(1) great weekend per usual, took a girl on a date and lost my shit when a dude came by when she was in the bathroom, shook my hand and said "You have a damn good woman there," fully agreed and thank you for coping with your feelings with grace, sir, rather than the verbal and physical assaults I more often endure for being queer and out with this girl!
(2) I love the book I am reading, The Devil is Here in These Hills, about Appalachian coal protests that basically got to the scale of the Tuluki-Allanaki war. Or bigger, don't want to minimize what these miners went through. It shows you why you should never allow certain interests to become so powerful that they become judge, jury and executioner, it shows you that scabs suck, and it shows you the beauty and hope of people who have been equally silenced and oppressed banding together as one even if they were at odds in the past.
Oppressors can only silence and exclude in totality for so long. It is fine for entropy to exist in some systems.