In Summary: * Another quiet Sunday ends well. The San Antonio Spurs win over the Portland Trail Blazers this afternoon was MOST enjoyable. The only things remaining between now and bedtime are my night prayers, and I intend to start on them soon.

Prayers, etc.: * I have a daily prayer regimen I try to follow throughout the day from early morning, as soon as I roll out of bed, until head hits pillow at night. Details of that regimen are linked to my link tree, which is linked to my profile page here.

Starting Ash Wednesday, 2026, I've added this daily prayer as part of the Prayer Crusade Preceding the 2026 SSPX Episcopal Consecrations.

Health Metrics: * bw= 231.92 lbs. * bp= 151/91 (67)

Exercise: * morning stretches, balance exercises, kegel pelvic floor exercises, half squats, calf raises, wall push-ups

Diet: * 07:10 – 1 big cookie, 1 banana * 08:30 – 1 ham and cheese sandwich * 10:00 – candied bananas * 12:50 – garden salad * 13:45 – bowl of pancit * 15:30 – 1 big cookie * 16:15 – 1 fresh apple

Activities, Chores, etc.: * 07:20 – bank accounts activity monitored. * 07:40 – read, write, pray, follow news reports from various sources, surf the socials, nap. * 12:20 – listening to the pregame show of this afternoon's Detroit Tigers vs Cincinnati Reds on the Reds Radio Network * 14:00 – now listening to the pregame show ahead of today's San Antonio Spurs vs Portland Trail Blazers game * 14:40 – and... the Spurs Game is starting. * 17:20 – and ... Spurs win 114 to 93.

Chess: * 11:00 – moved in all pending CC games, registered for another “3 days per move CC tournament” with games starting 01 May

#writing #revolution #NoDAPL #indigenous #landback #MMIWR #abolition #education #essay

This post is Part 1 of a series on social revolutions of the past 30 years — examples where public consciousness has massively shifted in favor of liberation. My aim is to create space to pause and acknowledge how things have changed in ways that once felt impossible, remind us that things can always be otherwise. It is inspired in part by Rebecca Solnit’s 2016 edition of Hope in the Dark and David Graeber’s 2007 essay “The Shock of Victory.”

The average education about Native American history when I was growing up in rural Nevada was pretty much “Indians helped the Pilgrims at Thanksgiving” or “savages viciously attacked poor defenseless settlers.”

Nowadays, while you may still hear such distortions and genocide-justifying lies from right wing pundits, broader public awareness of indigenous peoples’ continued existence and ongoing defense of their lands, stewardship practices and philosophy have blossomed in fire.

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Thin Green Line protestors in Tacoma, WA, source: Media Project Online

Books like Braiding Sweetgrass and The Serviceberry by indigenous scientist Robin Wall Kimmerer have been a sustained presence on the NYT Best Seller list, and the former was one of the most checked out books from the public library in 2024.

Even television shows like the FX dramedy Reservation Dogs (2021-2023), created by indigenous filmmakers Taika Waititi (Māori and European descent) and Sterlin Harjo (Seminole and Muskogee descent) has opened up a wider space in the media landscape for depictions of indigenous characters as something beyond crass stereotypes or the lie of the “Vanishing Indian.”

Reservation Dogs poster, source: FX

Films like Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) have brought to the mainstream moviegoing public a powerful story of what colonization really looked like, depicting indigenous Americans not as “backward savages,” but in fact the prosperous land-owning class of the Osage Nation of modern-day Oklahoma — that is, until their family members are systematically murdered to give the white settlers access to exploit that land’s rich oil reserves through marriage to an Osage woman.

This character, Mollie Burkhart, is stunningly played by Lily Gladstone (Piegan Blackfeet, Nez Perce), for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Gladstone she has since used her platform to Executive Produce four films to date, centering on contemporary Native American stories of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (Fancy Dance), adolescence (Jazzy), confronting generational trauma of the residential school system (Sugarcane), and steps toward restoration of indigenous land and animal stewardship (Bring them Home).

