Before anyone asks, yes, I'm fine. I'm south of Baltimore (and the airport), and was happily sleeping when the bridge got hit by a shipping vessel and collapsed like a toothpick bridge. Ugh. Today will be long and stressful.

It's the weekend after Fur The 'More in DC... and the Post-Con Depression is still hitting.

Lets start at the beginning. Shall we?

Beforehand, a fellow fur   Sabrina-taur was due for a FCC radio license test, as it's needed for her to pilot boats in Boston's harbor (she does commuter boat runs for MBTA). She was going to wait a bit, since she has an aversion to driving... but while discussing this on Telegram I check on the site and notice one of the testing groups is located near me in Maryland. So I said "Sabrina, fuck that, get your ass down here to me early, get off at BWI, I'll pick you up and the next day I'm driving you to the test, and THEN to the con."

Sabrina said "Okay..."

Wednesday, I pick her up, get her fed and we chat a bit at my house before retiring for the night. She couch-surfs overnight.

Thursday, we go down to Severna Park where the group is located, and wait for her to pass the test (she passes in 25 minutes). We then go down to go full-on tourist in Annapolis, having lunch there and picking up a few things, before heading into DC proper. I take an easier route this time (US 50 to I-495 to US-1 to hotel). We get things settled at the hotel (with Sabrina rooming with Fergus off the Modular Furs Telegram group), I hit up with roomie   Ebonyrubberwolf and we're all good.

Friday, we do the regular hotel buffet routine, attend opening ceremonies, and make our rounds in the dealers den. I put in for some fresh new badges and some artwork, before getting lunch, hanging around the zoo to crank on the commission queue (got 'em flat colors in, so soon!), and then an IT Meet & Greet panel where I score myself an older Linksys router with the "Fresh Tomoto" firmware on it.

Saturday, I decided, why not, throw $50 at the charity raffle for 10 tickets. The iPad Pro + pencil was too tempting. I also pick up some art and write up a short story relating to the convention in a story realm I'm playing in.

The real fun came at 5pm when the "Who is Hatsune Miku? An Intro to VOCALOID" panel came up. I already know what those two are (VOCALOID being a program that lets you have a "voice bank" sing a song you write, and Hatsune Miku is a popular "voice bank"), but not how the program works. So I roll in about 12 minutes ahead of time. Two mad lads come in afterwards, get immediately bored, and decide to set up the projector. They get a laptop connected to the internet using a cell phone on a chair that barely gets a signal, and it's janky as fuck... but it works and they get 240p video playing of Youtube. Videos of Hatsune Miku, of course.

Another 20 minutes later, though, no presenter, and Fur The 'More staff go to find them. Turns out the main presenter, roflfox, decided not to come and didn't tell the staff. So the two mad lads were made unofficial presenters and it turned into another meet-up. I had to laugh.

Sunday, I didn't have anything but closing ceremonies and just hung out in the zoo, with an occasional trip up to pick up artwork. I did pick up a NFC band and programmed it for my main website. It also came with a button which got programmed to the Throng site.

Closing ceremonies came, and I won the iPad Pro/Apple Pencil combo. I went up and claimed the prize. After closing ceremonies, we hit up Bozzelli's Pizza one last time and met with a Maryland state employee (I'm a former employee). We trade a bit of shop talk over dinner, and then ERW and I went up and crashed.

Monday, after breakfast, checking out, and hugging ERW bye, I head back out on the roads (reverse the way I came) and stop off at my sister's house. Turns out the iPad Pro I have, while two generations behind, also has the cell radio in it yet be the same size, so it would of been a side-grade rather than an up-grade. So I chat with sis and drop the setup off for her kids to use, while her dogs barked, then looked at me and then demanded pets.

All in all, rather good con. Unfortunately, it will be moved -- a set of unfortunate events occurred and the hotel contract was reportedly canceled, so another hotel was set up in haste. Hopefully a new hotel will be signed on early... and maybe in Baltimore proper?

Hey folks, I have news on the Nomadic Railways sequel novel... but only if you're on my Patreon. If you pay for early access, you get to not only to see the news... but also, you may get a copy of the first book for free as an e-Book.

Gotta sign up for the rest of the tour, though! https://patreon.com/strredwolf

...I get to remind you that all the socials and links are at https://redwolf.ws

So I went to Midwest FurFest 2023, in Chicago.

