Monday, August 24, 2026
I'm sure there's a Petosky stone in there somewhere
I'm not supposed to be putting journal entries on this blog, but it's what I reached for without thinking this morning, so here we are. I enjoy using Pure Blog quite a lot.
I promised myself that I wouldn't post about any more social media dustups, but I broke my promise recently, and I wish I hadn't. It's just so hard to watch people on "my team" do things I wish they wouldn't, whether that's retreating to a platform that disgusts me, like X, or scolding someone for choosing for themselves to do that.
So here's the thing, our performative virtue signaling seems to be alienating the very people we need to persuade to come over to our side.
I remain convinced that Trump is president because "regular folk" were sick of being scolded and shamed for simply living their lives in the world they were born into, their only sin being that they were maybe a little behind the curve.
Anyway, my wife and I had a lovely weekend up north. Turns out that "the Outdoors" is pretty neat.
