Everything froze. Had to thaw the chickens’ water trough. Mancub came outside, got to the frozen grass, said “fuck this” and turned and quickly went back inside.
TODAY:
- US launches ‘large-scale strike’ on Venezuela and captures President Maduro
- How will the mass protests that are convulsing Iran unfold?
- Reddit overtakes TikTok in UK thanks to search algorithms and gen Z
OPERATIONS: by and large, a notebook day. I had the kernel of an idea for something last month, and today I want to see if I can work it up into something that makes sense. My eyes are a bit fried from spending hours in three versions of the same basic story document yesterday, trying to see if they can all be combined into the basis of something useful for a particularly peculiar project offer that was made to me in November.
STATUS: Inbox 90, need to whittle that later. Had a weird dream last night about starting a daily newsletter. Who dreams about doing a new newsletter? The 2020s have poisoned my brain.
READING: PIRATE ENLIGHTENMENT, David Graeber. (UK) (US+)
LISTENING:
Errant Space Podcast 129: December Drones with wormlogo
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