Well, let me back that up a bit.

The month before, I was going nuts over the trip to MFF, as not only was I worried about the trip, but I had my roomie   tazel as well who wanted to take a train trip. So way earlier I booked Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited 49 (on the 29th). Tazel would fly to me (near Baltimore) and stay a few nights. So I had to at least unload/rearrange/clean up the house enough to have hir be comfortable while I worked from home.

Cue the maid outfit.

I was able to get it to a decent state in time for hir to arrive. We had dinner at a local Golden Corale, to which Tazel's luck of coincidences started coming into play: Remembering an unheard-of Billy Joel song, and the restaurant's radio was playing some of the hits of the record.

The next day, I get hit with two projects that were high priority... and I didn't know until the boss told me two hours into the workday. I get both of them done in time to attempt a drive up to The Miracle on 34th street... but Tazel's back was twinging hard. We eat at the Double-T Diner near Pikesville and take a back route to avoid traffic heading back home, picking up desert and medication along the way.

Then, Wednesday, we start the trip proper. We take a regional up to New York City and get a gloryious shot of Moynihan Hall. I should of taken the picture. The lounge had great food. We were pre-loaded into the Lake Shore Limited and... ****. We got a Viewliner I sleeper car roomette berth.

Let me tell you about the berths. They're roughly 3.5 feet by 7 feet of area, and fit two people by having a lowering upper bunk for sleeping. The difference between a Viewliner I and a Viewliner II is that the Viewliner I's have a toilet *in the berth, next to one of the seats*. This makes for a very awkward situation... and with how big Tazel is IRL, something which only has commedic value. We kept it closed all the time and used the bathrooms in the first coach in front of the diner (which was in front of us).

So we're loaded up, we're working on various things. Turns out   tazel and   echoen were flying out early the same day, so I swap my return trip for an earlier one (prepaying for Anthrocon). Dinner is, unfortunately, Flex Dining -- essentially microwaved meals. The beef burgundy shows this with the beef turning rubbery. The asian BBQ glazed salmon shines in this regard. Sadly, we had to set up our own beds and that got me too pooped to even dress for it.

And to be honest... trying it out, with the very firm beds... isn't quite my liking. It's barely comfortable but the blanket was warm. I had better sleep at the hotel.

The next morning, we were at Toledo. We reset the seats, rest a bit, and then head into the cafe for breakfast. Tazel I think goes continental and I hit the pancakes, and a fellow rail fur does the pancakes as well...

...and mid-eating the train slams to a halt. Some moron (who's later ID'ed in a press release from the police) decides at the last minute to run around a crossing guard and smack into the train. It was a fatal error. We're fine, the train took it with stride, but it definitely upsets us for a good while. We're delayed 4 hours but in contact with   maloo who wisks us away from Chicago Union Station. We treat him to a bit of a late lunch. I eat a bit lightly, still a bit upset... and we all crash into bed after getting our badges... which was a rather quick affair. We got in early enough to be maybe three lines deep, and walking through it was rather speedy. Good idea on the QA codes.

The next three days were a few panels, chatting with folk in the artist's alley, finding a quieter spot to work on artwork, and dealing with the SkyBridge. The *!)@#* SkyBridge. It needs work. Hell, one person took a CO2 meter on it and declared it hazardous. Next time, I'm going outside to get between the Hyatt and the convention center... and I swear they could just take over all of the convention center. I call this one a "mixed bag." Got some good works, met some good artists, checked on a few things... but MFF... it didn't leave a good impression on it's own.

The Monday of, I see Tazel and Echoen off, before a nap and then leaving myself. I head over to the airport to then grab Chicago's L around and to Chicago Union Station. I had too much baggage, so I elect to stay in station until call-up time. I was introverting hard a bit, although I did chat with others who came in.

There was a difference between an attendant phoning it in and one who really enjoys the job. In the Capitol Limited and the Superliner equipment (much better) I got Carlos. That made the trip back more enjoyable. Having Wendnesday off helped as well.

... which gets into some introspection. I'm not happy with MFF. As I said before:

* The con shares space with other events, when it can easily take over the entire convention center.
* There are no zoo spaces. None. The closest is the open gaming areas. No place for an artist to jam.
* The SkyBridge between the convention center and the Hyatt (main hotel) is a safety hazard and also is a sub-optimal routing. It feels like an add-on and needs to be rebuilt.
* There is no ready food options outside the convention center or hotels. The only "cheap" option is Starbucks or places several blocks away such as McDonalds or a food mall across a parking garage.
* There should be more hotels in general close to the convention center.

