I got butternut squash in my bag that is all #grandtheftautumn

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 Check out the Kickstarter for @b92dcc07’s new hopeful
climate change book The Lost Cause!

We all need a little hope. Tetley approved.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-lost-cause-a-novel-of-climate-and-hope 

 The idea of that allegedly sentient Space Hopper Ball as Speaker is terrible and idiotic on many levels, but one of them is that I will eat my fucking car from windshield to license plate if Donald “Crazy Whale” Trump so much as knows the Cliffnotes version of Robert’s Rules of Order.

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 Pain Is Not a Penance: On our unexamined assumptions about pain, character, cause and effect, etymologies, and what we do to each other when we cannot stop hurting

Now up on Substack, public post. Please share, sometimes we all need to hear it.

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/pain-is-not-a-penance 

 I got my kid a rock tumbler for their 5th birthday.

I explained what is was and how it worked, what was going to happen to turn the dull rocks into shiny jewels.

Bastian stared at the rocks for a long time. Very intently.

Then quietly said:

“When they’re shiny I’m gonna trade these jewels to a raven for friendship.” 

 May I formally present Mr. Calcifer Kenough Valente, aged 11 weeks.

His interests are: me, being on top of me at all times, riding on my shoulder like I am a steed, sleeping across my neck like a shawl, somehow apparating himself INSIDE a wall (still can’t figure out how) and having to be cut out, fighting birthday balloons, fighting wrapping paper, fighting ribbon, fighting baked goods, and snuggling.

Also his meow is all raspy like Rod Stewart. That is all.

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