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@sundogplanets Professor Lawler, your knowledge & your fight keeps me in.

@sundogplanets Thank you for what you do. It’s important to keep fighting but also to find the time doing the other things that nourish you too. 💚

@sundogplanets The bad guys rely on this asymmetry. They have effectively unlimited time and money to throw at this (like finding sympathetic astromomers) and you don't. And ninety-nine concerned people out of a hundred will throw it in the too hard basket.

But it seems to me that you are that hundreth person, and you are not only qualified but have the guts to fight this battle. And I reckon you'll win it too.

Why? Becasue a very old friend who I hadn't seen for twenty years came to visit the other day. And she couldn't stop talking about this amazing lecture she went to in a tiny hall on Stewart Island. And she's now back in the UK spreading your story.

So look after yourself, and your goats. You can only do what you can do, but never doubt that what you you do is working.

P.S. I rekon your new goats will live longer than the bad guy's insane ideas.

@sundogplanets I definitely know the feeling. I probably spend ~30% of my time these days feeling entirely Done With This Sh#t. I'm a community organizer in a rural small town, and it frequently feels like I'm spitting at a wildfire. But I know that if I hold on, get some rest, and take care of myself, I'll cycle back around to the stubborn, grim joy of causing good trouble 😅
Songs that help me:
"Matches" by Sifu Hotman
"Tunnel Vision" by Aisha Badru
"Roguelike" by Guante
"Tomorrow" by Miner

@sundogplanets I was just asked, in all seriousness, if I’d like to be the astronomer to help advocate for space-based solar power and how it could do good things for astronomy (by mounting telescopes on the back sides or something?). I was pretty unambiguous about how I wasn’t the guy. I almost sent him to you for a more pithy and four-letter comment.

@sundogplanets We have to stick together. We can’t stop.

@sundogplanets thank YOU too, for carrying it on.

It’s such a different lane from mine, I might never have understood how it really is an issue if I hadn’t somehow tripped across a goatherd posting cute baby goat pics who also turned out to be a space scientist …!!!

I just figured the dark skies and incredibly rare satellites of my childhood camping trips were a write-off. 😳

@sundogplanets 💚🙏✊

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Please be careful enough running heavy machinery, or whatever else you were doing. I’d like you stick around!

After many years I’ve learned to stop using my chain saw when I get tired. More recently it’s also become clear that when I’m stressed I have less attention available to apply which is easy to forget if I’m doing something inherently dangerous that I’m also very familiar with.

@sundogplanets Sounds like it's time for some baby goat snuggles if that's possible?

@sundogplanets I am very tired of fighting. I have the kind of exhaustion that does not get cured by sleep. I am fighting battles on too many fronts.

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@sundogplanets we appreciate you!!