just over here being joyful, though I have considered all the facts
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Last Notes npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL all I can say is that *I* have altered nothing, and I don't think my colleague did either. 🤷🏼♀️ npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL continually in search of more foods to use as vehicles for sesame dressing npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL teen2: [playing Bartok in extremely high register while we beg him to stop] npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL Wow, I did not know this. Alright, I will tolerate slightly more tree-hate. While nevertheless pointing out that I actually don't know ANYONE who has planted one in the last decade- they are literally banned in multiple states. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL Nearly every fruit tree you can plant in the US is "invasive." It really is not necessary to hate bradford pear trees quite as loudly as people do. 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And I don't mean 'not good enough' in the shame way. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL Now project this shame onto every new potential member of this movement npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL You will be part of us for real when every action you are part of feels shitty, you loudly bewail any sign of incremental progress and berate those working on it, you never feel like you fully belong at any table, and you carry moderate hatred for everyone you're working with and especially for yourself npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL Hey, I see that you've found our movement, given that you are now out in the streets by your own choice, in the January winter in Minnesota npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL Hello and welcome to Social Skills 101: we on the left can use them, too 💫 npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL New Brunswick, Canada npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL I have felt annoyed and aggrieved by the 'let's be honest: we had no idea how bad this was gonna be- it's SHOCKING' year in review posts. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL Yesterday we went to an art exhibit that was literally roombas driving through glitter and I somehow had glitter INSIDE MY PANTS later that day 🤷♀️ npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL San Francisco npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL I love these days between Christmas and New Years. As a teacher, as a religious professional, and now as a scholar, this week has always been sacred "time off," and it coincides with a break for my spouse and kids as well. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL That feeling when you see a person deploy a fantastic metaphor in service of a very questionable argument npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL Rutland, Vermont npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL -I'd like a gentle hike through a grassy field npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL I really appreciated this one npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL If you know the words to Nine Inch Nails' "Closer" such that by reading this post, you could finish Reznor's line "I want to __" but also you know why in polite company you ought not: npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL Mizzen Pond, Newfoundland npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL I was recently thinking about a similar line of reality in confronting the argument that bean counters at my university are making about grad student education. 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The lines are laid such that being asked to take personal responsibility for risks to others is a valid source of personal outrage rather than a point of thought and (ideally shared) reflection. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL In a discussion with a ministry colleague who has active covid and feels like she probably shouldn't be in the pulpit this weekend because coughing "is a bad look," but that being present and preaching with active covid is itself fine. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL For myself, personally, I am feeling the pain of this in my body, more than I would even have imagined. A breath-stealing gut punch to start, and since then, like I'm being flayed. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL I am out of the country on fieldwork; I know this did not go over well with faculty but I'm not sure how much people are hurting ... which I guess is one way of saying I don't know who realizes how "over" it is and who imagines this is just a thing to be waited out npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL In two years, whatever is left standing may or may not be part of a grand revised budget plan, revamping the university (to be smaller and less comprehensive--again, it is literally the only university in the entire province) based on what is then valued out of what has survived npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL Institution-provided funding for grad students is also ending, forever, for anyone not currently in a program and covered by contractual funding npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL This is, of course, all being "guided" by a "financial consultant," who is herself receiving dollars that could meaningfully be used by students, faculty, capital maintenance, recruitment, the list goes on npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL Rather than taking its fight to have its funding restored to the province, which really does have plenty of money to meet its people's needs, my university has decided to convene the Hunger Games, targeted at humanities and social sciences. Departments are now locked out of their own classrooms and--I swear I am not making this up--required to PAY RENT for every hour of access to the classrooms in their own departmental hallways. