Notices by The Embodiment of RED (thraeryn@thraeryn.net)

HEY, YOU.

There's a lot more to you than whatever attitudes & skills your school or workplace want you to exhibit today.

That's part of why you come here. We celebrate the rest of you. The rest of you is really cool.

❣️

Would you buy something like this, with a word for which you felt affinity? I'm thinking $3 without chain, $4 with bracelet chain, $5 with pendant chain.

So many actions are felonies. So many are non-violent. Many can legitimately be done by mistake.

I bet you've committed multiple felonies without realizing it. You just didn't inconvenience anyone.

Support voting rights for felons. Support hiring former felons. You almost certainly are an unconvicted felon.

✅ find a really old TV with a UHF dial
✅ attach antenna
✅ browse around UHF channels 80-84
✅ stop when you hear one-to-three-second snippets of people talking
✅ tell a buddy what you heard

Congratulations! You just intercepted and disclosed an electronic communication, 18 U.S. Code § 2511, a felony w/5 years max imprisonment.

🔲 get gas cans & gas for a genny; even if you don't have one, someone else may have one to lend
🔲 find any saws you have, especially chainsaws; someone gotta clear all the fallen junk
🔲 do your laundry; bag it to keep dry if you like
🔲 charge yo' battery packs
🔲 find your friends that live near hospitals; they'll likely keep power, and you should convince them to have an open door to their buddies

This is post-Harvey & post-Ike advice, straight shootin'

Just poured out a whole bucket of thoughts on whether I prefer "DM" or "PM". The short version: I like "DM", because I think of it meaning "discreet message" - implying I can share with trusted people at my discretion.

My daughter made me emojis!
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