Also surreal yet intimately undeniable on a cold winter night in the mountains: the idea of your survival depending on your successfully building, maintaining and only slowly and methodically destroying your supply of firewood. The keeper of the flame gets to ruminate on this while others sleep.

After you've been living off-grid on well water awhile, millions of humans building vast, invisible networks to move the stuff hundreds of miles seems pretty insane... as does the idea that, for most of history, we counted on layers of dirt & rock to clean & store our most precious resource.

At some point we should all unite and work together for a better world.

Can't understand how Few musical instruments Make use of water #haiku

To live in this mess Learn to love your loneliness And each lovely scar #haiku

David Graeber was a big critic of bureaucracy adding that Neoliberalism & privatization, instead of reducing it, actually led to more bureaucracy.

on this day 166 years ago John Brown died for someone's sins (but not mine)

Choose your battles well Or choose your generals better But don't be a pawn #haiku

Yeah my Thanksgiving Was nice until the food Poisoning kicked in #haiku

Lotta talk about "True North" - what they don't say is: Nobody goes there #haiku

She believes in me Despite having the world's least Reasons to do so #haiku

What does it mean that Lou's "Metal Machine Music" Makes sense to me now? #haiku

On the other hand, at least I'm not facing five days of nothing but childcare and domestic chores AND hours of grading I don't have time for looming over my head. I give thanks for my escape from The Profession.

I sure do love my kids. I also know that, since their school is closed for the rest of the week, I will get absolutely nothing done except for childcare and some basic domestic chores for the next five days. And during that time about 5-10 new tasks will be added to my 100-item running To Do list.

Part of me kinda wishes I was a better person... at least as much of me still can't see the point of even being as good as I am.

Ultra-rich media owners are tightening their grip on democracy. It’s time to wrest our power back https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/13/trump-media-ultra-rich-democracy

Holy crap you guys I wrote a song this morning First damn one in years #haiku

Okay I was wrong www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

This just might be safe Nazis don't read poetry Do they? I hope not. #haiku

All those "Good Germans" Must have been tired as hell As we all know now #haiku

Appalachian night I can see the Milky Way But not the future #haiku

The kids got up, dressed, had breakfast and got out to the bus stop in time this morning with no drama, no tantrums, nothing forgotten...it's a weird, uncomfortable sensation, and I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.

My To Do list says I've got ninety-nine problems And I check off one #haiku

Neo-Liberalism, Trickle-down economics, Thatcherism or whatever you call it really has more in common with fundamentalist religion than anything else.

"David Graeber was the anthropologist who re-framed economics by showing that its most basic assumptions were myths. Where conventional economists traced money to barter and exchange, Graeber traced it to trust and relationships. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...

I find sour solace In knowing our enemy Is always lonely. #haiku

I'm so fucking tired Better rest up to feel tired Again tomorrow #haiku

Who are you pretty sure ISN'T implicated in the complete, unredacted Epstein files? I'll start: Sanders, Warren, Buttigieg, AOC... and, yeah, probably Mike Pence.

Most Americans: "Everybody's different, and it's your duty as a citizen to help make that work." Americans in Most Of America: "Some people are different, and it's your duty as a citizen to punish those who let it show."

Farewell, shitty day Maybe tomorrow will be Differently shitty #haiku

S Week is over Stereo MC's were fun And also Snocaps #haiku

I'm reaching to turn out the light before singing her her nightly lullaby. "Daddy?" she says, "Y'know what my favorite thing about... about this world is?" I smile. "I would love to know. Please tell me." "It's fixable."

Thanks for pledging to Protect the Constitution Too bad we all failed #haiku

Neighbors remind me I live where I don't belong And shall die here too #haiku

"For every person arrested whose name and story we’ve learned, there are thousands we haven’t heard about." @caitlindickerson.bsky.social via @theatlantic.com ⬇️ www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

I'm still amazed by How November always feels Just like November #haiku

Malala, Greta Heroines in comic books I read with my girl #haiku

We shall win when we've Weaponized optimism Like fascists wield fear #haiku

Must-read for NGO folks. “The current moment requires extraordinary vigilance from American civil society. The FTO system represents one of the most powerful tools in the federal government’s legal arsenal, deliberately designed to dismantle targeted organizations quickly and comprehensively.”

Bullies with badges Licensed to lie, cheat and kill All cops are bastards #haiku

So-called "Centrism" does not work.

The initiative would enlist state and local police to help locate these minors part of a wider Trump administration push to identify, monitor, and deport them.

Holy crap - I just learned that Mamdani's mom is MIRA FUCKIn' NAIR!!!!

FBI: "We didn't zip tie children." REPORTER: "Here's a photo of a zip tied 14 year old." FBI" "OK, we didn't zip tie YOUNG children."

You are here.

The worst part of the "Loneliness of modern men?" It's self-inflicted. #haiku #betrayedephemera

Leaked document. Yikes, things are about to get much worse. It looks like we’re on the verge of becoming a military state across the country. Step out of line, and the man come and take you away.