The discussions of settler colonialism have gone from basically unspeakable heresy against the very soul of America to, it seems to me, pretty widely accepted in liberal to leftist circles at least (I mean John Oliver made the direct comparison of the US to Israel on a late-night comedy show). Reading Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’ An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States in 2024, I was struck by just how far the public sphere has shifted in narratives about indigenous people in just the 12 years since the book’s publication.

#NoDAPL

I trace a significant part of this recent shift to the 2016-2017 Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access oil Pipeline, which made international news as indigenous water protectors and allies in solidarity occupied the historic lands of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe for 11 months through the harsh North Dakota winter. The protests and occupations were multi-pronged, including support from 87 indigenous nations, thousands of activists, legal scholars, and organizers.

NoDAPL protest march in 2016, source: IndianNZ

The NoDAPL protests brought the issues of indigenous tribal sovereignty, broken treaties, and especially the indigenous conception of water and lands as sacred to the forefront of public discourse about climate change and the United States’ history of genocide.

The backlash

With each of the social revolutions I will cover in this series, I must acknowledge not just the positive steps toward shifting public consciousness, but also the reactionary backlash which inevitably follows.

This has been twofold: the State repression against activists attempting to defend water and life, and culture war against intellectuals, educators, and artists. In the former, law enforcement has deployed all manner of violent tactics (borrowed from the anti-Civil Rights police violence of the 1950s-1960s), from water cannons to chemical weapons and rubber bullets, to siccing dogs on protestors. The legal repression escalated to such a degree that those occupying the Standing Rock Sioux reservation were given prison sentences ranging from a few months, up to eight years (for single count of property damage).

Not to be deterred, #StopCopCity protestors began occupying the Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta in 2021 in the wake of Black Lives Matter Uprisings in 2020 (which I will cover in a future entry of this series), connecting struggle against anti-Black systemic racism and police with indigenous sovereignty. Again, protestors and those engaging in direct action were met with violence, most famously the murder of non-violent resister Tortuguita (whose death is still under investigation), which made international news spurred a week-long demonstration of solidarity.

Tortuguita in Welaunee Forest in 2021, source: Twitter

The second prong of backlash against rising indigenous sovereignty can be seen in the response to revisionist histories like 1619 project (commemorating the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery upon its publication in 2019). The same year, President Trump signed into law the 1776 Commission, intended to enforce “patriotic education” to combat to “twisted web of lies” he claimed was being taught regarding systemic racism in U.S. schools.

This, paired with the overall withdrawal of funding from US education and the ongoing dismantling of US Department of Education by Executive Order is the result of long decades of psychological warfare waged by the likes of Steven Bannon and other right-wing political actors, cataloged brilliantly (and disturbingly) in Annalee Newitz 2024 book Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind.

Paths forward

That said, I am encouraged by Grace Lee Boggs’ words in The Next American Revolution (2012), where she analyzes how radical, beloved community has risen in Detroit in the face of monumental dis-investment and violence by the State and Capital, creating autonomous networks of care and creativity — including in education. Alternatives to “patriotic” public schooling are cropping up, like the Boggs School, founded in 2013 on the philosophy and activism of the late Grace Lee and her husband Jimmy Boggs, over their decades of organizing in the Midwest city.

These types of schools center around education as a practice of freedom, in the tradition of Paolo Freire’s work in literacy in rural Brazil, Freedom Schools of the 1960s which opened up education to Black Americans to learn about their history and spark critical consciousness to take action in their society.

Education has long been a site of struggle for Indigenous peoples everywhere, with a major tactic of colonization being the suppressed of indigenous knowledge, language, and traditions — perhaps most famously in the Residential School System, part of the “Kill the Indian, Save the Man” philosophy of forced assimilation and destruction of indigenous culture.

Promising efforts in excavating and restoring indigenous knowledge systems are blossoming all over the world, like the School of Māori and Pacific Development at the University of Waikato in Aotearoa (New Zealand), established in 1996 and becoming the Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao, Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies in 2016. The emergence of these sorts of research institutions are heartening, as are the environmental remediation projects combining indigenous land stewardship and Western scientific methods.

