Julie and I went for a walk and saw this house around the corner. It looks nice.
This Guy Noticed Jigsaw Puzzle Companies Use The Same Patterns, So He Made Some Mashups.
“Jigsaw puzzle companies tend to use the same cut patterns for multiple puzzles. This makes the pieces interchangeable. As a result, I sometimes find that I can combine portions from two or more puzzles to make a surreal picture that the publisher never imagined.”
Jacobin: A Marxist View of Tolkien’s Middle Earth
J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy world is a medieval utopia with poverty and oppression airbrushed out of the picture. But Tolkien’s work also contains a romantic critique of industrial capitalism that is an important part of its vast popular appeal.
Also: race, gender, and sex in Middle Earth.
Good morning. Here are your daily ducks.
That strange quality of light you’re seeing in this photo is called “sunshine.” We have not seen it here in a while. True fact: San Diego was once famous for it!
Everywhere on Earth, from Europe to China to Africa to Australia and the Americas, is dominated by Europe or its legacy.
The whole world is either Europe, a European colony, or conquered by Europe or the US (a European colony).
That’s all coming to an end now, says Ian Welsh.
And it’s happening so fast we can see it.
The Death Throes Of The World Europe Made:
[Conflict with China] is about whether a non-European power will be allowed to remake the world Europe made. … It is an existential threat to European rule, and it is being treated as such. The “yellow peril” has arrived.
In 30 years, will Mandarin be the the new English? The new lingua-Franca? The language everyone has to know and that you can, if clumsily, get by on almost everywhere?
Absent a major war, likely nuclear, or civilization collapse, I find it hard to see a scenario where China doesn’t become the most important global power.
In Santee, which is a few miles from where we live, 17-year-old Rebecca Philips says she saw a naked “adult male” in the local YMCA dressing room. The naked person was reportedly a transgender woman. Philips later appeared on Tucker Carlson, the story got picked up by the New York Post and Gateway Pundit, and now a local right-wing wannabe-demagogue is claiming Antifa is going to target the community for violence and their people will “send them [effing] packing.” And the Y is closing early for fear everything will blow up.
Can everybody just chill here? And not go on Tucker Carlson or get ready to send people [effing] packing?
Santee YMCA Closing Early, Fearing Rally Clashes Over Teen’s Report, Trans Rights (Times of San Diego/Ken Stone)
Instagram video: British comedian loves Fahrenheit.
Fahrenheit is the best. Celsius is for losers.
Is Micromanaging Your Life With an App Really a Good Idea?. I’ll add a reminder to myself to look into that.