Janet is prematurely obsolete @janet@weirder.earth

Mozilla is sending me emails I didn’t opt into and Thunderbird is flagging them as spam 🤣

Not since I discovered Cartola’s “Preciso Me Encontrar” with the bassoon have I heard such exciting bass woodwind instrumentation. I mean not saying I know much about music. Thanks to NPR for introducing me to Ymusic https://ymusicensemble.bandcamp.com/album/ymusic

(I suppose samba has a shared lineage with chamber music -> chorinho -> samba)

(Apologies for the mixed English, some British words I resist using, such as “pram”)

People I saw in the park in last 5 minutes - 15 degrees and sunny and the song birds are going for it -
- toddler with amazing multicoloured shoes being coaxed up the hill by his weary mum pushing his stroller
- scruffy guy with a black bag with three beer cans
- middle aged jogger with pot belly in a dayglow orange shirt huffing it up the hill
- older bald guy, rolly in his mouth, singing a spiritual, with two chihuahuas on leads he held, one short hair, one long hair
- three people of indeterminate relation, a big ginger guy with shorn sides and a bun on top, a smaller young woman with long brown hair, trainers, and a woman in pink short sleeves and lycra black leggings and riding boots and a black beanie with nose piercing
- an older man rubbernecking looking at me suspiciously as I type this, his black hood up
- tired looking unshaven guy in gray jeans and boat shoes carrying an insulated travel mug

Perhaps the Fedi can concentrate on chocolate today and return to meta maelstroms tomorrow

Perhaps cos I am chronically ill from a virus that continues to disable others and few care… but to me defences of opt-out bridges read like denial of collective safety and/or gaslighting 👀

Listening to “The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier” recorded in 1965. Such brilliance. Callier should have been a household name https://terrycallier.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-folk-sound-of-terry-callier

We are having french toast Tuesday. As I said, gonna take more than some too-thin pancakes to sustain us right now. If we can’t have Carnival…

The stress of these ride hailing apps. Why is there surge pricing at 13:30 on a Monday, FFS? If I want to avoid them, I have to pay a local company 2x and book well in advance. Or take 2 buses and burn more energy instead.

Listening to a podcast on Carnival “blocos” and “direito à folia” (right to revelry) as a constitutional right in Brazil. When Lula’s current Finance Minister was mayor of São Paulo he introduced street carnival and even in Brazil there are saddos who want to end it (Pt) https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/amp/ilustrissima/2024/02/carnaval-de-rua-nao-e-bagunca-e-direito-constitucional-diz-guilherme-varella.shtml

Can we have some revelry? Because pancakes aren’t gonna do it for me any more…

It seems to be going from filthy to cespit around here. The few professional cleaners the city had haven’t been here in months. Did I mention our council is broke, and has raised taxes 4% this year?

This is literally taking a toll on my mental and physical health. Tomorrow’s crash will be 100% caused by 14 years of Tory government.

Against my better judgment I did a mini but intense litter pick on the street after the dog walk. I filled a whole garbage bag in about 15-20min. The street was absolutely filthy. Most seems to be repeat offenders dumping stuff out of their car windows. And school kids.

If it is single-use or “disposable”, unless it is in our imagination or dreams, we need to be using less of it.

Bamboo grows somewhere. Seaweed too. Somewhere that is needed by the earth and/or people for something else.

Disposability is like patriarchy, ableism or white supremacy. It is so hardwired into our societies that people really struggle to come to terms with it. And the powers that be are very good at co-opting our will to do better.

Listening to the radio in my sleeping bag, and remembering the magic of community events I used to host in London. Remembering the serendipity, the amazing people I met. I don’t have that now but it is remarkable how even the memory lifts me 🥲

Where TF is Ed Miliband? Lost all respect for him. Never had any respect for the Labour leadership.

Question Time is in my city tonight - I suppose I should do my duty and watch. Especially given Labour’s pathetic climb down on the green transition.