facebook posts from 2016

1. tilting at windmills where the windmills are other people’s tribal attaboys they wouldn’t want to happen to anyone they care about so bad i’m outta fb for a while, and making the awful meta post to boot, fucking fuck

2. What happens when “that’s how they getchya” and “that’s just what they want you to think” stops being blinkered ribbing and gets real.

3. No quarter for white nationalism. “Reverse racism” isn’t just not racism, it doesn’t exist, it’s an ignorant awful baby take. “It’s just like as if they were unfair to us”, no, it is in no way like that at all.

4. Stoked to donate 100% of the tax cuts I’ll probably get but don’t need (~top 1% represent ya’ll) to a real left that can fight centrist donkeys and fascist elephants.

5. Ugh, HRC > LOL @ Libertarians or Greens c’mon be real > never, ever, ever, Trump.

   Ballot in the mail.

6. The 'merica crowd taking in ‘enemy of my enemy’ nazis and confederates rebranded as some kinda alt-right is super shameful! Ugh, politics and drama, right? Tech is doing a great job outing casual racism but it’s also doing a great job engaging casual racists and it’s problematic af to just ignore. Have a great Sunday!

7. up all night worried about the size of the national debt again 😦

8. The Ace’s coffee bar is using Conan Dooley-comment-thread themed coffee cup holders the weekend, how bizarre.

   

9. neat-o

10. yikes, up all night worrying about the federal debt again, we just have to do something about this lmbo

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    I’m my own best friend!

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

12. The unethical policy motivation here is simple power accumulation, the athapetic disrespect is racist, the presented argument (2/40,000,000 identified problems to solve) is fraudulent, and the structure, as usual, is means testing.

13. =/

14. jeff beck uses mahavishnu’s inner mounting flame to show off the band, v nice

15. surprise buddy guy guest: carlos santana

    

    

16. Oops, I forgot the promised Monday follow-up.

    

    

    

    

17. Bummer, it doesn’t look like the district judge (https://ballotpedia.org/Thomas_Schroeder) that oversaw the decision that was overruled can be voted out. Judge votes are very important, please leave sections of your ballots blank if you don’t have time to research incumbents.

18. funfunfunfunemployment kazoo, all questions will answered by a representative on Monday at the earliest. Dictated but not read.

19. tricky!

    

    

    

    

    

20. the yellow gold backdrop at the rnc last night looked like the one from my 3rd grade yearbook photo and the foreground sounded like a fascist coward little baby y’all

21. the crippling ennui of U.S. Politics in a post-factual society

    

22. SF: I’ve got one extra ticket to see Ghostbusters (in 2D) at the Alamo today at 4PM.

23. lmbo

24. opsec game is trifling af and yet

    

    

    

    this seems like some “we heard you like buyin’ sofas” amazon-suggested-items shit right here but who knows

    

    

    

25. California Über Alles

    

    

    

    

26. with Amanda Walker Stavely. The Pacific Heights stairway walk took us past plenty of amazing gardens!

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    definitely my fav

27. See the bear of fearsome size! https://vimeo.com/172515191 - I put the full res of our grizzly encounter on vimeo for a more clear look at the beasts.

28. Like, I know that lobbyist, wish-list, congress is kinda the circle of legislative life and the executive branch publishing these is aspirational permission-granting garbage and I don’t speak bureaucrat very well but: I’m pretty unimpressed w/ the lot of these. Sorry for politics, side-note while I’m at it; repeal the second!

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    Most of the ascent and descent was on narrow switchbacks with a rock wall to one side and a 50-100’+ cliff to the other.

    

    Lots of water falls!

    

    

    

    

    

    

    The hike we DNC’d.

    

    Logan’s Pass is an easy boardwalk ascent up 1.5 miles around a crag with a much more steep descent on the far side to a lake. We talked ourseles into following the yellow posts up the bunny slope about 3/4 of a mile.

    

    Until the wind gusted hard enough to almost knock us over.

    

    and then the simple way back which had been clear was obscured entirely by a very hard gust pushing a cloud over the ridge. So we noped our way back.

    

    View from the Continental Devide at Logan’s Pass.

    

    The view back up past the Continental Divide to the kind of cloud we’d just been lost in on the Logan’s Pass hike.

    

    

    

    

    

    If you have water on the lens, artsy fartsy Tv 1/6 shots will capture it marvelously and artfully.

    

    

    

    

    A distant valley falls, ~300’ high?

    

    One of two short tunnels on the road to the sun.

    

    Fire evidence.

    

    Grandure, again, sun blinding off the lake and sky.

    

    

    

    

30. Our encounter with a momma Grizzly bear and her two cubs on Swan Lake Meadows.

31. A buncha bison clopping along, onto, and off the road, encircling two calves. These jerks caused a 30 minute dead-stop traffic jam while they decided where to go.

