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I will never not be baffled about how the world remains addicted to—and protective of—social media, despite all the harm it causes, advancing human suffering and destruction of society, far more than doing good for it, for the wealth of few.

(And look beyond just this situation; it’s one discovered instance of exploitation, and we’ve seen many others, of likely thousands that are worse.)

Maybe there’s an upside to habitable climate destruction. Grid loss.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/01/undercover-reporter-reveals-life-in-a-polish-troll-farm

Egads, that Paula White evangelical is facking scary! Just learned of her. And people throw money at her by the truckloads. What a bunch of snake oil. /sigh/ Trump show... What do you expect. I dread to say it, but wouldn't be surprised at this point (we learned painfully in 2016), but that fucker might win again.

When I've mentioned the population problem before—the slowing of the decrease in birth rates that most are unaware of or don't see as a problem—I'm approached as 'racist'.

Glad Ripple, and thousands of other scientists, see the problem too.

https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biz088/5610806

Yes, 'family-planning' education is critical, as is a 'gradually reduced' population.

But it's hard to see how such programs, needed wide and rapid, are going to happen before nature steps in with its own method.

Mana Pools, Zimbabwe, where big animals are dropping dead:

'We used to say nature should take its course . . . We are now forced to intervene, which is manipulative conservation . . . To avoid losing animals we have to intervene . . .

'we [don't] have perennial sources [of rain] to sustain animals . . . perennial springs have dried up. . . That's why the manipulative way is the only way to rescue our fauna . . . Climate change is real for sure, we are witnessing it'

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elephants-dead-in-zimbabwe-southern-africa-severe-drought-11-06-2019/

Lovely green woodpecker just landed three meters from me on the other side of the glass. It took off with a heart attack as soon as it saw my staring at it.

For the ‘spooky’ season.

Witchcraft & Black Magic In The United Kingdom

https://eighthtowerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/witchcraft-black-magic-in-the-united-kingdom

These ‘evocative experimental pieces’ are ‘inspired by the dark history of the persecution of #witches’.

#music

Costume idea, in the gathering storm: A tall, handsome man in a dusty black coat with a red right hand.

The #crot.

https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-crot-1689945

#writing #composition #devices

#Writers of #nonfiction, this might be of interest to you.

First, Brevity Magazine is a good place to read #flash nonfiction of 750 words or less.

https://brevitymag.com/

It also regularly accepts submissions for such, and they're now accepting submissions for a special September 2020 issue on experiences with #disabilities.

https://brevity.wordpress.com/2019/09/18/experiences-of-disability/

Also now reading regular submissions for January and May 2020 issues.

https://brevitymag.com/submissions/

Safari is worst of all, sitting here with a dead machine for 16 minutes already, but the same hangups happen with FF.

Could be because my machine is near ten years old, or that our ISP service is utter shite. But still.

I fuckin’ dread browser updates. They always slog on for *many* minutes, render the computer unusable in the meantime, undo things I had set or was working on... Just makes me want take a mason hammer to the computer.

'This book describes, among many other things, the solitary spiritual meditations of young people in the mountains, once considered essential education. Astrological predictions, herbal medicine, winter spirit dancing, hunting, shamanism, respect for nature, midwifery, birth and death, are some of the topics'

https://talonbooks.com/books/they-write-their-dream-on-the-rocks-forever