What fun to discover £7,000 of book royalties, due today, aren't actually going to be paid. Not today. Maybe not ever.

So now it's time for yet another round of "What Do I Tell My Mortgage Provider?", and a quick game of "How Do I Feed My Dog?"

Fuck you, publishing. What a turd of a profession.

The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

So. I know I am STILL hurt, that a former online friend of over 20 years (we used to read each others' LiveJournals!) blocked me and apparently convinced many of my other friends to ditch me for saying RIP to Kobe and Gianna (customers I saw on a regular basis) because they believe he was a rapist.

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

we don’t drag politicians out by their necks through the town square so they can be pelted with garbage like we used to do

i can’t believe all it took for tesla stock to recover a bit was to do a paid photo op with the president of the united states, have the government designate vandalism on teslas as terrorism, gift multiple politicians and police stations teslas for photo ops, and get corrupt government contracts

thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning:

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."