Contextual Events, Mass casualty.
She wrote that in the after math of the Boston Bombing. After writing a poem in which she imagined what it might be like. What happened there. What drove those people to do such terrible things.
"But I think it is necessary. As the world grows more extreme, more violent and more polarised, as we wrap ourselves into ever tighter filter bubbles of news and opinion, as we find it easier and easier to divide the world into black, white, us and them – as these things happen, this exercise in imagination becomes increasingly essential. Not just for the artists, the poets, the musicians and the playwrights. For everyone."
"It is painful to imagine the ingredients – familial, cultural, environmental and mental – that can lead a person to commit actions so atrocious and so unconscionable that we cannot speak of them."
Goodnight. Here, have a bunch of semicolons:
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Unrelated: Oh my GOSH is this a beautiful pendant. D: https://ianirasartifacts.deviantart.com/art/Steampunk-style-flower-wire-wrapped-brooch-710562079
Like... there was a point where I randomly entered a chat room by rolling around attached to a giant waffle. :P Why? Who knows! Making them guess is part of the fun! :D
Seriously, I can't even tell you how amazing Thief of Songs is. ;_; One of the two main characters is a third-gender (hemaphrodite) composer, and it's a poly love story that includes another person who is also a composer! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24777202-thief-of-songs?from_search=true
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Kickstarter about the book with the person and the thing and the music and the love and the gender and the music and the love and the gender and the magic and the dragons and the music and the AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mcahogarth/thief-of-songs
Let's try that again without egregious typos...
Finally gave in and ordered lockpicks, because gosh darnit, I wanna learn. Let's see how this goes. :)
Here's the kit:
https://www.lockpickworld.com/products/dangerfield-praxis-dual-gauge-21-piece-complete-lock-pick-set
Bosnianbill Review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSnYEccX4jg
He's the type that would have instantly understood why I was transitioning, not questioned it for a moment, and would have never gotten my name or pronouns wrong even after 4 years of knowing old me. It would have mattered to him enough that he wouldn't have even hesitated.
I really hope he's feeling better, also. He had horrible back problems for a relatively young guy. :S
Random #NationalBossDay thoughts: My old manager Ken back in Tucson was of a caliber I'll probably never see again. Completely amazing, both as a person in general, and a manager in particular. I'd have followed (and would still follow) him into hell and back.
Aaaand there's the arstechnica article! https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/severe-flaw-in-wpa2-protocol-leaves-wi-fi-traffic-open-to-eavesdropping/
Hey guys, it's looking for all the world as though a significant flaw in WPA/WPA2 has been discovered and will be coming out tomorrow. Apply your damned patches when they get released (some are already out, apparently, as vendors were notified in August).
https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/919771057573322752
Like, it's a comic about amazing LGBT werewolves and witches? What have I been doing with my life? ^^;
AAAAAAAAAAA such good feels! How did I not know about this before????? D: http://www.howtobeawerewolf.com/comic/coming-february-3rd/
My goal as a writer: To wound you so deeply that you start to heal things you didn't even know were broken.
http://zetasyanthis.dreamwidth.org/