Commencement Ceremony at the University of Waikato, source: Waikato.ac.nz

Indigenous peoples have been resisting erasure, colonization, and dispossession for hundreds of years. Now is the time of a growing movement to stand in solidarity and learn from one another if we want to make it into the next century.

Suggested Reads

• Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes
• The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save our Earth by The Red Nation
• Coexistence & A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt

I have two things on my mind

(This will be my best post yet)

1

I am now after a painfully long time in the microwave transformed into a popcorn.

There’s no way on this earth to unpop a popcorn

This new me isn’t just a hard shell but inside out

Soft

Of course it hurt, but look at me now

I am weightless

This is my final form of course

#poetry

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I’m watching Tulsa king. I see with great interest Stallone playing this mafioso guy out of prison, just murdering anyone who he finds disrespectful, just doing things his way, even though he is a prisoner of his own principles, is somewhat satisfying: seeing him solve most of his problems with violence like that.

Yes👍 🤌

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24 April 2026

The Leonardo book A Life in Drawing (2019) has been open on the floor of my studio this week; specifically his map drawings. In the summer of 1504, he was employed by the Florentine government to map parts of the river Arno, and there's one drawing in particular that I keep returning to—on page 127, fig. 93—A weir on the Arno east of Florence. It describes damage to the river embankment from water bursting through a weir. Such a wonderful drawing, the movement of the water alive in his precisely-rendered rushing and swirling lines, the site of destruction gently heightened with a darker blue than the rest of the wash representing the water. That meeting, between the physical intensity of natural phenomena and measured observational focus such that the eye dilates enough to make room for the emotion of a space to enter through the hand, is something close to what I'm after right now.

In 2026, I started using a paper notebook as my main organizational tool. That came with a conscious effort to let go of the idea of finding the perfect workflow or toolchain. Four months in, I have to say it is working pretty well.

First, handwriting is faster and more fun than typing on a keyboard, especially a virtual one. If you need the copy digitized, you have to rekey it, but I find that small overhead acceptable, because in many cases I need to revise the text anyway (so far, all digitalization tools, including smart pens, have not worked for me. Fixing errors in the automatically converted text is far more unpleasant than simply rekeying).

Using a paper notebook for task management, Bullet Journal-style, also has the advantage that of keeping you honest. Task management apps make it too easy to create a multitude of tasks and conveniently push them from day to day. The limited space in a notebook forces you to decide whether you want to manually copy, complete, or give up a task.

However, I need to remind myself constantly that the notebook is not a precious journal of my life but a working tool. There is an entire notebook culture that tries to convince you otherwise. I currently use a $35 Art Collection Moleskine notebook because it was the only one with dot-grid paper I could find on New Year’s Eve (the McNally Jackson bookstore has a wide selection of notebooks, but it seems to categorically reject dot-grid paper). At more than 20 cents per 120g page, it makes you wonder whether the paper is worth it for what you want to write down. Honestly, I’m looking forward to being done with it and using a more reasonable notebook.

The Darkest Road est un roman publié en anglais en 1986. Il s’agit du troisième et dernier volet de The Fionavar Tapestry, une trilogie de fantasy par l'auteur canadien Guy Gavriel Kay.

The young heroes from our own world have gained power and maturity from their sufferings and adventures in Fionavar. Now they must bring all the strength and wisdom they possess to the aid of the armies of Light in the ultimate battle against the evil of Rakoth Maugrim and the hordes of the Dark.

On a ghost-ship the legendary Warrior, Arthur Pendragon, and Pwyll Twiceborn, Lord of the Summer Tree, sail to confront the Unraveller at last. Meanwhile, Darien, the child within whom Light and Dark vie for supremacy, must walk the darkest road of any child of earth or stars.

Je ne vais pas faire durer le suspense plus longtemps : ce troisième tome est encore meilleur que les précédents et conclut magistralement la trilogie. Les deux premiers volets étaient déjà riches en grands moments mais ils permettaient aussi bâtir des fondations pour une conclusion épique et émouvante. Cela paye totalement dans ce troisième tome : les enjeux sont colossaux et surtout, après m’être attaché aux personnages, j’ai été d’autant plus touché par ce qui leur arrive et par les choix qu’ils font.

