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Y’all are so hard on George R. R. Martin for not finishing his books but we’ve been waiting on Thucydides to finish History of the Peloponnesian War since 411 BC. Fucker left such a cliffhanger it stops mid-sentence. Finish your damn story or suffer what you must, meek boy.

Friend invited me to a Discord voice channel and three separate groups of people were simultaneously playing different games in there all while another kid played loud pop music and sang to it while blasting sound effects from the soundboard. Aight, I’mma head out, guys, bye.

Kinda sad about the woolly mammoths right now. : (

The prestige-product commercial format is on point.

Paleontologists are epic.

I can’t decide if I want to caption this about living on a world orbiting a red giant or referencing the Chinese political song “Red Sun in the Sky” but that wildfire smoke is making things look ominous. Happy Tuesday in the Anthropocene.

Today in the Jacob dream report, I dreamed that AIs were sort of like real-life Minecraft mobs in that they were hostile entities that appeared in the dark and wandered a little area and we all carried weapons to fight AIs in situations like… say… the night walk from the car to the house.

I am fully in the camp, by the way, with the idea that the Dutch Revolt, English Civil Wars, and Glorious Revolution constitute an early part of the process that includes the American Revolution and French Revolution. I think it’s useful to take this long view on the origins of Atlantic liberalism.

Was reading up on the Council of Trent, the 19th Catholic ecumenical council and central event of the Counter-Reformation with much doctrinal clarification. It started on my birthday, December 13, 1545, and ended on my sister’s birthday, December 4, 1563, so I told her in a cute sibling text.

Hot take on writing in historical settings but if you’re representing an ancient society where the existence of the supernatural is taken as a given, you are obligated to entertain this as reasonable as a narrator instead of imposing some weird presentist cultural-centrist materialism on everything.