Palma and Luna. 

 I think I'll get The Dead Do Not Die: Exterminate All The Brutes and Terra Nullius today. Used or new or from the beloved beleaguered  library. I'm thinking about the end of empire, the terrifyingly strange things happening. The open letter from the dark hollow heart of the gaslight empire. About the web of life and the web of death. Without religion or politics, it comes down to this. It's obvious that the web of death cannot exist without the web of life. Thus, the web of life must continue, beyond the web of death.

Note, I remember the guy I called Yoga Trump who used to sit on this concrete platform, before the web appeared. He disappeared! 

 While it's of course obviously a shattering disaster, think of the end of  the empire as the liberation of the earth. 

 Things are still there in memory. Olive still sees the centipede in her mind's eye, and looks for it on the wall, thinking it may be hiding behind the painting of the treehouse. But then she knows, she's smart, it seems she knows what is in her mind and what is on the wall, and she is simply keeping vigil, staying ever ready for play, as cats do.

 It is part of the excessive egotism of the human animal that the bare idea of its extinction seems incredible to it. 

H.G. Wells

redacted and rampless.

Before I went to the lake I started watching An American Returns to Palestine to Defend His Home from Settlers, on Infinite Jaz. At the Point I spoke to a guy who said there's no community, nothing we can do, when I talked about the data centers, and I said but there IS community, and we can at least have solidarity, but he said Just Eat and Drink, like, for tomorrow we die. Then I went home and finished watching the podcast. The settlers in the West Bank can come and take Palestinian homes and there's nothing the Palestinians can do, except to bear witness, have solidarity, and sumud.  The fellow interviewed was trying to save his home surrounded by the IDF and settlers. He could not leave the house. He's a Palestinian American. The Palestinians are just beaten and thrown out, if not killed. The IDF comes to assist the settlers. They say yes, Americans can come and claim any Palestinian home they wish. Unless you are Palestinian American. We're not here to simply consume. We're here to be humans in community with all beings.