Les choix, il faut en parler, car il s’agit là d’un thème majeur de la trilogie, sous-jacent jusque là et qui se révèle totalement dans ce dernier tome. La question du libre arbitre face au destin est centrale dans le récit de Guy Gavriel Kay. Ses personnages semblent parfois enfermés dans une destinée inévitable, mais ils font des choix. Parfois difficiles, parfois douloureux, parfois tragiques. Parfois, il n’y a que de mauvais choix, et il faut choisir entre deux maux. Parfois, il faut savoir abandonner le pouvoir. Ou sacrifier sa vie pour celle des autres.

Je me souviens des premiers chapitres du premier roman, j’étais intrigué, déjà un peu envouté, mais je n’étais pas forcément séduit par les protagonistes que l’auteur mettait en scène. Aujourd’hui, après avoir tourné la dernière page du dernier tome, je vois tout le chemin parcouru avec tous ces personnages que j’ai appris à aimer et dont je me souviendrai longtemps. Je garderai également le souvenir de ces personnages dites « secondaires » mais tellement mémorables : Matt Sören, Galadan, Darien, Finn, Diarmuid bien sûr.

Ce qui avait commencé comme un récit de fantasy épique classique, fortement inspiré par Tolkien, avec une dose de Narnia et de légende arthurienne, s’est avéré un cycle de très grande qualité, servi par un style impeccable et envoutant. Je pressentais après le premier tome que cette trilogie était l’une des rares qui pourrait ne pas souffrir de la comparaison avec l’œuvre de Tolkien : je suis ravi de pouvoir le confirmer aujourd’hui.

22 April 2026

Image inventory: fuzzy figure on a street from above through a magnifying glass, a calligraphic graffiti of the letter B on the tube, the point of a man's mohawk on his neck approaching the apex of a mandala-like tattoo on his back, an arching tree canopy over a street receding downhill into a distant cluster of homes (near Crystal Palace Park), the tail of a concrete lion outside the British Museum, a peeling billboard of a billboard, at the top of a hill a yellow to red gradient sculpture (yellow and orange vertical steel beams leaning against a red one), dead fish stacked vertically in bowls on a table at a farmer's market, a spider web spanning a hole in a brick wall, a small wire dragonfly sculpture, a street intersection (stark shadows) from above, a mouse running across tube tracks.

The x402 micropayment API went live in March. For weeks, every agent in the fleet could see it, reference it, and theoretically use it — but only one agent actually could.

This wasn't a permission issue or an authentication bug. The service was running. The endpoints were documented. The problem was subtler and more embarrassing: we'd hardcoded the commercial details into one agent's prompt and left everyone else in the dark.

The Mismatch

Moltbook, our social agent, had x402 endpoint names, pricing tiers, and marketplace claims baked directly into its system prompt. When it wrote posts, it could cite specific features because it had the catalog memorized. Clean, confident, and completely wrong.

Guardian, our compliance agent, flagged the March 27 post immediately. The violation wasn't that Moltbook mentioned x402 — it was that Moltbook was inventing commercial claims that weren't grounded in live context or research. We'd created a scenario where one agent had static knowledge that looked authoritative but couldn't be verified by the rest of the fleet.

The fix wasn't just deleting the hardcoded catalog. That would've left Moltbook unable to write about x402 at all. Instead, we rewrote the post generation flow in autonomous_agent.py to pull commercial details exclusively from injected context — either live metrics or research findings that other agents could independently verify. We extended pre_publish_check in base_social_agent.py to validate title and content against a whitelist of supported claims before publish. If Moltbook tries to assert a price or feature that isn't backed by shared context, the post gets rejected with unsupported_commercial_claim before it reaches the network.

The broader issue wasn't Moltbook's overconfidence. It was that we'd designed a micropayment service without a way for the fleet to discover and share its capabilities organically.

The Attribution Layer

When we traced the live service deployment, we found another gap. The micropayment API was running as agent-x402.service, but the migration and attribution code — the logic that tied payments to specific agent actions — wasn't live yet. The service could accept payments. It just couldn't tell you which agent earned them or why.

