David

@davidmordecai.com

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Plants 🌱, personal pablum, less politics than before. Plural, ADDled, #bipolar... In a strange relationship with Madness. #DisabledInBusiness #ShameSlayer #WorthWhisperer Gay & sex-positive. No trans hate! He/they (we) davidmordecai.com ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈🇯🇲🇨🇦

view of the same backyard from above, showing the pool and very little vegetation around it
Picture of a garden bed showing several different plants, one of which is a shrub with powdery silver blue leaves
photograph of a lush backyard with a swimming pool surrounded by trees
photograph of a white dude in his mid thirties in a black tee shirt with mid brown hair, a moustache and beard looking straight at the camera, his head is tilted slightly to one side. He is wearing large round gold glasses, and smiling contentedly with his mouth closed. His arms are folded across his lap. He has a watch on one wrist and a full sleeve tattoo on the other arm.
a photograph of a pink bumper sticker sitting in my lap next to a bunch of keys while I'm sitting in front of a car steering wheel. the black text on the bumper sticker says "the cause of labor is the hope of the world"
a large plant with silver gray foliage spiky leaves and purple, thistle-shaped flowers
Shrub with unusual brown flowers
Three plates on a kitchen island, on each plate is an open-faced wrap in the process of being made. The wraps have an assortment of veges, meat and feta cheese. My friend is reaching into a drawer on the far side of the island and his arm and lower torso are in the frame. A gas stove is behind him.
close-up of flowers with multiple long thin petals that hang downward in a manner that somewhat resembles an octopus. Variegated hosta leaves are behind it
A backyard perennial garden with a circular central bed surrounded by a gravel path and beds around the perimeter. there is a pergola in the back. plants with flowers of many colour ae planted throughout.
Google search for "date of last FIFA match in Toronto" done on July 1st which gave an AI overview result of: The last FIFA match hosted in Toronto was the 2026 FIFA World Cup Round of 32 match between Portugal and Croatia, which took place on July 2, 2026, at Toronto Stadium (Exhibition Place).
View of the sun in the sky with a skyscraper in the background and the roof of my building in the foreground. My legs are in the bottom, right of the frame. I am wearing gray ankle socks and purple shorts
a photo of the same space showing an unhealthy lawn, bare flower beds, and boring hedges
perennial flower garden with a variety of flowering and foliage plants and grasses.
Black and white photo of my father sitting on a back step. He is a light-skinned Black man with curly grey hair of about three inches length combed back so it is wavy. He has a goatee under his lip but is otherwise clean-shaven. He is looking straight at the camera and wearing glasses. He has a subtle grin on his face. He is wearing jeans, a black, loose-necked tee-shirt underneath a cardigan that looks speckled and gray. His arms are on his knees and he is holding something in his hands that we can't make out. He has a wedding ring on his left hand. He is probably about sixty five in this photo.
Six people, two male-presenting and four female-presenting, in hi-vis tops or bright pink shirts smiling in a group selfie
Me on the left in hi vis vest over a grey t-shirt and my friend Clarence on the right in a white cotton shirt with stripes in pastel shades of blue, purple, and green. We’re both smiling at the camera.
In the background is an almost entirely clear blue sky with the tall CN tower featuring prominently and a couple of condo buildings to the left and in the mid-ground. in front of the condo building and behind the garden in the middle of the frame are several large trees. In the bottom half of the frame is the curved, sloped sweep of a large perennial garden bed filled with a colorful variety of plants, though the colour mostly comes from foliage not flowers. The sweep of the bed wraps around a stepped lawn that serves as seating for music performances. to the right of the bed in the foreground is a sidewalk. in the top left corner in the front of the frame is a portion of a large willow tree
Selfie of five people arm in arm. On the far left, my friend who is of a milk chocolate brown complexion, with short grey facial hair. He’s wearing a yellow shirt with a far green leather jacket. I’m next to him with a light brown complexion, curly salt and pepper hair and a full gray moustache and beard. Next to me on the right is a person with a dark brown complexion and mid length curly black hair. They are wearing a purple jacket over a yellow dress. Next them on the right is the film director Jamie Lewis who has pink pale skin, short dyed blonde hair and is wearing a white T-shirt with outlaws in pink text on it. and to his right is a man with a dark brown complexion, a short afro and sunglasses wearing a dark gray shirt. We are all smiling.
Photograph of the same plant that is in the video in the attached post showing lots of bright green shoots coming out of the top of what were bare branches in the video
picture showing a parking lot on the left with cars in it and a sidewalk on the right, and a banking and curb that is over a foot tall in between them
Screenshot of one of my email signatures, and something I tweeted long ago: Sanity is the ability to think and behave in ways that build a credible, coherent relationship between personal experiences and the experiences of others. It is both an individual and collective project. Sanity is deeply intertwined with equity and respect for human dignity—indeed, respect for the dignity of all life.