I think this is my last MFF. It's too big in an area that's a convention trap.

I need a vacation.

Yeah, it's that time again.

I'm posting this pre-coffee. Dammit going to claim my free drink at Starbucks...

It is that season of all. May you be with your loved ones, be it close family, chosen family, or your mate. Be hopeful that the next year will be better, that groundwork is laid to achieve that goal, and that you find joy in life.

Hey folks. I am heading up to MFF next week, and I will be taking Amtrak up with   tazel on the Lake Shore Limited.   echoen will be rooming with us.

For those more in the railfan scene: We're taking 49(29) up from NYC. Tazel (being from the West Coast) will fly back home while I will take 30(5) (aka the Capitol Limited) back home that following Tuesday.

In terms of commissions, I will be finishing them up. I will have my laptop and iPad, all synced up.

Just a reminder that Throng: Nomadic Railways is rolling along up on Patreon, where they're just finished a one-day-only concert in Buffalo and are heading to Pittsburgh. You won't want to miss it after their misadventure that happened in Albany.

You can check it out on my Patreon page, but that's not where they're currently at. You can catch fully up on the band by subscribing. $1/month will get you the story as it travels the rails -- you're missing out on the time the train did fill-in duty to Cleveland!

Patreon has changed the billing from California to Dublin for unknown reasons. This is causing banks to bounce Patreon charges! So if you're on Patreon, please double-check that your payment went through!

  BlackPanthress (a good 3D artist) is looking for funds to help build an art shed for her three kids. She's got the folk to build it, but needs to cover materials (wood, paneling, nails, etc) to do it... and with events being what they are...

Journal link: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10618390/
GoFundMe link: https://gofund.me/94ad5254

So this came across NBC's Today Show: Ticketmaster pauses sales of France Taylor Swift Eras Tour tickets

...and it got me thinking, first back to the first "meltdown", and then to logistics.

With ticket sales, you have to confirm someone is human first. Right now the best way is captchas, combined with minimal interaction thresholds. A dumb bot would blow through a captcha, yes, but a human would take a few seconds to read through and respond. A dumb bot would immediately request the next page while humans would take some time to read through the page and the browser needs a small bit of time to even render it. And that's for pre-registration.

Because we introduce one time codes that are physically mailed, and there's a one-per-household limit and no PO Boxes. You need that code to get in and buy tickets... and to get into the venue, as the tickets are marked "not resellable."

That said, lets now assume we got a TON of legit live Swifties that got tickets... so much that we needed to add simulcast venues. Lets take Baltimore, and assume that the tour promoters pay for all costs related to transit, and MTA Maryland gets enough staff to pull it off.

There are three valid venues:
* The Baltimore Arena
* O's Park at Camden Yards
* Raven's Stadium at Camden Yards

Lets assume Taylor's main venue is O's Park and is at capacity (and then some). Lets assume Raven's Stadium and the Arena are simulcasting the show and are at 75% capacity. Oriole Park is max 53K (with that "then some"), Ravens 71K (at 100%), Arena 14K (ditto). Take in the 75% capacity limitations, and you're shifting nearly 115K Swifties after the concert.

Baltimore's Light Rail can handle 176 people per car on a "crush load". Three cars (528 tightly packed Swifties) however take 12 minutes to load. This can be mitigated because two-track operation and that Hamburg Street (Ravens Stadium) and Camden Yards (Oriole Park) are so close that southbound service can be handled at Hamburg Street and northbound at Camden Yards. That makes for 6 minute service intervals, assuming Light Rail only stops at stations with parking or transfer points to MARC/Amtrak.

Which gets into MARC's Camden line. Assuming 8 cars maximum at 132 each (MARC III and IV cars pulled by double diesel engines), it's 1056 Swifties per train. I'm going to assume 10 minute boarding, but 20 minute service because off-loading is usually low level. The NEC itself would require a few extra trains Northbound.

On top of that, you got flexi-buses that may have 100 Swifties on it going to various Park & Ride places, commuter buses also picking up to those areas topping off at 50... and that a lot of Swifties may be staying the night in area hotels. 8500 hotel rooms in the immediate area. Pack them 4-per and you get 34K off the number of Swifties to shift.

