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  @jacqui76@mastodon.ie Cellphones, 18th century periwigs, and indifference to the suffering of others—how typical of 21st century English jurisprudence! (Full disclosure: I’m a citizen of the US. Despite our Declaration of Independence from Georgian indifference to the fate of others, and our eventual integration of the once despised Irish and Jewish immigrant population, at this point modesty and a history of slavery and genocide should incline us to keep our mouths shut.) Sorry for the cultural...

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  @waldoj@mastodon.social @dgoldsmith@mastodon.social You’ve heard of capitalism, right? (Sorry, that wasn’t really aimed at you or at your rhetorical question. I’m just tired of the accellerating enshittification of just about everything that I once thought might lead to progress, and I’m afraid we won’t have enough lampposts, enough rope, enough courage, or enough judgment to make it all come right in the end.)

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  Random Thoughts on Our New World Disorder https://dogtownessays.com/2026/04/random-thoughts-on-our-new-world-disorder/

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  A Few Mottos for our Ongoing Trumpification https://dogtownessays.com/2026/04/a-few-mottos-for-our-ongoing-trumpification/