KelsonV @KelsonV@wandering.shop

Ugh, flyswatter has gone missing just as a bunch of flies made it into the house. Any suggestions on what might work as a substitute?

Something I wrote after my third time through #LesMiserables:

Fiction can’t *prove* a point about about reality, but it can make you *think* about it, and consider connections or perspectives that you might not have considered before. And that’s a very valuable thing.

https://hyperborea.org/les-mis/about/third-time-through/

The state supreme court ruled in favor, because that's technically what the law says, and pointed out that the legislature "is in a position to make whatever statutory amendments it may regard as necessary or useful" to resolve ambiguities

This is kind of hilarious

Conservation groups asked California to protect 4 species of bumblebees. The agriculture industry objected on the grounds that the state's endangered species law doesn't cover insects. But the state fish & game code, in trying to cover all its marine life bases, defines a fish as "wild fish, mollusk, crustacean, invertebrate, or amphibian."

So technically, bumblebees as invertebrates are eligible for protection as fish.

#law #weird #nature

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-23/bumblebees-can-be-protected-as-fish-california-court-rules

In the office today, drinking something that's allegedly hot chocolate, but I'm not convinced.

I always feel weird typing things like "deploying new war"

I've expanded these into a full review of #Sandman season one on my website:

https://hyperborea.org/reviews/tv/sandman-s1/

Headline: "Pickleball is exploding, and it’s getting messy"

I imagine it would...