i'm so tired of this "middle of the country is a proxy for conservatism." It's fucking NOT. Minnesota has the highest per capita population of trans people. We're a very blue state. Chicago fucking exists. Even South Dakota is more purple than people think.

Time for the JSON creator to do the funniest thing ever www.json.org/license.html

We've got thousands of doors left to knock and thousands of people to call to remind folks that this is your chance to decide history and get out and vote! You can join us at the campaign office in Lowell, or reach out if you want to meet in the other towns! #mapoli www.mobilize.us/massdems/eve...

If you want to follow this analogy to where it's actually going, if you do not pick a car, one gets picked *for you* by *someone else*, which then not only replaces whatever conveyance you took to the dealership, but that of your family and neighbors as well.

I roughly agree with this, and find the other people quote-tweeting kinda revealing (and wow are they straight). Lots of relationships that are ongoing kinda suck! I think a lot of y'all are caught in some local maxima that aren't very good.

Some great news. My hybrid memoir IN OPEN COUNTRY will now be published by Little, Brown. It’s about freedom of movement and stillness in the US, and the ways capitalism & settler colonialism have shaped (and continue to shape) the answer to who has either across time. I also do a lot of walking.

2026 and Web Components still have a fouc?

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

This is one of my favorite things I’ve written—I got to push myself way outside my usual beats to do something meaningful that was fun to work on. The encouragement and support I get to do things like that is one reason I love being part of @theflytrapmedia.com! 🥰

If you dislike ICE and also enjoy singing and swearing then oh boy I've got the gig for you. I wrote a ditty but it needs an especially foul-mouthed choir. The deadline is Thursday at midnight. docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ege...

Let me give you a thought experiment: Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should. www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...

There are lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to Nazi Germany and there are also lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to the post-1850 Fugitive Slave Act U.S. and it's *weird* how people respond with interest to the former but total confusion to the latter

A thoughtful, progressive, high-engagement participant like Sky Marchini deleting their account due to leftist harassment is such a tremendous L for this site. Let's be very clear, Bluesky is dead - commercially nonviable - if it can't moderate courageously enough to protect people like Sky.

Skilled-worker visa holders who traveled back to India this month to renew their US work permits are now stranded far from home after their appointments were abruptly canceled by U.S. consular offices and rescheduled for months later.

if you want them to be "on your side" when they're grown up, treat them like you're "on their side" when they're growing up.

as it's the season, @elliesaur.bsky.social and I got to talking about the media hand-wringing about "estranged parents", and, well: if you're a parent, and you want to keep your relationship with your kids once they're adults, treat them like real humans who you'd like to keep as friends.

forum culture is a great introduction to the internet because it teaches you both to be humble, and that no matter how well you think you've designed rules for a community to be fair and transparent, you always need a "no assholes/no bad vibes" exception because someone WILL test every clause

So um. This is what's been up with me for the last year. I hate hate hate asking but very much appreciate your support. www.gofundme.com/f/fund-me-if...

This is a genuinely insane position from someone who should know better. It’s about wielding and building online clout and completely corrosive to the actual practice of resistance, organizing, or protest, which involves, yes, signing up for things and not being anonymous.

Even if this was likely to happen (it isn’t) YES YOU SHOULD WANT TO MAKE THE FBI COME TALK TO YOU. Make them spend the time and resources, draw attention to their overreach! Are people aware the entire nature of peaceful civil disobedience is forcing this kind of conflict?

My windows are too round. My WINDOWS are too ROUND. MY WINDOWS are TOO ROUND. For the love of god and all that is holy MY WINDOWS ARE TOO ROUND.

In district 8, Marcos Candido will fight for more housing and transit options in a city that needs both, and be a voice for Yes to the future on the city council! secure.actblue.com/donate/marco...

In district 7, Sidney Liang has been an advocate for better access to healthcare for immigrant communities as an administrator at the city community health center and will bring wealth of public service experience to city hall. secure.actblue.com/donate/liang...

