nomi @nomi@qoto.org

Did you see The Expanse on Amazon Prime or did you read the books by James S A Corey? I can't help but think about Holden as I watch Twitter implode, and just how absolutely right the character was.

The refrain in the series is: two (or more) powers are in conflict, it's about to get existential and winner-take-all. Then ol' Jimmy Holden wanders in and forces them to stop fighting. He doesn't ask them to play nice, he forces them into a stable equilibrium.

His main drive as a character is that anyone who thinks they have all the answers is both wrong and a tyrant in the making (or already made). And I just hear that over and over with Musk. How he has the answers, then we see that his answers are simplistic and bound to fail when confronted with a complex reality.

Like Holden, I believe the only way is to empower stakeholders at various levels. It's the only way to ensure your plan will fit a complex reality. Unfortunately, it means everyone's great idea is revealed as garbage and it's emotionally and egoistically very difficult

Abandoned lot
Ring fence chained potential
The children play there

#haiku #poetry #goodmorning

Gentle first flurry
Windblown flakes' caressing touch
Soft, so you want more

#haiku #poetry #goodmorning

BRB, telling all the COVID truthers I know that for the same reason that they think it's good to catch COVID they should also stop using hypoallergenic products and start buying my maximally hyper-allergenic alternatives. I'm telling you the supplements are 100% cat dander

Gonna start a counter-conspiracy. This much I know is true:

The lizard people are real. They mostly live deep in the crust of the earth where they're powers are strongest. At the surface they're very weak, hardly able to be told from a human. They are actively trying to flatten the earth so they can conquer the surface. This process will destroy the climate as well know it.

How you can help: vote for climate conscious candidates. Support funding and research for "green" technologies. Those willing to sacrifice our climate are at best useful idiots and at worst actual humanity hating lizard people

Multiplexing.

The Definition: a method by which multiple analog or digital signals are combined into one signal over a shared medium

The experience: you ask how the chicken tastes and I give you a thumbs up

Three months of waiting
Two bags packed and ready
One last kiss goodbye

#haiku #poetry #goodmorning

@jenmercieca hey Jen. Is there a sort of taxonomy of the components of rhetoric and how they get added/mixed together?

Showing up to a gut health workshop in silicon valley with MS Excel in one hand wearing a hazmat suit. "Ooooohhh!" I say, "I thought you said mIcrobiotics and mAcro processors". But I really didn't, I came this way because I'm terribly lonely and have forgotten how to make friends

A chiro-proctor

Me: gives a thumbs up to "The Distance" by Cake

Me: make a playlist based on Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen
YTM: ... and The Distance?

Me: play me some songs similar to Tennessee Whisky by Chris Stapleton
YTM: ... and The Distance?

Me: I'm in the mood for Short Skirt / Long Jacket by Cake
YTM: *visibly shaking* ... and The Distance?

I've been a Pandora subscriber for ~15 years. Been using YouTube music since lately and the recommendations that come up when you start a "radio" station have felt weird and I just found the words for it.

YouTube music is like that relative that found out you liked Pokemon when you were 15 and still gets you Pokemon themed gifts for every single Christmas 20 years later

What rings through this dream?
No one else seems to hear it...
Alarm! Alert! Arise, you're late!

#haiku #poetry #goodafternoon
(fitting around I slept through my alarm today myself!)

One of my all time favorite books had two small print runs in the 90s and is nowhere near the top of anyone's "migrate to ebook" list. A part of me wants to type one up myself so I can read it on my Kindle, but the honest part says "Nomi, you'll never actually do it"

Colors leaching out
Greyness suffusing the clouds
In my sky and mind

#haiku #poetry #goodmorning

I discovered that the asian hot sauce that's popular now has 2 R's in it yesterday and I honestly thought someone was playing a racist prank on me. Like there is no way it's called sRiracha, right?

Living that flaneur life, bay beeeeereeee

On today's list of errands:
UPS: parcel delivery
USPS: post office
U Pspsps: cat stuff