wrog

we didn’t plan to go to worldcon

like, at all

even though it was fucken here, right downtown

because until a few months ago it was going to be utterly impossible, economically (we’ve only really dug out of a two-year financial crisis just now, just the last month or so)

and also because of the pandemic and how that’s never fully ended (check out how people who study long-term covid do conferences and tell me again it’s over)

and also because I have some ambivalence about it anyway, despite all the work I’ve done on cons including a couple of worldcon bids, a NASFiC, a couple of v-cons, and arguably way, way too many norwescons (because of the way the latter fell out when i was finally done there)

and also because, well, look the fuck around you, fascism everywhere and month to month reanalysis of whether we have to leave the fucking country (and the depression which inevitably falls out from that)

and so on

but it starts today, and we didn’t plan to go because we literally couldn’t

and yeah

i’m pretty sad about that.

i have work today, anna has work today, tomorrow, and friday. sunday’s the last day and probably a half day like they usually are. i guess that leaves saturday for… something? anything? i don’t even know. i was gonna do the tesla takedown protest, like usual. maybe i still will. but after that…

anybody gonna be around?

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nosrednayduj

Our BlackLivesMatter sign has been stolen again. #12.

Anyway, we now have an air tag! So I was very excited when I discovered the air tag app giving me an address in a nearby town. I called the police department in my town, they told me to call the other town, which I was sure was wrong. That town told me that I should call my town because that's where the theft happened (I knew that). So I called my town back and eventually convinced them to let me give a report. The officer didn't really seem very excited about my issue. I called the neighboring town back and said that I'd made a report, and they said "well we can't just go there on your say so, we need a request from your town", so I called my town again, and they called the neighboring town. The neighboring town called back and said that they had sent somebody out to the address, and driven around, but the sign was not in evidence. (It's not like somebody who steals one is going to put it in their yard.) They said they were not able to walk up to the door and knock on it and say "did you steal a sign" or "do you have any information about the sign". I said "so do I need a warrant or something" and they said "nobody will give you a warrant on the evidence of an air tag. This happens all the time with cell phones too and we can't do anything."

I am entirely disappointed. What is the point of the police department if they don't do anything when an obvious crime has been committed and you have decent evidence of where the lost item might be?

solarbird

Holy hell. The Tesla Truck is such a complete fucking sales disaster that he’s getting a corrupt deal with the military to buy them as targets.

I repeat:

THE TESLA TRUCK IS SUCH A COMPLETE FAILURE THAT THEY’RE SELLING THEM TO THE MILITARY AS TARGETS FOR TARGET PRACTICE.

Only a couple at first. Still, no doubt it’ll be at full price or some shit. Gotta claw those losses back somehow, right? Try this, see who complains.

Regardless, “OFFICIAL US MILITARY TARGET” stickers for Teslas, y/y?

Also, I may need to make yet another new sign for the Tesla Takedown protests because holy shit xD

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nosrednayduj

Today was the annual triathlon in my town. The course goes past my house. I've blogged about this before, but apparently not recently. I started my own odometer at the top of our driveway and didn't look at it until I was back at the top of my driveway, so that's probably 10-15 seconds, but I went 12.53 in 56:57 for an average of 13.1. This puts me at #421 out of the field of 442 participants. And I didn't have to swim the half-mile first! Or save energy for the 4 mile run after. In my age group of 65-69 women, there were 6 participants, and I would have come in between #5 and #6. (There's a reason I don't really participate in these things!)

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