On World Octopus Day please remember that an octopus feels pain. Its heart can be broken. All three of them. When an octopus is attacked, and squirts out ink, it's actually writing a poem in the water, hoping to escape while its attacker is enraptured by the poem’s song of yearning for lost love.

In the Samaria Gorge on the island of Crete, Greece, lies a very deep cave with a continual cold spring waterfall. To reach it, you have to swim about 100 meters in 10 degree (C) water. I spent time thinking about hypothermia I was so cold. Nice payoff tho. Pic of the day #photography

MEMORY CHECK: The R argument *against* "Hilarycare" and "Obamacare" was that these reforms would put the govt in charge of when and how you went to the Dr, and would be "death panels" making life or death decisions for you. And what is the R govt doing *now*?

"Y...M...CA!"

Middle age is when you have to exercise before you sit down.

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

It’s like if Facebook manifested a car

Ohgawdyes. When Jim Kirk showed up on SNW, I imagined him staggering out of a storage closet or quarters or something, followed by Pelia, who is smoothing her hair into place.

Woke up thinking about the Federal tax system. (I know, I'm weird.) My take: what's missing from the whole concept of paying taxes is a Vision of Personal Involvement in the health of the Nation, AKA REPRESENTATION. I think what burns people up is feeling that they have no say ... 1/8

You know what would be cool right now is one of those stasis pods. Hop in there and just tape a note on the outside that says “wake me up when the tribunals start”

I will return to this place in my dreams. 🏜️

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One should assume, if one had not already, that every single thing the GOP has to say about pretty much anything is a lie or fabrication.

She came back into my life unexpectedly, putting a Friend request out to me on FB. I haven't had contact with her since 2016. Stalwart buddy and goofy roommate, we had good times. But she still has a "T****PRFK2024" hashtag from 2023 on her FB page. She has learned nothing. So, BLOCK. #melancholy

BOOM 🔥: Judge Immergut issues a second Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting the relocation, federalization, or deployment of ANY NATIONAL GUARD FROM ANY STATE into the state of Oregon.

DUTY TO DISOBEY: Veterans Stand Against War on American Soil THIS Sunday, October 5, 2:00 – 3:00pm Portland City Hall, 1221 SW 4th All community members are welcome (led by City Councilor Mitch Green)

#writersky #booksandwriters #writingcommumity

Indeed.

It will always baffle me how easily people will believe that the poor, the sick, the marginalized, and the immigrant are the cause for all their problems, rather than the people in the most powerful positions in their country who refuse to fix problems and exploit them instead.

Oh, that’s a good one.

Just so.

I do love that the PDX deployment of the National Guard is lining up with the shut down (no pay) AND the first real rain of the season. Nothing to break the spirit like a working for no $ in the rain, doing a trivial job of guarding a building from peaceful protesters mocking you, often in costume.

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Sharing this Substack to keep it within my reach. -- For readers and writers of Myth retellings, and I mean ANY mythology from ANY culture! Not just the Usual Greeks! How to Write a Myth Retelling in 4 Easy Steps open.substack.com/pub/lunamcna...

You are too kind, Mrs. Bowers.

oh i have had heparin really save my bacon before

Direct hit.

... Or maybe tentacles? #eldritchICE

Good God, WHY is construction work happening in my block at 2:57 AM???

I laughed impolitely at this. Bad snark! No cookie! But skritches, yes!

Welp. I crossed my own damn Rubicon. And it feels good. #uncertainty #freedom

Status report, Casual Reflections on Current (Non-)Events: https://www.tumblr.com/dduane/795600418229108736/in-the-things-im-sure-i-would-never-do-dept

BURN!

I guess I need to go listen to Kimmel's monologue.

Bingo.

I'm starting to think the bot-generating bots scan my posts and identify trends to my "likes", then add posts like that to a newbot's "reposts" that suggest we have the same interests.

You know you've reached peak First World Problems when you glare at people in a busy cafe who are sitting at a table beside an electrical outlet, and they're JUST TALKING. #stupidshitwecomplainabout

Oh dear! I want this face in front of me all day!

I think this Aldi has just 2 guys running the whole store.

God, yes! Signed, a Bloomington native still living there

.. like, clean the bathroom or unload the dishwasher or mow the lawn? For the good of the whole?

From what I've observed, the RW points at Every. Powerful. Woman. as a surgically altered, transgendered man.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

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And the place for most people to get online is an internet cafe.

I'm reading a book about how the Arthurian romances and epics that established the popular culture of Courtly Love truly screwed Western European and especially English civilization and politics. I see a direct line from Courtly Love to Dickens to the Avengers as an evolutionary path. #myweird

Um ... Unfortunately, this is more true than we want it to be.

Anyone else envisioning Betty White waiting RIGHT THERE at the Pearly Gates with a rose between her teeth? #massivecrush