There is no greater gift to American fascism than nice white people.

I finally had time to figure out how to do what I bought the Pam Pro and T-Quadstrip for, which is tap into my background in Afropop/Afrobeat and start doing some interlocking ostinati, and lo, it was fun. Possible video coming if I can be bothered to get the Zoom H4n out of the car. #SynthSky

With all this time they've bought themselves to alter or destroy the Epstein files, why do we expect to get them unredacted even if the vote goes that way?

Three Ted Lasso reels on FB made me tear up three times. Time to clean the kitchen.

An atheist "Amen." I've said before that I learn maybe one really useful thing per decade. One of them was "Any time I get that 'I'm crazy' feeling? The other person's crazy."

This bird just found out that golf balls bounce on concrete, and he’s having the time of his life 😂

Ok internet-identify!

I haven't been able to find the source again, so this can't be a direct quote, but the fact has stuck with me since I first read it years ago: Letter-writing campaigns against German persecution of Jews were still underway when the Allies finally liberated the death camps.

I'm glad to have this man as my representative.

Even more reason to stop saying "I just don't understand," or "I will never understand." Get on that understanding thing, and get on it HARD.

The obscene face of Christian Nationalism: outlandish untaxed wealth in defiance of Jesus. Oh, and this time, slave laborers, too! Glory! Just remember, for any money you give to Heaven, there is always a 100% handling fee here on Earth.

Even if we "win," whatever that even means at this point, the Union reabsorbed them without punishment last time, and white liberals will do it again this time. Plan accordingly.

It can happen anywhere. If you think it can't happen wherever you are, that's your own national exceptionalism.

The people who’ve been calling you baby murderers your whole life want you to turn down the temperature.

‪48 hours (Tuesday night through last night): 900 miles with a stick shift, 1 business meeting, 1 business conference, 2 new business contacts, 2 old friends, 3 diners, 2 bottles of sake, 2 banks, 2 hotels, 1 pants purchase, 2 border crossings, 2 audiobooks, 1 nascent strategy. Check!

And stop chiming in with your negative comments when Black folks tell other Black folks to “stay home”. It’s for our safety as well as yours. Also, nobody asked you! She 👇🏾 gets it…

And furthermore: STOP CLAIMING IT'S NOT NORMAL! FASCIST TAKEOVERS ARE NORMAL! THEY HAPPEN THROUGHOUT HISTORY!

Dear my side: Pull heads out of asses and WRAP. "I'm not up to speed on the enemy yet" is a straight line to losing.

No war zone here. A beautiful bike bus with some great kiddos headed to school this morning in NE Portland.

RIP Jane Goodall, you were cool as hell for lots of things, but especially for liking this

It might work. Republican men are very angry that they can't get away with it like Trump can.

Luckily, there's both a Starbucks (for Zoom meeting) and a Levi’s Store (for pants) at the Outlet Collection, just over the border in Niagara. No Context Theater presents: Keith's Trip

"Let's make a list. I like lists. Let's have some caffeine. I like caffeine." When you don't have an internal monologue, an external one can be helpful.

It feels insane, but it is absolutely critical.

𝙸𝙲𝚈𝙼𝙸︱Hegseth rails against women in power yet leans on his wife as de facto Pentagon adviser. It’s the ❝pastor’s wife❞ model: women’s labour counts only if unpaid and hidden, exposing the hollow hypocrisy of his Christian-nationalist posturing.

Note how gang tattoos are not included in this. I wonder why?

At least it was just a fucking insane photo op, and not the loyalty oath.

My very white, largely Christian, mostly straight neighbors, who lack historical and cultural understanding, are *finally* becoming vocal— —about how "extremes on both sides" should be nicer to white, Christian, straight people who lack historical and cultural understanding.

Please tell Pete "God of War" Hexseth that I'll be in Union Station all weekend. 😎

Famous American citizen Wernher von Braun.

Because this administration thinks everyone believes the rules only matter when it helps “your side” (like they do), they are counting on Comey’s unpopularity to normalize this. Don’t let it. Whatever you think of him or his actions in the past, etc. this indictment is dangerous and an outrage.

My girlfriend named my new Eurorack modular setup "beepboop" – and tonight while I was playing with it, it said its own name! I'm so proud.

When you run your business out of a hackerspace, you take your meeting rooms where you find them.

Nope, time's up.

Being atheist, first I gave Her a look up there like "Nice try," and then stated out loud that I'll only change my mind about Her existence if there's corporeal manifestation, too. Then I realized that's meaningless without a time window, so I added, "by sundown." She's got 23 minutes left.

What an amazing day. A new contract for the EPUBulator, a meeting tomorrow with an audiobook producer interested in the EPUBulator for narrated picture books, and a writing job offer—all of it out of nowhere, and I wouldn't have been here to field any of it if I hadn't called out sick from TJ's.

Every so often, it's very nice to be the only person in the world who offers an extremely specialized niche service. (Human-narrated, non-AI ebook novels with visible word-by-word highlighting, for print-disabled people who need that kind of accessibility.)

Feeling guilty for calling out sick again when the job is why you got sick again in the first place.

Banner graphic for new Twitch channel where I might actually stream something at some point.

Called out sick, feel lousy, surfing for something that gets more than a "meh" from me, and suddenly on Netflix, there's Bon Appetit, Your Majesty, a Korean fantasy series about a time-traveling chef. I am so in.

I guess that was the season finale. Not a good finale. Not even a particularly good episode. Oh well, too bad.