hmmmmm. so i bumped into an old bf on signal.

he was in a ltr w a hard woman to love. love her he did, but we were a regular thing for the better part of tfg's term, and he loved me, too.
tfg being the thing i'm interested in. we meet in oct '15 when this whole nightmare was a joke. he was one who took the-occupy, bernie, dump- route. we could talk issues and never disagree. it ended in jan '20, nothing to do w politics. it got pretty hot.

i hear from mutual friends he's gone full q. they've all disowned him. he was a hard core catholic when we met, but his priest kept nagging him about livong in sin. he bit hard on the pedo thing, tho, which makes me go hmmmm.
well, i saw him and i poked him w-you still in business? (weed) you still hate me?
he- hate you, no. fear ya.
well, i sent a few more words and ended w- i take that as a no.

a week later, this a.m. i get- i'm thinkin about it.
we exchange a few words and end w- talk soon.

now, in the meantime, he married the lady. i've wondered if she's been able to keep him on the porch, but she prolly knows better than to try. i have to admit i miss him. miss him as a friend.
i feel like it's my civic duty to shine my torch down his well and see if he's ready to come out.
i've been pretty eagerly reading the stories about people who saw the light. we were close and he both trusted and respected me.

what would you do?

phrase of the day-

unburdened by emotional intelligence.

a thought about the gqp and the 'crisis at the border'

i would love to see someone juxtapose the number of times fox news invoked this 'chaos at the border' v the actual immigrations in those years.
over a time line of u.s. elections, and who was in the wh.

i cant believe anyone buys their bs, but....
they cant just be allowed to keep pushing that ridiculous trope.

how to change your mind. michael pollen on netflix.

FASCINATING series. lots of backstory on both research and the drug war.
i was doing high enough doses of mmj edibles a couple years ago that i got a lot of the changes in thinking they describe. they've been pretty durable.
i appear to be immune from hallucinations, possibly because of a tbi as a kid.
i've done a few shrooms, which are helpful, but i talk waaaaay too much. did acid a couple times and mostly just laughed my ass off.

i was truly interested in some of the trips. 1 lady had had a miscarriage 40 yrs early and not thought much about it since. she saw her baby on heaven. i lost 3 babies, and i'm not sure i want to visit them, but i can see it would settle some things.
but the guy who said he died has me rly intrigued. i would love to go back to that head injury, cuz i think i was dead for a couple minutes. i've wondered about it since the science of tbi started coming out. the mmj got me thinking about it. suspect it has had an unconscious impact.

anyway, fascinating stuff. very well done, too. hard to recreate trips for film, but they seemed to do a good job.

well, hell. i shoulda known adobe would find a way to kill my old suite.

just tried to fire up indesign and got a message that it wont work any more because of upgrades to SAFARI.
hello. wtf? the only thing i need to be online for is the help function.
and i was worried i wouldnt be able to put it on a new laptop....
you fuckers. i love/hate you just like i do apple, ya know that?

here's a hair brained idea. the treasury should issue a new bond. small denominations.

sustainability bonds. fund the green new deal if the fucking congress wont.
maybe they'd get to be like savings bonds used to be- a thing you bought for a new baby or a new couple. a bday or xmas present for the grands.

who's in?

eta- do they still do those wh petition things? wonder if this could get sigs.

also- could this be done by an eo?

wouldnt it be nice to see the headline- dem base refuses to buy into propaganda- ?

imagine nyt reporting that 'the dem base refuses to rise to rw bait, and instead catapults it's back after lighting it on fire.'

a girl can dream, cant she?

we've seen plenty of coverage of the reverse as it happened.

imagine

can we all please learn to resist the bait? please?

we.must.stop.this.shit.
https://democraticunderground.com/10142941877

a wise fish doesnt get caught cuz it keeps it's mouth shut.
the rw ears are here, ready to pipe your hot takes on breakfast tacos and tan suits into the weirdosphere.
stop giving them ammunition. stop giving nontroversies oxygen.

THIS.IS.WHY.WE.LOSE.

mood. le sigh.

whitney cummings

yt has been serving up some short comedy compilations that are pretty damn hilarious.
in srs need of laughs today. this lady has been cracking me up. but this quiz is just madness.