January 28 2020 I went on my blog to say Canada should close its borders (pace to the Indigenous who really should have more of a say….) and now here’s Tam supporting my view. Quite the little Cassandra be me.
pics from the intarwebs
Author: Allegra
Born when atmospheric carbon was 316 PPM. Settled on MST country since 1997. Parent, grandparent.
Desperately seeking completely unchallenging non grimdark shows
We found Time Team on Acorn and I personally am loving it; I think Jeff’s coming along to be sociable.
Spoke to Mike yesterday, as that poem likely reveals. He doesn’t want to see me because he’d just die if he got me sick.
This is our world. The best want to save me, and the rest want to avoid wearing masks with passionate intensity.
Anyway, I’m crying my little eyes out right now, and that’s a good thing, because I’ve been bottling it up for weeks and there’s shit worth crying over. Also, there’s shit worth not crying over, like 4 pm Saturday at Peggy and Tom’s we’re going to attempt to sing again. CAUSE IT WORKED SO WELL LAST TIME LOL we just talked and that was fucking fine thank you.
I feel really sorry for all the people affected by Typhoon Amphan. I don’t understand why that ratfucker Modi hasn’t declared a state of emergency? It is an emergency, the photos and video coming out of the Bay of Bengal and Kolkatta are just heart wrenching.
There are so many trans people on Twitter trying to get away from toxic home environments and begging for money that’s another reason to cry. I remember sitting with Paul and talking through what we’d do if we had a trans kid, and we agreed to love and support our trans kid, but no surgery until they were legally adult. I think we may have huffed the puberty blockers decision but I know we wouldn’t if we had to do it again today.
The four brings of allyship
Silence
Respect
Effort
Money
poem ‘phone call’
A video call is too hard
I don’t have what it takes to manage it
and his laptop’s never booted up
work has eaten every moment
my outgoing text: Call me when
you have the opportunity and energy
I reach out with
this
ping
of
intent,
better to do this
than
not
Finally, as the depression grinds through its portion
of his brain, and barfs up his attention span, he calls back
and I say I don’t judge you for making me wait
it’s like crossing the road in wild traffic
you must wait for your moment and dash
will the world
still be there
when the scramble for now is over
more frogg
Here’s a froggy ikon to go with the ballerina frog.
Monty Python Mr. Gumby frog with chips?
edo period frog
from @chappelltracker’s twitter stream today
Don’t know which filker this is, but they’re playing a Taylor, so hint hint.
sundry and variousness
Roger Ailes dead = good
Paul, Peggy and Tom came by yesterday with instruments. We talked instead of sang. Greg came with but he didn’t actually interact with me that much. We didn’t wear masks.
The weather here yesterday was spectacular.
My anosmia seems to be back and worse than ever. Jeff says it’s likely allergies but I have my doubts.
The banana bread I made tastes great but the heartburn literally WOKE ME UP at one am, so here I am. I’ve nuked up some tea and I’m waiting for brO to wake up before I do anything noisier.
Cannabis protects against COVID? er…
Card of the day is Magician… generally that means I’m going to hear from Mike. Wonder if I will.
the difference is amazing
On this page there are at least two versions of Toy Town Parade, one corrected and one original, and ain’t technology grand. Anyhoo pOp you should like this tune.
brO and I went for a walk in Hilda Park today, and we got to watch crows feed their babies and one of those crows send an adult bald eagle packing. The eagle twitched its tail in irritation as a crow pecked at it… and it all took place at low altitude so a) we got a great view but b) sadly very brief.
Trees are already growing in the playground, coming up through the mulch. They would have been ground into nothingness by the kids playing, but now they’re coming up in dozens.
I believe – I will know for sure in a couple of days, but I believe one of the bambara beans sprouted.
RIP
I won’t say it on social media, but this is my space, so… I’m really sorry about the death in Kamloops of the Snowbirds pilot and await with solemn interest the results of the enquiry.
Also RIP Beyond the Beyond one of the few weblogs older than mine. I wonder how long lived mine shall be.
In better news, I saw Katie and Alex today, and I’m so glad.
Today on twitter I said that Andrew Scheer makes a bag of dicks look like party favours for a charm school picnic.
I have no sense of design
But I don’t let that fuckin’ stop me.
sad tidings
Bert, Kim the landlady’s husband, has passed away, but in better news we’re rounding down our rent for the next little while….
Abstract – Racial Capitalism
Racial capitalism is a fundamental cause of the racial and socioeconomic inequities within the novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) in the United States. The overrepresentation of Black death reported in Detroit, Michigan is a case study for this argument. Racism and capitalism mutually construct harmful social conditions that fundamentally shape COVID-19 disease inequities because they (a) shape multiple diseases that interact with COVID-19 to influence poor health outcomes; (b) affect disease outcomes through increasing multiple risk factors for poor, people of color, including racial residential segregation, homelessness, and medical bias; (c) shape access to flexible resources, such as medical knowledge and freedom, which can be used to minimize both risks and the consequences of disease; and (d) replicate historical patterns of inequities within pandemics, despite newer intervening mechanisms thought to ameliorate health consequences. Interventions should address social inequality to achieve health equity across pandemics.
from Sage
Haiku ‘ratings system’
If god watches me
Is he bored or entertained
No answer today
poem ‘the open tap’
fantastical lights from faraway places
retain their moment in time and I mine
settling myself into the gendered slurry
that is English
those lights
candles for my bath
as I stub the life from this lepisma saccharina
here’s a snapshot
it will be six months later
during a pandemic
when I finally stir myself
to clean up its corpse
grey in life, grey in death
almost indistinguishable from the grout
I can’t write today, I can’t
I’m a mote, should be mute, a little scrotey
blemish on the terrifying backside of English letters
all jealousy, a tunnel through inadequacy
reaching up through all this debris
for a garden of kindness
a shield against the noise
instead
a mask
over the top of my face
years ago I got the plague mask
years ago
and on the bottom of my face
a white rectangle, broken into diamonds
a fabric diamond on my face
I never had one for my hand
I am a metagraph of ‘something into something else’
my mind and my DNA
once I had a face and now
because I love you
I do not
I hate it when someone even touches my igneous rocks
Quiet day, or would be if the bastard across the alley hadn’t been running a pressure washer for 6 hours.
I have registered for WisCon, online, as it is now an online convention.
one art please
u/cicivetta on reddit made this
boys of summer