Oh, and Uber/Lyft trying to nose in on the game and having pickup points a few blocks from the stadiums.

It's going to take around 4-5 hours to empty those stadiums.

At least they start at 6:30pm, because the show lasts THREE WHOLE HOURS.

EDIT 2023-10-27: Well, Taylor Swift's company solved it by releasing a movie of the concert, and having AMC et all carry it directly (self-distribution).

It's been a year since I last opened full commissions. Yes, I've been having a bit of a rough time. Hopefully that's passed and I can dedicate some time for more art.

So lets get this session going. Prices and terms are located here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/39934319/

Once again, six slots, but get them now before I go off to Anthrocon. If I don't get sketches done before then I will be work on them at the con.

(And before anyone asks, I have one left to finish)

1.   Drmercurious (prepaid)
2.   gabriel-fawkes (inks)
3.   qerw (sketch)
4.   owldong (Sabine - cell)
5.   jaystoat (smooth shade)
6.   qerw (flats w/alt)

If you went to FWA, and missed   Gideon , well, turns out he lost against gravity while out on a run with a friend... and broke his shoulder.

It left him with medical bills that were already reduced. A plate and several screws, plus therapy to recover!

Please help spread the word and contribute if you can!

Details:
https://twitter.com/gideonscorral/s.....18697234264066

GoFundMe (admined by   Bennie ):
https://www.gofundme.com/f/gravity-.....va-boss-battle

If you follow   Bambi_Newsted here on FA and was a member of the "Deerverse" Discord group, I got some bad news:

Bambi's Discord and FA account were hacked in a trojan horse attack, using itch.io (who took it down the advertised link). The Discord server was eventually nuked and the FA account is locked pending further action.

Bambi is rebuilding with a new Discord account and server. Send a note for the invite, please. (I don't want to spam FA)

EDIT 2023-05-21: FA account is recovered. Go to it now to see the new server!

Hey folks. While it is time for MultiMay and the dice game, I'm going to pause the game this year... namely because me kinda struggling. Dunno if I'm coming down with something or not.

Do draw some multifur art this month, though! I'd like to see you with extra arms and such!

More info as the month progresses.

Late yesterday I came across this NPR report: Hard times are here for news sites and social media. Is this the end of Web 2.0?

It's worth the longer read. The summary is more of "Because the tech companies are gatekeeping badly, managing ads badly, and not paying enough of the ads, the ad revenue is gone down and the news agencies are going bust. Social media isn't helping as it's diverting eyes away from news... and that's going bust as well."

One of the solutions mentioned is called Artifact, which tries to tailor your news by what news you read. Which leans into what I'm thinking of: I want to see actually relevant news. Alex Murdoch trial? Not relevant. The new King of England? Not relevant. Someone getting hit by a train near me and causing commuting issues? VERY RELEVANT. Something that more directly impacts me should rise to the top.

So I try it. I should of disabled notifications because I don't want to be hit with news constantly -- this would be stuff I check on when I'm in the bathroom, sitting down. But when I go through and check a few articles...

...I'm hit with screen-fulls of ads and overlaying video. The app itself is clean but the articles they link to pull from the news sites themselves, which completely pisses me off and thus goes back to the article.

You see, I grew up reading the newspapers. Articles were presented whole, no interruptions. Ads were off to the side and easily ignored. No flashy flashy, no animations, basic, functional, and most of all NOT IN THE F***ING WAY! I want to READ the article, not have to muck with ads that are IN MY FACE THE MOMENT I SCROLL DOWN and video that BLOCKS THE ARTICLE AND HAS ZERO TO DO WITH THE ARTICLE. And by the way, they never carried viruses. Why do I have to block the damn ads from infecting my systems?

So, do you want to know why ad revenue is down? Because it's getting in the way of the content, and we're turned off by that. And it turned me off from Artifact. I've removed the app.

Here is where to ask! (curiouscat is broken for me)

An idle thought popped in my mind, an idea for a side story for my multifurry band Throng: What if they EGOT?

For those who don't follow (much) of the various awards, to EGOT means to get one of each:

* Emmy (tv)
* Grammy (music)
* Oscar (film)
* Tony (theater)

Could Throng do it?

