October 11, 2024

spencergreenhalgh.com posts digest for Oct 11 2024

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Here are long-form blog posts I published this week:

• wanting to play Keyforge

• bad faith uses of scientific 'rigor'

Here are microblog posts that I published this week:

• Today marks five years since I tried out mental health counseling for the first time, and I’m grateful for the good it’s done me since then.

• This week, I’ve encountered Ursula K. LeGuin’s anarchist vision of what a university could be as well as a number of reminders of how much things aren’t like that vision.

• I appreciate Bible scholar Thomas Römer in an academic sense, but I also sometimes remember that I first discovered him through a French comics podcast where he showed up to say that he thought R. Crumb’s adaptation of Genesis could have been more imaginative, and that’s what really sold me on him.

• RSS feeds for my local newspaper stopped updating nearly 3 weeks ago. Not sure if it’s the website or my app, but it’s making me grumpy.

• Nothing like taking a break from trying to convince kiddo to help with weekend chores to try to convince kiddo to help with farm chores in our shared Stardew Valley game.

• “Aw man, I’m not as good as catching flying socks as I am at catching a frisbee.”

• The spookiest things in our house right now aren’t the Halloween decorations, they’re the ultra high visibility vests we keep by our bikes and startle me with an eerie glow every time I open the door into the dark garage.

Here are news articles and podcasts I commented on this week:

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'State Education Department Seeks Bids for 55,000 Classroom Bibles - Oklahoma Watch'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Michigan Father Dies in Israeli Airstrike in Lebanon, Family Says'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Elon Musk Is Now Seizing Other People’s Twitter Accounts To Promote Donald Trump'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on '‘The Community Is In Chaos:’ WordPress.org Now Requires You Denounce Affiliation With WP Engine To Log In'

Here are my reviews of books and other media I consumed this week:

• 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤 for Sex Criminals (The Complete Edition), by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky

• 📺 tvblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ for WandaVision

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Spencer