Pretty sure this is the quarry from Breaking Away
Dad: You guys still go swimmin' in the quarries?
Dave: Sure.
Dad: So, the only thing you got to show for my 20 years of work is the holes we left behind?
"ICE officers concealed themselves not only for their own benefit, but also to protect others from seeing the hideous, unknowable horror beneath."
theonion.com/ice-confirms-agents-do-not-have-faces-beneath-masks/
Content Warning: content about murdered podcaster
"What are we to make of a man who called for the execution of the American president, and then was executed himself? What are we to make of an NFL that, on one hand, encourages us to “End Racism,” and, on the other, urges us to commemorate an unreconstructed white supremacist?
"If you would look away from the words of [murdered podcaster], from what else would you look away?"
Highlights from Anne Lamott's "Somehow"
daniel.industries/2025/09/29/highlights-from-anne-lamotts-somehow/
Been struggle-bussing all weekend. Slept plenty, took an iron (have been minorly anemic my whole life), still no luck. Then I remembered that on Friday I crashed after a week of caffeine and cortisol (I almost tooted a joke about it). Guess it takes more than two days to recover.
"Sign consent forms for transfer of assets, likeness release, and training on real-time neural behavior.
"Note: Zoom’s privacy policy allows training only on conscious thoughts. Zoom remains committed to keeping subconscious data private for users."
When I was going through a lot of personal drama in the mid-00s, I listened to The Innocence Mission a LOT. In the intervening years I've listened to them considerably less. But on this rainy morning, alone in a dark, quiet house normally bright and loud, my current music app of choice put them at the top of its recommendations. On this day of the performative rapture, I attempt to transcend.