Hitting like on every northern light photo

Maybe it’s my current state of mind, but 50 year mortgages and 15 year car terms are reasons to revolt in the most iconic ways

In my old town the GOP had run basically without serious challenge for decades. A bunch of us "millennials" joined the local Dem party and basically asked to help. We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party

Listening to my mom chat on the phone with her oldest friend, who doesn’t know that my mom has dementia. I’m valiantly resisting the urge to fact check as she shares wildly inaccurate details about our lives. It’s really hard, even though I know it doesn’t matter.

Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.

In these dark times we must take joy wherever we find it, and I delight in every picture of how hideous Trump has made his White House look. No part of the decoration has been made to fit with any other. It’s a parody of elitism: witless, crude, clumsy, jarring, cheap, ugly, pathetic. It’s so him

It's party city for me this coming weekend. Need to launder all my going out clothes. Friendsgiving, sex reveal, graduation/birthday party... I need $200 for substitute care for Ma. I would really like to go hang out with my friends, but I must also be responsible. If you can help:

You can tell how much money is tied up in chatbots because it's getting the kind of fearful leeway even as it demonstrably causes the deaths of children that we normally only allow for guns

I thought I was on top of this stuff, but I just looked and there were a bunch more content filters to reset since the last time I’d checked. 🙄 (is an eyeroll rude? I meant it to be…)

Finished watching #Wayward on Netflix with my mom. Created by and starring Mae Martin, and with Toni Collette at her intense best, it’s a fun, dark, twisty thriller. Engaging characters, compelling story lines, and I’m always a sucker for anything set in Vermont. Recommend.

Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”

any democrat running in the midterms can win by simply stating that there will be hearings and trials

So to this administration, merely showing up to protest and yell at ICE and CBP agents is a justification for violence. Bovino is really just frothing for opportunities to kill people.

We’re in a strange limbo where secret police are routinely beating, disappearing, and shooting everyday people in public, but they’ve not yet consolidated enough power to stop us from talking about it on social media. That imbalance prob can’t last. Either we roll them back or this gets rolled up .

New awareness campaign

Actually gonna need to move the clocks back two hours thanks.

Please don't worry. I speak for all stoners when I say I will not waste my precious and expensive gummies on your child

this is evil

Everything is terrible, but I just got back from a lovely autumnal walk with @greenmtgirl.bsky.social and it felt so good. A little ranting, a little venting, lots of friendship & support. Definitely worth getting sweaty & spending my last spoon. 😊🍁

"Kids dressed in halloween costumes walking to a parade" do not present an immediate threat to law enforcement officer and riot control measures may not be used, Ellis says.

Excellent thread about Bovino’s appearance before Judge Ellis. Worth reading all the way down.

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.

This feels like a good time to remind folks that I have $5 pendants and earrings that make great holiday gifts. wyrdingstudios.com/products/5su...

Ever think a medication isn’t helping that much so you stop taking it due to side effects…and then the full weight of your condition hits you like a ton of bricks and you realize the medication was helping after all? 🙃😭 #NEISvoid

For those of you in the Dartmouth area:

Back in Trump 1, somebody on Twitter said, "Wait... you mean this whole time the government has been operating on the honor system?" To which I, a Fake Constitutional scholar, said: Yes! Here's an explanation of why what the framers did in fact call "honor" is essential:

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

I was into the goth/industrial music scene in the 80’s. We had a friend who got a little TOO into the fascist military aesthetic of Death in June & others. It didn’t take long before we recognized he was actually a Nazi wannabe, which was a huge deal to us, so we shunned him. It’s not complicated.

DARTMOUTH OUT! We are at 6 rejections. Vanderbilt is the only private left standing "considering" the compact along with UT Austin and the University of Arizona.

I once had a years-long migraine. I did so many treatments & chronic pain groups. A CBT program had us try to stop making “pain sounds” 🙄 & it really worked on me: I rarely let on that I’m in pain anymore. Mom moans & groans so dramatically all day long…I resent that she feels so free about it. 😩🙃

Listening to Miss 19’s debut college radio show. 🥹 🥰 I think I still have some of my old shows on cassette somewhere. Her dad’s shows are on CD. (I guess we’re both old.)

Jeff Tweedy at the Lebanon Opera House! At 30min away it’s practically in our backyard. @speakercode.bsky.social & I wouldn’t be together if not for this man. (I was lured in >21yrs ago by Wilco & Pavement refs in an online personal ad, what can I say?) 🥰

Made it home from Maine with my mom in one piece. 😅 We got to spend time with my brother & his lovely girlfriend, who were visiting from San Jose. My mom set firm boundaries early on about how much she wanted to discuss AI, good for her. (I guess she knows what boundaries are after all. 🙃)

The 3-hour drive through the White Mountains to Maine was the perfect opportunity for me to listen to Jeff Tweedy’s new triple album, “Twilight Override.” I liked it a lot. (And though I may be a diehard Wilco fan, that’s not always a given.)

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

Making people afraid to be affiliated with antifascism—making people afraid to be associated with groups and people that actively oppose fascism—is some bleak shit.

did not predict dartmouth would be the first on this list to tell trump to fuck off, but i'm not complaining

This is so cool!!! 🤓

it is impossible to understate to anyone who didn't grow up with the PX as part of their life just how bad of an idea this is

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

RIP Jane Goodall Full obituary in NYT, gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

Argh! I hate when I finally take care of a daunting task and then go to check it off my task list (the satisfaction!) and it wasn’t even on there.

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

I really wish my mom could still manage a fingerstick herself. Her Dexcom CGM has had so many false highs & lows lately, but if I’m busy and not there to verify a low, she panics & totally overreacts. Like just now during my zoom appt, G7 said 84 but she was actually at 197. #diabetes