money isn't real

Getting ready to go out tomorrow to stock up on fish sauce and rice before I can't afford them anymore feels a hell of a lot like early pandemic days. Only there's no pandemic. There's just a fucking madman ruining all of our lives on purpose.

Maybe everyone can see it now, but the world's richest people have tanked it all to restock assets and get liquid after years of illegally playing with funny money. They used "the wokeness" as a cudgel and it worked. The next Disney princess WILL be white, as we all eat beans under the highway.

This entire album is fantastic, but I would have bought it just for the title track Magossa. It wasn't an easy score on vinyl, but it was worth it as I don't imagine it will ever be repressed. Amadou & Mariam Welcome to Mali

Chuckles

Concerning New Study Finds Nation’s Poverty Growing Faster Than Officials Can Build Prisons theonion.com/concern...

"Made from scratch!" - This means they used ingredients to cook it. Why is that surprising? "Made with REAL bacon!" - Is there synthetic bacon? "100% Pure Beef!" - Ummm... really? What else would it be? These phrases are only evidence that we are living in a dystopian capitalist hellhole.

ICE has begun kidnapping graduate students from my workplace campus.

"Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege." - Tommy Douglas

The idea of overcrowded Canadian slums hugging the American border wall is one of the funniest bits of nonsense I've ever heard. To my Canadian friends - can I please, please come hang out up there with you guys? I can't handle all the "freedom" and "winning" down here.

Now spinning. Party in the Jungle, indeed.

LOL.

Burning: a haiku drinking my coffee I know the world is burning yet seems so peaceful