HBon mot of the week:

Toxicity has only two sources: superfund sites, and people. (Ok, one source.)

Links to the past week:

• Someone needs to remind me in July that I must have this Godzilla card game. While I don’t have enough friends to warrant buying most tabletop games, I will go out and find people to play this one. Be warned.
• Here’s a short, good interview with FTC chair Lina Khan. Watch it and think about what could have been, where we could have gone, and how we may have held greedy corporations accountable (mostly, sorta).
• Engineer SewBlue graced Mastodon with the Great Grandma’s Brisket analogy and I can think of a number of areas to which this could apply.
• This r/productivity post gave me a lot to think about and the opportunity to get back into writing my Morning Pages (even if it was in the evening.) Anything that gets more words coming out is a good practice.
• I made a rare public Facebook post (well, I switched it to public on request) about the upcoming administration’s economic changes and I hope I hit most of the points correctly.
• I read The Dip by Seth Godin because I must have seen it in a post somewhere and in that moment I thought “oh, I need to read this.” I really didn’t. It wasn’t bad, but it was about 75% too long and some of the references are a bit past their sell-by date. Thankfully I had enough Kindle points to buy it. The key is to push through the dip in your enthusiasm about a pursuit, unless it’s not worth it. It gets harder before it gets easier, but if you like it, keep doing it, I guess. I dunno. I may do a longer post with my notes later.
• I wish there was some way to save people from the right-wing mind rot that envelopes them. They will die while cheering on those that are actively making their lives worse. I don’t want them to suffer, even if they should have known better. How? What if hate is all the information you’re allowed?

I couldn’t remember to keep up with posting links on a regular basis, even though I put them in my journal all the time. So I’ll try to do this every week (on Saturday) as a way of distilling the best of the nonsense I spent my time on. Proper blog posts are coming soon!