https://trueadventurestories.com/2020/09/24/mussolini-mcdonalds-milan/
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https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2025/01/14/energy-sector-shifts-climate-crisis-responsibility-to-consumers.html
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https://theconversation.com/the-gilded-age-novel-that-helps-explain-our-fascination-with-luigi-mangione-246495
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I wonder what's happening with Luigi Mangione? I know the lawyers asked for a month to prepare for trial but nothing apart from that.
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I'm also going to say that I think the system of having many different instances with moderators seems much better to me than what's going on at BS (so much spam and catfishing!) Yes, like democracy it can be a bit slower and involve lots of discussing stuff and nobody being 1000% happy but the discussions happens on BS too but with slightly less ability for it to be democratic. I'm not a purist so it's good BS exists and maybe it will evolve into something more but I'm pretty cynical about many of the people involved in trying to get it to be more than one big server. The fediverse continues to seem to be the more democratic, less corporate and actually decentralized option to me. Also, I realize I'm on an instance that works hard to create a safe space and I appreciate that a lot!
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The world is still anxiety provoking and ensaddenning but I have to say that I much prefer the vibes over here than on Bluesky. The one good thing I'll say about Bluesky is that at least it's giving normies an option other than Meta or X right now. But I think I prefer the more thoughtful and cooperative vibes I experience over here (and the ability to write longer posts, that really does influence how people communicate). And I'm glad I've got a whole bunch of physical world social events lined up this week. More in-person stuff is part of my agenda for this year.
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Rewatching Cabaret for the first time in eons for no reason whatsoever...
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Remember to bring soup for your family because hell has frozen over and winter is here...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PjD9Yy_v-ts
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This seems like a good, and the ethical, move...
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/13/24342603/mastodon-non-profit-ownership-ceo-eugen-rochko?utm_campaign=The%2BRoundup&utm_medium=web&utm_source=The_Roundup_228
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Spent a great afternoon with my favorite small person at a cat cafe hogging all the cats (though we shared some with the lovely young women sitting near us who were kind enough to give us some paper and a pencil to draw cats with). Protip, the way to reign supreme at the cat cafe is to sit on the floor and have paper for them to lie on and bags to explore, as well as being good with the cat dancer dangly toy. Sooooo many very cute kitties.
We were so popular a cat fight actually broke out at one point. The bully, who was pretty darn cute, was a boy who probably hadn't been fixed. So we had a conversation about cat balls, human balls and how they're just outtie ovaries, eggs and sperm, and how all humans start as girls and hormones and being intersex or non-binary (she asked me about they/them because she knows some non-binary people). She's such a bright little spark, even if she didn't understand it all entirely she got the jist of it (she's almost 5yo).
But mainly we just played with and drew cats. And talked a bit about cat vision (we've been talking about optical illusions and how other creatures see differently than humans recently, she's very into art, animals and science).
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Oof, that's hard (commiserating because I have no real advice or knowledge to share, I assume there is no family you know about to contact?)
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https://celestemdavis.substack.com/p/why-boys-dont-go-to-college?triedRedirect=true.
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So my estranged father died on the 15th of December. My step-sister had gotten in touch to let me know he was in the hospital, which was nice and very responsible of her (I live in the same city and had some contact with him and them over the years, unlike my other siblings that live elsewhere).
I chose not to go to the hospital for many reasons (no regrets, I'd tried my best over the years, going would only have been as a kindness to others if they felt it necessary and it seemed more like it would be disruptive than helpful). The general consensus is he'd live at least another month but apparently he died a few days later, which I and my mom and siblings found out via my aunt and mom talking (so I was actually further out of the loop). That was a bit weird, though not unexpected.
I expect not to be invited to the funeral, maybe it's already happened? Which is also fine, but now I wonder if I should send condolences to the half siblings and my father's second family (none of us are in each other's lives, though we have met). They haven't posted about it on Facebook, I assume they are mourning (I am not, though obviously even the death of a terrible father resonates in our life...but I have done a lot of work over my lifetime).
My father was intensely physically, emotionally and economically abusive to my family then lied about it. He was a sociopath and clinical narcissist (his therapist's evaluation, not mine). As the eldest of his children, my brother and I got targeted for the most terrible abuse. My father was an anaesthesiologist and we often had chloroform and stuff in the house, he said some disturbing things to my mother, the Giselle Picot case did stir up some unpleasant musings I've had over the years. One can never really be sure.
Anyway, for all the known deep and twisted darkness my father visited on my mom and us, his second family seems to have had a different experience (though his second wife divorced him as soon as their kids were grown and, good for her, took him to the cleaners....I think he was mainly just difficult, manipulative and selfish with her, we are not that far apart in age, she seems like a nice person from the little I know).
His third partner totally believed my father's grandiose bullshit about being a family man (and could be quite abusive in service of it). So, really, I'm glad to have no part of all that but it's still weird to be floating outside of my father's death as unimportant and unnoticed as a speck of dust.
I think my mother minds being erased a bit more, which is fair considering he basically stole and destroyed a lot of her life and dreams. These things will never be accounted for, the many truths will never really out and he never really paid for the harm he did, because that's how these things go in reality. And that is also why I didn't visit him on his deathbed. I had already given myself the gift of closure, and you cannot give forgiveness to someone who cannot confess to having done harm. I have no need to perform being a better person than who I am, that was his thing.
I guess one thing that is hovering around me is my understanding that, as the oldest child and grandchild, that a certain generation is on it's way out and there are fewer and fewer of us to hold those memories of a very different time and way of living. But we are all dust, motes that glimmer briefly in a ray of light, before falling back into the vastness of matter. We are all stories waiting to be forgotten.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/bird-flu-cases-spread-warning-signs-rcna185084
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Looks like bird flu is turning up in SF wastewater in increasing concentrations, meaning it's likely human to human transmission (if this is accurate).
https://bsky.app/profile/falconryfinance.bsky.social/post/3le6ol2gink2h
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https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigi-mangione-judge-married-to-former
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s-BducXBSNY
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"In his younger years, Madden struggled with anger caused by work insecurity. That collided with an unexamined belief that as a white man he was entitled to be financially secure and successful – “on top of the food chain”. As a result, obstacles felt especially bitter and undeserved.
He has seen similar emotions overtaking male peers. A slipping sense of dominance and control in realms like career, health and daily activity can manifest as hostility and even bigotry. “We’re seeing it in politics,” Madden notes, pointing to reactionary rightwing movements rooted in male supremacy and resistance to change."
https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2024/dec/18/boomer-men-ageing
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It's a dim, gray day that's warmer but I'm feeling far more depressed than I did just yesterday when it was cold and sunny. I am clearly VERY sensitive to lack of sunlight.
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Great. Looks like Canada is heading into an election at the worst possible time (winter, holidays when people are on social media more but without actual news links just propaganda, and the time of the year when we're all the most depressed and when Trump's still only coming into power so it's all no consequences bullshit).
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