#New Tucson

[desert-love]

New Year’s Eve sunset 🎊

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Come see me on tour!

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour

My next novel is The Bezzle, a high-tech ice-cold revenge thriller starring Marty Hench, a two-fisted forensic accountant, as he takes on the sleaziest scams of the first two decades of the 2000s, from hamburger-themed Ponzis to the unbelievably sleazy and evil prison-tech industry:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

I'm taking Marty on the road! I'll be visiting eighteen cities between now and June, and I hope you'll come out and say hello, visit a beloved local bookseller, and maybe get a book (or two)!

21 Feb: Weller Bookworks, Salt Lake City, 1830h: https://www.wellerbookworks.com/event/store-cory-doctorow-feb-21-630-pm

22 Feb: Mysterious Galaxy, San Diego, 19h: https://www.mystgalaxy.com/22224Doctorow

24 Feb: Vroman's, Pasadena, 17h, with Adam Conover (!!) https://www.vromansbookstore.com/Cory-Doctorow-discusses-The-Bezzle

26 Feb: Third Place Books, Seattle, 19h, with Neal Stephenson (!!!) https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/cory-doctorow

27 Feb: Powell's, Portland, 19h: https://www.powells.com/book/the-bezzle-martin-hench-2-9781250865878/1-2

29 Feb: Changing Hands, Phoenix, 1830h: https://www.changinghands.com/event/february2024/cory-doctorow

9-10 Mar: Tucson Festival of the Book: https://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org/?action=display_author&id=15669

13 Mar: San Francisco Public Library: https://sfpl.org/events/2024/03/13/author-cory-doctrow-bezzle

22 Mar: Toronto: Wendy Michener Memorial Lecture: https://events.yorku.ca/events/wendy-michener-memorial-lecture2024/

24 Mar: NYC: Word Books (with Laura Poitras): https://shop.wordbookstores.com/event/word-presents-cory-doctorow

29-31 Mar: Wondercon Anaheim: https://www.comic-con.org/wc/

11 Apr: Harvard Berkman-Klein Center (with Randall Munroe) https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/enshittification

12 Apr: RISD Debates in AI, Providence, details coming soon!

17 Apr: Anderson's Books, Chicago, 19h: https://www.andersonsbookshop.com/event/cory-doctorow-1

19-21 Apr: Torino Biennale Tecnologia https://www.turismotorino.org/en/experiences/events/biennale-tecnologia

2 May, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Winnipeg https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cory-doctorow-tickets-798820071337

5-11 May: Tartu Prima Vista Literary Festival https://tartu2024.ee/en/kirjandusfestival/

6-9 Jun: Media Ecology Association keynote, Amherst, NY https://media-ecology.org/convention

Calgary and Vancouver – details coming soon!

[eretzyisrael]

Source

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[promontoryranger]

Sunrise/Sunset

“There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.” – Jo Walton Sunrise/moonset at Bosque del Apache, New Mexico Good advice. Tucson Sunset Sunrise in central New Mexico Thanks to Ann-Christine of the Leya blog for this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, Illustrate a Favorite Quote or Poem. Sunset in western Arizona

[thechembow]

Pristine OR this Morning Following Yesterday's Mass Exodus

Mar. 28, 2024

The atmosphere is too high in orgone for "flight" today. I have only seen one "plane" so far this morning, very high up with a short trail. Yesterday, they were all flying at once as they made their mass exodus before atmospheric conditions would become too high for their DOR-based technology to handle (deadly radiation from the cell tower arrays on the ground, which energize the flight grid in the sky).

When you start to notice the pattern in heavily gifted places, you'll see that they all fly at once, usually before high OR conditions make it impossible. This is why the chemtrail conspiracy shills say they "spray before it rains." No one is spraying anything. They are using a DOR based form of transportation in our atmosphere and they all go at the same time during a time window where they can physically manage it. (No, it's not just airplanes and contrails either.) The trails are whatever particulates and vapor are present when DOR allows them to exist, as this type of flight only can work in DOR conditions. When OR is dominant, you don't see these trails much at all, and if you do, they break or are short and don't last. This is what people think of as "contrails."

Look and observe this pattern. The more orgonite in your area, the more you'll see the dramatic difference between days where they can still manage to fly and the many more days when they can't. We are seeing longer trails when they do travel, which indicates a more targeted approach to DORizing the atmosphere. The DOR comes from cell towers, most of which have been neutralized in the western US.

At this point, they are using what's left in places we have not yet gifted, but the power is weak and cannot cover all areas since they have lost their grid in seven states. The most recent urban grids that have been taken out are Denver, Albuquerque, and Tucson in October 2023. This not only accounts for the decrease in flight, and the increase in OR days, but the record rain and snow in the US this winter.

The atmosphere is functioning as naturally as we've seen yet in our lifetimes. This is not good for inter-dimensional forms of transportation that are incompatible with the natural resonance of the Earth, but very good for our health and natural weather!

[machinavocis]

behold, a rough approximation of my car if i plug all the specs of the one i bought into the hyundai website's car builder thing!

