BIRD SANCTUARY

LMAO of course Trump says "She'll be easier to beat". Then why did they all try not to tip their hand when they clearly wanted Biden to be the opponent...I am no Kamala fan but normies will at least see her as a better candidate. She has a mostly functioning brain after all.

. For nonfiction I've been reading British Rail by Christian Wolmar. Reinforcing my love of trains, and my disregard for Beeching. Say more about how the book relates to trains. I fucking love trains. It's all trains, baby. Well, it's meta-train, I have to admit. It is not engineering specs so much...

Wow she really is awful. Adam dodged a bullet.

Massive global tech outages, internet outages, and 911 outages right now. Live updates per AP:
https://apnews.com/live/internet-global ... t-downtime

A People's History of the United States (Zinn, 2003 ed) I skip around this one whenever I have some time to kill and don't want to waste it refreshing a feed. I'll just pick a chapter and go with it. Great for my swiss cheese brain that has to constantly be reminded of things that happened and led ...

Did something happen? I haven't followed these two since I tried listening to Red Scare (and accompanying vocal fry) once many years ago.

BrazenSolar wrote: ↑Thu Jul 18, 2024 9:06 pm.
For nonfiction I've been reading British Rail by Christian Wolmar. Reinforcing my love of trains, and my disregard for Beeching.

Say more about how the book relates to trains. I fucking love trains.

I just finished "Number Go Up" by Zeke Faux (great book about the crypto scam), and am now moving on to reading a few books I've had for a while but have not read. Next up is Engels' "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State".

I tend not to sink into nihilism and/or hatred of fellow people. I like to live by the mantra to be kind to people and brutal with systems. But man everyday just feels like such a punch in the gut. One horrifying thing after another and as you look around you kind of slowly start to realize you are ...

Supreme Court "decisions", feckless Executive Branch, Trump's court cases magically vanishing, an ailing president. It all feels very Weimar indeed.