Fairy Tale of Gaza https://dcdispat.ch/2023/12/08/fairy-tale-of.html

Finally!

Christmas is the only time my wife lets me pipe jazz over the household Sonos without objection. I make a playlist and sneak in some things that aren’t on swinging Xmas streams—sometimes tracks that aren’t at all seasonal.

Or I let SomaFM do it for me—they love to play.

Adjourned to the porch.

I said “it’s gonna freeze tonight, going to take the hose off, back in a minute.” The hint to the contrary was the whiskey in hand.

Shame on The Guardian. They took the coward’s way. They could have done the work of linking or adding the context they suddenly feared was missing. Meanwhile, these words, whatever each of us make of them, will only proliferate more—Barbra in full effect.

https://www.theguardian.com/info/2023/nov/15/removed-document

So validating.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/06/mastering-dom-manipulation-with-vanilla-javascript/

My son meets his mortality in a storybook https://dcdispat.ch/2023/11/01/my-son-meets.html

The Hell I do not believe in is real https://dcdispat.ch/2023/10/31/the-hell-i.html

The spookiest thing about my son’s Halloween costume—a monster truck—is the carbon footprint of both the imagined thing, and the construction of the costume itself (so much plastic—but we are re-using a cousin’s costume, so there’s that).

It is, literally, an electric powered thing with a battery pack to ... dcdispat.ch https://dcdispat.ch/2023/10/31/the-spookiest-thing.html

Maybe someday I will again travel solo (and not for work). As it stands, it’s before dawn in Seattle. I am “awake” with my very East Coast time-zoned toddler watching the nth episode of Super Kitties. This has been true for a while already this morning. And sure, I’m still grateful if bleary-eyed.

I believe in truth and reconciliation, full accountability of each and every one of those with power or who exercise violence, and in a zero state solution.

Maybe someday we’ll learn.

On what little patch of Earth will be left that we hope to sustain.

Ugh.

The reporting on the indictment of Senator Menendez seems pretty damning. Regardless of what he is guilty of, or deemed guilty of by a jury, it is certainly darkly comedic and inept when contrasted against the systemic corruption that is legitimized.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/nyregion/bob-menendez-indictment-bribery-investigation.html

Little Amal walks to the U.S. Capitol.

https://walkwithamal.org/

No man is an island https://dcdispat.ch/2023/09/19/no-man-is.html

Coffee rings and Google https://dcdispat.ch/2023/09/16/coffee-rings-and.html

Far up the river, 22 years ago, daydreaming and looking out the window “that’s not how you land at Albany,” or a thought to that effect.

Well it wasn’t where it landed.

I will not forget that, and all the hell that ensued that day and for decades to come. It isn’t over.

Semper fuck you https://dcdispat.ch/2023/09/08/semper-fuck-you.html

My own identity is federated (as well as idle or abandoned and isolated) across many networks and platforms. I feel like some sort of social web equivalent of a vector analysis diagram might reveal a true center, or destination I suppose. Some notional node between the nodes.

This is great. Microblog has been my most consistent platform (besides IG) since backing away from Twttr.