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Freddie: “If I had to have American policy be determined by polling the userbase of X or the userbase of BlueSky, I would choose the latter and sigh as they passed a law that ordered my own personal execution on public safety grounds. They’d probably do it by forcing me to drink fair trade cyanide through a paper straw.”

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Picasso, “Leaping Bulls”

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Adrian Vila

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I wrote an update for my Buy Me a Coffee supporters. 

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I wrote about what we might call the Re-enchantment Movement.

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I’m probably going to regret this, but I’ve enabled crossposting from micro.blog — Home of the Truly Cool — to Bluesky. I won’t be be otherwise present. Advertisements for myself will begin immediately.

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A bookplate designed by M. C. Escher

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The Economist: “New work led by Roza Kamiloglu, a psychologist at the Free University of Amsterdam, provides evidence that there are just two primary types of laughter: one generated when people find something funny and one that can be induced only through the physical act of tickling.” I’m laughing about this, but only because I’m currently being tickled.

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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), Ferry on the Fuji River. Colour-woodblock print, about 1832

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Here’s a fabulous three-song set by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings.