Notices by Sean Bala (seanbala@mas.to)

@LifeTimeCooking

I like it! Very Solarpunk of you...

@alwirtes

Rarum novarum is pretty awesome. A lot of Catholic Social Teachings are worth reading. Pope Francis' Laudato Si was a life changing document for me - and I am not even Catholic!

@sundogplanets

I know....but isn't really nifty that I can get internet anywhere for an exhorbitant price. I mean, I guess the pros and cons even themselves out... 😂

Joking completely aside, thanks for talking Starlink here. I had no idea just how catastrophic it was until I started reading your posts.

@FitsofPique @slyborg

I agree. The bad reputation of Chicago keeps away. All the more for us!

@rochelimit

I think him as an American is being emphasized because it was thought that there would NEVER be an American one.

@ThompsonArt

These birds are so scary in #Chicago!

@minouette This is a STUNNING print!

@kims Did he intentionally rhyme at the end? 😂

@liztai

Note too all of Trump's actions have been done by Executive Orders. He has not submitted them out of a theory of presidential power but also because he would not win if there was a vote.

Also, great point about how the rest of the world will be just fine.

On a similar vein, the only thing that gives me hope about climate stuff is that no matter how stupid the US is, the rest of the world will move on and keep innovating.

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@liztai

In theory, the US branches of government were meant to be antagonistic to each other. The hope of the Founders was that the branches would protect their spheres.

Congress could easily take the Tarrif powers away. But they won't. Republicans are too afraid of Trump to cross him. And Democrats really have no levers to pull. And even if Congress wanted to, they would need 2/3 vote to override a veto. Ezra Klein calls it thr NPC - Non-Player Congress. 😂

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@kevinrothrock

Buuuuuuuut it will be in the form of a gift card for the Cheesecake Factory….

@overholt @metafilter

Thought you would like this @liztai :)

@tompork @KarinWanderer @jackmjenkins

Love Station Eleven - one of the best television shows I have ever watched. The Travelling Symphony is a good example of a community just doing what they want to do after the world comes apart.

@jackmjenkins

On a similar vein, it feels like every post-apocalyptic story or dystopia seems to have a religious (almost always Christian) cult. I just want one with a small community of happy, well-adjusted Episcopalians or Quakers just kind of doing their thing.

@susankayequinn

You gotta stop watching the news, Susan 😂

@jackmjenkins

I have seen this no where besides from you - has anyone written about it? It feels like a really big deal to me.

@fedidevs

I am SO sorry - I thought that you were making reference to the power outages in Spain and Portugal when you said the internet was out again. I was trying to make a joke about the whole country needing to turn the internet off and on again! I can see now that it was not a very good joke 😂

@fedidevs

Sigh - did you try turning it off and on again?

@timkmak

I am completely on board with Penguins for Peace ❤️

@evan

We got three tomato plants from the Chicago Tomato Man this year. Really excited to see if we actually have green thumbs.

https://www.chicagotomatoman.com/