23 DEC 2022 · A commentary on a terrible example of Christianity, plus my original translation of the poem "Caminante" by Antonio Machado.

23 DEC 2022 · Operational security can be used as an excuse for any kind of secrecy.... Or was I supposed to keep that a secret?

23 DEC 2022 · Environmentalism. Out-smarting the police. Overcoming death. What's not to like?

12 DEC 2022 · Do you think you're being watched? Maybe you're right. Mental health and surveillance get chewed up in this essay, along with the sounds of birds, motors, and more. Resist neutralization.

12 DEC 2022 · Sucede que me canso de tener que ser moderna: ensayo analítico en respuesta al poema «Walking around» por Pablo Neruda It Happens That I Tire of Having to Be Modern: analytical essay in response to "Walking Around" by Pablo Neruda Originally published by the Pablo Neruda Foundation at https://cultura.fundacionneruda.org/2022/06/03/sucede-que-me-canso-de-tener-que-ser-moderna-ensayo-analitico-en-respuesta-al-poema-walking-around-por-pablo-neruda/ Poema original: https://www.neruda.uchile.cl/obra/obraresidencia2c.html

9 DEC 2022 · Birdsong and the sounds of my backyard, plus: In researching for this essay, I searched the Internet for “apple watch temperature sensor murder.” It appears that the pregnancy-forcers have yet to tag anyone with murder charges using the Apple Watch 8’s body temperature sensors as evidence of pregnancy. Yes, planning around one’s menstrual cycle with an accurate prediction from body temperature of when one will be bleeding is progress, but how desirable is this sort of progress? Does it create more freedom than it crushes? Note: it claims to have the option to turn off temperature sampling. In this situation, I am a friend of Ludd.

28 NOV 2022 · Piñata Fairy Tale: A Satire of Evansville Common Council This satire exists to mock the hubris of comparing the hardship of high utility bills to sitting on ass listening to people demand change. In Spring 2022, Councilman Ron Beane said that the Evansville Common Council is "not a piñata." Indeed, it is not. While I don't know if they are full of candy, I do know that their defensiveness in response to pointed public comment about high utility bills indicates at least one guilty conscience in existence amongst the Common Councilors. And what is a fairy tale without a fairy and villains? "Piñata Fairy Tale" has all of that, including an Energy Company that buys corpses--even a half-corpse. Here is my public comment at the Evansville Common Council from March 28, 2022: Since you Common Councilors don't respond well to non-fiction accounts of hardship, ALLOW me to tell you a fairy tale....

28 NOV 2022 · Ambience from my Hoosier back yard with some notes on my incarceration at John George Concentration Camp, AKA John George Hospital in San Leandro, California. Originally published at www.thebreakingpointproject.com as "No. 11: Brain Freeze In a Quiet Room".

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19 NOV 2022 · Micro-fiction. Dystopia. Lots to consider! With the sounds of nature...mostly birdsong... and some ASMR for you, Beloved Listeners.