A Snow Fence Imposes That Sleep

I hate snow. I'm trapped. The roads aren't plowed, if I wanted to go somewhere - anywhere, for fun or emergency, nope. Hate, seething, anxiety, I do that shit *without* snow - see the grid below, see all my grids - snow multiplies my hate, seething, and anxiety by a factor of fifty. Fuck snow. Here's Olive in her box in our easy bake oven




Eventually the plow will come through - we live on one of the two main streets of our neighborhood and across the street from an elementary school so we're first plowed - and encase my car in packed snow already being packed now with sleet and freezing rain. I hate snow even when I'm not clusterfucked sideways and I'm always clusterfucked sideways, you can attest. Here's Stanley is his box in our easy bake oven





The only thing I liked about climate change and a warming earth was it didn't snow the last two winters, thank you Shitlord petroleum robber Baron assholes, fuck you and your snow fifty times more than daily fuck you for your kakistocratic, kleptocratic, catastrophe-driven snowless clusterfuck. Fuck snow. Are today's links angrier than normal or is is just me, hating, seething, squirming in anxiety thinking my normal anger angrier than normal? NO! SNOW MAKES IT WORSE BY A FACTOR OF FIFTY! fuck snow, please Hear, I just bought this album, listen

Mionist zenocidal gonster
"Liz Cheney and Hillary Clinton get medals. Israel gets another $8 billion in weapons for genocide. The working class get nothing. Biden’s legacy is cemented as worse president of the modern age"
☝	Shitty president zenocidal gonsters gives medal of freedom to shitty musician zenocidal gonster						☟
"Kinda weird to climb over the charred corpses of your employees to accept an award from the guy supplying the bombs that murdered them, but go off, Chef"
Update: just a shitty motherfucker, shitty	"personally, I would also get emotional if the man who financed the army that deliberately murdered seven of my employees put his hands around my neck, but I don’t know, I guess silence is cheap these days"						☝
Update: just a shitty motherfucker, shitty	"this list is a weapon to induce schizophrenia"						☝
☝	"Some background here on David Rubenstein, who has played a key role in preserving the carried-interest loophole, which has saved private-equity managers like himself billions in taxes--and who was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Biden yesterday"						☝
"While the Democrats are effectively prohibited by its big donors in the ruling class from turning even slightly to the left, except under the most extreme conditions, the Republican Party is not prevented by its billionaire supporters from moving all the way to fascism on the extreme right, always the fallback position of the capitalist ruling class when it perceives the internal and external bases of its power as threatened"
How Tech Billionaires Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left and Right
"Watch Klarna’s CEO argue artificial intelligence can “already do all of the jobs that we as humans do” — and brag about replacing his own employees with AI"
There is no "off" switch on the system's self-destruct sequence
"The most interesting thing about the comparison is really the illustration it gives of fascism as a way of getting the humble to vote against their own interests"
When my dad was a kid in a Fayette County PA coal mining company town in the 1930s his dad was paid with company script, reestablishment been a *hitlord *et *ream ever since nope
Why she's quitting the Washington Post
☝	Washington Post Cartoonist Ann Telnaes Quits After Bezos-Owned Paper Kills Trump Satire Piece						☝
Hate. Motherfucking. Democrats. I.
Motherfucking. Democrats. I. Hate.
Democrats. I. Hate. Motherfucking.
I. Hate. Motherfucking. Democrats.
"They must be giving grad seminars on bootlicking to power in whatever's left of Higher Ed History Depts, this sort of toadying to one Leader or the Other is all you see from the biggest names in the industry"
Louisiana’s Governor-Elect Wants To Withhold Funds For New Orleans’ Decaying Water Infrastructure Until Women Who Seek Abortions Are Prosecuted
"The governor of Ohio just signed a law that charges people hundreds of dollars to get police body cam footage. Welcome to America where fascist cops can ruin your life on video, and then you gotta max out your credit cards just to get the proof and clear your name"
How the U.S. Lost Control of Bird Flu, Setting the Stage for Another Pandemic
☝	The US didn't "lose control," either shitlords *want* another pandemic and/or don't give a shit if there is another pandemic, and my money's on WANT another pandemic, the last one being so successful						☝
A Year in German Culture				As ominous as it gets
This is what Western media hides from you
Was looking for something else as was reminded of Arthur Silber whose analysis of the shitshow that exists and that shitshow that's coming I'd love to read. Anyone heard anything, sad, bad, or worse?
"Right at this very moment you can begin a daily practice of sowing the seeds of revolution. You as an individual cannot defeat the empire yourself, but it is absolutely within your power to open a few people’s eyes to the reality that the status quo is unacceptable, and that a better world is possible. It is absolutely within your power to show people how they’ve been lied to their whole lives about their country, their society and their world, and to show people how they are currently being deceived about stories that are in the news today."
Tracking the Signs of Decline in America
Water cycle of life				"I, A Woke, Found Me Here"
"It feels weird when those stories are set in our world—rather than, like, a space station in the Delta Quadrant—where real people are perpetually fighting to be recognized as human, while the aggrieved in power cosplay as minoritized groups in order to further expand their financial and political dominance"
Winning coalitions aren't always governing coalitions
How Religion And Science Both Predict The End Of The World
The weight of a stone					Radio City at 50
Whose Garbage Becomes The Archive?
Avedon Carol's occasional links						Maggie's
commented annotated bibliography of why i don't have anything to say to you
Listen		Crisps and chips			{ feuilleton }
Louise Glück: Writing as Transformation

SNOW FENCE

John Ashbery

Dieting aids posture,
as reading helps thought.
They may be forced
into another shape, and the world
around us becomes black
with notions of the ground.

A snow fence imposes that sleep.
All along it snow has chosen different shapes
of busyness. It has been prevented
from staying where it wanted to.
Blue sky will pay for this
music from an old Victrola
singing about a lover and his henchmen
and the woman hiding in a barrel
under a bridge.

In the west it all turns to meat.
A few are grateful, more are bored.
We could have lunch by that lake,
drink beer from a nearby farm.
And the actors walked with me
to those calms.