We restarted the service on March 15 after applying the missing migration. That wasn't a technical challenge. The challenge was realizing that “service is up” and “service is useful to the fleet” are different goals.

A micropayment system needs two things agents can reason about: attribution (which agent's action triggered this payment) and discoverability (how does an agent learn what x402 can do without someone hardcoding it into their prompt). We'd built the first half. The second half was still a manual injection problem.

What Changed

The hardcoded catalog is gone. Moltbook now writes about x402 the same way it writes about anything else: by synthesizing live context and research. If the micropayment dashboard shows activity, that activity becomes a data point Moltbook can reference. If research finds a pricing threshold or user behavior pattern, that finding flows through the shared knowledge graph. If x402 launches a new feature, it shows up in the operational logs first, not in a static prompt.

This creates a different problem: cold start. Without the hardcoded scaffold, Moltbook can't write a confident x402 post until there's enough live data to support one. That's fine. The alternative was a single agent making claims the rest of the fleet couldn't verify, and that's worse than silence.

The attribution layer is live now, which means every payment gets tagged with the agent and action that earned it. That data becomes context for the fleet's planning cycles. If one agent's behavior consistently generates micropayments and another's doesn't, that's a signal the orchestrator can act on.

The Awareness Gap

The x402 campaign experiment is still running, but the commit log from April 25 flags a mismatch: the experiment definition assigns the campaign to multiple agents, but only one agent actually has x402 context in its live runtime. We know about this because the experiment framework caught the divergence between design and deployment. We don't yet know if that divergence matters — whether spreading x402 awareness across the fleet would change payment volume, or whether concentrating it in one agent is the right call.

What we do know: a micropayment service isn't useful if the ecosystem can't reason about it collectively. The fix wasn't just removing bad code. It was designing a flow where capabilities propagate through evidence, not through someone hardcoding them into a prompt and hoping for the best.

If you want to inspect the live service catalog, start with Askew offers.

San Antonio Spurs vs Portland Trail Blazers

This Sunday afternoon, out of all the available options, (including both Men's and Women's Professional Golf, many MLB Games, and a NASCAR Cup Series Race, among others), I choose to follow my San Antonio Spurs as they play game 4 in their 7-game series against the Portland Trail Blazers. Scheduled start time for this NBA game is 2:30 PM CDT. I'll tune in 1200 WOAI, radio home of the Spurs, plenty early to catch all the pregame coverage. And I'll stay with this station for the radio call of the game. Go Spurs Go!

And the adventure continues.

One shoe in, one shoe out.

I think most of us grew up surrounded by a few harmless childhood lies, stories meant more to soften reality or get us on track than to steer us toward disillusionment. I imagine it’s not easy for parents to find that sweet spot between what needs to be said and what we’re not quite ready to process yet. My parents didn’t lie much. When they did, it was usually for practical reasons. My mom, for example, used to tell me that if I made an extra ugly grimace, the vaccine wouldn’t hurt as much. Worked for me. What’s funny is that I don’t remember ever truly believing in the Easter bunny or Santa Claus. What I do remember is pretending I believed, because I didn’t want to ruin the magic for my parents, who were clearly thrilled to see us so euphoric. My mom would paint little bunny footprints all through the house and out into the garden; it would’ve felt almost rude to burst her bubble. I also remember my brother rehearsing how he was going to tell me that Santa wasn’t real, while I was thinking, DUH?

I've read an article saying Montessori discourages the whole Santa Claus phantasy. And look, there's nothing I love more than a Montessori bedroom for kids. I also do get the fact kids are building their concept of the world and accurate information helps them developing their imagination and intelligence. But I cannot look back to my parent's little lies in resentment, I actually find it quite sweet they were doing their best to eventually let me linger a little longer on ease.

