Dimensionally Barrett

Albrecht Dürer: St. Jerome in his study Thoughts on this morning’s reading:   The endgame is near. The military invasion of cities to “prevent crime/clean up the streets”; rewriting history by persecution of schools and universities; demanding states gerrymander districts to win elections for the GOP; claiming pedophiles and traffickers are innocent. The Regime is going to push and push and it’s waiting for a violent push-back. Deployment of troops to cities is the most obvious move; the Regime knows cities will push back, likely declare mayors and governors of opposition states criminals and completely abolish “states’ rights” (those are for Republicans only, you see). We’re going to keep writing, keep organizing, keep fighting, keep showing up. It might seem futile, but this isn’t just for us in this present moment.  We can’t count on anything except what we, each of us,are doing right now. Not for some figure to swoop in and lead the fight, not for a “blue wave”, not for sp...

Whew. The longer this regime goes on, the more people come up with material. I just took a primer in memes given by Drs. Heather Woods an Leslie Hahner who have literally written the book about memes in all dimensions of social media, as media for misinformation, legitimate and nuanced discourse, Make America Meme Again: the Rhetoric of the Alt-Right (it’s a pretty expensive tome, even digitally, but go for it).  I’ve made memes before, using Photoshop or GIMP, but this was the first time I used an online utility and the first time that I made one so quickly (yes, I’ll include it). I don’t know if I’ll jump on the meme-making machinery/bandwagon, but my hat’s off to those who are. There are a couple of people on Bluesky I want to spotlight today, and you’ll meet them soon below. I’m also adding in screenshots of posts from Bluesky that I found either pithy or amusing or both.  “Amusing” is where mileage varies. So much of what we find ourselves laughing at is abject terror-ind...