Time keeps on ticking ticking ticking into the future.

Happy New Year.

time spent on the toilet is a convex function of age.

one thing i like better about here is it’s less like the old-school grocery store aisle where the tabloids were always looming and you might succumb to unwanted forms of curiosity.

i do miss weekly world news though. that at least was quality.

@rezendi i’m glad to see you here, really glad to see you here.

you wish the dead well, even though you do not know if it is too late.

@akhilrao a bit stranded and helpless, i guess!

@Sanjuktampaul god help us it would probably stage a comeback.

i just see the word “tireless” and it makes me tired.

@simon well, they keep increasing what you pay for a prime subscription so they’re doing a pretty good job on the first part of your wish.

it looks like we may make it to 2023 without all being incinerated to radioactive waste. i was pretty concerned for a while. maybe still am. let’s try to stay unincinerated, this next year and for all the years to come. love, love, love.

"Just because you hate someone doesn’t mean you can’t love them.” ~@DetroitDan

@demofox how did your backyard get underneath that crab?! it’s pretty sneaky, that one.

@hankg on the bright side, then, we can think if it as kind of an eternal light…

punishment is a cost. we do it because it is offset by important benefits, like deterrence in the context of systems of predictable accountability, or reducing a person’s capacity to do harm. but the punishment itself, it’s not a win, not a benefit. it’s a cost.

it is understandable that direct victims should glory in the punishment, but the rest of us should do our best not to. we mete it out always in sadness.

@hankg not sure!

is mastodon the midwest? https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/109598075150433931

@dougdougdoug (ha! it got no traction… i think no one got it. a synonym for “mock” might be “sham”?)

never understood why people put mock feces in their hair and call it hygiene.

wait, who bought southwest?

@alx but how? what carrots or sticks could the NRA offer?