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Fav academic quote ever: "To be functional ... and to make the reading more accessible ... It is worth clarifying that synchronic order has as its object the intelligibility or pedagogy of reading, since the idea of a genealogy is to ... [ see next part ]

Wend is a literary word that means “to move slowly from one place to another usually by a winding or indirect course”; today I am wending my way through a massive email inbox.

Presage - "press'-ij"] - foretell, predict, give a sign that something will be happening. ... I've been mispronouncing this my whole life, but I to change that because I presage that DOGE is going to cause a lot of headaches.

"Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?"
-- L. M. Montgomery

"Feisty" describes someone who has or shows a lively aggressiveness especially in being unafraid to fight or argue. I have often been described as feisty. That trait has come in handy of late.

"The first step to sanity is learning how to delegate some of the responsibility to other people." So here goes - any law students or other legal-minded folk out there who'd like to help me with some research? I'm looking for cases, decisions, testimony on serial killer behavior.

@mrfungie.bsky.social Here's a PacNW fungi. Not sure what it is, but it's pretty.

"Joy moves faster than sadness or disgust, but nothing is speedier than rage." -- Matthew Shaer, narrative journalist

Food for thought: "The bid for power is based upon the creation of crisis ... fueled by emotional themes of fear and threat." Dunbar (2024). A typology of authoritarian leadership. In: The Psychology of Authoritarian Leaders. Intnl & Cultural Psychology.

Struggling with a new research paper - just how do you describe an emerging criminal trend that no one wants to talk about except maybe the media, because it involves sex, death, and innocent victims.