For when you need to cook more stuff than fits in a regular oven!

US General Strike and nationwide shutdown today. If you are at work, go home, if you need to shop wait for another day, are you sitting in school? walk out right now. Those outside of the US, boycott. #3E #Goodvsevil #generalstrike #iceout #justiceforpretti #justiceforgood

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

Do I know anyone else who plays Minecraft bedrock?

In important kākāpō breeding season news... the New Zealand Department of Conservation have a livestream running of Rakiura's nest I grabbed a timelapse video of the past few hours, you can get a glimpse of her first egg! simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/25/...

Who would like to look at some fluffy chicken butts?

Let me say something very directly. We are objectively in a fascist authoritarian moment here in this country. Academics and historians have established indicators for this. We are well over the line on many of them.

We cannot go on like this for three more years.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

Our walkout action starts at 4pm at Civic Center Plaza. Bring your signs and stand in community against this fascist regime. #freeamericawalkout

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵

Cow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social

We honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s timeless call for courage, love, and justice. As immigrants & citizens' rights face relentless attacks, his vision reminds us that community & dignity matter more than ever. Join us in recommitting to human rights and building a just society for all people. ❣️

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

"I'm declaring war on you because you didn't give me a peace prize" is competing for the most embarrassing thing he's ever done and that's a REALLY crowded category.

THE MAN THEY TOOK WRAPPED IN A BLANKET IS A U.S. CITIZEN. This is the Kavanaugh Stop of all Kavanaugh Stops.

'“As regards the Nobel Peace Prize, I have on several occasions clearly explained to Trump what is well known, namely that it is an independent Nobel Committee, and not the Norwegian government, that awards the prize,” [Norwegian Prime Minister] Mr. Store said.'

Other countries are sending their foreign war correspondents to cover ICE’s occupation of Minneapolis. The Department of Defence has put the US Army on alert for possible deployment to the city. This was never about immigration. They’re turning it into a war zone.

you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review

If you are heading to a protest today, good on you! If you feel sick or know you have covid etc please PLEASE consider the safety of others. I get that you want to defend democracy and that’s a good thing, if you aren’t going stay at home then please… WEAR A GODDAMN N95 MASK!!

Of course they have. To save money. To appease staff who “don’t want to mask”. To downplay the pandemic. It’s cost countless lives. Never forget that hospital acquired Covid has a near 10% mortality rate. Patients shouldn’t have to choose between care and Covid.

Chicken timeline cleanse

We’re in the fucking twilight zone

Dismissing the very idea Trump could "cancel" the next election when he has said he wants to and when there are almost certainly people in the White House working on some vision for exactly that is just stupid.

Any one of us could be detained for hours by ICE despite being a U.S. citizen. Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night. Any one of us could be the next to be brutalized by ICE for speaking out. Authoritarianism hurts all of us.

Take a moment to lower your blood pressure with this one.

“Who in the United States of America wants a war between the United States and Europe … over GREENLAND??”

The past couple days have made it clear that arresting and prosecuting Johnathan Ross isn’t just the right thing to do, it is necessary to prevent future violence by ICE who have interpreted the situation as “we can do that to whoever we want”

Today has been a tough day. Emotions are high and people are hurting. They’re scared. They’re angry. It’s ok to take a break. It’s ok to log off. It’s ok if this has caused a flare or taken all your spoons. Whatever you’re feeling is ok. Take a break. Rest is resistance.

Please listen to this porcupine eating corn.

The dog is mysteriously wet

“If you didn’t want your photo digitally altered and turned into sexual content you shouldn’t have posted it online” is just the social media version of “if you didn’t want to be raped you shouldn’t have worn a short skirt.” If you’re participating in this “trend” you’re a predator.

I think I might be solar powered

Here's a growing list of emergency protests demanding no war with Venezuela.

Oh look, another war crime......

I’ve been working recently on a new series of ceramic & sterling silver jewellery. I find shells on our local Northern California beaches and make silicon molds of them. I then use them as sprig molds to create ceramic impressions.

On a New Years Day dumpling crawl around Fremont with @simonwillison.net for his birthday

Happy Lemon-Pig-O’Clock!

I fell down a rabbit hole looking at lemon pig stuff and help it's so cute and funny

I feel like we just made lemon pigs a month ago. Was 2025 on horror show fast forward or what?

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

I hit my reading goal for the year! www.goodreads.com/user/show/56...

Remember, masks aren’t just for Covid! They also help protect against colds, flu, measles, RSV and more. They guard against pollution, wild fire smoke and pollen. A well fitted respirator can keep you healthy while also protecting those around you. It’s radical community care.

AND WEAR A FUCKING MASK

Nothing quite like a power outage at Christmas! Luckily it happened about 10 mins before we were due to serve Christmas dinner anyway!

Intense winds last night of gusts of 85mph apparently, lots of Coastside people with power still out tonight. We’ve been lucky so far *touch wood*, done most of the Christmas cooking today, settling down with mulled cider and Die hard 1&2

Happy Winter Solstice!

We all know The Muppet Christmas Carol is the perfect Christmas movie (and the definitive movie version of that novel) already... but did you know the Muppets' costumes are all era-appropriate - and their styles for the 1780s, 1790s, 1840s are all different! www.tiktok.com/@littlebloss...