Grammy is easy. Oscar means producing dedicated songs for a movie. Emmy is slightly easier, for original song or original title song. Tony... best original score (Music/Lyrics).

This... not only make it very possible, but an interesting idea.

Some rough coffee thought ideas among a visa/passport program:

There are three types: Tourist, Work, and Politician/Press. The main difference is duration of stay.

Embassies can deny entry if a person would present a danger to society at large. These reasons are detailed and provided on rejection.

Canmephian Embassies track the news, and communicate with each other (Preventing communications is illegal under treaty). If you make the news, you get put on a list and investigated into why you're making the news. This gets sorted down into a risk factor: Welcomed, Harmless, Problematic, Requiring mental eval, "OH HELL NO!", and Classified. The latter is usually due to court orders and pending court action (no matter what the source). All are well documented, and the classification is court reviewable.

People who are not on the list and ask for a visa are background checked extensively, similar to a security clearance but without outside interviews. This includes if officials miss the news, they recheck it. People of the same name as someone "in the news" may be pulled into a short interview ("Miss Price, you are a... wait, you're not her." "Yes, I get that. I share the same name with a black Gospel singer." "Apologies Mr. Price. We'll approve your visa application. We'd like to reimburse you for your time...")

For instance:

* a few parents in Ohio would be marked Problematic and be subject to additional screening.
* Certain politicians are on the "OH HELL NO!" list and if they insist on coming, they get a mental evaluation no matter what.
* Former President Trump is "Classified" due to pending litigation. He used to be "Problematic" before jumping right into "OH HELL NO!" and documentation currently states that he may never get below "Requiring mental evaluation".
* Russian President Putin is "Classified" due to standing Canmephian court orders regarding treaty violations.

Hey folks, I figured I'd give this one a shot. If:

1. You've read my novel, Throng: Going Station to Station
2. You loved it or think it's cool
3. And wouldn't mind recommending it.

Then please please nominate it for a Ursa Major Award. Nominations are open and this would fall under Best Anthropomorphic Novel.

Yes, novel! This is self published and you can get a copy on paper off Amazon or on recycled electrons everywhere!

I would also advocate nominating Tom Coletti, aka Wings & Strings for Published Illustration, especially the novel's cover!.

(I'm refraining from nominating because I'm involved in one way or another, wouldn't be kosher).

This was on NBC's Today show, but I'll link to the ABC News "Good Morning America" article: Conjoined twin sisters undergo successful surgery to separate.

It got me thinking on a few things medical related in my Canmephian Realm, but within the USA framework (not the Canmephian governmental framework). Since it's set in a 26th century world that still looks a bit 21st century...

* Medical records are digitized and can be accessed by any medical professional (with permission, of course). These are stored in highly-encrypted and highly-redundant "data stores."
* HIPPA is still active (and may of been beefed up).

Now with that out of the way, what would happen with a conjoined twin birth in that realm and age? Well, actually, standard procedure:

1. Confirm via scans that the subjects are truly conjoined and not multifur/multibeing. This involves determining a N+1 brain setup.
2. DNA is taken from each twin.
3. Nanotech is programmed to finish separation of the twins and rebuild any missing body parts.
4. Injection and nutrient/bonemeal feeds.
5. *THE WAIT*
6. *THE POP!*
7. Congrats, it's two separate babies.

Now if it was multifur/multibeing, then from step 3:

3. Nanotech is programmed to reconfigure the DNA for a more straight-forward body form to address quality-of-life issues.
4. Injection for reconfiguration.
5. Nanotech in situ is monitored until done, then reprogrammed for body rebuild.
6. *Wait for the pop...*
7. Congrats, you got a "squid".

A quick update on commissioners: Yes, I know I'm behind, I'm very slow with how things are going. If I do not get to your commission by Fur The 'More, I will be getting sketches out at the con and trying to do coloring/shading at the con itself. I know a lot of you are still waiting, and I'm kicking myself over that.

That said, I do need to update a guide to taking transit to Fur the 'More in 2023, because... things have changed a bit.

Once again, if you're at Regan National Airport, you got a direct hotel shuttle.

