So, I now have access back to this blog. I’ve resumed randomly posting to my old account at @helms-deep but now I’m not sure what to do. I don’t want to lose this account, so I’m going to keep it open, but I’m not sure what to do with it beyond that. What do you think I should do?
1. Keep this blog but start posting regularly on my old blog
2. Keep the old blog and start posting regularly here
3. Keep both blogs active and create mass confusion in the marketplace because people desperately want to keep up with my shenanigans and will follow me to the ends of the earth, even if I have 30 accounts on here
4. Use one blog for specific types of posts, and the other for different types of posts.
5. Post what appears to be the same thing to both accounts, but slightly change or alter one minor thing on one of the accounts and you have to decide which post most closely represents what really happened.
That trip just popped into my mind this afternoon. It was so good and therapeutic for me, and hoo boy could I use another dose of those incredibly kind and lovely people right now. Miss you, friends.
The moderator is terrible but this talk from April this year is fascinating in hindsight. Gladwell discusses the differences between how soccer and basketball differ in their path to a winning team. Soccer is only as good as its weakest member. An opposing team can target that weakness and exploit it. While basketball relies on the one exceptional player to elevate the whole team.
And that Covid has exposed that society is more like soccer than basketball. We have concentrated efforts for too long on the big hero problems like cancer and not enough on the weakest spots like PPE and a stockpile of paper masks.
And that Covid has disproportionally hit marginalised communities and he hopes that society will start to focus on shoring up its weakest, underserved members.
I feel really out of touch with all of you here and I kind of hate that. My brain has only been able to handle so much the past couple years, but this place has always been somewhere I’ve felt safe and able to be 100% myself.
Anyway, how are you all? What’s been happening with you? Do you need anything?
“So let me be as honest and clear as I possibly can. Donald Trump is the wrong president for our country. He has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job, but he is clearly in over his head. He cannot meet this moment. He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us. It is what it is.”
I have been a longtime fan of the AC series, along with several other Ubisoft titles.
a) Nothing in this article surprises me. At all.
b) The Kassandra thing in “Odyssey” was suuuuper obvious. I played through the game as her first, and then decided (because I’m a completionist) to play through as Alexios, but stalled out about 15-20% of the way through because his arc was trash.
Yeesh.
I am grateful we are having these conversations, and that these workplaces are being exposed for how toxic they are, but it doesn’t change the fact that this is likely only scratching the surface about how common this is in every environment.
Grace is a 15-year-old Black kid with ADHD who was on parole for briefly stealing a fellow student’s phone when lockdown started. She failed to turn in her distance-education homework, so she was jailed for violating her parole. She’s still in jail.
Grace’s story became a center of national outrage after a Propublica story about it last week. The elected judge who put Grace in jail - after an inexplicably in-person hearing that her lawyer wouldn’t attend due to safety concerns - has granted review of Grace’s case.
That judge - Mary Ellen Brennan - refused to allow Grace to return home pending review, saying that doing so would “interrupt…mental health treatment.”
(It’s obvious that being imprisoned places a significant burden on a child’s mental health).
Brennan has been spinning her role in locking up a Black child for failing to complete homework, saying that she had access to non-public information about Grace that led her to calling the child a “threat to the community.”
But Jonathan Biernat, one of Grace’s attorneys, points out that “the record is entirely devoid of facts to support the actual threat of harm…If there is additional information that has not been disclosed, I look forward to reviewing that documentation.”
Meanwhile, Brennan’s statements are full of self-praise for her judicial wisdom and kindness and dedication to justice - and awfully shy on empathy for either the child she’s locked away or that child’s frantic mother.
The local Board of Education unanimously passed a resolution asking for review of Grace’s case: “No harm should come to (Birmingham Public Schools) students as a result of the sudden shift to online learning caused by the COVID-19 global pandemic.”
Meanwhile, the Michigan Supreme Court is “reviewing the circumstances” of Grace’s case.
Judge Brennan was ran unopposed in 2014. She is up for re-election this year, with her term expiring on Dec 31.
