Sonnet 080 - LXXX
O! how I faint when I of you do write,
Knowing a better spirit doth use your name,
And in the praise thereof spends all his might,
To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.
But since your worth, wide as the ocean is,
The humble as the proudest sail doth bear,
My saucy bark, inferior far to his,
On your broad main doth wilfully appear.
Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat,
Whilst he upon your soundless deep doth ride;
Or, being wrack'd, I am a worthless boat,
He of tall building, and of goodly pride:
Then if he thrive and I be cast away,
The worst was this, my love was my decay.

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It was probably around 7 C when I started, windy, feels like zero.
I was wearing my spring MTB gloves and I almost lost my hands 🥶

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Just think, if Congress had impeached and removed Donald Trump after the insurrection at the Capitol 5 years ago today, he wouldn’t be President and we wouldn’t have (non-complete list):
*Shuttered USAID
*Slashed medical research
*Mafia actions to coerce media, universities, business leaders, etc
*Kidnapped a head of state & threatened to invade allies
*Military policing U.S. cities
*USG accounts mimicking Nazis
*Measles breakouts
*President giving pardons for pay

And so much more
#uspol #Jan6

Sonnet 017 - XVII
Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life, and shows not half your parts.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes,
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies;
Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'
So should my papers, yellow'd with their age,
Be scorn'd, like old men of less truth than tongue,
And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage
And stretched metre of an antique song:
But were some child of yours alive that time,
You should live twice, in it, and in my rhyme.

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No wonder this climb was taking forever, I was going around the planet

#running #52weeks52halfmarathons #halfmarathon #runnersofmastodon

52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons

Stage 1 - 2026

Here we go again.

Happy new Year! 🎉

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“the most disturbing presidential press conference I have seen in my life.”

James Fallows has seen more than anyone else I know. So pay heed.

fallows.substack.com/p/blind-i…

Sonnet 050 - L
How heavy do I journey on the way,
When what I seek, my weary travel's end,
Doth teach that ease and that repose to say,
'Thus far the miles are measured from thy friend!'
The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,
Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,
As if by some instinct the wretch did know
His rider lov'd not speed being made from thee.
The bloody spur cannot provoke him on,
That sometimes anger thrusts into his hide,
Which heavily he answers with a groan,
More sharp to me than spurring to his side;
For that same groan doth put this in my mind,
My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.

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During the Iraq war I let people gaslight me into thinking I didn't know enough about "foreign policy" and "global politics" to say the war was a bad idea.

I would hesitate because, I'm not an expert on those things.

But I was right then and I'm right now.

You don't need to be an expert, it's not "so complex and best left to high level people." You know enough to see this makes no sense.