Made kimchi today 🥰

5 degrees out means the blue footed booties come out for the pup. She absolutely hates getting them put on and removed but she’s so happy when out on a walk it’s worth it

So we're taking away from actual, needed physical infrastructure investments to create plagiarism machines. Got it.

I need to invest in some fleece lined pants cuz I really hate wearing two pairs of pants in the winter, sensory nightmare

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

watching the temp crawl one degree at a time so i can take my dog for a walk, if it's in the teens she ends up limping. and at almost 16 years old she will NOT suffer the indignity of booties anymore :/

Preorder the second edition of Mutual Aid, out March 31st. I wrote a new section about what I learned about mutual aid since 2020 and updated various sections of the book. Preorder here: store.deanspade.net We also have shirts, hoodies, mugs, and totes! All proceeds go to support the podcast.

What's ominous is all of the trusted women of color who know a lot about AI are saying that a crash is on the way and the white guys are pretending they are taking it to the moon. This means that a crash is definitely on its way.

coworker asking me if we can shorten a url by taking out a word to make the word count shorter. uhhhh yeah but then it's a totally different website?!?! do you not know how urls work?! that's no longer the same website then........😖

can't fully rid myself of people pleasing or feeling like i'm bothering people ever because why did i just give a long explanation for why i needed a bag for the items i bought lol please send me an ounce of chill 😵‍💫

I'm at 70 books read this year so far, I think I will maybe read 5 more before the year ends, but we'll see. #booksky

downplaying the flu helps downplay covid, but also, convincing people the flu is nbd is the same eugenics playbook and it's worked on people cuz so many aren't even bothering getting the flu shot now either

Every time I see a “how to get through the winter” piece that says “skip the morning scroll and get in a morning walk” I’m like come on now, let’s be realistic! Morning walks are for morning people don’t even try me

welp, i'm officially a bad vegan, i'm low on vitamin d and b12 again 😫

the goodreads choice awards winners being all white authors except the harry potter fanfic is just... 😵‍💫

the hate audiobooks get is so bizarre. some people think they are "easier" which ok even if that were true for everyone, why is that bad? why is it bad to make reading easier for some people? life is already hard enough man let something be easy jfc!

dehydrated myself all day so i wouldn't have to pee during my doctor's appointment. did it work? no, of course not, now i just have a headache

Why did I schedule my doctor appointment for the afternoon so I could dread it all day?!?

More laws that do not apply to the rich.

The neighbor who leaves their dog outside for hours in the winter is back to it. Dog barks for literal hours. All summer it apparently gets love, but winter hits and it’s kicked out? Idk it’s very weird. And how does no neighbor say hey man WTF? 😩

Help keep the Queer Liberation Library running this #GivingTuesday! www.queerliberationlibrary.org

finally figuring out what i should get my sister for secret santa the day after everything is on sale is very me

“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”

starting a new book that hits, like yes man i fucking love reading lol #booksky

Madison reporting 9.3 inches of snow at the airport, which apparently broke a record (previous was 7.6” in 1995)

Nice

Carrying a stack of 5 books from room to room cuz I don’t know what to read next, the usual

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Some books I read that are on sale on @libro.fm Support your local indie! Also these are even more on sale if you're a member 🥳 #booksky #audiobooks

Went to the bookstore and record store today, now have books and records for the snowstorm, AND saw a huge flock of sand hill cranes, so many that I went home and picked up my partner and drove back to sit and watch them. Good day 🥰

Big Midwest blizzard coming ❄️

Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List

It’s gotten to the point where my family writes “no books” on their wishlist if I get them for secret Santa 😂 doesn’t mean I’ll listen tho 🤷🏻 thankfully my niece is very into books so I can still buy someone a book and they’ll be happy about it 😂

Some of the most successful resistance to "AI" is coming in the form of communities organizing against data centers, precisely on the grounds of their impact on local water and electrical grids. @karenhao.bsky.social documents this extensively in Empire of AI >>

Minneapolis, whatcha got? A friend of mine is hosting a weekly "book club" that's mostly eating & gabbing & crafting. Another friend has hosted probably a year of monthly coffee open houses. I have been noodling on some kind of monthly Thing. Connecting with more of our immediate neighbors...

Bought the wrong jackfruit so now I have to leave the house 😩😩😩 I did also want to get my hold from the library but ugh

The folks at Alter Mag have done a brilliant job with this, turning it into an interactive essay with some stunning 3D graphics. Give it a look. 👇🏼

My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?

High pain day so I called in sick which is great cuz it’s hard to work when I’m in a lot of pain but also doesn’t really do anything because I’m still in pain and resting or sleeping doesn’t help 😩 but like I’m glad I don’t have to talk to anyone at work

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

Went to the library then walked down the street to a bookstore I don’t usually go to but wanted to look for a card for someone. Briefly looked around and saw they had a special edition of Harry Potter on their suggested gifts for the holidays table, promptly walked right out 🤮

Live feeds of animals is one of those "the internet can be good actually" things. I love the jelly cam www.youtube.com/live/NUnJc82...

desperately trying to finish the book Enshitification before I have a nervous breakdown because it's pissing me off so much 😵‍💫 it's basically about how tech companies are fucking terrible, which yeah no shit, but man hearing the history of how they started to what they are now, is so enraging

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

starting a draft of my top ten fiction and nonfiction reads even though i ALWAYS end up reading some bangers at the end of the year. so it's just a draft to get started for now

Alternatives are local food pantries, homeless shelters, and domestic violence shelters, as well as your local mutual aids.

9am training is cruel and unusual punishment

every single meeting at work is now just a bitch session... that can't be good! 😖

Let's.