Love —> Building On Fire

I feel addlebrained all the time & very inefficient.

Here's a fun question: what book and/or author do you now love because someone else put you on to them? For me, last year I was convinced to read Elmore Leonard's Swag (never read him before last year!) and I loved it. And Jordan Harper, also loved! What about you?

I need a pill that can turn off all my fair-weather cycling dreams

I neglected to do this. 6 months later my new Aventon Level Ebike was stolen chained up good at my apt building. I am back to a pedal bike now. I saved 2 yrs for that ebike

curriculum night at the HS with some helpful info at the sign-in sheet

Just a big hug to all the anarchists in the Twin Cities who get dismissed all the time but knew exactly what to do when shit went down here.

It’s like the Skeksis found a way to drink the innocence of children on a larger scale.

Physically prepping for scanning is very hands on labor intensive too. Selecting things to scan takes time. Processing collections to even get them to the point or scanning takes time. AI will never take things from a carload of hoarder boxes rescued from someone’s basement to online collection.

CRY MORE

Too many people underestimate how evil Google is and how impactful its evil is. Yeah, the company that struck down its "don't be evil" maxim a while ago, because I guess it felt too constraining.

If you enjoy my ranty threads and would like to help me survive…

Everyone needs to be aware that this man, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, the man who oversees federal regulation of medicine, seriously rejects the germ theory of disease and believes that illness is an outward manifestation of a lack of moral worth.

Here's the video of the raid in October 2025 in Wilder, ID. This resembled a N*zi round up of villagers in occupied Poland in WWII than simple "immigration enforcement. This was out of control, militarized suppression against people based on race/ethnicity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQJe...

Pregnant immigrants in Minnesota have been postponing their abortions, skipping aftercare, and delaying birth control visits and urgent cancer screening follow-ups to avoid coming in contact with federal immigration agents. 19thnews.org/2026/02/abor... via @19thnews.org

What's that? A white lady from Lake Orion coming in to exploit an impoverished majority-Black city by gentrifying homes and driving out the original residents...is a RACIST??

A historian colleague of mine once blew someone’s mind after he asked “can’t you just look that up online?” and she replied “who do you think finds that stuff and puts it online?”

I literally cried when I learned about Bayard Rustin and that the only reason I hadn't been taught his impact earlier in life was because he had loved other men. That erasure broke my heart.

Just watched the Biggs Cut with my wife. Deeply satisfying. I completely get why 80% of Biggs was cut from the final film, BUT if you don't care about pacing and are just interested in character development, SO MUCH ABOUT LUKE ONLY MAKES SENSE IF YOU KNOW ABOUT HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH BIGGS 1/x 🧵

The way researchers can extract information from the physical characteristics (composition, techniques of construction, inclusions, etc.) of primary sources is huge, and never fails to amaze and awe me.

And digitization is hardly a mechanically automatic process. Primary source materials can contain so much more information pertaining to the circumstances of their creation than can be gleaned from a scan of the “characters.” Archives contain *artifacts.*

The way 99% of people drive is fucking ridiculous/violent and omg it's so much worse than it used to be.

I know I follow traffic laws no one gives a shit about but my god everyone just runs red-lights. I've never seen it so bad in my entire life.

Umm…

People were already so fucking weird when I had my hair short during high school in the 2000s and just the idea of having to “explain myself” at that age to my fat-shaming Scooby tie wearing asshole of a family doctor is giving me stress hives on my temples.

Note that the "parents" are white and the five children Black. @notalegalrecord.net @donnagratehouse.bsky.social

(“and yet it moves…”) Gift link: Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

They're trying to kill us

BEEP BOOP THIS IS NORA'S AUTOMATED STRETCH CHECK. today is Thursday. everyone do your stretchies. 💪🤖

Also, it's not illegal to quote the law???

Screaming Guy Rolling Down Hill In Wheelchair Hopefully Part Of Olympics

I need a pill that can turn off all my fair-weather cycling dreams

The person photographed here who is in their bathrobe filming armed, masked federal agents in St. Paul is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social @mprnews.org . She is an incredible journalist and person. We do not deserve her.

So James Van Der Beek went for alternative therapies (not covered by his insurance) and that made his health decline that much more? Also, his wife was/is a covid denier and anti-vax? 😩

All hail Monterey Park, CA: “They emphasized how the datacenter would strain the power grid, drive up energy rates and create noise pollution. A petition quickly amassed nearly 5,000 signatures. All the materials were shared in English, Chinese and Spanish…” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Hey friends! If you can and want to help me make my tiny low income housing studio unit which I likely will be stuck in for a very long time feel a little more like home: please consider grabbing me something off my wishlist! www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

There are a lot of immigrants primarily from El Salvador, Brazil, and Haiti living in or near Magoun Square. I want these ICE fucks out of my neighborhood. Leave my neighbors alone. Adding LUCE to my contacts on my phone.

just seeing this now. walking distance from my house.

Mandatory reporting is framed as safety. In practice, it often functions as surveillance. This post breaks down why that matters. #adopteesky

Seeing. More brand print work done with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

Re-skeeting this For No Reason At All

that IBM “a computer can never be held accountable” poster is tacked up inside my head

Who knew buying rotisserie chicken and juice was “splurging”

no, it simply isnt. People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.

my radical position is that gen AI isn’t what all the advertising campaigns say it is: intelligence

BEEP BOOP THIS IS NORA'S AUTOMATED MED CHECK. today is Thursday. everyone take your meds 🤖💊

I think a whole lot of people hear the word “radical” as meaning “fringe,” when literally it means “at the root” of things