i just wanna inbox-zero from the oldest message, folks, is that so bad [I get hit in the chest w/ a tomato thrown from the audience] no, not that one, the one below it [a shoe flies by, the entire crowd is hissing and booing, an anvil drops from the stage lights and crashes to the floor just to my left] see if I press ‘y’ google is all ’n’ and imo that’s [a giant hook enters from stage right] a huge ‘L’ [the house lights come up, a google bus crashes into the venue, workers start pouring ou—

in gmail on web with the preview pane enabled for a sorted mailbox:

archiving the first (top) message causes gmail to select the message below the archived message

archiving any non-top messages that aren’t the ultimate (bottom) message causes gmail to select the message above the archived message

archiving the ultimate (bottom) message causes gmail to select the message above the message above the archived message.

🤷🏻‍♂️

wanted to read Chekhov but wasn’t sure what translation to look for, learned that Nabokov had a dislike for Constance Garnett, remembered that Nabokov was also on my todo list, started Pnin, and right away, he’s doing the moves, dumping on Garnett 🤗

i’m constantly flip flopping things in my imagination and honestly it’s kinda intrusive and annoying but also some people clearly do not and cannot and it’s so weird imaging their world

the typical stuff:

looking at a young person and imagining them older, even much older

seeing an old person and reminding myself that they were once my age, once in high school, or elementary school

gender presentation alternates

etc

I still spin my phone the same way I did twenty years ago with my thumb on my blackberry’s thumb wheel and middle finger on the back of the phone

important follow up disclaimer: signs are but a small part of activism, one person’s shame and action is not the actual sole or specific expected result, there is almost always a larger strategy, there isn’t a “right way” to protest, etc

shameful-bystander-“they oughta”-comment

using (protest) signs to shame a (shameless) mayor in a major U.S. city about traffic infrastructure when (ineffective) signs are their preferred compromise, for the same reasons, even (they are cheap, easy to put up quickly), sure is something

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feeling pretty isolated and lonely this evening, so much that socials are downright off-putting, I can’t get into the book I’m reading, and there’s nothing to watch that is appealing at all. oh, I do have an American Master’s to finish, let’s see

https://www.pbs.org/video/hopper-an-american-love-story-faeahk/

ah, christ, this guy!?

I forgot to check on this last night! Phew, we remain on standby.