Thanks Garrett!

After the 90s, my mom's whistle stood on our bookshelf in a small glass case with the text "In case of revolution, break glass."

That whistle and its box were lost at some point over the years, but the message remains. May we all break the glass together.

As one of my favorite protest signs said, "I inherited my whistle from my mom." In the anti-Milosevic protests of the 90s, whistles were used to express people's dissatisfaction; many of those same whistles are still in play.

I attended a few of the protests while in Belgrade; one had well over 10k people, and nevertheless, we all fell silent for 15 minutes for the 15 people who died in Novi Sad last November.

Making noise in such a crowd is powerful, but total communal silence brought tears to my eyes.

Happy belated stellar birthday 🥳