unkind laughter || ten good things

[kaberett]

Received, this morning, by e-mail:

Subject: Refusing the digital world of late capitalism

[...] [Book] surveys the wrecking of a living world by the internet complex and its devastation of communities and their capacities for mutual support.

[...]

Join the [Membership] and get [Book] as part of your April reading. Members also receive every new book we publish, in ebook format!

I am now unsubscribed from that advertisement mailing list.

***

1. I temporarily don't have a migraine. (... well. or, depending on whether this is prodrome, didn't. BUT. I had most of a day without migraine.)
   
2. I did manage to book the last remaining next-week blood test.
   
3. All three of my yacon are actually sprouting! And the one that sprouted first and then got nommed by... Somebody... is sturdily and bravely putting out new leaves after having been Brought Inside To Keep It Safe.
   
4. Today's Cursed Data Transcription Project actually went much faster and more easily than I expected it to!
   
5. Boiled carrots + butter + parsley.
   
6. A found my earplug! I had washed it after last use, and left it to dry on the side, and then accidentally picked one of them up when picking up the phone I'd put down on top of them, and then it... adventured. It went sproing out of my hand. In the dark, with me with sunglasses on, because at the time (try to look shocked) I had a migraine. I spent some time looking for it; A, yesterday, spent some more time looking for it; and then this morning, in a place we'd both looked, it materialised for him. So now I have a full set of reusable earplugs again.
   
7. Along with dinner, I made tiny (and slightly ill-advised) jam tarts, some with blackberry jelly from last year that I caramelised rather more than intended and some with the blood orange marmalade Situation (at A's suggestion). As ever I over-filled them & they went from "Erebus' lava lake at rest" to "this is definitely an explosive eruption", but also they are tasty. :)
   
8. I repeat myself, but: it's still a good cheesecake and I continue to enjoy it as we work our way through it.
   
9. I particularly liked being a mammal today. I had my hair down for a while between unplaiting it and getting around to brushing it, and then again before getting around to rebraiding it, and it was an excellent insulator and pleasantly warm.
   
10. I rehomed the podded cardamom seeds from a Kilner that needs its metalwork replacing to a wee plastic tub. The Kilner that contained the seeds is now sitting on the dining table waiting to be Dealt With, and also making everything smell of cardamom. It is nice.
    

Comments

[batrachian]

*stares*

I'm trying to think of anybody for whom that would be a less appropriate sales pitch.

Maybe synecdochic. Maybe.

[cesy]

I hope your day improves

[kaberett]

<3 I got there in the end!

[davidgillon]

*Headdesk*

[fyreharper]

“Let us send you an ebook about how the digital world is the worst”

…

:stares back and forth between each half of this statement:

[kaberett]

IN! EXCHANGE! FOR MONEY! ISN'T IT AMAZING.

[fyreharper]

I MISSED THE CAPITALISM PART, THAT’S EVEN BETTER (/worse? *astounding* levels of cognitive dissonance, in any case!)

[silveradept]

Merely unkind laughter for such a stunning lack of awareness? Your restraint is admirable. I'm fairly certain hollow and malicious laughter would be entirely appropriate for that pitch.