Notices by artsyhonker aka Kathryn (artsyhonker@mastodon.art), page 15

@JubalBarca *nod*

There is way too much entropy-fighting involved in everyday stuff, I think. It is tiring! I hope you find a relatively low-hassle solution.

@JubalBarca I lost access to my Canadian bank accounts at some point. Commiserations.

Is it a phone thing or a SIM thing? Figuring this out may be part of the next step.

@SuzanEraslan @shoutcacophony

CATB OOPS

Sorry, that's all I got.

@nev it's from a Christian perspective, but I did a video thing on Ruth several years ago, can dig it out of YouTube if you like. (I think I kept the Christian bit to "also, btw, genealogy of Jesus" but it's been a while.)

@nev uncovered his feet totally is a euphemism

@cosullivan Me, regularly, though less regularly now I've started playing Ingress.

@Azure I sortof wonder what the world would look like with some kind of distributed direct democracy, everyone capable gets a quota of decisions to vote on but other stakeholders have opportunity to vote too, and suddenly we can't send toxic waste to a random poor country or steal all the clean water or whatever. We have to find better solutions, because the "externalities" become real.

I have no idea how to implement this kind of thing.

@Azure Despite my own cynicism, I tend to think having some kind of government is better than just about every other form of running things I can think of.

I just also don't trust it.

I don't know whether I want one huge world government or lots of tiny regions, almost city-states.

The realistic choices I can vote for, of course, are between "further to the right than me" and "further to the right than THAT", so.

@luka Hey, good work!

It's Pentecost tomorrow (well, this evening) so I made cheesecake today.

This is a sort of hangover from my days of practising Judaism; a touchstone with what was a major part of my life.

Can't eat it yet, it's still cooling. Someone captured an Ingress portal I care about, so I might go for a walk.

@luka I'm "free" today. Went for a walk with my spouse before the sun got too strong. Later, making cheesecake, and re-dyeing my hair.

@Azure This is a good point; my issue is more that nation-states are not necessarily good in their intent toward citizens (though some of that is due to crapitalist capture of state systems).

@Azure This strikes me as a startlingly optimistic view of state bureaucracy...

@celesteh I may simply not be following the physics, but this strikes me as being like saying division on machines can't work because dividing by zero doesn't work.

@ansate I'm glad!

It seems to be the right combination for me of having company/accountability, and working in short bursts that aren't overwhelming (but not so short that I don't do anything). It's helping me a lot, but it *only* helps me because I'm sharing it: if I tried to do this on my own I would very likely just read the internet or play Ingress or something instead.

@sajan In Canada, window screens are a thing.

I keep meaning to install one here -- just a temporary thing -- to make opening the window more pleasant.