Also, is #Severance going to spark a #MelTorme revival?

I want #Severance season 3 to be a prequel with Mr. Milchik's backstory.

💙📚 I'm reading "Blackouts" by Justin Torres. "He knew firsthand the punitive treatment inflicted upon the destitute who sought shelter or care from the state." *Sigh* at our collective refusal to remember what it was like before the last time we fought these battles, and the time before that, and...

My retirement account over the last month. Thanks, Orange Jesus!

Texas is a trip. My co-workers, talking a couple offices down from mine: "Did you see what Rod had for lunch today? Tofu. Tofu!" "Really? So when's he moving to California?"

Bastrop is an imperfect analogy to current U.S. events, though, because we're watching not the cycle of renewal but the deliberate burning down of the entire system to benefit a few who already have too much.

Bastrop State Park burned in 2011. All the little creatures working together to process the destruction into new growth makes me hopeful.

Thank you to members of Congress who fought for free filing. Turbo Tax sure was delighted not to offer me a free option. Pay $170 fee in order to pay my taxes? Capitalism is the best system? I don't know. Intuit and H&R Block spent a lot to keep you from filing for free. I used 1040.com #freefile

I'm reading The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah about the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. Expel the undocumented migrant workforce, give capital free rein, cut laws protecting labor from exploitation. And then? We have been through this before, then forget in a dream of American exceptionalism. 💙📚