I call this, My Morning Doomscroll

Rational Self Interest by Existential Comics.

I still don’t think I’ve fully grappled with the fact that I’m terrified about how close this election feels even though Biden will certainly win the popular vote by millions.

I think someone says, “What is time?” at least twice a day @AllovueBalance.

Apple rumors of a half size Mac Pro tower just make me want to scream “Give me my damn xMac!”

Last time I went to TJ’s there were no Philly cheesesteak bao. I didn’t want to ask anyone then if they were just out or if they have discontinued this ridiculous wonder of only-in-America fusion that @jessgartner only recently turned me on to.

When I’m not mad about US politics, I’m mostly mad about the lack of good displays with wide support.

4K on 27” looks terrible.

Check out this crazy sky I captured (no edits) on my iPhone 12 Pro.

“Because that’s his name. Henry. James. Jones. Junior…

… Indiana was the dog’s name.”

If I made a “the world is ending today: post-rock sounds for the aftermath of democracy” to help keep expectations low for Election Day, would you be interested?

Screw my asshole neighbors setting off fireworks on Halloween.

Disney+ is supposed to be this smash success and clear win of a service. In the last year, we have enjoyed AppleTV+, supposedly a middling success to failure, significantly more. If not for our existing mega Hulu+ subscription making Disney+ cheap, it’d be gone.

Our government is:

1. Suppressing the vote of the opposition.
2. Threatening and inciting violent militias to rise up against the opposition.
3. Increasing protectionism and economic isolation through tariffs while subsidizing domestic industry (largerly farmers) for their losses.
4. Pushes for a white, Christian, cis, hetero monoculture.
5. Worships their current leader, believing he cannot do any wrong.
6. Worships the cops as always acting in the best interest of True Citizens and the cornerstone of our society.
7. Actively gerrymanders (as do dems, but less completely) to ensure minority party rule, and goes even further so as to strip power from statewide offices during lame duck sessions when the opposition wins.
8. Believes in violence as a core method to secure their ends, using it to project power at home and abroad.

Now read the introduction to the Fascism article on Wikipedia.

Can anyone honestly say that Trumpism is not fascism?

Our only hope to escape this fate is for democrats to decisively take the White House and the Senate and for their to be a peaceful transition in power, Hopefully, the win will be so decisive that the GOP will abandon Trumpism. But if we cannot achieve that, then the narrow Democrat victory must enact a series of structural forms to end minoritarianism.

If the Democrats lose, then I’m afraid we’ve lost the country and the damage will become irrevocable and accelerate.

Pretty annoyed the amendment choice today for Baltimore City changes ¾ veto override to 2/3 (good) but then removes the line item veto (bad).

This is the week. This is the one where I have found myself run down to 0 in the tank. No vacation until November 11th. Must find a way to recharge.

Took a walk while I worked today.

Time for bed.

Nah, time for a 32 minute documentary on the origins and development of shoegaze.

You know you’ve crossed a demographic age band each time you bump up the text size of iTerm another step or two.

With grid storage dropping in price dramatically, there’s no question that fracking won’t survive the decade. Renewables are simply better on price even before factoring in the carbon costs.

When I heard about City Cast on this week’s @SlateGabfest, I lifted my fist like an antennas to heaven. This is a great idea to bolster our local news media landscape.

In 1990 a generation of baby-boomers, with a median age of 35, owned a third of America’s real estate by value. In 2019 a similarly sized cohort of millennials, aged 31, owned just 4%.

From The horrible housing blunder

Listening to @theincomparable episode on Ted Lasso is making me so excited to watch Ted Lasso again.

Is there any reason not to have a mailto link to my email address on my site?