Monkinetic Weblog

From a thread I posted on Play Viscious, re-posted here for posterity:

• My wife and I watched part 1 of the PBS documentary "The Vote" last night and I am learning a LOT. Some notes (a thread):
• If I learned anything about women's suffrage in school was quickly forgotten, pretty much everything in there was new. I think I knew Susan B. Anthony's name and Ida B. Wells.
• I think this documentary started to help me see intersectionality in action some? the fight for the ability to vote included conflicts over who should be granted the franchise first: educated white women, or black men. And black women getting left out either way (it was black men).
• The fight for voting rights for women was absolutely necessary, but it hurt to see the racist attitudes and decisions coming from the white suffragettes from leadership on down.
• Frederick Douglass was a huge proponent of women's suffrage - and he and the black women's suffrage clubs were pushed out when it seemed like black involvement would set back the cause in the jim crow south.
• also: white men are bastards

My mood tracker finally started asking about coronavirus and I was kind of like “that’s what I’ve been saying!”

But props to MoodPath - the app has daily questions and prompts to help tease out what’s affecting mood, and it really helps me get past “today I’m MEH” 😐

John Gruber responds to a new article in The Guardian that people with even mild coronavirus systems can be having serious brain disorders (for example strokes, encephalomyelitis, and psychotic episodes):

Germany yesterday reported 298 new cases of COVID-19.

The U.S. reported over 55,000. Just yesterday. It is raging out of control here in the United States. It’s that simple. We’ve lost any handle on it we might have had, infections are now raging out of control, and a large segment of the population has decided to pretend it isn’t happening and isn’t a big deal if you do get it.

For those of us who’ve been taking this seriously since March, it’s soul-crushing that this is where we’re at after four months of isolation. It sucks. We who’ve done the right thing are the ones most yearning for — and let’s be honest, most deserving of — a few tastes of normalcy.

I am begging everyone I know - please recognize that it is insane, or worse cruel, to pretend this isn't happening, or that it's a plot from people on the other end of a political spectrum to inconvenience you or steal your precious individual liberties... this is hundreds of thousands of friends and families suffering or dead.

Do the right thing — stay home as much as you can, wear a mask and keep your distance when you’re out. You don’t want to get this and you don’t want your family to get it.

Brainstorming in steel

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my skills aren't up to my vision and my vision isn't up to my heart and my heart isn't up to the task

Got some 18ga sheet steel, a plasma torch, and an idea

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Had a man tell me yesterday that wearing having to wear his mask, which was hot and in which he "couldn't breathe" was "socialism".

Wife and I watching Scandinavian Noir mystery series on Acorn

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as seen on twitter 😂

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https://twitter.com/Travon/status/1278769857102635009?s=20

Some thoughts on crimes against BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) voters I left in a thread on Twitter

https://twitter.com/steveivy/status/1278807752005939200

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After realizing that my moods had been on a crash for a while -- due to you know, 2020 -- I decided to grab the first mood tracking app I could find and start journaling/recording, so I can get an "outside" view of my inside brain.

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Stopping work to relax and celebrate my birthday and a late father's day. Left a Sticky for myself so I remember what my next steps are with #goldfrog

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TFW your sweet sweet db storage changes and your not-close-to-ready-for-release feature share a branch #programmerproblems

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This is the first time in my life I've wondered if my family will be intact come my next birthday. It's terrifying and a feeling the BIPOC folks around me have lived with for centuries

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Today I am "one more 'til 50" years old

Readers: I'm processing a LOT of stuff these days, and I'm reading some recommended books by Black authors about the structural racism in our nation, so writing here on the blog will be... sporadic. Brain is full, do not have concrete opinions to post right now.

My wife gets awfully competitive when we play head-to-head Ticket to Ride #games https://www.daysofwonder.com/tickettoride/en/

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Wow, Phil Vischer, creator of the wildly popular (in the 2000s) Veggie Tales christian kids series and voice of Bob the Tomato, made a video discussing the history of race in America:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGUwcs9qJXY&feature=emb_logo

It's amazing, and I'm going to link to some similar videos from black creators, but thought this is a great intro for us white evangelicals who are just getting our heads straight.

TFW you're teetering on the edge between using the #microformats library to find h-cards and their properties and writing an entirely new wrapper to make finding #webmention comments "easy"

Cynicism, sarcasm, and snark are defense mechanisms against difficult feelings, and I'm trying to set them aside and "sit with" the things I'm processing right now.