Jamsque

will soon come to an end, it seems. Bummer. This is a good website, I've enjoyed my time here greatly, especially once I figured out how to set up the right silenced tags to keep giant furry tiddies (mostly) away from my timeline. I don't think I will be going anywhere else to chase what I found here; I nuked my facebook account back in February so Threads is right out, BlueSky has no appeal whatsoever, and even though I did make a Mastodon account a few years ago I didn't ever have a good time there.

If, for some reason, you want to seek me out elsewhere, just look for 'Jamsque'. I'm one of one, anywhere you find a Jamsque it is me. Except on TikTok, I don't know who that guy is but honestly fuck that guy for being the first person to have the same handle as me, I've been rocking this shit for like a quarter of a century at this point go make up your own word.

By which I mean, my shoulder hurts. It's ouchy when I try to raise my arm above my head. And I didn't even get a sticker that says 'I was brave' even though I WAS brave, in fact I was extremely brave. I got TWO vaccines AND I had blood taken so really I think I deserve at least two stickers, or maybe a button. I didn't want a lollipop but I resent not being given the opportunity to decline one.

Humans are the animal without nature. We have no natural habitat, no natural diet, no natural social structure, no natural pattern of behaviors from day to day or season to season. Certainly we have no natural beliefs. We experience animal emotions, like hunger and lust and fear, and we possess animal faculties, like vision and balance and proprioception, but the defining feature of our species is that we have collectively removed ourselves from nature. Indeed, Humanity began when our unique command of the metaphysical began to cause the constraints of the physical to fall away.

We may discuss universalities or near-universalities of the human experience, but there is no such thing as human nature. Any attempt to define something as 'natural' for humans (beyond the basic shared features of mammalian life) is meaningless.

When we departed nature, we also took it from everything else on the planet. We have made ourselves masters of this place, and while we have an interest and arguably a duty towards preserving its environment, we cannot and should not pursue what is 'natural' for it. If there were a natural state for the Earth, it would not include us, because humans are the animal without nature.

To me, rock music is when they say "hear me talking" but then instead of talking they play guitar

To me, rock music is when during the chorus the drummer hits the crash cymbal on every single beat