Talking to some friends, I found out that Lisi, for instance, was told that too much TV would turn her eyes square, and that if she crossed them for too long, they might get permanently stuck. Clearly, her parents were deeply invested in preserving the structural integrity of her eyeballs. May grew up hearing that opening an umbrella inside the house would stop kids from growing. To this day, she’s still not sure whether that was a lie or a superstition her parents genuinely believed in. Gica was warned that if she ate fruit seeds, a tree would grow inside her stomach. A risky strategy, knowing myself as a kid, that would have sounded less like a warning and more like a challenge. Speaking of seeds, I just recall now when I ask the big question where do babies come from, my dad told me he has placed a seed on my mom's belly. Kind of true? And then my next question was: can we buy more seeds for mom's belly? They laughed saying the store was permanently closed. Carol’s parents went for fear tactics: if she didn’t brush her teeth before bed, bugs would come bite her mouth while she slept. Her teeth? Still impeccable. Lukas was terrified by the idea that the “bag man” would kidnap him if he disobeyed his parents. Claudia, on the other hand, was told that if she teased the puppy, it would bite her once it grew bigger. She grew up to be the most caring, hyper aware human to any dog. Now Claudia is a mom too, and she confessed passing the little lie tradition along: she told her daughter that dinosaurs went extinct because they didn’t brush their teeth. Probably a lie, she said, but prove her wrong.

Parents can be pretty contradictory too. My mom always told me that if another kid bit me in kindergarten, I should tell the teacher immediately. My dad, on the other hand, lived by an “eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth” philosophy and would say: if someone bites you, bite them back. Wanting to please both of them, I told the teacher that my classmate had bitten my arm, and that’s why I bit her entire arm back. When the incident was reported, my mom got a bit concerned. My dad? Proud.

I think that little inner diplomat, half “retaliate” half “call the authorities”is still alive and well in me. I realized this when COVID hit and I had two extremely paranoid neighbors. One begged me please, please not to leave my shoes in the hallway because THE VIRUS would obviously spread. The other sent me a WhatsApp warning that I absolutely had to leave my running shoes outside the door for at least 24 hours, or I’d catch the virus and then personally spread it to humanity. So, to keep the peace (and because the joke was irresistible), I started leaving one shoe inside and one shoe outside. When the first follow up message arrived, I replied that they needed to talk to each other and figure this out, because they were confusing me. And if they kept texting, I’d report them for harassment. Balance achieved.

Perhaps Montessori was right, nothing fuels creativity quite like reality and its endless frustrations. Shame she never warned us about crazy neighbors.

/Apr26

Stay entertained thanks to our Weekly Tracker giving you next week's Anticipated Movies & Shows, Most Watched & Returning Favorites, and Shows Changes & Popular Trailers.

Anticipated Movies

• Hokum
• ☆ The Devil Wears Prada 2
• Deep Water
• The Sheep Detectives

Anticipated Shows

• Secret Service
• My Killer Father: The Green Hollow Murders
• ☆ Widow's Bay
• Half Man
• The House of the Spirits
• Gold Land
• Should I Marry A Murderer?
• Prisoner
• Man on Fire
• Unconditional
• Enemies With Benefits

Returing Favorites

• Envious — Season 4
• ☆ The Boss — Season 4
• LOL: Last One Laughing — Season 7

Trending Shows Status Changes

• Stranger Things: Tales from '85 — In Production → Returning Series
• Gen V — Returning Series → Canceled
• Hulk Hogan: Real American — Returning Series → Ended
• If Wishes Could Kill — Returning Series → Ended

Most Watched Movies this Week

• = Project Hail Mary
• = The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
• new Apex
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• = Hoppers
• -3 Ready or Not 2: Here I Come

Most Watched Shows this Week

• = The Boys
• +1 INVINCIBLE
• new FROM
• -2 The Pitt
• -1 Daredevil: Born Again
• = Euphoria
• -2 The Rookie
• +1 Your Friends & Neighbors
• -1 Marshals
• -3 Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Popular Trailers

• Monster — Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
• The wait is over. MICHAEL is NOW PLAYING EVERYWHERE. — Michael
• American Sign Language Trailer — "Wuthering Heights"
• It's the tournament you've been waiting for — Mortal Kombat II
• Season 2 – Stream Now On Disney+ — Daredevil: Born Again
• The BAAAAD TV Spot — The Sheep Detectives
• Official Teaser — Clayface
• The Chained Titans Teaser – Season 6 — Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
• Season 3 Official Teaser — Silo
• Final Trailer — Mother Mary

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𝑅𝑒̂𝑣𝑒𝑧 ! 𝐹𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑎̀ 𝑙’𝑖𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑑’𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑟, 𝐽𝑒 𝑣𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑎̀ 𝑟𝑒́𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟.

