Wrendolyn 🪩🏳️‍⚧️

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kind of fucked up how much of work is coercion under threats of the systemic violence of houselessness and starvation rather than it being something beneficial for your actual community that has a tangible positive impact on your life and the lives of those around you

Today is "Soft Rains Day" for those who remember this haunting 1950 Ray Bradbury piece. It's classic Bradbury, eerily accurate w/ its predictions in some respects (looking at you, Alexa), and well worth a few moments of your day to read if you're so inclined.

Lisa Kadonaga@tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 2d ago

Soft Rains Day. "Today is August 4, 2026, in the city of Allendale, California. Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills." RIP Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012

There Will Come Soft Rains
By: Ray Bradbury

In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o'clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o 'clock! as if it were afraid that nobody would. The morning house lay empty. The clock ticked on, repeating and repeating its sounds into the emptiness. Seven-nine, breakfast time, seven-nine!
In the kitchen the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh and ejected from its warm interior eight pieces of perfectly browned toast, eight eggs sunny side up, sixteen slices of bacon, two coffees, and two
cool glasses of milk.
"Today is August 4, 2026," said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, "in the city of Allendale, California." It repeated the date three times for memory's sake.
"Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills."

Source:
https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%20Will%20Come%20Soft%20Rains%20by%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf

A fellow disabled public-health professional (who turned off quotes for super legit reasons) noted that it's bad public health practice not to clearly communicate who is at additional risk of harm in an outbreak or emergency, while also noting that at this point people are rightly wary of... (1/12)

New York Times post that says "Breaking news: two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues." The post is accompanied by a picture of bagged iceberg lettuce and a link to a news story; the preview of the story reads: "Two Deaths Linked to Cyclospora Outbreak in Michigan. The patients had 'significant underlying health conditions' that may have contributed to their deaths, health officials said."

I have been working on my distance spitting for the day I will need to spit on someone in anger, but also I feel like I am becoming a specialized ranged unit in a Total War adaptation of Charles Fourier's "sexual warfare" (war is abolished and replaced with games of sexual prowess with a queer meta)