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL bad things: my basement apartment is giving "think of the shittiest place you ever lived as an undergrad" vibes and lacks a desk or even a chair; the Central Missouri landscape causes me low-grade panic in a way that is surprising but also immediately understandable (I am a prairie kid- I need huge sky and clear vantage points or I basically fight through a low key embodied panic attack until I get those things); I have the sort of pressing academic task list with immediate and urgent deadlines that makes it seem like literally everyone around me has made better life choices npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL Good things: I think I slept fairly well last night. I am ensconced amid the stacks in an academic library and feel sensorily grounded in a way that I need at the moment. I have wifi at Mizzou through eduroam, bless the collectivity I sometimes make fun of known as the academy. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL I have this song stuck in my head, which is annoying and also kind of prickly poignant. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL Y'all, I have several times failed at learning to use chopsticks to eat and have to figure it out before we head to Japan next summer. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL Fogo Island npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL I am not agreeing that "Canadian wildfires are bad, actually, and because of air flow circulation patterns their smoke harms midwestern US cities terribly" gets to be a Trumpist talking point or a problem we aren't going to discuss. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL 911 person: what's your emergency npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL Rejected packing suggestion npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL Has such a protest sign ever before existed, across all of human history npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL My takeaway from the last week is that you have to live in Vancouver or St. John's to breathe in Canada during the summer npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL hilariously, I hated both home ec and shop my 7th grade year (and our school district did just as you wish yours had- we did a survey of both), but I ended up taking two more full years of home ec for schedule reasons and I tell you what, three decades later I am still using that shit. Honestly I still use the semester of shop, too. We should probably stop acting like vocational ed is something only some humans need. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL It's honestly very annoying (and unhelpful) that home ec has been dropped from basically every public junior high school. Those skills were important and BOY am I seeing their lack in our teens. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL In Alberta I found a bathroom that is, itself, trans npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL And Johnisue and Bob nod like this is a reasonable name, and then Johni says, and I quote: npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL He says the Goo Goo Dolls. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL Oh neat. We're in town because our nephew is getting married. Family reunion. Blah blah blah. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL For many hours. They talked about all kinds of things. Hiking. Travel. Pets. Jobs. This guy, John, is a guitarist in a band and he's actually in town because his band is going to play a show. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL My husband's aunt and uncle are super midwestern friendly- originally from Iowa- and they and this man, who introduced himself as John, struck up a joking conversation. Finally, the three just ended up hiking together. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL For those who haven't done it, Camelback is intense. Like, not for the poorly conditioned. Also a very long process. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL One from this latter category: npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL Like most adult humans I have a long list of my own mortifying events that I can reference at my convenience and leisure. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL I did indeed read that thread. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL "Ok but what other perspective is there; we are under attack" npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL "Where's the line?" npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL "every American deserves this," whether you say it out loud or just mean it in the subtext, is dehumanizing flattening of people already being flattened by their own government. Moreover, the reason you are moved to do it is to support your own growing nationalism, a project that requires you to move in opposition not only to Trump, Vance and their lackeys, but to Americans as a group and as a people. To blame and villify, so that you don't feel badly about the harm that happens next. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL As batshit as this is (9 in 10 dollars that my family uses in Canada, to buy things in Canada, *come*from*the*US), I am going to join the boycott of US products when I'm in Canada. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL What's being directed toward Canada right now is full-on aggression and threats to its sovereignty. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL It seems like Americans in Canada need to get clear that they are likely to have to choose NOT to assist a hostile incursion, and probably sooner than seems possible. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL Please tell me again that urban speed cams are actually racism-neutral ... npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL The US sucks ass at this moment. Illegally and possibly unprecedentedly. (Which would be saying a lot; big if true.) npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL I also wonder if this situation would have been easily avoided (and has been wholly avoided in every year prior) had Canada not caved to US pressure to end its own permit-at-the-border policies this past November. And if this person had already begun her trip at that point, which it sounds like she may have. