That’s mayonnaise, the most appropriate condiment for bananas.

This is food if you’re a bearded dragon or from the Midwest.

It’s a spooky halloween candle. With ectoplasm coming out of the tip.

I’m a Marxist for the same reason I’m a scientist. Of all the belief systems I’ve read into, it’s the least-wrong thing I can find to understand my surroundings. If I found something less wrong I’d believe in it instead. What I can’t justify is knowingly going back to believing in something more wrong. My life would be a waste of time if I spent it lying to myself and hiding my head in the sand. If revolution doesn’t occur in my lifetime, most of the neat sci-fi tech won’t either and I still try to be a happy Sisyphus studying the most rudimentary versions of those things because I know they’re the best option for survival.

Japonisme is such a beautiful style. I love when it’s the primary influence behind an art nouveau or impressionist piece.

I do really like that.

Political corruption work or natural sciences?

The hour’s drive to wilderness is the thing I love most about Colorado and why I moved here in the first place. People fly halfway around the world to visit the places that are casual day-hikes to photograph specific flowers or have specific lighting for me. At one point I paid like $800/mo to live next to the trailhead of a hike that gave me panoramic views of the Rockies and Great Plains for breakfast every morning, a really wonderful lifestyle that I want to maintain.

A robust urban forest would be amazing. It’s the highlight of my city and the big focus of my municipal stewardship, but we’re also so dry that we struggle to keep it alive and safe from invasive species that homeowners plant.

UO is my ideal university. John Bellamy Foster teaches there and he’s the eco-Marxist I most want to model my research on.

The fungi of the PNW, and that whole evergreen rainforest ecosystem, is the biggest draw of the region to me. I love high elevation foraging in Colorado but only the western half of the state has a reliable season for it. Last year I found a single porcini in my otherwise reliable sites because the Rockies make a rain shadow over the eastern half.

Reddit meetups were a uniquely shameful experience, but it would be really nice to be around other people who are radical enough to not get banned on this website. I think I’ve spotted like two other Coloradoans here over the years.

That house in the photo was just absurd to me but not so much so that I could think of a separate post for it. $300-400k is about what I’d spend on a home and you can’t find much better than that for the same price in 3rd-tier Colorado cities. I’m hoping that it can get me a small 1-5 acre homestead outside of a major city.

God that’d be nice. 60-80mph is standard here and it’s way too fast for me. My small car with poor traction was the worst choice I could have made for the Rockies.

A nice dating pool would be awesome. Colorado might be the most hostile place I’ve lived for relationships. How did Eugene compare to Portland? I was also looking at the state’s other large-ish cities but have no reference point.

Semi-rural Minnesota right outside of Minneapolis is my other big option. It’d be nice to get a homestead that I can bike from, and especially to have the long-term water stability since that’s the scariest part of Colorado. Is winter driving as sketchy as it is in Michigan? Lake effect snow/ice really killed that state for me.

The gloomy climate is a selling point if anything. My bones yearn for what used to be English weather and Colorado’s high desert water scarcity makes me too anxious. Is the Willamette river and that general surrounding watershed nice for recreation or is it too polluted like a lot of midwestern rivers?

That seems like a miserable catch-22. I haven’t yet attempted to do either but definitely faced that barrier when moving to my current city.

The white supremacist history of Oregon definitely gives me pause, but Colorado is already so deeply reactionary and troubled that it might somehow be an upgrade.

Milwaukee is also definitely a consideration. I like the affordability of it but have only ever been to the Greyhound station so I don’t know their infrastructure.

Certainly, but prior to AI my neo-Luddite enemy was the business world. Corporate Memphis was the thing I attacked before image generators. It’s a malignant outgrowth of the same demonic trend that compounds the Hapsburg imagery by treating those Corporate Memphis simulacra as art.