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telemetry 2jan26

“Every Day Carry” is a lifestyle native to the 21st century. This hobby was directly named after “the everyday.” “Every Day Carry” concerns tools, toys and/or utensils which somebody, somehow, feels obliged to lug around on their own person. All the time. Every Day.

“Weird Everyday Carry” is a niche even more intriguing to me, because it combines my abiding interests in the oxymoronic, the everyday, and the weird. How weird is everyday weird? What are the limits to weirdness? How long has this weirdness been going on?

Sources are now telling Deadline that Netflix reportedly only wants to keep movies in theaters for 17 days after it buys Warner Bros, a move that would “steamroll the theatrical business.” Major circuits like AMC continue to insist the line must be held at roughly 45 days.

Ghana has decided to deal with the viral spread of prophetic content on social media by setting up an official reporting mechanism for sensitive predictions, a move triggered by the August 2025 helicopter crash that killed the country’s defence and environment ministers along with six others. After the accident, TikTok clips circulated showing pastors who claimed to have foreseen the disaster before it happened. Elvis Ankrah, the presidential envoy for inter-faith and ecumenical relations, now asks prophets to submit their predictions for review. Charismatic preacher-prophets have been a fixture of Ghanaian public life since Pentecostalism arrived in the 1980s, but social media has amplified their reach and made their claims increasingly outlandish. Police have threatened to arrest prophets who cannot prove their predictions eventually came true. Some two-thirds of Ghanaians favor giving divine intervention a role in politics. Ankrah recently declared that most prophecies submitted to him are “total bunk.”
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The Old New Bag

My daughter bought me this bag for my birthday a few years back. I don’t normally do browns, but she’s the steampunk generation, and she works on the assumption that if she loves something, it is therefore The Best and we should have The Best. It’s a gorgeous bag, but it hasn’t fit into my days over the last few years.

Until yesterday, where I took my old LOT 2046 sling bag out for a walk and had nothing but trouble wrangling it. And last night I bought myself an object for daily use that only comes in dark brown leather. At which point I looked at this bag, laying unloved in the living room, and thought: well, shit, that bag solves everything. It’s beautifully made, has the right pockets. And, perhaps crucially, isn’t black, like all my other kit.

There’s an interview with Adam Savage I read years ago:

I hate black bags. I lose things in black bags. I can’t find anything in them. I find them an anathema to the idea of storage.

I am belatedly considering that he may have a point.

My usual big Maxpedition messenger shoulder bag is still the go-to for a full day out, the Versipack for a very heavy full day or a quick overnight. But, for nipping out for a few hours into town or country, this is going to work beautifully.

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EDC and travel bag re-stock arrivals continue
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13sep24

OPERATIONS: Rebuilding my EDC bag. It’s been sitting in its spot for four years and everything that was in it is either missing or dead. Yesterday morning was so frustrating that it threw me for the entire day, so now I have to catch up on production. About to expire some “pending” things, wipe down the boards and get a clear look at the next four months.

And while I was writing that, the doorbell went, and two bloody great cases of a reprint of ABSOLUTE TRANSMETROPOLITAN Volume 1 arrived. I’m amazed that it’s still being reprinted and still selling.


STATUS: Inbox 94. Finally starting to admit to myself that I need reading glasses. Feeling relaxed about the near future. (Secret of the freelance life: always have a plan B, C, D and E.) It’s cold, the sun is bright, and I need more coffee.
READING: THE ORIGIN OF EMPIRE: ROME FROM THE REPUBLIC TO HADRIAN, David Potter (link)
LISTENING:


THINKING ABOUT:

everything is a burning catastrophe; there’s no time for art; magnetize connection with confession and exposure, right quick!

IMMEDIACY, OR, THE STYLE OF TOO LATE CAPITALISM (UK) (US+)

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