Apple 10W4 CMYK Video connector.

The fascist turn in this country doesn’t purely come from MAGA. It’s in the blue cities that purge the homeless. It’s in TERF politics. It’s in the belief in a “strong border” just with slightly more due process. It’s the disdain for red states full of disenfranchised people.

@statesnewsroom.com Hey — the RSS feed on your website returns only a single post, an otherwise-deleted "Hello World" post from your WordPress installation; I'd love to get an actual feed of the news posted.

I hope there's a better world out there for all of us. I hope that mossy forests once again cover the earth. I hope someday we'll meet together under starry skies. But until then, all we can do is try to make this world a better place. Take care, friends.

If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.

SEN. PADILLA: “Saying I lunged is a lie, but that’s par for the course for this administration… I was behind the cameras listening, and at a certain point hearing Noem say they had to rescue LA from the Governor and Mayor was too much to take. So I raise my voice to ask a question.”

AI is more like cars than like the steam engine. Obviously useful to the people who it serves well. Massive distributed cost to everyone else, that everyone will pay forever.

Continuing to creep a vehicle forward when pedestrians are in a crosswalk is incredibly threatening, in the same vein of slowly clicking off the safety on a gun

Knowledge-keeping is subversive. Remembering the stories they want to rewrite, to take from schools, to make dangerous to say, keeps our ancestors’ struggles alive. Keeping those embers lit so they can be blown back to life with a breath is power. Memory is power.

@surliertexan.bsky.social‬ Congratulations, Dr. Turner!

The new Neil Halloran documentary on Smallpox has completely changed how I see the RFK Jr. version of the world. Neil (softly) argues that realizing that disease isn't the fault of the sick /or/ the fault of the Gods ushered in a new future where we felt the authority to care for each other.

Some of the most elite colleges in the US are making “civility transcripts” part of the admissions process. Tone-policing as university policy. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Never forget

In light of GitHub going full genAI agents, which will likely lead to a flood of garbage PRs that will make dependabot nags a joke: Would other foss maintainers with projects on GitHub be interested in some kind of event where we all get together and try moving our projects over to codeberg.org?

It can replicate the performance of whiteness but the performance is not the source of the privilege. It is the justification for it. It isn't something anyone is permitted to do.

EVERY TIME YOU SAY IT IS ANTISEMITIC TO BE AGAINST KILLING PALESTINIANS, YOU'RE SAYING IT IS JEWISH TO MURDER *THAT* IS THE ANTISEMITISM

Just me deleting my old Soundcloud account.

I swear if I see one more assertion of someone’s current views based on something more than a decade old nevermind ignoring the political context it exists in I’m gonna scream.

yoooooooooo www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki1n...

"There is no way to play three-dimensional chess with bigots." @lydiakiesling.bsky.social

Also worth noting that a lot of men - even among the ones who would sincerely try to contribute equally - don't particularly want to have kids either, for many of the same reasons that women don't

there is an implicit trust problem here; men often *say* (and perhaps even believe) that they will contribute equally, but even women who love them and might trust them on other things often tend (largely correctly) to believe that promise will not be kept.

raise pension ages, let more young people into your country, and see what happens in the next couple of decades because trendlines rarely go the direction you think forever. maybe we'll invent unimaginable technologies, such as exo-wombs or men contributing equally to childrearing.

when women can choose, they choose to have significantly fewer kids whether they're in Norway or Japan, and I'm not certain there's anything that counters that, no matter how generous the state is. Many women don't want to be mothers, and that's their right and should come first.

Since its that day, please enjoy The 1969 Easter Mass Incident: www.tumblr.com/gallusrostro...

everyone's in such a rush to the gulag that they forget there's 330 million people here and even 5% of that is a terrifying, thunderous number.

Measles - Public Health Information: www.salemma.gov/CivicAlerts....