At 2am last night, the door-sensor in my shop failed to report in, so the house alarm started chirping (at least it wasn’t a smoke-detector battery, which was my first thought). When I put the new battery into the sensor today, that will be the third “ten year” battery in a sensor that has been installed in my shop, which is just over five years old. Which is a metaphor (analogy?) for a lot of things in the world today, I think. #ThingsFallApart

Currently reading: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. I read this book for school about 20 years ago, so it’s past time for a reread. #nowreading #bookstodon #bannedbooks #ThingsFallApart #ChinuaAchebe

@simon_brooke I have this in my phone notes stirring and chilling #thingsfallapart

Exciting! #thingsfallapart

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/idris-elba-things-fall-apart-tv-series-a24-david-oyelowo-1236156154/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0TAlciZ289AGKGvjfjfdth_OE0s2uxokeRgtXIXz4vwQOuWEd2YlZQx_Q_aem_4VpwI4Oqq1syTrVnPDumWQ

'Things Fall Apart': Idris Elba to Lead New A24 Drama Series!! #ThingsFallApart, #IdrisElba, #A24

https://movizark.com/2024/09/27/things-fall-apart-idris-elba-to-lead-new-a24-drama-series/

@enoch_exe_inc @thetechtutor @taylorlorenz

#American #institutions must maintain certain narratives or #ThingsFallApart: https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/05/11/post-colonial-moralism/

@FantasticalEconomics

#ThingsFallApart, including the ventilation shafts of the doomsday bunkers the billionaires build, because whoever is left on the surface will drop venomous animals, dirt, and anything else to gum them up.

@smach

@smach @FantasticalEconomics
The modern concept of “hospitals” developed out of a need to centralize care resulting from industrialized warfare.

So much of our modern society is vestiges of the Industrial Revolution (school bells condition children for factory work!) and we just never evolved the #institutions.

The future of #healthcare is in the home and that breaks business models, talent, training, supply chain, logistics, etc.

“Late stage capitalism” is a euphemism for #ThingsFallApart.

@tiredguy99
If Trump wins, #ThingsFallApart within hours, days, and weeks.

#Project2025

@roknrol Escape is not an option for everyone.

Also, when #ThingsFallApart, it will be felt elsewhere, too.

@vpermar @drahardja
#ThingsFallApart

@peter
#ThingsFallApart

#AdverseSelection is short-hand for “not worth it” and #ThingsFallApart.

@FantasticalEconomics
I’d have to find it, but there was an article in the WSJ about #innovation in the #insurance industry and it boiled down to “#reinsurance for the people”…democratizing that business model because regular carriers were pulling out of certain spaces due to adverse selection.

“Adverse selection” is short-hand for “not worth it” and #ThingsFallApart.

While streaming services are gradually beating #BBC television into a shadow of its former self, @BBCRadio4 radio remains at the pinnacle of audio excellence. Just take ‘#ThingsFallApart’ by Jon Ronson: mind blowing stories that perfectly capture the origins and current states of the culture wars. Priceless.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0h248k2

“Children identify as PART ANIMAL, and they call them ‘furries’” #ThingsFallApart

Listening to S2 of #ThingsFallApart. I love Jon Ronson, but I do not know how he remains calm listening to these people talk straight up bullshit at him.

'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe

https://booksperience.org/2023/10/16/ithings-fall-apart-i-by-chinua-achebe/

#Achebe #Africa, #African, #AfricanHistory, #AfricanLiterature, #Beliefs, #Blacks, #British, #Change, #ChangeVs.Tradition, #ChinuaAchebe, #Clans, #Colonialism, #Colonialists, #Customs, #English, #Ethnic, #Ethnicity, #Faith, #Fiction, #History, #Ibo, #Igbo, #Misogyny, #Modernity, #Nigeria, #NigerianHistory, #NigerianLiterature, #Novel, #Okonkwo, #Patriarchy, #Religion, #ThingsFallApart, #Tradition, #TraditionVs.Change, #Traditions,

Anyway, this evening’s culture. Podcasts started with #Tailenders, a loosely #Cricket based podcast, which I find immensely enjoyable. Think we need to grow the cricket community here in the Fediverse, it is one thing I do value on Birdsite. Also #ThingsFallApart, a special by Jon Ronson from the Hay Festival on BBC Sounds. It was a great series about the often surprising origins of the Culture Wars and this was a nice chat to accompany it - and reveal another series is coming.