Birds do it
Bees do it
Even educated fleas do it
Let’s do it
Let’s start a plague— The Library Owl 🎄🎅🦉 (@SketchesbyBoze) March 1, 2020
What could possibly go wrong? While we wait for the end of the world (if not The Virus, then perhaps The Asteroid? Perhaps The Spider?) let’s take a quick look at why we deserve it.
Injustice System
If you recall the cop-flag from a few weeks ago, I’ve come across several additional good stories about it. The first is a comic about the evolution of the paramilitary commando fascist aesthetic; the second a warning about police departments using sociopathic vigilante superhero The Punisher as a mascot; the third is either hilarious or terrifying or both: Meet Blue Lives Mickey, the Worst T-Shirt in the World.
You may think you know terrible t-shirts from such places as Atlantic City or The Internet, but trust me. This is the absolute worst.
The Climate
Just like Brexit created zillions of unanticipated stupid hassles, the climate crisis is doing the same thing. Like, who owns land that doesn’t exist anymore? Can you legally fish in newborn rivers that used to be someone’s back yard? And why do we keep buying bigger and bigger SUVs and trucks, to the point that they no longer fit into our garages? Are we hitting the era of Peak Car and cool/sad automotive infrastructure photography? Is it too late to make a difference?
The Zeitgeist
Trust me, Patricia Lockwood is always worth a read. In this case, she’s writing about the hivemind of the internet in the London Review of Books.
Also the Washington Post on racialized dialect in sign language.
The Conversation: Humans Aren’t Designed to Be Happy. Stop Trying. (If design govern in a thing so small…)
The Cesspool
Lawyers, Guns & Money on soft authoritarian thresholds.
US leaves international accord on preventing road deaths.
The Supreme Court has ruled that the Border Patrol has what amounts to a license to kill people on either side of the US/Mexico border with total impunity.
Tax breaks Jared lobbied for seem to have made him a huge amount of money for some reason.
Cultivating Joy
Dog & Owl Are Friends
Cat crams its face into a Pringles can
This kitten that seems very upset it hasn’t figure out how to move very well yet
Secretly Ironic 