[goalhofer]

2024 IIHF Worlds U.S.A. Roster

Wingers

#7 Braeden Tkachuk (Ottawa Senators/Creve Coeur, Missouri)

#12 Matt Boldy (Minnesota Wild/Millis, Massachusetts)

#13 Johnny Gaudreau (Columbus Blue Jackets/Carneys Point, NJ)

#22 Cole Caufield (Montreal Canadiens/Mosinee, Wisconsin)

#23 Mikey Eyssimont (Tampa Bay Lightning/Littleton, Colorado)

#26 Kevin Hayes (St. Louis Blues/Boston, Massachusetts)

#86 Joel Farabee (Philadelphia Flyers/Cicero, New York)

Centers

#6 Will Smith (Boston College Eagles/Lexington, Massachusetts)

#9 Trevor Zegras (Anaheim Ducks/Bedford, New York)

#11 Luke Kunin (San José Sharks/Chesterfield, Missouri)

#24 Ryan Leonard (Boston College Eagles/Amherst, Massachusetts)

#29 Brock Nelson (New York Islanders/Warroad, Minnesota)

#57 Shane Pinto (Ottawa Senators/Hempstead, New York)

Defensemen

#4 Jared Jones (Chicago Blackhawks/Denver, Colorado)

#5 Michael Kesselring (Tucson Roadrunners/New Hampton, NH)

#8 Zach Werenski (Columbus Blue Jackets/Grosse Pointe, Michigan)

#43 Luke Hughes (New Jersey Devils/Canton Charter Township, MI)

#46 Jeff Petry (Detroit Red Wings/Farmington Hills, Michigan)

#51 Matt Kessel (St. Louis Blues/Detroit, Michigan)

#72 Alex Vlasic (Chicago Blackhawks/New Trier Township, Illinois)

#85 Jake Sanderson (Ottawa Senators/Calgary, Alberta)

Goalies

#1 Kenneth Augustine III (Michigan State Spartans/South Lyon, MI)

#34 Alex Lyon (Detroit Red Wings/Baudette, Minnesota)

#39 Alex Nedeljkovic (Pittsburgh Penguins/Cleveland, Ohio)

[midnight-star-world]

#CountryMusic

CMT Crossroads - NEEDTOBREATHE & Jordan Davis

So today on the MSR (Midnight Star Review), we will be talking about the latest episode of CMT (Country Music Television), Crossroads. This episode features NEEDTOBREATHE & Jordan Davis and originally aired on CMT at 8pm EST (Eastern Standard Time). Here is what they played for us on this special on my wife's birthday Thrusday June 13th, 2024.

Setlist. Wasting time. What my world spins arounds. Banks. Next thing you know. West Texas wind. Tucson too late. Buy dirt. The outsiders.

And that's all they played for us on this special. And on the MSR (Midnight Star Review), I would give this a 3.5 out of 5 stars. This could have been easily more time. Thanks for taking the time to read this review. See ya all next time.

[douglasfur365]

St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans, 2022 on the occasion of my 39th birthday.

Today I turn 40. I certainly don’t feel 40, or maybe I do. I know don’t feel as old as I thought my parents were when they turned 40. I’m genuinely not sure how I feel about this birthday, 39 kinda sucked, I felt kinda shitty most of this past year mostly stemming from a pretty late discovery that I have a wheat allergy. I never understood what exactly people with chronic illnesses meant when they talked about the depression they suffered as a result of their illness, after this year I certainly do. At least I can say that I was never alone… literally because as it turns out I’ve also been living with a parasite, maybe still, only time and medication will tell. Last year I visited New Orleans for the first time for my brothers wedding, the next day on my birthday I took a cemetery tour. It was really just happenstance that I found myself here on my birthday, but I have been thinking a lot about mortality in my work recently so maybe it wasn’t such a coincidence.

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Sonic Youth – “Goo” vinyl front cover (1990) design and drawing by Raymond Pettibon

[my-life-on-parade]

Our road trip through New Mexico, part two, Carlsbad Caverns, the historic luxury hotel The Lodge in the Sacramento Mountains town of Cloudcroft (Judy Garland and Clark Gable carved their names above the fourth banister in a small sitting room at the top of the tower back in 1940).

[cheekyblunders]

Road Trip!

From San Diego --> Arizona--> New Mexico -->

Stopped for gas in Tucson, Arizona and then headed to a retro dive bar.

Shelter Bar

Then went down a few blocks to fill up on Noodles at Noodleholics.

Then I drove all night to New Mexico. At midnight I found a campground and slept in my car.

Next stop: Gila National Wilderness

I visited the old cliff dwellings and hiked through the canyon to spend a night at the Jordan Hot Springs.

[commiepinkofag]

Join the Fight!

Trans activists have organized demonstrations at capitol buildings across the country and are currently coordinating protests for Trans Day of Visibility on March 31 and Trans Day of Vengeance on April 1. 

Activists have planned rallies at the state capitol of Georgia, which recently became the 10th state to ban gender-affirming care; Tucson, Arizona; the Missouri state capitol; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; New York City; and the Kansas state capitol, among others.

 “We are here and we will not allow ourselves to be erased,” Trans Radical Activist Network.

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

The Arizona Department of Public Safety has reinstated a shelter-in-place order for a one-mile perimeter around a crash involving a commercial tractor truck hauling liquid nitric acid which resulted in a hazardous spill along Interstate 10 in Tucson.

The crash led to evacuation orders which were lifted Tuesday night, but reinstated Wednesday morning, authorities said.

“While crews were attempting to remove the load from the commercial vehicle, gassing occurred,” DPS said in a news release.

Interstate 10 remains closed in both directions between Kolb and Rita roads in Tucson, according to DPS.

“Unified Command advises anyone within the one-mile perimeter to turn off heaters and/or air conditioning systems that bring in outside air,” the news release said. “The public should avoid the area and motorists should seek an alternate route.”

DPS did not indicate when the shelter-in-place would be lifted.

The driver of the truck died in the crash, the department said, without identifying the person publicly.

Nitric acid is a colorless liquid, has yellow or red fumes and acrid odor, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Exposure to it can cause irritation to the eyes, skin and mucous membranes.

[jessica-marie-baumgartner]

This is insane