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@dorsalstream Yep.

@Miraz a sight for sore winter eyes!

@dorsalstream high five from the snowy new england coast, friend

@tinyroofnail I *loved this. Thanks.

@JohnBrady love this

@jabel Oh wow — that is a lot to carry and contemplate. Sending you well wishes and big respect as you make those decisions together. Nothing to romanticize about those many realities.

@jabel (This is why you’ll find radical left secular disability activists in unlikely coalition with orthodox Christians on the issue.)

@jabel I agree that opposing euthanasia probably does hang, in the end, on a Christian world view. But most opponents I read on this aren't glorifying the suffering as such; it's that the specter of the (aggregate) alternative is so much worse. If we accept euthanasia on the basis of bodily autonomy + a wish to cut short states of bodily dependence, we tacitly or explicitly frame states of dependence as the abject — unnecessary, inefficient for the state, even incompatible with a good life. I worry that a eugenic logic starts to follow, especially where there's money to be made and a bureaucratic spreadsheet of decisions in front of us.

@chrisheck Well, ha, my local stationer didn’t have the ones of old (no surprise, I guess.) but I got rules notebooks and nice pens and they can reuse each week.

@JohnBrady Pretty much. It’s so depressing. But so many universities are eager to see AI as the inevitable future — they’re sending mixed signals to students all around. And my class is on the craft of design criticism, so I’m pretty sure it’s gotta be longhand.

@dorsalstream ha, true, but my spirits are lighter than last semester’s end

@tinyroofnail So glad you enjoyed it! And thanks for recalling those stunning passages in your post. Good to revisit. I told Chad I think his native unit of voice is the paragraph, not sentence. 💥

@patrickrhone I love this. Thanks! And Giertz is new to me all around.

@jaheppler inspiring!

@chrisheck But that's how much I love it! I've mostly walked all week anyway, just look like a Yeti on arrival.

@mwerickson Thanks for letting us know, Matt. Wishing you all the support you want or need right now.

@chrisheck Thank you! Very pleased. (And my walk-to-work commitment has been...tested this week by bitter winds and cold. "Feels like" is around 13 degrees, lol.)

@chrisheck Absolutely. It’s my very best thinking time. One of those rare win-wins.

@chrisheck my very long walk to work, which guarantees me enough activity to be properly tired at day’s end.

@scattershot Thanks for these!

@JohnBrady consider me a taker!