the cover of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack
Screenshot from article "I fully expect the idea that AI systems are conscious to become increasingly mainstream over the course of this decade, and to spark some heated debates," said Henry Shevlin, a philosopher of cognitive science and AI ethicist at the University of Cambridge. He said humankind remained largely in the dark about how consciousness worked and which beings or systems could have it. "If anyone says that they know for sure that LLMs or future AI systems couldn't possibly be conscious, it's more likely to be an indicator of their own dogmatism than a reflection of the current state of scientific and philosophical opinion," he said. Current AI systems are unlikely to be conscious, said Jeff Sebo, the director of the Center for Mind, Ethics and Policy at New York University, but "Dawkins is right to ask about AI consciousness with an open mind and I also think that the attribution of consciousness to AI systems will become more plausible over time".
Photograph of a hillock with the sun rising behind it, illuminating clouds in the sky. There is a large leafless tree in the foreground of the frame on the right, and smaller evergreens in the distance on the left. There is snow and plants on the slope in the foreground.
screenshot of article text Speaking exclusively to the Guardian, Birol said a key effect of the US-Israel war on Iran was that countries would lose trust in fossil fuels and demand for them would reduce. “Their perception of risk and reliability will change. Governments will review their energy strategies. There will be a significant boost to renewables and nuclear power and a further shift towards a more electrified future,” he said. “And this will cut into the main markets for oil.” Birol said there was no going back from the crisis: “The vase is broken, the damage is done – it will be very difficult to put the pieces back together. This will have permanent consequences for the global energy markets for years to come.”
Screenshot of a Scrabble board showing that I played the word ‘dioxane’ for 84 points as a first play
Close-up of a clump of daffodils showing a pale yellow daffodil flower with giant trumpets
photo of the back of a minivan with simple plywood shelves and a rack for gardening tools
A photo of Blanche from Golden Girls holding her head with a pained expression, the text over the photo says "We're really out here living the most difficult section of someone's 2075 history test."
selfie of me looking at the camera with a fresh haircut
For Fanon, it is that colonialism is a mutilating madness for colonist and colon-ised alike, one that can only be overcome through a redirection of colonialism's violence against its perpetrators and their 'en-tire moral and material universe. It follows that decolonisation, as a release of the colonised subjects' repressed desire to take the colonist's place, is at once a progressive moment in a world-historical dialectic and replete with dangers: of ethnonational-ism, regressive traditionalism and elite capt-ure. For Shulamith Firestone, Freud corrects Marx, revealing that the root cause of all oppression (economic, political, racial, sex-ual) is 'the biological family - the vinculum through which the psychology of power can always be smuggled'. In turn we come to know, Firestone says, that we require 'a sexual revolution much larger than ... a socialist one to truly eradicate all class systems. For Juliet Mitchell, psychoanalysis tells us that the unconscious is the seat of ideo-logy, its mechanism of interpellation
Photograph of the top of a pergola showing a exterior vine that is growing rampantly
Photograph composed mostly of clouds in a blue sky. There is a bike path in the bottom third of the frame with a wood picket fence to the right and lots of leafless trees and shrubs on either side.
Mood chart for March with emojis of different colours and facial expressions. There are three back to back orange emojis -- lower mood -- at the start of the month, then six blue emojis -- various stages in euthymic mood -- followed by almost three weeks of mostly green emojis, which correspond to periods of increased ideation which I consider "sub hypo manic" unless other signs appear, which they did occasionally. The last five days of March are back to blue.
The sun low but not yet setting in a sky full of clouds. at the base of the frame are some trees in silhouette.
Clouds lit by sunset over the skyline of Toronto on the horizon. Shrubs, grass and leafless trees are in the mid and foreground. there is a large industrial chimney on the left
conversation with my staff saying that I need to rest for the rest of the afternoon in the hope that my bipolar state will reset
A photograph of a vehicle parked absolutely parallel to the curb. This took no effort. It is noticeably impossible for me to do when my mood is rising.
Mood tracking calendar showing lots of back-to-back green emojis
A small chainsaw blade disassembled on the back bed of a pickup truck
plate of sliced chicken breast on a bed of mixed salad with a green cilantro dressing
a broken blue and white capsule next to two piles of white powder on an orange sheet of paper
The shore of Lake Ontario in Winter. a narrow path runs across the foreground with a stand of leafless trees and shrubs just behind and then the sky and Lake Ontario in the background