I would name a child Orchard.

I don’t like that I’m guessing whether or not podcast ads have real actors or generated voices.

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This is it, the nightmare wherein I am smoking a blunt.

I did write it thanks. I was happy with that worldplay in particular.

Tempeh fucks, seitan trucks, tofu sucks.

There is a certain time of year wherein
the leaves have fallen from the trees
and the snow is yet to come;

and as I roll, a passenger, past the creek
I can look over and see it naked
all its curves and the high banks

bristled with cast off shoots and
shriveled leaves of the undergrowth
sleeping in anticipation of winter

See how it winds unprotected.
My little creek of measure,
that I check each time we cross the bridge.

An old ritual of bond with my father
whom I regard with silence
as we cross it this time.

While the creek and the deerhang, where
they’re strung up on the shore of the little lake,
still remain in their seasonal rhythm.

I am struck each time we pull into
the mouth of the place I called Camp.

Each time I arrive it seems that there
is another sylvanectomy, cutting the trees
out from where I had known them

to shield sight from too far and too open,
hiding me from the sky that watches
the world turn ever onward.

A new footprint, too large, even for its purpose,
yawns bloody and white before me.
But it points to a useless void beside it.

They cut even there for convenience
in service of some notion that seems
to me very much like pride or delight in control.

I watch and feel that I am not
In control at all now.
No protestation has saved these woods.

The creek is denuded of its shield
and I am denuded of the delusion
that I could watch without discomfort

as things change.

sounds like a lot of words to say to my spouse before they leave for work.

I think Serrano should have won that and it looks like that’s the popular opinion. What the fuck do I know though?

When they start holding each other it’s called a clinch and the ref stops them fighting if it looks like they’re going to be in that state for more than a couple moments I think, because it’s not a grappling sport. It’s kind of a strategy thing too though I guess?

This fight is a little different. I don’t know enough about boxing, but there’s a lot more clinches and I guess a headbutt?

Instantly rooting for him with that - although Ramos with the height disadvantage and the consistent energy and confidence was really charming too.

I’m not usually a boxing watcher, but that Barrios Ramos fight just now was really good. Really down to the last round.

It’s like when young working class people, minorities, artists, make a neighborhood nice and then it gets gentrified.

The best time to do a confusing bit.

I thought y’all were gonna take it easy?

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I had a real nice party with my friends. We all made guo tie (potstickers) together and talked into the night.

Repeating this comment that I deleted because I have OCD; which should have no bearing on the worth of what I’m saying. Just to avoid any confusion.

I’m not a big fan of the dunk culture, and I’ve expressed as much alongside my criticisms of this site’s general misanthropy. But as I’ve watched this thread play out, I feel myself leaning much more strongly toward the users who are critical of this decision. You should listen to your userbase. It feels real fucked up to me to just proclaim that wanting to gnash our teeth at bad opinions is “white” or “cishet male” as a justification as if that means that being against this decision is bad a priori without actually dealing with the underlying contradiction of trying to make a more constructive space while still allowing people to vent their legitimate frustration. I have plenty of reasons why I don’t like the culture of dunking and think it contributes to a negative environment that is unthinking. But this is not the way to address it. Give the people what they want: Reggae Music easy posting.

Look, Should dunking be moderated more aggressively to prune posts where it’s just yelling at some nobody for having a bad take? Yes. Should we all strive to be more effective in our criticism of power and lay out why all the liberal justifications for de facto genocide? Yes. Should we just axe the whole thing that I don’t even like to see here? No.

I volunteer to moderate a successor comm, for whatever that is worth. I’ll make a matrix account and pledge to just watch out for “yelling at nobodies” or posting a take that happens to come from someone who is potentially considered cringe.

Love all of you anyway though.

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