There's enough here to make a post - October 02020

Let us start with pictures of moonbows and the aurora borealis.

Words of the common vernacular with ableist origins or meanings, although, with some of them, there's the possibility of their being used specifically as reclamation from a person who is part of that community, rather than as insulting material. And at least some of those words are falling out of usage as creativity takes over and allows us express our opinion in highly specific and non-ableist terms.

Similarly, one person's guide to how to refer to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people that respects their names and nations.

We must also bid farewell to Eddie Van Halen, guitarist and rocker, at the age of 65 years.

In New Hampshire, someone tried to re-create Galt's Gulch. The purest form of libertarianism didn't particularly take, and then there were bears to contend with. Unsurprisingly, that only caused the libertarians to be even less effective at everything.

( And there's always more )

Last for tonight, thinking about your virtual meeting space like you're on television, with the help of Mary Robinette Kowal. Which, y'know, you are on television when you're doing these things. So utilizing the whole frame you have really helps.

It's hard to find surprise and delight when you think of yourself as mostly failure

sonia talked about doing things that your earlier self would be delighted and astonished in. This should be a simple enough exercise, right?

Weeeeeeeelllllllll…

( It's not. )

The closest thing I might have to my younger self being very happy about where my older self is now might very well be that my younger self would look at the flaming wreckage of what happened between then and now and go "We survived this? Well done, us." Possibly with a fistbump.

Feel free to tell me if there are things you would think my younger self would be much more agog about, or what the things are that your younger self would be delighted or astonished about?