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https://open.substack.com/pub/madpiratemayday/p/above-their-deep-and-dreamless-sleep?r=25ny58&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcome=true

Text: Above their deep and dreamless sleep

The silent stars go by

Written in the late hours of Christmas, 2023. Silently observed the birth of a martyred revolutionary today, who is and was deeply misunderstood in his own time and now, who left behind a warning — a prediction, not a threat, but a tragic possible consequence

a nativity scene in front of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, a statue of the Christ child, swaddled in a keffiyeh, placed in a pile of rubble, a lit candle by his head.

#life #theUniverse #ceasefire #pantheons #god #nature
https://open.substack.com/pub/madpiratemayday/p/the-most-dangerous-place-on-the-most?r=25ny58&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

text over a photo of "The Carina Nebula, or Eta Carinae Nebula, (catalogued as NGC 3372; also known as the Great Carina Nebula), a large, complex area of bright and dark nebulosity in the constellation Carina, located in the Carina–Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way galaxy. The nebula is approximately 8,500 light-years (2,600 pc) from Earth." -- description from Wikipedia, Carina Nebula

text reads: the most dangerous place on the most hospitable planet, or how can I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart? In a universe we see in sharper focus now, with telescopes pointed out into infinity from orbit, sharpening details reveal places we can only appreciate ..." and then it cuts off because it is a teaser.

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#longcovidstories #moon #isolation
https://open.substack.com/pub/madpiratemayday/p/still-around?r=25ny58&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

photo of the moon surface. text reads:

Still around
I just wanted to pop up and wave so y’all don’t think I’m dead.
mad mayday
Dec 4, 2023

I have trouble writing, or finishing writing anyway. The drafts folder is total chaos. That I could write at all last summer was, in hindsight, miraculous. Lately I feel like Sam Bell in Moon at the end of his shift — isolated, broken apart, not really supposed to be here, doing his best to cope with an ongoing existential crisis, most communication is with a machine.

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"If we tax the rich they will just leave."

So?
Let them leave.
Pretty much anywhere they go they'll need to pay taxes.
They can't take the land, houses, resources, or infrastructure they're hoarding.
They're not doing us a favour, Trickle down is a lie.
If they're only staying as long as they can avoid contributing their fair share, why would we want them here anyway?

Either they contribute to the society that benefits them or they leave and free up their stash.

Bye bye. We can do better.

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Two panel cartoon. Ist panel showing two women shoppers carrying bags of stuff complaining about a large protest that blocks a street, saying 'This is all terribly inconvenient."
2nd panel, the same street flooded, with people in a boat in the background, two women shoppers wading through deep water, clutching their packages, saying 'This is all terribly inconvenient."
Caption: One way or another, change is coming.

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People always ask, "Where is Bigfoot?" But they never ask, "How is Bigfoot?"

Yeti never complains..

@ianoji thank you! 🙏

"The most ordinary soundscapes soothe me, a memory of how the world sounded when the pedal broke off my bicycle and I had to walk everywhere, how walking from my neighborhood to the new-ish mixed use area on the way to the commissary felt uncanny, so many sounds, so many changes in terrain from day to day due to construction and unloading vehicles. I still see it in my mind as many places at once, places that all exist now like map overlays ..."
#memory #longcovidstories #walking #commute

a photo of a grackle next to a sign that says "Look for Trains"
Text reads "buhhhhhhhhraingfoggly notions: ordinary sounds, commutes, the bruncheoisie, and squeezing a big giant book into a budget tighter than an ant fart" The strange word is brainfog, creatively spelled to reflect my exhaustion.

"A melody drifts through shuddering cicadas and traffic rumbling on 35.

I can’t make it out — it is far but moving closer."

#weather #chickadees #birds #HackberryHop #music #ghosts #poetry #cajun #CleomaBreaux #JoeFalcon

https://madpiratemayday.substack.com/p/distant-music-fading-ghosts

old photo of Cleoma Breaux Falcon and Joe Falcon. They are seated, she holds an acoustic guitar and he holds a Cajun squeezebox.

The text is my substack link: madpiratemayday.substack.com

"Distant music, fading ghosts: a month in the past, a break from the heat, a passing rain"

@hugo Thank you, that means a lot.

@preclude thank you for reading and saying something nice!

"In the library, maps fade and crumble but some memory persists, with rice starch and micro-thin tangles of mulberry tissue maybe I can knit them together, redraw faded forests, dry rivers, eroded coastlines …" #memory #longcovidstories

https://open.substack.com/pub/madpiratemayday/p/a-memory-of-theory?r=25ny58&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

library of congress card catalog room, early 1900's. black and white photo of a room with with tables covered with boxes full of cards, and a few people in their own worlds searching through them.

Watching our first significant rain chance in months passing to the west, as usual.

#drought #ClimateChange #climateAnxiety #LongCovid #PaperWasps #ApocalypseGardening

https://open.substack.com/pub/madpiratemayday/p/please-no-i-didnt-order-the-usual?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

photo of a Mexican Sunflower (tithonia rotundifolia) visited by a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus)
"Can’t sleep, listening to music, riding out some new covid flare that basically makes everything more painful, too loud, and too bright (turning off some lights and down some music right now omg), and I apologize for sending out another post so soon, but I just want to share something about living in Austin that has been driving me CRAZY for decades. This happens all the time, I swear we’re cursed. Watch this storm totally shun Austin during the longest drought we’ve had since 1910."

honestly think my brain broke when trying to write but I did really great in Duolingo this week, so there's that.

in which I ask in the footnotes "do we live in a cartoon? the shadows on the wall look so real."

https://open.substack.com/pub/madpiratemayday/p/the-center-is-made-of-melted-hazelnut?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

"the center is made of melted hazelnut ganache that traveled from far away lands and did not hold."
the picture is of a king and queen and the spectre of death leading them in the danse macabre

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#bleptember

Blurry because this dog was a bundle of energy.

Blurred close-up of a black & white dog with its tongue hanging out. The dog is looking to its left.

"A hexagonal wooden platform sits in the center of the floor, and on it is a mysterious thing under an enormous black canvas tarp, the form more kiki than bouba ..."
https://madpiratemayday.substack.com/p/illuminated-fictions-shadow-puppet
#art #mystery #GiorgioDeChirico #MetaphysicalArt #projects #LongCovid #substack

An oil painting by Giorgio DeChirico, two figures composed of assorted objects I can't identify. They represent Hector and Andromache from Homer's Iliad, and the scene is their last moment together before he goes to war.

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Food for thought:
“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.”

― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

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TODAY AUG 25 is the last day to submit testimony to HICPAC about why infection control precautions should not be weakened. We need clean air and N95+ respirators in healthcare. We need transparency in CDC/HICPAC process.

Talking points from NNU: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GVvo0a3qru_1IcpO56Nj4VW3waNdwXapjFTAopwNjxY/mobilebasic

Submit your comment in writing to the CDC at hicpac@cdc.gov

also: CDC Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) needs public oversight.

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/cdc-hicpac-needs-public-oversight

#CovidIsNotOver #BringBackMasks

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