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some of y’all think the stuff you see on the news won’t ever affect y’all.

but that’s bullshit.

I remember 4 of my cousins getting hooked on crack cocaine in the ghetto of St Louis, my hometown in the 80’s.

I remember seeing a very affluent dude who ran a chain of waterbed stores freebase a rock in survellance TV from the police about 10 years later.

I remember going to my very innercity high school in the same town getting checked for guns every morning like we’re going through airport security.

I remember Columbine, Sandy Hook, and all these other places that have actually had guns shoot up their schools. Did they have clear backpacks or spot bag checks?

y’all think what you see on TV won’t affect you.

I went to sleep hearing guns buck buck bucking and the tink tink tinking of rounds on my street. It wasn’t some faraway war in a land i can’t pronounce. It was on streets named Sacramento, Red Bud and Kossuth.

But now im watching TV and seeing the same in towns with less people than my whole block. By people who have more money than all the people in my old zip code.

y’all think it’ll only stay on TV, and won’t come knocking on your door though.

I saw genocidal wars, whole towns burnt down, and angry hungry tired desprate people on TV last night…

Was suprised with homemade brunch on my day off by SuperWife. It’s very effective against the Doldrums!

The enshittification of my country is depressing and tiring.

I just lost my micro sized YubiKey as I was pulling it out of the laptop. I don’t touch it, except to sign in or swap the spare one over to renew its certificates. Which is what I was doing. Damn thing bounced twice on the dark-stained hardwood floor and vanished underneath something. Or into the universe’s tiniest black hole. Or a Lilliputian ganked it and is using it as a table. 🤷🏾‍♂️

my main wordpress blog showing a database error screen for the 2millonth time

I’m over this constant Wordpress memory issue. I spent all day yesterday getting rid of plugins, optimizing the theme and making things as lean as possible… and still got an “out of memory” error while I slept.

At this point, I may as well look into migrating this over to micro.blog and paying the premium fees because its cheaper than stepping up to the next higher tier of resources needed on my VPS to mitigate.

[eat: 🍽️] when brisket and pasta meet

Ever had slow cooked brisket spaghetti sauce? Coz’ I think I just made it up!

a plate of not your mom's spaghetti, my brisket meat sauce is fire!

I waited a good 15 or so years for this and everything is familiar right down to Appa’s bleats and Sokka’s dry humor.

I don’t care about the critiques. This feels like an old friend came over for a visit and I’m enjoying the hell out of it.

yip yip

This is just a test for webmentions for my main site using an updated comments plugin for threaded replies.

(sorry in advance for the #testing spam! 😓🚧)

Micro.blog double billed me again @help @manton

Thought I was gonna watch the Super Bowl from Las Vegas, instead went to Bikini Bottom and stayed.

Also congrats KC!

I’ll admit, I’m guilty of watching Super Bowls for the commercials in addition to the actual game. My excuse: I used to have a job making TV ads.

I really want to talk about the difference between these two areas here in Atlanta in terms of human-scale livability and urbanism vs traditional planning.

But I’m too tired from work to do that now, so tomorrow.

A Tale Of Two Counties is what I’m calling it in my head right now. Coming tomorrow or Sunday.

The Atlanta suburbs look like this: a place made for cars to live and humans to simply exist. No sidewalk, trafic going 45mph on a two-lane road near houses and parks.Inner-city Atlanta has sidewalks and a connected street pattern for people to walk. Cars are forced to drive slower due to narrow roads. Everything is close by.

Currently reading: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler 📚

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler 📚

I’m actually 100/360 pages in. It’s a serious 🐰🕳️ of a page turner so far!

[Previously: 📚want to read: parable of the sower and also Previously.

[Repost] Dave Nanian (@dnanian@mas.to) starrwulfe.xyz
I don’t know who did this, but – man, this is the meme that just keeps on giving

Want to read: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler 📚

Intrigued by how so many authors kinda predicted our current predicament uncannily. From The Washington Post via Apple News this morning:

A 1993 dystopian novel imagined the world in 2024. It’s eerily accurate. Octavia Butler’s ‘Parable of the Sower’ predicted devastating climate change, inequality, space travel and ‘Make America great again’

Curious to know for the micro.blog faithful— is it possible to have Wordpress pick up something blogged on micro.blog?

I know i could try importing the RSS but I occasionally go the other way and export from Wordpress into here as well so I’m looking for ways to avoid “reblog loops”

…will never not be the song I kick ass in when I want to shut everyone up in a karaoke setting. カラオケなら俺の一番最高セレクション。最近を聞くと新宿にあるのいつも来店に行ったバーの暖かいメモリーを出す。それと帰り道の電車の多摩川を渡す大橋とガタンガッタン音も聞いてくる。

🎧The Real Folk Blues by 菅野よう子 from last.fm

Me looking hella disheveled after getting a giant qtip up my snout. All I wanted was more powerful meds to dam up the waterfall in my sinuses.

  • 👩🏾‍⚕️:“We gotta check you for flu and Covid”
  • 🐺: “Y’all didn’t do that to my wife when she was here a few days ago”
  • 👩🏾‍⚕️: takes out big ass q-tip from quantum space “look up right quick…”

an entire eternity of poking all my childhood memories into mash later

  • 👩🏾‍⚕️: “give it 15 minutes and we’ll know…”
  • 🐺: achooooo!!! “I can’t stop sneezi—“ aaaaachoooo!!!

It’s 2024 and I haven’t added any books to read to my virtual shelf yet. So please give me some suggestions!

I’m open to:

  • sci-fi, especially space opera.
  • spy thrillers
  • fiction involving recent history
  • futurism
  • urbanism
  • anything funny and witty.

🙏🏾 please and thank you!