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL If you are not aware of this: if you are denied entry to the US at any point, the consequences are a presumptive lifetime ban. You can get permission to visit after that, but it requires an in-person consular visit and then a visa. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL I'm not sure what the situation is that Canada refused her entry. Regardless, if you are refused entry to Canada and you are not a US citizen, I ABSOLUTELY WOULD NOT ADVERTISE THE REFUSAL upon re-crossing the US border. Just enter, for whatever reason. On your way to Montana. Needed to talk with Canadian immigration and didn't realize they weren't flagpoling anymore. Spending a few nights in Vermont. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL ICE has apparently disappeared a British tourist npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL I have hesitations about whether putting your personal info on political petitions in the US is an effective move right now, beloveds npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL the face of British Empire neoliberalism was not a highly exciting option to me as a spectator, but I'm commenting from adjacent space so 🤷🏻♀️ npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL Am I to conclude that Canada is also sexist, or is Mark Carney deserving of 85% to Chrystia Freeland's 8%? npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL remember last summer when bro was like 'yes this is a coup- and it will be bloodless if the left lets it be' npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL A thing that has had me on edge for more than a year is realizing that a huge difference between what we might call fascism of yore and fascism of today is that yesterday's autocrats needed our bodies to comply and do labor. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL I appreciated knowing this. Thanks General Mills, Airbnb, Clorox and Whirlpool. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL Considering being a little bit trans just because fuck off npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL I was shoveling a whole lot of snow and feeling moderately Alone In the World and then a guy I don't know (Rod from Georgetown, Newfoundland, in town to play hockey tonight) slow-rolled up to the front of my house, jumped out, and said if I'd hand him my shovel he'd help me. He suggested I go inside and get warm, but who does that and anyway I have a second shovel, so we worked together and I was SO GRATEFUL that I was glad to have the 'get the other shovel' excuse so I could get it together for a second. 😭 npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL A few years ago a vegetarian friend showed me how you could sub flax seeds for an egg in a recipe and I was like 'neat trick but why would you ever do that' 🙃 npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL ha I did once, due to a confluence of bad events. I did not love that day, but I do love that bag. 🤷🏻♀️ npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL For sure. If I were YOU, I would boycott the shit out of the US. I would try to get everyone possible supporting a local-ish CSA immediately, especially in places that struggle particularly with food supply and thus food sovereignty. And I would push extremely hard for funding for education, childcare, preschool, universities, libraries, and the arts because this is how you invest in, maintain, and defend a culture that transcends public-private lines and is robust against fascism. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL Y'all endanger my family, make us beg, throw shade our way, say 'oh we didn't mean you' when you target racially minoritized students and equity-deserving populations, and then expect me to be willing to throw a punch across the border that will not hurt Trump at all, but will hurt other families? npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL I'm having trouble bringing multiple threads together, too, and I'm wrestling with what else is here. (For example, I was going to say something earlier about borders being part of what is hurting my family, and that is true while also not telling the part--and I don't think we even wholly understand this part because it's made invisible in a lot of ways- where borders and exclusion have also benefited my family.) npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL In conclusion, while it makes all the sense in the world for Canada (and Canadians) to collectively throw punches, diversify revenue streams, and seek new allies and also different modes of self-provisioning, the fact that it largely does not make sense for me to join you highlights something at risk of getting lost amid all this high nationalist talk on all sides: npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL I've had some deeper sidebar conversations and I appreciate all of your hearts and thinking amid all of this pain. And that's what it is: pain, diffused more widely and more heavily than usual. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL 'If you're in Canada, you should boycott US goods, too.' npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL Maybe now you understand better. Fascism isn't a popcorn watching event. It doesn't stay local. It's not something you can turn off or ignore. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL Canadians, it's not that you don't have a point, and on the big things I am wholly in your corner. I want to remind you, though, that a whole bunch of you acted like the US election was LITERALLY A SPORTING EVENT and also something you could turn off and on at will and also something we shouldn't talk about or resist in ways that made you uncomfortable or felt like it was bringing our problems into your orbit. Then Trump won and we were in grief and deep shock and you acted like the sporting event was over and moved on to the next thing and wondered why we were so dramatic. npub16hg5hrgwctxmswr3f070egpcp5zyuureljxvqzwxdukhmzg7cg8qssv2sp JNL Dear Canada,
