Andrew @andrew907@librem.one

I am tired of feeling bad. I am setting myself a six month challenge to keep up the #huel diet.

Socialism is a challenging ethical conviction to practice in a world where a handful of large, greedy corporations monopolize every life area. Digital assets are the easiest but already steep challenge. Purism, the ecosystem it ties into of GNU/Linux apps, and Brave Search free me from Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook. The public domain and cc0 creators provide the music. Amazon is way harder to replace because I rely on them for physical goods that can't be infinitely copied.

The Ellen Brooke Project (ellenbrooke.org) curates public domain and cc0 alternatives to loosen the grip of Big Music and give people back their freedoms to share and remix. As a bonus point, it declutters superfluous ornamentation, provides independence from human musicians, and harnesses the power of free and open-source software to turn the page on the 300-year-old tuning scam called equal temperament.

Please don't judge Anchorage by its mayor. We're better than this.

I was saddened to hear about the woman and child mauled to death by a polar bear in Wales. Also that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is resigning. Even if the Labour Party can hold onto some kind of power through the next election, they will hardly be able to come up with another equally inspiring leader.

Republicans: Mental illness causes mass shootings.
Democrats: Okay, let's fund mental health services.
Republicans: NO!

What if we had more effective speed traps that sent every speeder a ticket? Our cities can solve their revenue holes and maybe the streets will become safer.

Why as a society are we still tolerating speeding, tailgating, and driving through red lights? Part of the reason must be the cultural prioritizing of movement on a rigid schedule over safety. The driver's impatience is only one part of the issue. Another part is the impatience of the wealthy people and corporations that control the driver.

Republicans hate Americans, as much as they wave the US flag as theater. The only reason anyone votes for them is that Republicans have brainwashed people into thinking that the solution to hurting is to make more people hurt.

Can somebody start a timer on Kevin McCarthy and a head of lettuce?

What if they quit the nonsense and choose Representative Jeffries as House Speaker instead of making themselves look like buffoons.

Another day where the GOP shows itself to be a dysfunctional laughing stock. Rotfl.

But it is delicious to see how divided and dysfunctional the Republican party is showing itself again. You have the House of Representatives to do what you want with, and you can't decide who should be speaker. Lol.

My dear neighbors in vehicles:

I was going to rant about people who can't keep their headlights on, and changed, in Alaska in the winter...

Then I saw another moron pickup truck ENTER an intersection against a red light. I've seen this several times in the last month or so. Do you people not understand what the yellow light means, namely that the red light is coming and you need to slow down, not speed up to beat the light? Next time a vehicle plows through the red light, it's killing someone.

And we are letting Alaska lag behind Norway when it comes to replacing fossil fuel vehicles? There is no geographical or climactic (or legitimate) reason for this. It gets cold, it gets mountainous, and there are vast rural areas in Norway too.

Congratulations to Brazil for inaugurating President Lula da Silva. Like President Biden, President Lula da Silva is replacing a trumpist brat and has a massive fight ahead of him, given a legislature full of radical conservatives, to manage a gigantic landmass of world-critical habitat responsibly after years of reckless pollution and deforestation.

Today is the last day in the United States that people can't freely access and reuse works from...

*1927*

Welcome, Ukraine, to the elite club of ex-Russian colonies who have rejected celebrating holidays according to the outdated Julian calendar.

Seeing that thousands of our neighbors in the Matsu are still without power from the high winds this weekend, I am grateful that things seem mostly back to normal in Anchorage.

The significance people attach to certain days of the year puts so much pressure on people. So when periodic winter weather cancels hundreds of flights, suddenly people are panicking. And for weeks Amazon has been emphasizing whether deliveries would make it here by next Sunday or not, even though they have delivery time estimates all year round. What if we didn't all clog the airports at the same time? What if we didn't buy a bunch of things for other people that they don't need? #happyQuiet

I am thrilled to have the opportunity to ignore all sports events for the next two months. A needless American religion.

My idea of a perfect Sunday: explore the heartwarming decorations in our lovely snowy city, laugh uncontrollably at a generous stream of John Mastodon memes, and blissfully ignore football (both kinds).

Anchorage: logs over a meter of snow in a week
Soda Springs, California: casually takes on a meter and a half within two days