I'm starting The Agency again. I've started this book repeatedly and was always too depressed to stick with it. But now? It's the very escapism I need to avoid despair during these times.
Wearing spandex the color of your flesh is such chaotic behavior. What is wrong with you? Why are you out jogging in you-colored clothes?
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I wish the entire world weren't being sacrificed to protect a handful of mass-murdering nut jobs and child-rapists.
I'm sure Elon Musk's dad is having a great time in Moscow. I'm sure King Charles had a fun time in the US. Travel can be a great learning experience.
I assume you can buy a lot of mercenaries with a trillion dollars. I'm sure you'd be willing to transport them anywhere if an authoritarian leader had you under his thumb. You might allow those mercenaries free passage to keep your family's secrets from being exposed by that leader.
It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.
Welp…
Ring ring: it's @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and me reminding you that early voting begins this Saturday!