I should probably just shut up
@lurker0000.bsky.social
Follow me at your own peril. I might just block you. If I block you, it's not because you offended me; it's because I control the noise in my life, not you.
By reading the past, I see the future.
Camp Fire and Helene survivor.
By reading the past, I see the future.
Camp Fire and Helene survivor.
Pinned
Here's a challenge or perhaps a dare.
Go an entire day without judging another human being.
Not the idiot driver. Not the moron in a MAGA hat. Not the old lady writing a check at the cash register. Not the woke libtard.
Nobody.
I dare you to try.
If you do, you WILL see your biases and hatreds.
Go an entire day without judging another human being.
Not the idiot driver. Not the moron in a MAGA hat. Not the old lady writing a check at the cash register. Not the woke libtard.
Nobody.
I dare you to try.
If you do, you WILL see your biases and hatreds.
I haven't been posting because I got really bad food poisoning, and have been completely out of it for several days.
But we're still in Morocco, currently in the high Atlas Mts.
Here's the view from our hotel.
But we're still in Morocco, currently in the high Atlas Mts.
Here's the view from our hotel.
December 8, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I haven't been posting because I got really bad food poisoning, and have been completely out of it for several days.
But we're still in Morocco, currently in the high Atlas Mts.
Here's the view from our hotel.
But we're still in Morocco, currently in the high Atlas Mts.
Here's the view from our hotel.
Moonrise over the riads
December 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Moonrise over the riads
You may hate this series of posts, but we have spent the past 7 years fighting insurers, lawyers, and lawmakers to help us recover from the Camp Fire.
Today, we are celebrating being 99% of the way through the process we were allowed to participate in, unfair as that was.
Today, we are celebrating being 99% of the way through the process we were allowed to participate in, unfair as that was.
December 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
You may hate this series of posts, but we have spent the past 7 years fighting insurers, lawyers, and lawmakers to help us recover from the Camp Fire.
Today, we are celebrating being 99% of the way through the process we were allowed to participate in, unfair as that was.
Today, we are celebrating being 99% of the way through the process we were allowed to participate in, unfair as that was.
The moon rising in our riad.
December 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The moon rising in our riad.
At first the medina on Marrakech seems like chaotic crush, of people, tourists, vendors, scooters, noise, and smells.
December 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
At first the medina on Marrakech seems like chaotic crush, of people, tourists, vendors, scooters, noise, and smells.
The evening call to prayer, Marrakech medina.
Sound up.
Sound up.
December 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The evening call to prayer, Marrakech medina.
Sound up.
Sound up.
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Say what???
December 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Say what???
And that whole "as long as it doesn't happen to them"?
Well, I got some bad news for you.
Maybe you'll be "lucky" and not lose your home in a wildfire or have your town devastated by a 1000 year flood (I've had both), but it's already affecting you, we've just decided that it's "normal" now.
Well, I got some bad news for you.
Maybe you'll be "lucky" and not lose your home in a wildfire or have your town devastated by a 1000 year flood (I've had both), but it's already affecting you, we've just decided that it's "normal" now.
"Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War"
That war was lost when Trump took office. But even before that, it was all just lip service.
Now, everyone's decided that climate chaos is fine as long as it doesn't happen to them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
That war was lost when Trump took office. But even before that, it was all just lip service.
Now, everyone's decided that climate chaos is fine as long as it doesn't happen to them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
And that whole "as long as it doesn't happen to them"?
Well, I got some bad news for you.
Maybe you'll be "lucky" and not lose your home in a wildfire or have your town devastated by a 1000 year flood (I've had both), but it's already affecting you, we've just decided that it's "normal" now.
Well, I got some bad news for you.
Maybe you'll be "lucky" and not lose your home in a wildfire or have your town devastated by a 1000 year flood (I've had both), but it's already affecting you, we've just decided that it's "normal" now.
"Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War"
That war was lost when Trump took office. But even before that, it was all just lip service.
Now, everyone's decided that climate chaos is fine as long as it doesn't happen to them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
That war was lost when Trump took office. But even before that, it was all just lip service.
Now, everyone's decided that climate chaos is fine as long as it doesn't happen to them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
"Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War"
That war was lost when Trump took office. But even before that, it was all just lip service.
Now, everyone's decided that climate chaos is fine as long as it doesn't happen to them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
That war was lost when Trump took office. But even before that, it was all just lip service.
Now, everyone's decided that climate chaos is fine as long as it doesn't happen to them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
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I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
Raise your hand if you understand that we are going to invade Venezuela, install a dictatorial puppet regime, screw the people over in every way possible, steal all their oil, and leave a smoldering wasteland in our wake.
🙋♂️
🙋♂️
November 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Raise your hand if you understand that we are going to invade Venezuela, install a dictatorial puppet regime, screw the people over in every way possible, steal all their oil, and leave a smoldering wasteland in our wake.
🙋♂️
🙋♂️
Well, shit.
November 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Well, shit.
This on top of everything else.
But I've known this was true for years now. And as hedge funds buy up more and more homes, they can manipulate the market in any way they want to. Even if it mean making millions homeless.
But I've known this was true for years now. And as hedge funds buy up more and more homes, they can manipulate the market in any way they want to. Even if it mean making millions homeless.
NEW: There’s this annoying assumption that while oligarchy may explain many bad trends in our society, it somehow has nothing to do with the housing crisis.
