Notices by ira (ira@beige.party)

It feels like a debilitating communal illness whose symptoms include febrile delirium, visceral rage and a kind of nihilistic lassitude. But among the afflicted, you sense a terrible thirst and hear a babble of confusion, and also many plaintive cries of yearning. What sufferers thirst for is honest information. What they are addled by is the tide of bullshit that besets them. What they yearn for is solidarity and common purpose.

There are those who have come to think of global heating as an inevitable fact, a tragedy, if you will. And there are some who have been convinced it isn’t real, not a fact at all. These sufferers have been poorly served, for instead of being ministered to humanely and conscientiously, they have been at the mercy of quacks and carpetbaggers. What we are all experiencing is not a mystery ailment. Neither is it inevitable. And it’s sure as hell no tragedy – it’s an outrage. Only those who have been coached into crippling delusion can continu e to deny the very heat that torments them; they are victims of gross malpractice.

There’s nothing accidental or inadvertent about what we’re all suffering through together. We’ve had enough time now and have sufficient expertise to understand that this is not a natural calamity. This is something that is being done to us. Knowingly. Which makes it a crime.

– Tim Winton

https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2026/aug/24/this-is-not-a-natural-calamity-it-is-being-done-to-us-knowingly

Love this quilt. “Solar System” (1876) by Ellen Harding Baker.

Ursula K. Le Guin: “Modernist manuals of writing often conflate story with conflict. This reductionism reflects a culture that inflates aggression and competition while cultivating ignorance of other behavioral options. No narrative of any complexity can be built on or reduced to a single element. Conflict is one kind of behavior. There are others, equally important in any human life, such as relating, finding, losing, bearing, discovering, parting, changing. Change is the universal aspect of all these sources of story. Story is something moving, something happening, something or somebody changing.”
— as quoted in Sophie Strand’s post on lichen and lovers

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