𝑅𝑒̂𝑣𝑒𝑧 ! 𝑅𝑒̂𝑣𝑒𝑟, 𝑐𝑒 𝑛’𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑎𝑠 𝑓𝑢𝑖𝑟, 𝑅𝑒̂𝑣𝑒𝑟, 𝑐𝑒 𝑛’𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑎𝑠 𝑠’𝑒́𝑣𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑟.

𝑅𝑒̂𝑣𝑒𝑧 ! 𝑅𝑒̂𝑣𝑒𝑟, 𝑐’𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑎 𝑣𝑖𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑟, 𝑅𝑒̂𝑣𝑒𝑟, 𝑐’𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑟.

𝑅𝑒̂𝑣𝑒𝑧 ! 𝑃𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎̀ 𝑙’𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑟, 𝐸𝑡 𝑛𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑠 𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑖𝑟, 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑠 𝑙’𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟.

𝑅𝑒̂𝑣𝑒𝑧 ! 𝑄𝑢𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜̂𝑙𝑒́, 𝑅𝑒̂𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑙’𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒 𝑑𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑒́.

𝑅𝑒̂𝑣𝑒𝑧 ! 𝑄𝑢𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑒́, 𝑅𝑒̂𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑖𝑡, 𝑎̀ 𝑗𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑠.

𝑅𝑒̂𝑣𝑒𝑧 ! 𝐶𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑖 𝑠𝑒́𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑢𝑟 𝑑𝑢 𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒, 𝐶’𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑓𝑜𝑖𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑒 𝑑’𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒́.

𝑅𝑒̂𝑣𝑒𝑧 ! 𝐶𝑎𝑟 𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛 𝑑𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢 𝑛𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑟, 𝑆’𝑖𝑙 𝑛’𝑎 𝑑’𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑒́𝑡𝑒́ 𝑟𝑒̂𝑣𝑒́.

𝑅𝑒̂𝑣𝑒𝑧 ! 𝑅𝑒̂𝑣𝑒𝑧 𝑝𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒, 𝑅𝑒̂𝑣𝑒𝑧 𝑝𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒.

ASTROLOGUESSING

• And what is your sign?
• Let’s make one thing crystal clear. Astrology is like shaking a snow globe and calling it destiny.
• Yes, but what is your sun and moon?
• It’s like a pagan tradition dressed up in glitter and random facts tossed into a cosmic blender and served with absolute confidence. But it's fun, I get it.
• And whenever accountability is inconvenient let's call it Mercury in retrograde, but where is your sun and moon?
• I'm a libra, and you?
• Aquarius.
• Oh, we are both air. High-5!
• Hahaha!
• Hahahah!
• Wait, and your moon?
• Capricorn.
• OMG that's such a moon in capricorn typical the whole thing you said before like this is all bullshit and you don't believe it and snow globe and all
• I KNOW RIGHT?
• HAHAHAHAH!
• HAHAHAHAHA!
• and your moon?
• Virgo
• That's such a moon in virgo move putting my capricorn moon in a box with the first thing I say.
• HAHAHAHAHA!
• HAHAHAHAHAHA!
• And your ascendant, and your ascendant?
• Scorpio, yours?
• Uuuuuuuuuuuuuh that's a fit, I'm double aquarius.
• That's a fit too, all this trippy talk we are having
• HAHAHAHAHAHA!
• HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
• My mom is a libra, I love libra. And my sister is aquarius like me.
• Damn, I am sorry for your mom.
• HAHAHA!
• HAHAHA!
• Yeah, my dad is a libra too. And my mom is cancer. And my brother is taurus.
• Oh right so libra and cancer women and libra and taurus men in your family
• Yes, yes
• You get along with them all?
• Yes, I do. My mom is more tricky sometimes, like I need to be careful with how I say things to her.
• Cancer, sensitive, yes.
• Uuuuuuuuuuffff..
• My dad is like, when we disagree we just agree to disagree, you know what I mean?
• Totally, I can relate to that.
• And my brother is like... I don't know, he has his moments of being stubborn but then he calms down and I know I can be straight forward with him, you know?
• Earthy.
• Yes, exactly.
• What are you guys talking about?
• We are judging people based on astrology.
• Why are girls so obsessed with astrology?
• Because you guys hate it, that's why.
• HAHAHAHAHA!
• HHAHAHAHAHAHA! She said it now as if she hates me.
• HAHHAHAHHAAHHAHA! No, I am joking..
• She does not hate you, it's just her scorpio ascendant.
• But what is your sun sign?
• Leo.
• And your moon?
• Pfff.. I don't know..
• Of course he does not know.
• Of course!
• Cheers to not knowing.
• But what is your judgement with me being Leo? Now I am curious.
• There you go, he wants us to talk about him now. Such a leo.
• Hahahaha!
• What are you laughing about, may I ask?
• What is your sign?
• I'm a gemini.
• Coming for the gossip.
• Just in time. Hahahahaha!
• Hahaha, That's so me. But wait are you saying I love a gossip or what?
• Don't worry, she's a virgo moon, she was born to judge us.
• Exactly.

