Nancy
@nancinette.bsky.social
I use my powers of indelicacy for good. Mostly.
For years my best therapy was singing harmony to this album from beginning to end. Especially Perfect Blue Buildings- “help me stay awake, I’m faaallliinnn…”
32 years ago today, Counting Crows gifted us a masterpiece.
I am not worried, I am not overly concerned. I am, however, old.
I am not worried, I am not overly concerned. I am, however, old.
September 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
For years my best therapy was singing harmony to this album from beginning to end. Especially Perfect Blue Buildings- “help me stay awake, I’m faaallliinnn…”
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Definitely recommend reading this if all of the bad stuff has been getting to you, it is one very big and hopeful thing to hang onto
Among all the big bad things happening on our planet, there's one Big Good Thing, the sudden, startling rise of solar energy.
It changes the power dynamic, in every sense of the word 'power.'
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
It changes the power dynamic, in every sense of the word 'power.'
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
July 12, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Definitely recommend reading this if all of the bad stuff has been getting to you, it is one very big and hopeful thing to hang onto
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‘We have a PM afraid to say what is true & an opposition leader thrilling at the prospect of saying what is not. This is Trump’s dubious gift…he has already changed every other democracy by proving what a true charlatan can get away with.’
Makes you weep.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/20122/...
Makes you weep.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/20122/...
Second-cousin sycophancy
Donald Trump does not delegate the way ordinary presidents do. He is not interested in briefings. He makes decisions without thinking deeply, sometimes without thinking at all. His announcements, as o...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
February 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
‘We have a PM afraid to say what is true & an opposition leader thrilling at the prospect of saying what is not. This is Trump’s dubious gift…he has already changed every other democracy by proving what a true charlatan can get away with.’
Makes you weep.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/20122/...
Makes you weep.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/20122/...
Reposted by Nancy
One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents.
Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
November 20, 2024 at 2:10 AM
One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents.
Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.