To: Tim | "rainstirs" | "dogdude" | "matemutts"
Subject: consequences
You were given a 2nd chance in 2009 when we caught you doing this horrific shit again. Some (like me) were opposed. You made promises, & promises, and promises.
However, there was a second clause included...
One's care for a beloved family member with late-stage demantia serves as a mandala celebrating the full person whose spirit now lives on exclusively in the lived truth of good works & generosity they've shared over a lifetime.
~ namaste ~
(...although apparently still carrying enough visual limitations from our latest brain lesion radiation treatment, in late November, that I'm as-yet-unable to catch that "aying" typo - so it goes, eh?)
I share their view on this, & although I don't hate or dislike maps, I want nothing to do with them. Simply, the zoo community and what we stand for is very different than that of maps. It's stupid how many people put us in the same category.
(American) Thanksgiving 2019, w/ Mum & @ZeMenDepo. A blessed evening of fun & family. 🌃🎉🌃
[I'd been mostly blinded from latest round of stereoscopic/gamma radiation to nuke legacy occipital brain lesion (thanks, melanoma!), hence the dorky hippie sunglasses at night. 😎]
I’m popular because I write good songs and I’m talented and perform high energy hour and a half shows filled with love.
The only person who needs to do better is you.
Keep my name out ya mouth & look in the mirror before you come for me.
Here’s the attention you ordered 😏
Citizens would rise up in outrage if the government mandated that every person carry a tracking device revealing their location and identity 24 hours a day. Yet in the last decade we have become, app by app, subject to just such a system. https://t.co/7BKn9VMTzW
Your smartphone broadcasts your exact location thousands of times per day to dozens of different companies. Each has the power to follow individuals wherever they go, in near-real time.
That’s not a glitch in the system. It is the system.
https://t.co/2D8ttMKIWD
“One day, from his sniper nest, Gallagher shot a girl in a flower-print hijab who was walking w/ other girls on the riverbank. She dropped, clutching her stomach, & the other girls dragged her away.” This is who he pardoned & honored.
Despite passing a bill to compensate him, Kansas has yet to pay Lamonte McIntyre a dollar for the 23 years he spent incarcerated for a crime he did not commit because AG Derek Schmidt will not agree that he should be compensated. https://t.co/g0LT6pkTDh