Hello and farewell

Hey, sorry to miss you all on Thursday and Friday. One of the kids got themselves kidnapped at a party on a foreign oligarch's yacht, and you know the drill: The bad guys called, and I explained about my "particular set of skills," and then I used those skills: crying and begging and ultimately selling our car for some fast money. I think it worked, and the child should be home soon.

Quite a few of you responded to the survey I sent out last week, and I really appreciate it, thank you. (If you haven't yet, you still can.) I'll share more about that later this week. It was overwhelmingly positive, which was nice, but I am most grateful for the constructive criticism (and all the criticism was constructive), as well as some well-timed words of encouragement.

We have some people here who stayed home with colds today, and I must tend to them for the remainder of the evening, so I'm going to bid you farewell until the morrow, as if I were some kind of bard or wizard or druid-king. Until the morrow, farewell.

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Oh, if you've read or are reading On Tyranny, by Timothy Snyder—which has come highly recommended since the election—Emily Hauser (a fan of the book) did a good thread on Bluesky about some of the nuance Snyder missed by making it as short as he did.

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