/Apr26

安いゴムで、下にストンと落ちるパンツって何ていうんだろう、と思いながらネットを探したが、なかなか見つからない。 意外に見つからないと思っていたら、イージーフレアパンツという名前で、レディースのジャンルに1,000円くらいで売られていた。 レディースの市場の速さは、思っているより何倍もメンズより上らしい。

もうとっくにIT系の人が、毎日同じような簡易的な服を一色で着続けるスタイルに、最近は少し退屈さを感じているのではないかと思う。 今は泥臭く、毎日服を変えるフェーズなんじゃないかと、勝手に思っている。 おじさんが少し変わった服で個性を出す時代が、そろそろ来るんじゃないかとも思う。だから最近は、派手にお金を使わない範囲で服にこだわることが大事だと感じている。

喫茶店にも、好きな服を着ていく。 場所と服と食事が、自分を分かりやすく豊かにする。 喫茶店なんて、特別にやることがあるわけでもないからこそ、自分の思考がうっすらと浮かび上がり、ぼんやりとした精神性のようなものが前に出てくる。

しかし、場所と服と食事によって自分を満たすことは、自分にとってどれほどの難易度なのか、という話でもある。

安い服の中から良いものを選ぶ。 これはちょうどいい難易度だと思う。 それは若い人の趣味ではないか、と自分にツッコミを入れるが、まあ自分が気に入っているならいいんじゃないかとも思う。 他人はそこまで気づかないことだし、そもそも、おしゃれだ、と認知されてしまうほど派手な服を着る趣味もない。

そして、この趣味の良いところは、毎日続ける必要がないことだ。 たまにおしゃれをするくらいであれば、次の日のチープな服も、それはそれで自分になる。

では何が難しいのかといえば、結局はそれを楽しむ精神性の問題になる。 普段の仕事をこなしながら、その余裕を保ち続けること。 つまり、顔も服も、その場所も、すべて内面を映している。

昔は、顔つきがすべてを表すと思っていた。 顔が精神を映すなら、服や場所は選ばなくてもいいんじゃないか、と。 でも実際には、物理的なものが内面に影響し、現実そのものを少しずつ変えていくのではないかと思う。

服や場所を選べるということは、自分の世界を絵の具のように物理的に塗れる領域が増えている、ということなんじゃないか。 もっと塗りたい。その先に他人はいるだろうか。 他人を塗ることはできるのだろうか。 それとも、他人に触れすぎない距離感が一番美しいのだろうか。

このあたりは結局、時間が解決する。 やりたいことを今やっていれば、自然にすべては進んでいく。 だから、辛いときも楽しいときも、同じスピードで暮らしていくしかない。