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Today I learned about Student Loan Asset-Backed Securities (SLABS) and hoo boy, what are we even doing folks. The TLDR on that link is that people more or less make bets about whether groups of student loans are going to be paid off or defaulted and then the money exchanged in those bets runs significant bits of the economy, which is why we're not getting student loans cancelled any time soon. It's also a great big set-up for the US economy to tank when no one can do anything but default because of the general everythingness of the current state of things.

In an effort to recover from the rage that created in me, I wallowed for a while in the gorgeous artwork Leia Ham is creating for a LotR-but-ancient-China series. I love this concept and I hope to see more of it.

I finished and soaked a skein of orangey-brown yarn today, so that frees the wheel up to start experimenting with dog fur. We'll see if I can spin it without mixing it with wool.