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    A few black bears on the hillside.

    

    

    The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

    

    The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

    

    The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

    

    Undine Falls, from the top

    

    Undine Falls, from the trail

    

    Undine Falls, from the trail

    

    A chopper airlifing something out, southeast of Mammoth

    

    What the chopper was lifing: two people!

    

    

    Elk chilling where the chopper had just rescued someone.

    

    An Elk in the grass by a parking lot in Mammoth

    

    River views from Swan Lake Meadows

    

    A dumb bird we walked past a few times in Swan Lake Meadows, and the last photo in the set before my camera battery died, the rest are phone shots.

    

    After 3.5 miles of Swan Lake Meadows, we were ready for the hard part: a scenic flat mile of trail and then an 800 foot descent over technical switchbacks into Sheepeater Canyon.

    

    Sheepeater Canyon, from the top.

    

    The 150 foot Osprey Falls, at the bottom of Sheepeater Canyon.

    

    The 150 foot Osprey Falls, at the bottom of Sheepeater Canyon.

    

    We’d seen this at the trailhead but continued on.

    

    Because we were a foursome.

    

    We encountered the Grizzly and her two cubs! Video to follow!

    

    Old Faithful.

    

    

    

33. Us getting the heck away from old Faithful after Old faithful’s jerk mostquitos had taken a pint of blood from each of us.

34. At Undine Falls.

35. We saw only squirrels.

36. Snow depth in some places.

37. 

    I think the sign guy was showing off too. Drop Caps >>>>>>> Caps.

    

    

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39. this beach is lousy as hell but it’s the beach we got

40. U.S. Politics!

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    yep!

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

42. Hey Mike Stavely

43. Hey kids, gett tickets to see Dinosaur Jr. for the Monday show at the Independent in late September w/ Amanda Walker Stavely and I. Bring ear plugs.

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45. om.

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47. Another Ada Baka stairway walk checked off: Lands End, with China Beach tacked on.

    

    Hell no!

    

    

48. with Amanda Walker Stavely at Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument.

    

    10 feet!

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

49. It’s Wookey Jack season, yay, but it isn’t Sucubus season, boo!

    

    Barkeep says the brewery store down the road might have some, will check.

50. “This is fine.png” to appreciate how in some ways this might have already worked out OK for oneself and at the same time see that it’s a godawful trash fire for plenty of others.

51. Signs, Signs, Everywhere there’s signs.
    Blocking out the scenery. Breaking my mind.

    

52. Mississippi legislature: Jerks!

53. Stoicism is good, actually.

54. like I wanna call 'em a buncha chicken-hawks but they didn’t even have to make the (very rational) call here

55. Nelson-Ha!-Ha!.gif

56. Tim Brady

57. My current fav political writer, great stuff.

58. holy moly north carolina sprayin’ shark repellant bat-spray all over the place, super shameful!

59. yay every time I make a normal post facebook gives me a current event post: political correctness is just the scary ghost of the old golden rule, which I think we can all agree is a good rule

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61. self-care is knowing what your favorite things are and making them your entire self-identity

62. trump doesnt even have a plan for updog, smdh

63. nice

    

    

    

    

    

64. “If we point out that Trump is godawful, people that already like him will just like him more!” is a cool and useful observation if you are entering your worst observations into a bad observations contest and wanna win the annual Most Milquetoastly Feckless Contrarian Liberal Deservedly The First Against The Wall When The Revolution Comes Certificate of Participation that everyone gets for entering any ideas at all.

65. trade is bad, actually

66. Aww c’mon. http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/9/1498630/-WV-lawmakers-suffer-stomach-illness-after-drinking-raw-milk-to-celebrate-legalizing-raw-milk and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3484064/Pro-gun-poster-girl-shot-four-year-old-son-driving-Florida-boy-pistol-seat-truck.html today? The simulation is punishing performative nose-thumbing today people, hold onto your butts.

67. congrats mobute for etc etc

68. protecting predagory lending, nice, nice

69. Dialectics are made of arguments but not themselves arguments. Privacy-or-safety is a sham that sounds reasonable like ‘the five senses’ sounds exhaustive, etc, etc. Monday, right?

70. San Francisco: I’ve got an extra ticket to the Pat Martino (jazz guitar) show I’m going to tonight, anyone wanna join?

71. for reals

72. I lean pretty strongly towards “do not do anything the FBI wants” on the Apple issue. Have a great weekend!

73. ride the snake

    

74. We’re in A2 on the floor if anyone wants to join.

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76. Strong beer month this year is themed after some band, I think? Zed Lupilin? idgi

77. 415 to 202

78. eat your heart out sparkle motion

79. Super interesting