Pastpossum - Decidedly Ambivalent

It hasn't rained in a while so they've had to go to the public pool.

motivation

People keep chickens and bees and plant gardens and sure, maybe it does end up saving money (not bees, keeping bees is not saving money) and give them a hobby but in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy there is a scene in which "Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying, “Blood…blood…blood…blood…” and I wonder if keeping chickens and growing vegetables is quietly the equivalent of counting to computers, but applied to the current American agribusiness/food system.

supportive

Dear facebook, meta, whatever you are today:

Sorry about the voodoo doll. I don't really believe in things like that but it seems about as likely to help me get through and get an answer as my many, many attempts to contact support through the links you have so carefully hidden on your site have been. I didn't need my account to apparently self-destruct; you didn't need any funny stuff with little poppets with ear trumpets and pins and needles and candles. But here we are.

Yeah, the person posting isn't the customer and the grocery store doesn't care what the potatoes think, but what happens when they can't get potatoes any more?

Update: I never got through to any kind of support, and did lose about 2/3 of what I had posted there, and nearly everything since 2016. I hate Facebook so fucking much. I hope Mark Zuckerberg gets bedbugs for the rest of his cheap-ass life.

dead ends

Oooh, another idea for a book that I will never ever write.

In the early years of the United States, Thomas Jefferson (or some similar morally dubious but notoriously inquisitive and scientifically/experimentally minded figure) sets up a supernatural system of protections for the new nation, possibly already including plans/provision for a ghost army. Years later, the emergence of the United States military cemetery system has been incorporated into this structure. Many years after leaving the service, a dead soldier is interred in a military cemetery, and finds themself recalled to duty in a spectral military operation.

Cheshire cat

Would be cool for someone (not me) to get a Cheshire cat tattoo, knowing the yellows and oranges may/will slowly fade out over the years leaving the outline and a smile drawn in bold black.

sage

I don't believe in astrology but I do know the basics of it and I cannot keep myself from reading things that are maybe supposed to be funny. So today I saw a thing of "astrology signs as spices", and for Pisces it had sage, noting that it was "weird as fuck and pretty much only used for magic". And I mentally said "also sausage". Then I thought about a specific ex of mine, who was kind of batshit insane, and also a Pisces. And wow, that one kind of fits, especially with the edit.