In the Other World We Use Other Words, Painting Them w Water on the Desert's Sidewalk

What a shitty month, two deaths, a parent and a most beloved cat on top of this fucking world's accelerating descent into assholocracy. Grids help, helped, below is two posts worth, Fleabus' death notice delaying the first grid now merged with the second. My fury necessitating the compulsive gridding aimed primarily at me (it would be a lie to say I don't intend to yank your chain too), forgive me when spatter lands on you, I need reiterate constantly to myself what a freaking idiot I was to ever believe the world could end up anything but an assholocracy even after decades in which I knew there is no possible alternative for motherfucking humans

Hexjeffs will continue here and there until they don't, the one above says better what the paragraph above it says, at least in blckdgrdese. As for grids and gridding as coping mechanism, for the first time I found myself considering stopping or at least slowing to neuter the compulsion - do I want to daily grid Trumpistan? - here, let me explain more and better than I can type: 


Still angry, still seething, but yellower, yes, yellowpinkorange won't save me but is a good buzz and a better way to say Fuck This. In any case, fuckton of links in grid below, half were to be published but then Fleabus died, her death hurts though doesn't ouch (ditto parent's). There's new Necks album, two-thousand five-hundred and thirty seconds of soothing

It’s time to bet against American exceptionalism
"Meditations On A Six Year-Old Amputee Crawling Through Gaza With The Help Of A Roller Skate"
Biden stone asshole. Stone asshole.
"This seems like a good time to remind you that none of this is remotely normal; you are not the crazy ones"
The Legacy of Joe Biden in seventeen seconds
"Biden promised to "cure cancer," and this is what we got instead..."
"And who let this rapacious Trumpist SOB stay in his post all through his administration? Good Ole Joe, Grandpa Joe, Decent Guy Joe"
There are people who still think the Democrats aren't in on it
"Israeli cops teach American cops how to brutalize Americans the way they brutalize Palestinians. Everything American elites are willing to do Palestinians they are willing to do to you if they ever decide it’s in their best interest. If you think they have the least fellow feeling for you you are so stupid I’m surprised you can keep breathing"
Never let them tell you it wasn’t a Holocaust
"How the US and Israel Destroyed Syria and Called it Peace"
Israeli settlers eye land in Syria, Lebanon
☝	Israel approves plan to surge settler population in occupied Golan Heights						☝
"Israel has practically declared war on Syria with no provocation or casus belli whatsoever, announced a 50-year-old international diplomatic agreement is void, is invading another country in these very moments, and literally no one is doing, or even saying, anything about it"
Syria - Winners And Losers Or Both
"The day the media decided militant jihadism was respectable"
Erdoğan’s Syria?				Syria’s post-mortem
"This is what Gaddafi said about Obama wanting him Dead"
I am telling you three times (after telling you a zillion times) our shitlords will destroy the world before they let anyone else rule it
I had two RX for my glaucoma, both covered by insurance, the company blended them into one and now insurance won't cover any, I have to choose between $500 a month or going blind faster
The System Makes Patients Sick And CEOs Rich
"A Woman Is Facing Jail Time for Saying “Delay, Deny, Depose”
What Went Wrong With Capitalism?
"In a nutshell: All the main evidence in the CEO murder conveniently points to a suspect who had every chance to get rid of everything, and who's pleading not guilty for a crime that we all saw committed by a very meticulous individual whose face was hidden, and whose actions resemble a professional"
UnitedHealthcare's Leaked Talking Points
"Did Mangione Break The Law of Nature When He Killed the Health Insurance CEO?"
How AARP Shills for UnitedHealthcare
"Just so you know, almost every US military base has its own secret prison where torture is a must"
The Press Is Complicit in America’s Health Care Deaths
"Thinking about Luigi while making art"
The Cost of Corporate Profit in U.S. Health Care Reaches $2 Trillion
"The quote in this cartoon is adapted from an employee of United Healthcare interviewed by the New York Times. It is remarkable for its lack of self-awareness. If the system is the problem, it’s immoral to work for the system"
The Enemy of My Enemy is My Enemy
"A Real Upper Class Asshole - and Journalism Fraud and Liar Too"
TRUMP REDUX: from 2016 to 2024
The PayPal Mafia is taking over America’s government
"Posts like this are the reason why the US political establishment has banned Tiktok.... Can't have the proletariat knowing the truth and getting ideas"
A Graveyard of Bad Election Narratives
I. HATE. MOTHERFUCKING. DEMOCRATS.
☝	Good news: the odds of death in older people increase dramatically in the months following a serious fall						☝
"Liberals’ entire plan for 2028 is hope another catastrophic unexpected disaster befalls the country so they can just win by default again. The alternative would be admitting they were wrong about anything and actual political accomplishments, the two things they refuse to do ever"
Grey Swans Are Circling				Roads to Damascus
"This is what we are living. Calls for lynching"
GET TO WORK! Make some rich dude richer
Why Bidenomics Was Such a Bust
Leo (Tolstoy) and Luigi (Mangeone)
The Alchemy That Powers the Modern World
The Saudi World Cup is an act of violence and disdain
Avedon Carol's			Maggie's		{ feuilleton }'s
A Call to the Modern Language Association to Let Members Decide About BDS
Hello Bluesky			☟	☞	@blckdgrd.bsky.social
"And if pile-ons and flamewars are quickly quenched within our walls, anger, grief, conflict and atrocity are still spiralling outside. Can blocking and coding protect us for long? Does a respectably unspiky liberal refuge – increasingly full as it is of displaced fingerwaggers and worse – have much political valence?"
People who know me at both can vouch I am not NEARLY the foul-mouthed motherfucking full-blast canary weathervane cassandra fool at Bluesky I am at Xitter and here, I know not to do that shit there
I stopped eating meat years ago but L and I ate at Crisfields lots early dating almost four decades ago and this IS a Moco institution so big news for Mocolifers
The { feuilleton } above last week's, THIS this week's
The Maggie's above last week's, THIS this week's
$663 Billion in Cash Assets Have Gone Poof at the Largest U.S. Banks
The Poet Is Present				Books of Year 2024
The Dustbin of Literary History
I read and loved almost every Iris Murdoch novel by my 35th birthday but haven't reread a single one in thirty years now
You may be surprised hear there's new GBV

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Miriam Bird Greenberg

In the other world we use other words, painting

them with water on the desert’s sidewalk under • unwaver

ing / the / sky’s gaze, meant to be eaten up immediate

ly by our nearest star: we know we’re brief, a flash

of the magnesium bulb’s Lichtenberg lace or

in the hardpan land we inhabit, unwilling / it’s /

to unloosen • Edenic ancestry to us, to unearth / un

couth / the • treasure which lies (we believe) like an ocean

of luminous fish with their wayfinder’s lanterned

faces beneath us, sufficiently gilded to wake the dead

 ’s memory of what they no longer own: a form

for the nation-state to take, to write its penal colony’s

penalties upon, or hold, same as we hold our own

souls, which wager against us as soon as they’re able.