If you take WMATA's Metrorail, get down to Crystal City or (from south) Alexandria King Street, then take the MetroWay MW1 bus to 27th & Crystal. Hotel is a short walk to the corner. If you hit Bozzelli's, you went the wrong way (and you need to penalize yourself with a small pizza). Note that the Yellow line is down and you will need to take the Blue line or grab a shuttle from Le'fant Plaza! They're doing bridge work, you see. Consult local maps.

From Dulles Airport, you need to take the Silver from the airport (IT'S OPEN!!!) to Rossylin, and transfer to the Blue line.

From Amtrak and MARC, you'll have to get off at Union and take the WMATA Red to Metro Center, then Blue around to Crystal City. Sorry, no other direct way this year. VRE can get off at Alexandria and grab the MW1.

BWI Airport? Grab a MARC from the Airport Amtrak station.

One more year.
One more lap around the sun.
More experience.
More knowledge.
More struggle.
More triumph.
More tiredness.
More recovery.

I have experienced computers go from 8 bit to 16 bit to 32 bit to 64 bit.

And yet, I still believe we are watching the world wake from history.

Will I see 128 bit computers? 256 bit? AI that basically is human, so much that we have to define "synthetic intelligence" for what AI is now? True transhuman forms? Becoming an AI? Synths? DNA rewriting and rebuilding based off of it?

I don't know. But if they get synths going well, I would not mind pouring my mind into a Dash-9.

2022 is behind us. We survived another one... and boy did a lot get shaken out. We finally got some tax returns, some revelations, and some disappointments.

Lets see how I did on my predictions last year:

Trump Corp is still around, but there's heavy lawsuits from New York coming around. Criminal charges were filed, although the social media platform "Trump Social" is still around. The finances got pushed to the public, so... maybe. "Presidential Privilege" for former presidents failed numerous times. The Jan 6th Committee practically marked Donald Trump as an insurrectionist, but it needs at least a full bill or Congressional Resolution to mark him as such and prevent him from running under the 14th Amendment. Everything else is still up in the air.

Fox News is still around but still had to deal with the Dominion lawsuit... and it's being drug through the courts. Fox News is trying to push up protections but Dominion's aiming at management... and it seems to be working. This has to carry over as well. (OANN is practically off the air and in danger of dying)

Entertainment wise, the Warner Bros Discovery merger resulted in a ton of shake-up. Some better industry analysts think there's a reboot for DC in the wings due to the new ownership. Disney, on the other hand, may be in even more trouble as the timing behind firing CEO Bob Chapek and bring back CEO Bob Iger close after cryptocurrency exchange FTX filed for bankruptcy is very suspicious. That was a shock, and tells me Disney is in more trouble than expected.

Pandemic wise, we're coming back to normal. We got the Omnicron-centered booster as a separate shot. The economy has a ton of inflation, which even I am feeling. A strike was averted with train companies and their unions... but in a very unfair manner, and shows that rail companies need to lay down more track if it wants to stretch trains out...

Which gets into an opinion piece I found off the Daily Kos: Southwest's meltdown shows the Friedman Doctrine is a disaster waiting to happen. I'll give you the summary: The doctrine or practice of maximizing shareholder value (and thus return on investment) at the expense of everything else in an unregulated environment leads to so many breakdowns and eventually a regulated environment.

So what does the future hold?

With the US Government, the Republicans will be forced to change. They're being called out for numerous issues, including the mess that is Trump. They barely have a House of Representatives and can't get it's own house in order before the start of Congress. I think the next two years will be messy, and we'll get a legal requirement for the President, Vice President, Supreme Court Judges, Congress Critters (Reps and Senators), and those running for said offices to disclose their tax returns.

With Trump himself and his company, I still think the company will go into receivership or even bankruptcy. Trump's tax returns point to that, and the more the press digs deeper, the more of Trump's life will show. I still think Trump will end up jailed for financial crimes, and he'll be prevented from running for office (he'll definitely lose 2024).

I still think Fox News and OANN are on a death watch, although I also think far-side news agencies are struggling as well.

I think airlines and railroads will get more regulated. Standards for computerized routing and scheduling will be made and adopted.

Entertainment wise, I think WB Discovery's in good hands. Disney may start selling parts, like Fox Studios or ABC/ESPN, or consolidating, as there's a ton of finical problems there. There was a ton of overlap before the pandemic. The next few years will be chaotic for Disney. 2023 will be the year "force-preaching the woke" dies.

What do you say? What other predictions would you make given the evidence available to you?