Jackson likes to keep me company as I read in what I call the small reading room in my house.

On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.

Some will find the sight of undies and the implications I'm on a toilet [reading, I'll have you know] off putting and not notice how sweet my cat Jackson is that that's one of his very favourite places to curl up in.

As a Canadian, let me say Happy Treason Day, Yanks! It's never too late to repent & be welcomed back into the fold. As a bonus, Charles III is a much less embarrassing head of state than your current guy.

Jacky using my hand as a pillow as is his cat-given right.

I'm having a laugh at Americans crowing about beating Bosnia and Herzegovina 1-0, a country with 1% of the US' population. The appropriate response is to pocket the win and move along quietly, hoping nobody noticed the score

@stonerphillyfan.bsky.social Did you do that centrists stick figure drawing? I'd like to use it and credit the person who did it.

@amanda.omg.lol Just read your Marc Andreessen & poor people piece. I knew you were good, but that one is just brilliant. Especially "What is missing here ... some live in their cars to sustain a decent wage." That's the best one sentence on the inequality implications of unbridled tech I've seen.

Right now. Can't get any computer stuff done and wouldn't have it any other way.

Hilarious Wow If True episode as Adam Becker of Dreaming Against the Machine joins Amanda and Isabel. Cannot convey how much I love their pod. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

140: Horrible Little Guys (ft. Adam Becker)

Podcast Episode · Wow If True · June 3 · 1h 3m

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Snuggling with Jackson, on an 'artificial lap' formed by my shorts spread between my thighs as I was in the process of getting up from the throne.

Oh, and buy Isabel's book, Sublimation. Or get it from a library that helps too. To keep her from having to go back to work at the law firm.

Listen to Wow If True at the link below. It's a great podcast & recently science fiction author Isabel J Kim and tech reporter Amanda Silberling talked about Isabel's book Sublimation which just came out the other day. Very engaging & musing, as the two always are. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

139: The Sublimation Special

Podcast Episode · Wow If True · June 3 · 46m

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@mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social Some years ago, I saw a comic on TV quip about saying to a cop who's pulled him over, before the cop says anything, 'Do you have any idea how fast I was going?' Broke me up. Still does. I think the comic is you and wonder if that's right?

I can play a tune by rapping my knuckles on my head and modulating the tension in my cheeks. I will NOT be playing at Trump's KlanFest 250. I turned them down flat.

@dominicpreziosi.bsky.social Just read the generally good article " 'Simply Murder’ ". However, it would have carried more oomph had Commonweal itself said what Trump was doing was simply murder rather than only have the phrase appear as quotations from others. It should not be tough call.

@markwitton.bsky.social What's your email address for paypal purposes at this time?

The tiny, pretty kitty I'm visiting while his mom is out. He's purring at me there. Other cats greet with a mew, he dies it with loud purrs.

Jackson being cuddly.

@mikez.bsky.social I like your painting (as I call it) 'Birds Flying Out of Mouth of Tree' and was wondering if you were to sell it what would you want for it? I'm tapped out for the next month or so, but do occasionally buy original art (got a large collection of the work of Memo Kosemen).

@suitti.bsky.social I laughed out loud at yout 'we don't want kids'. l tlod it to a friend. I misremembered it & gave the second part as 'At dinner tonight, we're going to tell them.' I think that improves it by delaying the twist. It's your joke, so I offer this to use as your own should you wish..

@wowiftrue.bsky.social Oh, and I'd dawdled on listening to #134 to the point where when I finished that one Apple started in on #135 that I hadn't realized was out. Woo hoo! Both were great fun. Lots of laughs and moments where it's like 'They're not just funny, they're so very smart and real.'

@wowiftrue.bsky.social Regarding Iz 'not respecting sex', a Victorian gent had this to say about sex: 'The pleasure is fleeting, the position ridiculous and the expense damnable.' BTW, "Riordan" is generally pronounced as if it were 'Rearden' and "McMahon" as if it were 'McMan'. I'm old.

Jacky getting his favorite fa e rubs.

@black-stardust.bsky.social Your " the woke mind virus is just compassion and wanting other people to thrive" is brilliant. Pithy and true. The best I ve seen. I use it regularly, though sometimes I put it as " 'the woke mind virus' ". Hope you don't mind that.

@support.bsky.team I like cats & want to see more cat pics. I don't want to see pics of dogs. I hit 'See more like this' on every post with a cat pic & I hit 'See less like this' on every post with a dog pic. Yet I am seeing a lot of dog pics & fewer cat pics than I used to. It is very frustrating.

@amanda.omg.lol I didn't laugh out loud at your opening midroll joke in #130, but I did find myself smiling very broadly in reaction. I think that justifies the bit.

In a world with dire shit like the latest murder by ICE, in Minneapolis, a spark of joy in the form of a new Wow If True pod dropping shines through the gloom and bolsters my hope. Thanks, @isabel.kim and @amanda.omg.lol !

Jackson under the covers with me as I take a nap