I went on about it on BlueSky, but one thing I’ve started to get irked by is the complaint from authors of clickbaity articles online that they are not responsible for the titles of the posts their words appear below. While I’m certain that’s true, it’s your name on the thing. If you want someone else to be held to account, point at them, and let them hold specific accountability for their remonstrable actions. Otherwise, your name’s on it, bud. If you don’t agree with it, make that clear and take an actual stand, and not a soft shrug that wants the benefit of the traffic without the blame. Ya can’t have it both ways.
Inputs
1: By the time this publishes, it won’t have happened yet, but I’ll be watching the Buccaneers hosting the Philadelphia Eagles down in Tampa. Do I hold out much hope at their winning? No, no I do not. However! Being a fan is being, by definition, unreasonably supportive of an organization that couldn’t care less about your existence as anything but a paying body, bolstering their bottom line. Fandom continues apace. Go Bucs!
2: I live in Wisconsin, where the entire state is basking in the glow of a blowout victory over the Dallas Cowboys, and will now face the 49ers in California1Though not in San Francisco, because the stadium is nowhere near the city. next week. It feels like 90’s revivalism, Green Bay and Dallas and San Francisco being the relevant playoff organizations at the end of the season. Here’s hoping for continued success for the Packers, if only for the continued improved moods of my friends and neighbors. When the Packers win, the state is a brighter place to live. The sun shines a little higher in the sky, the beer tastes a little better, the brats snap more tautly, the cheese curds squeak a little sharper. Bang on the drum, and Go Pack Go2Of course, should they and Tampa both win, y’all know which side of the Battle of those Bays I’ll be on.!
3: It is Martin Luther King Jr Day in the US, which is a holiday in remembrance and reverence of the work to recognize and respect the rights of all, and one of the most emblematic figures behind it and out in front of it. I won’t be another white guy to co-opt the day to show my own bonafides or to glom onto an effort by recommending the same things everyone points to today3Other than to remind folks about the Letter from the Birmingham City Jail, written in the margins of a statement from white clergy denigrating the efforts of King and on scraps of paper while a political prisoner, which clearly calls out how safe white “allies” are that in name more than deed, but I would recommend taking at least a few minutes today to read, or watch, or listen to those whose voices keep that effort alive and continue to call attention to our opportunities to create a world ready to accept and include all within it.
Projects In Progress
Diagramming things and determining MVPs, and how to do things with the least amount of effort/long-term cost.
Notes:
- 1Though not in San Francisco, because the stadium is nowhere near the city.
- 2Of course, should they and Tampa both win, y’all know which side of the Battle of those Bays I’ll be on.
- 3Other than to remind folks about the Letter from the Birmingham City Jail, written in the margins of a statement from white clergy denigrating the efforts of King and on scraps of paper while a political prisoner, which clearly calls out how safe white “allies” are that in name more than deed