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Cake day: April 25th, 2022

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  • Spending today at work reading wikipedia pages related to the siege of Leningrad. I can’t fathom the despair those people felt, yet they still resisted so fiercely.

    Currently reading about the Diary of Tanya Savicheva, a 12 year old girl who documented the deaths of her family members, one by one, until it was just her. She dug trenches and put out fires as her part of the war effort.

    Her older sister worked double shifts at a mine factory and then donated blood after work. All this while only being given a 9oz ration of bread each day. She died of exhaustion/malnutrition, along with 100,000 others every month for 900 days.

    Thinking of the teamsters driving trucks across frozen Lake Ladoga’s “road of life” who fell through the ice trying to deliver supplies to the besieged city.

    Would love to be there for next year’s 80th VE Day






  • I watched “Black Twitter: A People’s History”. The first two episodes were pretty good, would recommend. Insightful, funny, makes a convincing argument. Episode 3 was distilled liberal cringe that included a victory lap for electing Biden in 2020. All the coverage about 2020 was pure trash*. The ideology was getting laid on thick, so I looked up the production company of the show, and it’s from Onyx media, which is wholly owned by Hulu-Disney.

    *Spent maybe 1 minute on the murder of George Floyd. Didn’t mention Breonna Taylor. Didn’t mention defund the police. Didn’t mention police. Spent several minutes on Joe Biden (specifically the SC dem primary) but didn’t mention Bernie. Really egregious oversight. Libs want to pretend the people’s uprising of 2020 never happened so badly that they’re going to write it out of history.









  • One risk is the wind resistance, increased by the canoe, pulling on the holes in the roof, stretching or shearing them, or increasing the “concave” shape of the roof.

    Another thing to consider, if the ratchet straps will bind your doors shut. This could be very unsafe in an emergency situation.

    I don’t want to discourage your adventure, just want to make sure the risks are considered. Good luck