This woman, she is me.

A chronic misalignment of the body’s circadian rhythms with the daily light-dark cycle of our environment. The phrase “night owl” doesn’t really do it justice; my natural bedtime is around 6 a.m.

Same. I am most alert between midnight to 4AM, generally. Going to sleep when the sun rises suits me best by far. Luckily, I don’t seem to need as much sleep as normal people and that helps me compensate for my odd hours.

According to conventional wisdom, going to bed early and waking up with the birds is a mere matter of habit and will power. This misconception is widespread, even among doctors.

For months, more than once, I’ve tried to force myself to go to bed at 11PM and get up at a so-called normal time. What invariably happens is that I sleep for 1-2 hours or not at all, and don’t go back to sleep until 6AM or so. This is true no matter how assiduously I follow this plan.

Unlike the writer, I don’t see it as a disorder. There is nothing wrong with me. In fact, all of you are lucky you’ve handicapped me by making weird daylight hours be de rigeur, as in the night I am twice as smart and capable as I am diurnally. Without that restriction, I’d probably be galactic overlord by now.

I hope women are as pissed off as I am that a bisexual woman was revenge-porned and slut-shamed from office for consensual sex while straight male rapists occupy the White House and SCOTUS.

I hope it inspires a new wave of women running for office. Because this shit can't go on.

— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) October 28, 2019

Notice how many progressives were cheering all the way. And supposedly ain’t nary a prude in sight. Uh-huh.

Earlier I saw a film twitter tweet snarking about Rogue One and how we all need to remember that cinematography is not just about creating images for screensavers. I was going to let it go but no, I can't, I can't do it. That's not cinematography, my dude. That's mise-en-scene

— Becca Harrison (@BeccaEHarrison) October 27, 2019

I love film geeks. I’m a film geek, too, and she’s right: mise-en-scène is the arrangement of elements in frame. While I think one could argue that cinematography contributes to the desirability (or not) of the resulting series of images, primarily this dude (without knowing about it) was talking about mise-en-scène.

Cinematographers are in charge of cameras, composition, lighting, and camera motion, not anything actually in the frame. In other words, they decide how to photograph. Others (director, set designer) decide what is in the frame to photograph. This “what is in the frame” is mise-en-scène.

Along with the editor, the cinematographer (or director of photography) is one of the more unheralded roles that makes a huge difference to how a film feels and even what a scene means.

Here's what would happen in a functional system:

Seize PG&E's assets

Prosecute its board members & C levels for fraud, criminal neglect, and murder

Levy fines to subsidize the backlog of maintenance work which should begin immediately (omg job creation, what?) https://t.co/9Ifsm2JK4M

— 🍁🍂BOG WITCH AUTUMN🍂🍁 (@MissFruitypie) October 27, 2019

That is indeed what should have happened long ago in a sane world. In this one, though, we’ll just let them keep destroying a state and punishing those who attempted to hinder their fraud and negligence.

Welcome to the climate change future with large corporations bringing on the end of civilization that much faster.