A very important few points.

Six hours after total knee replacement. Prehab works a wonder.

In the tradition of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, faculty & staff at Columbia, Tufts, & Georgetown universities are initiating a weekly vigil, holding photos of abducted students, colleagues, alumni--Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, and Badar Kan Suri. We demand their immediate release & call for accountability & justice. At Columbia, we are no longer able to endure the silence of our leadership in the face of open assault on our institution and community members.

If you must be a thief. Be a cheese thief. It just makes you more sympathetic if you get caught. And cheese? Like gold it's highly portable and dense in value.

#crimeTips

I think it's to keep my bald head warm. I thought it looked quite stylish, like the velvet hats on the subjects of renaissance portraits. The ornament is a blood oxygen sensor. Marvin the cyborg knee is doing great I can walk without the walker, though Mrs. Dr. Omed tells me not to overdo. The physical therapist visits tomorrow, we'll see what she thinks. The pain so far is mild, but I came home coked to the gills and gone manic to boot, so after the spinal block wears off, that may change.

If you are dead, the dead savior commands you to rise and see. I know how Lazarus felt, because I've been commanded to rise and walk in the Blue World. Blue is bleak. Blue is beautiful. Der blaue Engel ist schrecklich. Put on your Van Gogh shades, and the harsh shadow behind you is the Blue Angel. We will walk together again, in this blue world.

I feel a poem coming on.

It occurs to me that the difference between my reaction and your reaction to new lenses is my protanopia (Van Gogh eyes). I already saw more blue in the world. Blue can be bleak, but there are perhaps sterner joys in that end of the spectrum. There are blue angels too, less gregarious than other angels. Solitudes. Madness. Maybe Van Gogh's trouble came in part because he lived in the Blue World. She's a difficult lover. Grief is giving you a deep massage, as Tim Morton might say. Relax into it.

Hey, this Eno track is more adventurous than a lot of his ambient stuff, and so far I only see it on YouTube and SoundCloud!

About 9 minutes through, after you think you know what's going on, a spooky processed voice reminiscent of his track "Glitch" shows up.

(The voice at the start is familiar from "Compact Forest Proposal: Condition 2".)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq7z9Kv2Rs4

@simsa03

The lady of PT commanded me to rise and walk, and I did. Took a little walk (with the walker) round the corner, down the hall and back. Did some stairs. I think I lucked out, all the staff were kind and competent.. Smooth operation.

All dressed up and ready to go to surgery. Getting a new knee. While there’s still health care.

@simsa03 I don't think I got those lenses. Had I known that there were cheaper lenses, I would had advised you to get the upgrade. Frankly, I would have offered to pay for them. I didn't feel like I was fully informed by the doc who did the retinal peel, so I maybe know how you feel. I was pissed. I certainly would not recommend him or his clinic.

Trump's budget: We're cutting your health care and cancer cures to pay to deport your nurse assistant and cancer researcher.

@simsa03 I was in New Orleans last weekend and took my old knees out for a last walk. I walked, walked, walked, French Quarter, Warehouse District, Garden District, six, seven miles a day, and looked, looked, looked, through my cyborg lens at the gaudy world. Not tired of looking. The daily doomscroll I neglected those days. It's the 2 dozen funerals a day I attend via the iParasite that make me tired. The grief is worse than the knee pain. How do we manage without turning away, closing eyes?

@simsa03 I hope I don't feel about my upcoming knee surgeries (right knee tomorrow morning) as you do about your cataract surgery. Post surgery regrets is still a new thing for me. The retinal "peel" left a permanent kink in vertical lines in my left eye. There was nothing to do but get used to it. You could get sepia tinted glasses... or a blindfold and a white cane, if you're really tired of looking.

@clmerle @br00t4c It's easy to lie when you don't know (or care) what the truth is. What *truth* is.

Unlike Pilate, he doesn't even know how to ask the question.

Still more protest photos...

#MayDay

More snapshots from Louisville, Kentucky #MayDayProtest

I went to the May Day protest in downtown Louisville. The turn out was not as big as the April 5 protest, but still a respectable crowd considering it was a work day. And rainy. As we used to chant back in the 20th cent, Power to the People! Right On!

#wehavethepower #resist #MayDayProtest

@indivisibleteam Know Your Enemy, Fast Politics, Trashfuture, Conspirituality, Tom Scocca's Indiginity Podcast.

You see how strange this is?