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My basic cognitive abilities like spelling are degrading and we're just going to blame it on the increasingly chaotic geopolitical environment, ok?

Wow, I disagree with Nick Cave's Red Hand Files email today so much I might have to write in, because I care enough about him and his work. It's one of those where I don't disagree with the words, but the words require a "yes, but/and"

I won both games of dinnertime Uno Attack and just made the best at-home decaf London Fog I've ever made. I'll take it.

Hey some of you are German, right? Last night I went down my German music nostalgia hole and realized I can't get Herbert Grönemeyer in German, specifically the original Chaos or Mensch records, which apparently I never transferred to mp3. Any place I can find a cheeky mp3? I'll try torrent at some point but didn't know if there was a normal place I could VPN to.

I took one of those long weekend naps-of-the-dead and now I feel like I'm in a fugue state

Did not sleep well or enough last night, so somewhat expected at some point, but this was just another, "I'm tired of looking at big computer screen, I'll look at little screen for a minute," and I was out well before one YouTube video, for a little over two hours.

"And not the nice kind of socialist revolutionary Christ like the one that is actually in the Bible!...So while Trump is a childlike and feral malignant narcissist/solipsist who believes in nothing except power for the sake of power, winning for the sake of winning, and wants whatever feeds his bottomless black hole pit of neediness and attention, Vought, on the other hand, is a true believer - an actual scheming and plotting super-villain."

negativland.com/christianity-is-stupid

youtu.be/w9G7znq5vyI

"The AI was built by first-generation immigrants with Ferraris in the final years of gasoline, who believed destiny just an accumulation of unknown facts"

daniel.industries/2025/02/15/the-ai-predicted-american-salvation/

A big mac meal, hear'say cd, the sun newspaper, a philips black and white tv, a bugs life dvd and starship troopers on vhs, 10 marlboro and a bottle of bacardi, nestle golden grahams and kraft cheese slices, 2 pairs of gap boxer shorts, 2 oil drums and a bottle of brake fluid, 1 can of coca cola, henry kissinger's unsettling tones, starbucks frappucino and caramel latte, ltd edition air max 98 trainers and adidas shoe box, mayday protests 01.05.2001 in london

daniel.industries/2003/02/15/Matthew-Herbert-the-mechanics-of-destruction/

"If that's going to be the end result of China's development," says one, "then I'm really in despair."

2004

daniel.industries/2004/12/13/Im-not-going-to-know-what-to-say-to-you/