Cliff Lampe
clifflampe.bsky.social
Cliff Lampe
@clifflampe.bsky.social
Communication & Media Studies 39%
Computer science 18%

Back to my homeland…

I keep trying to find a winter break trip to take, but keep coming up short. Junk. Anyone have any inspiration?

Reposted by Cliff Lampe

Given the propensity of the press to sanewash RFK Jr. by referring to him as a "vaccine skeptic" rather than what he is, a rabidly antivax conspiracy theorist, I thought I'd dig out this post I wrote about him in 2017. I desperately need to update it. www.respectfulinsolence.com/2017/01/13/n...
No, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is NOT a "vaccine skeptic." He is antivaccine.
This week hasn’t been a particularly good week for science. It started out on Monday with news of the social media storm from over the weekend over a blatantly antivaccine screed published the Friday ...
www.respectfulinsolence.com

I sort of feel like bluesky has made it when the racist bots start showing up.

I keep flipping between a nihilistic fugue state and absolute fucking rage. This is likely to be my state of being for a bit.

Carrion Comfort
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee;
Not untwist — slack they may be — these last strands of man
In me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can;
Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.

I think it’s a server issue. I’d wait a day or two and see if it fixes itself.

I live in hope that this platform stays cool.