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. . . overfed, apathetic, exquisitely dressed. . ..
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by social media algorithms.
Twilight? https://twitter.com/unfitz/status/1452964909646483456
Zones, best to worst:
1. Erogenous
2. End
3. Danger
4. Friend
5. Tow Away
6. War
7. Mountain
For several months I've been reworking my way through Moby Dick (3rd or 4th time), and I have to say that I'm 100% down with the idea of restoring whales to their pre-whaling levels. Emphatically.
Mind blown.🤯There is a thing called 'whale carbon'. It's the amount of carbon stored in whale bodies, including "deadfalls" sunken on the sea floor. And if we restored global whale populations to pre-whaling levels, they'd sequester 1.7 billion tons of carbon/year. #bluecarbon
Here's a little thread about small-town life on the island of Martha's Vineyard occasioned by a 4-day-long concatenation of improbable events that left my wife, recently out of hospital following major surgery, facing the prospect of cold-turkeying pain meds until Thursday. 1/