This argument is amplified by movements bankrolled by oligarchs - even as reams of data prove it is a flagrant lie.
This argument is amplified by movements bankrolled by oligarchs - even as reams of data prove it is a flagrant lie.
Pay No Attention To Oligarchs Raising Your Rent
A brief look at the absurd idea that billionaires and corporations have nothing to do with America's housing crisis.
sirota.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This on top of everything else.
But I've known this was true for years now. And as hedge funds buy up more and more homes, they can manipulate the market in any way they want to. Even if it mean making millions homeless.
But I've known this was true for years now. And as hedge funds buy up more and more homes, they can manipulate the market in any way they want to. Even if it mean making millions homeless.
We Americans have totally forgotten how to love life.
November 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
We Americans have totally forgotten how to love life.
Uzbekistan.
IYKYK.
If you don't know, thousands of years of history; Silk Road, Amir Timur ("Tamerlane"), Al Khwarizmi, Ibn Sina, etc., etc.
Do an image search for Samarkand. 😳
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
You know nothing.™
IYKYK.
If you don't know, thousands of years of history; Silk Road, Amir Timur ("Tamerlane"), Al Khwarizmi, Ibn Sina, etc., etc.
Do an image search for Samarkand. 😳
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
You know nothing.™
November 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Uzbekistan.
IYKYK.
If you don't know, thousands of years of history; Silk Road, Amir Timur ("Tamerlane"), Al Khwarizmi, Ibn Sina, etc., etc.
Do an image search for Samarkand. 😳
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
You know nothing.™
IYKYK.
If you don't know, thousands of years of history; Silk Road, Amir Timur ("Tamerlane"), Al Khwarizmi, Ibn Sina, etc., etc.
Do an image search for Samarkand. 😳
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
You know nothing.™
BTW, my Great Courses journey so far has been:
1. Ancient Mesopotamia
2. The Persian Empire
3. The Islamic Golden Age
Each were 24 lectures.
I'm currently watching a 13 part series on The Silk Road.
And I'm enjoying this *way* more than any movie or binging any series.
1. Ancient Mesopotamia
2. The Persian Empire
3. The Islamic Golden Age
Each were 24 lectures.
I'm currently watching a 13 part series on The Silk Road.
And I'm enjoying this *way* more than any movie or binging any series.
November 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
BTW, my Great Courses journey so far has been:
1. Ancient Mesopotamia
2. The Persian Empire
3. The Islamic Golden Age
Each were 24 lectures.
I'm currently watching a 13 part series on The Silk Road.
And I'm enjoying this *way* more than any movie or binging any series.
1. Ancient Mesopotamia
2. The Persian Empire
3. The Islamic Golden Age
Each were 24 lectures.
I'm currently watching a 13 part series on The Silk Road.
And I'm enjoying this *way* more than any movie or binging any series.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Me, I've been giving thanks every single day - for my life and everything I have - since Nov 8, 2018, when I lost everything I had and nearly lost my life as well.
So, though we mark this day, it is just as special as every other day in my life for the past 7 years.
Me, I've been giving thanks every single day - for my life and everything I have - since Nov 8, 2018, when I lost everything I had and nearly lost my life as well.
So, though we mark this day, it is just as special as every other day in my life for the past 7 years.
November 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Happy Thanksgiving!
Me, I've been giving thanks every single day - for my life and everything I have - since Nov 8, 2018, when I lost everything I had and nearly lost my life as well.
So, though we mark this day, it is just as special as every other day in my life for the past 7 years.
Me, I've been giving thanks every single day - for my life and everything I have - since Nov 8, 2018, when I lost everything I had and nearly lost my life as well.
So, though we mark this day, it is just as special as every other day in my life for the past 7 years.
My wife might not like to hear this, but this cat and I are soulmates.
I love him so much, sometimes it hurts.
I love him so much, sometimes it hurts.
November 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
My wife might not like to hear this, but this cat and I are soulmates.
I love him so much, sometimes it hurts.
I love him so much, sometimes it hurts.
Yeah, there are a few places I want to go.
November 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Yeah, there are a few places I want to go.
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Being worshiped by your cats is a great burden.
November 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Being worshiped by your cats is a great burden.
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We need:
• Food
• Housing
• Community
We don't need billionaires.
• Food
• Housing
• Community
We don't need billionaires.
November 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
We need:
• Food
• Housing
• Community
We don't need billionaires.
• Food
• Housing
• Community
We don't need billionaires.
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Being alive is some weird ass shit.
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Being alive is some weird ass shit.
The US housing market is not sustainable. Not in any way, or even close.
And as I've said for the last 2 decades, "as goes the housing market, so goes the economy."
It will be a bloodbath, probably triggered by doubts about the AI market that will then spread to real estate.
And as I've said for the last 2 decades, "as goes the housing market, so goes the economy."
It will be a bloodbath, probably triggered by doubts about the AI market that will then spread to real estate.
November 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The US housing market is not sustainable. Not in any way, or even close.
And as I've said for the last 2 decades, "as goes the housing market, so goes the economy."
It will be a bloodbath, probably triggered by doubts about the AI market that will then spread to real estate.
And as I've said for the last 2 decades, "as goes the housing market, so goes the economy."
It will be a bloodbath, probably triggered by doubts about the AI market that will then spread to real estate.
Being alive is some weird ass shit.
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Being alive is some weird ass shit.