Joe Morrison

ED @ecodevokitsap. Mine own opinions here.

[Joe Morrison @joencmorrison]

Subdued joy. Cloud light.
Industry hums in step with
Cutting, cedar air.

[David Reamer @ANC_Historian]

July 17, 1981 portrait of Iñupiaq activist and legislator Willie Hensley (Iġġiaġruk). Photo by Fran Durner, longtime Anchorage newspaper photographer. Via Anchorage Museum. #alaskahistory #Alaska

[Joe Morrison @joencmorrison]

Who me? Oh, just thinking about Location Quotient and Stuff.

[Oli Dugmore @OliDugmore]

Carly has been using her allotment to feed people struggling with the cost of living. Last night someone broke in and salted the land to stop her growing.

Her go fund me: https://t.co/mn2vIkYSPP

[Joe Morrison @joencmorrison]

@datamanAK Let’s also pour one out for indicators!

[gian @giansegato]

let me get this right: i cannot angel invest unless i make 200k/y of base comp or have 1m net worth excluding the value of my home? ugh. tough. why the gatekeeping? everyone can yolo all their savings into doge but can't put small chips into startups unless they're millionaires?

[Susan Cain @susancain]

I know this feeling SO WELL.
Though clearly Yeats had had a little coffee.

"“My fiftieth year had come and gone,
I sat, a solitary man,
In a crowded London shop,
An open book and empty cup
On the marble table-top.

While on the shop and street I gazed
My body of a sudden blazed;
And twenty minutes more or less
It seemed, so great my happiness,
That I was blessed and could bless.”

Image: Lukas Corso
#Kindred #Quiet #Bittersweet #Coffee #Books

[Joe Morrison @joencmorrison]

@TheEdVerse You’re so great, thanks for everything you’ve done to create happy gamers around the world and I do hope that @Wizards_DnD is treating you right (including financially) as the creator of their anchor setting—steeped in lore, FR is amazing (and isn’t going anywhere).

[The Cottage in the Wildwood @cottageinwood]

Remember: the world is still full of humans who are growing things, healing others, writing stories, dreaming, and falling in love. 🌸

🎨 Sean Lewis

[Joe Morrison @joencmorrison]

@MapMakinMeyers Sorry.

[U.S. Navy @USNavy]

We have ships. ⛴️

[CatGirl Kulak 😻😿 (Anarchonomicon) @FromKulak]

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There are some formulas so specific that any deviation is unheard of.

Detective fiction for example has hardly changed since Poe's 1841 story "Murder in the Rue Morgue"

However on a rare occasions something totally breaks the ethos of its genre

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Coyote and Roadrunner

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

RT if you're tired of changing your clocks for Daylight Saving Time—and support the Sunshine Protection Act that would extend DST permanently.

[Joe Morrison @joencmorrison]

Whyyyyyyyyyy are we doing this still………..?

[Joe Morrison @joencmorrison]

@joehas The fast trains in Spain cross mainly the Plains, I hear.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Tom Petty talks about how he wrote The Waiting. Pretty fascinating shit. Man, I miss this dude.

[West Seattle Blog @westseattleblog]

.@macklemore arrival for signing event at @EasyStRecords this afternoon (WSB photo)

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

On Pausing Alcohol

"Always carry a flask of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake." -- W. C. Fields

About six months ago, I stopped drinking alcohol. I feel much better, and I’m mad as hell about it.

I never really drank through my 20s and 30s, but grew to really enjoy whiskey through my 40s, coincident with “Mad Men”, and roughly a thousand academic studies that proved that alcohol is actually good for you. Win/win!

I had read that the sure sign of an alcoholic is someone who drinks at night, by himself, at home, so I decided to only drink at night, by myself, at home.

I was even scurrilously quoted as saying “the perfect day is 10 hours of caffeine followed by 4 hours of alcohol”, which I did indeed say, and which is still indeed true.

Unfortunately, in recent years, it’s become clear that most or all — probably all — of the scientific studies on the benefits of alcohol are fake, the scientists unwitting or witting victims of selection effects. As Michael Crichton says, “wet streets cause rain”, or rather wet streets don’t cause rain. It turns out that sick people often don’t drink, or subjects just lie to researchers about their consumption outright. There go the studies.

It is now pretty definitively clear that no amount of alcohol is good for you. Andrew Huberman recently summed this conclusion up on his podcast; the topic made me so enraged I never listened to the episode, but I did read the notes.

Andrew says “the best amount of alcohol to drink is no alcohol” — imagine someone who both hates and loves humanity that much.

Since I stopped drinking, I feel much better. I don’t need as much sleep, but my sleep is better. I’m more alert through the day. I’m cogent and focused at all times. I have more energy when I exercise, and it’s easier to control my diet.

It’s great, and I am super mad about it.

I feel like the color has drained out of my evenings[*]. Spending time with people is still fun, but now it’s hard to sit still and watch a movie or read a book and unwind at the end of a hard day. I’m more prone to just work until bedtime. Grump grump grump.

Frankly, I don’t know what Elon is doing farting around with cars and rockets and Twitter, why doesn’t he solve THIS problem[**].

And one of these days, I am going to get deeply, seriously, hammered.

But not today!

[*] A lot of people I know are substituting cannabis or hallucinogens for alcohol. I’m not, I won’t touch any of those things — a topic for another time.

[**] I’ve been trying all the alcohol free whiskeys, wine, and beer. So far, no luck on the whiskeys. For wine, Sovi is pretty good. For beer, there are quite a few good choices; I’ve become partial to Hopwtr, which is zero calorie hop-flavored sparkling water. I’m still not drinking either at breakfast, though I am tempted.

[Alan Cleaver @thelonningsguy]

This is a piece of absolute magic. A short film/documentary following a day in the life of a Welsh shepherd. Highly recommended.

[Old Man Otos @otos_austin]

Creek Street snow. ❄️

[Don Moore @capture907]

@Climatologist49 I've already made campaign material for this cause. https://t.co/gDeb0oBIQX