I honestly can't tell if I'm too intense for my classmates or have too high a standard of work, but one of my group projects is really, really not going well. Pretty irritated about it. 🤨

"I asked chatgpt and..." without wishing to be rude, I cannot now take anything else you say remotely seriously

I have to tell you, and yes I’m drunk, but if I were a Christian who thought I’d someday face Jesus, the idea of explaining why I took food out of the mouths of the poor ON PRINCIPLE? I’d be scared shitless.

Remember kids: "Passive income" is a term used to describe wealth handed out to people by society, through our economic system, without doing any work. Many people receiving a "passive income" are intergenerationally wealthy, as opposed to the working class and long-term unemployed people who […]

BREAKING: A federal jury in Brooklyn awarded our clients — 674 immigrants unlawfully jailed by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office — $112 million. Could not be more proud to work at @latinojustice.bsky.social and to partner with the talent of Winston & Strawn.

every time I explain to my coworkers that a social media influencer from out of town has convinced the Trump administration that the Portland police are antifa, they look at me like I've sprouted a second head www.theverge.com/policy/81340...

If you’re a user of Libby (the library app), consider before following their suggestion to type #inspireme into the search bar. It seems harmless, but it turns on an unrequested AI feature, & there is no way to reverse that. This comes courtesy of ProfHeyRochelle, who is now reasonably pissed […]

I was lamenting that my brain is full of squirrels and I couldn't find something I needed. My brilliant, brilliant spouse @hakamadare came back with this banger: "Squirrels play an essential role in any healthy ecosystem. If they don’t bury little bits of cookie here and there and forget where […]

If you're ever bored, you can while away some time amusing yourself at the UK government's petitions website by looking at the list of rejected petitions.

I was lamenting that my brain is full of squirrels and I couldn't find something I needed. My brilliant, brilliant spouse @hakamadare came back with this banger: "Squirrels play an essential role in any healthy ecosystem. If they don’t bury little bits of cookie here and there and forget where […]

"What does antifa do?" My personal experience with antifa.

this shit needs to be illegal RE https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/115465109379341163

If anyone out there needs a pattern to follow, here's a message I'm sending organizations asking me to attend an in-person event this week. Allies welcome. "Per Google, it looks like there's no wheelchair-accessible entrance. I’d love to hear if they’ve corrected this issue since (date of pics […]

70% of working age SNAP recipients work full time. The companies should pay them a living wage! SNAP is corporate welfare.

Before today, I'd never seen a documentary that made me weep. Today, I watched "The Internet's Own Boy," a documentary about Aaron Swartz. It was an assignment for my "Gap Between Law and Justice" course this semester. I'm still crying. I know intimately how hard it can be to defy a powerful […]

October 26th is Intersex Awareness Day.

1. A groundbreaking new study published in Nature Medicine shows that feminizing hormone therapy shifts trans women's blood protein to resemble cis women after only 6 months. HRT really is effective and changes the human body heaivly. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Hey, New Yorkers! I was reading Wikipedia's article on Marsha P Johnson (as one does), and I noticed that there was mention of a park gateway planned to honor Marsha announced by Gov Hochul in 2022. Did this ever get made? Anyone got pics? I'd love to see pics added to the Wikipedia page. 💜💜💜 […]

"Democratic backsliding" is the process through which modern authoritarianism happens.

NYT - A 155-millimeter shell fired during a live-fire demonstration at Camp Pendleton prematurely detonated, dropping fragments of the shell on a CHP vehicle and motorcycle that were part of Vice President Vance’s protective detail […]

At 7 AM this morning, I realized that because my protest sign is quilted, I could add a pocket to the back to hold stuff! Was able to bring extra masks and wipes (plus the recommendations for what to say if the police stop you that @D_J_Nathanson shared stuck to […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Shout out to people who love ebooks but hate Amazon: Bookshop.org has started doing eBooks! They have an app! They have classics for free! They have daily 99p deals! Much excite! #books #bookstodon

Hatch Act Hack bot by @davidaugust No laws were broken in the making of this bot: let's not get carceral over comedy. #satire #potus45 #funny #uspol

The Somerville Stands Together (SST) labor forum with at-large candidates is now up on YouTube! https://youtu.be/wx9IykmVOfs?si=01aOab1Ehth-rRuD #somervillema #somerpoli #mapoli

October 2025 is like if someone heard the title "Everything Everywhere All At Once" and thought implementing that phrase as American policy might be a good start. Also, we're only halfway into October 2025. Talk about unsustainable! 😬😬😬

Trump admin lies about #ice being attacked, so they can be the victim. The Technique is called DARVO (Deny Attack Reverse Victim & Offender) But when people see that the "attackers" are people in frog costumes, it visually destroys the lie. There for sharing our silly protests on social media […]

The mutual aid garden keeps on giving, both in friendships and in food bounty. Harvested beans for 30 min tonight with a neighbor. Now to curl up with my reading while @hakamadare cooks them for the household. 😍 #garden #mutualaid #gardening

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Today I learned about Kalief Browder, a Black kid from The Bronx who was imprisoned for 3 years, mostly in solitary, for allegedly stealing a backpack. THREE YEARS waiting for a trial before the city dismissed the case due to lack of evidence and loss of prosecution's sole witness. Kalief […]

Just learned about Flock cameras by way of this article: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/flocks-gunshot-detection-microphones-will-start-listening-human-voices And also learned of https://www.deflock.me which shows that Tufts and Home Depot are operating a number of surveillance cameras […]

Yet another reason to loudly resist our municipalities installing more surveillance tech: In a post-Roe-v-Wade US, the cops are using surveillance cams by the thousands to track and punish people who've had an abortion. Oh, yeah, and to track down people who are trying to escape their abuser […]

Sometimes, what I need is to see flowers and the butts of pollinators at work. Sharing here in case that's also true for you. #bloomscrolling #bees #flowers

Proud to stand in solidarity with Starbucks workers alongside my DSA comrade @votejivan.bsky.social! Today was a practice picket… we're just getting started. For now, take the "No Contract, No Coffee" pledge at sbworkersunited.org/take-action / follow @sbworkersunited.org + @bostondsa.org for news!

What are you going to do when the regime falls? After calling all your friends, after the great memes, after the parties, what are you going to do to make sure it never happens again? What world should we create? Taxing billionaires is great and all, but we could build systems where […]

brave new world. reminds me of some doctor i once saw saying something like "nothing will make you pro-vaccine faster than witnessing a 2 month old infant slowly choke to death from whooping cough" […] [Original post on universeodon.com]

If Trump is allowed to murder civilians at sea, he is allowed to murder civilians in your streets. Charges need to be drawn up for his actions in the Caribbean and presented to a US court, military court, and international court. Everyone involved must also face charges.

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes-all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the earth into a graveyard, into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic […]

Carsie Blanton, a Jewish activist I know through folk music at Club Passim, is on the Global Sumud Flotilla with Greta Thurnberg. They're trying to take diapers and food to Gaza. I just found out there's a tracker for the boats, and a partial list of incidents when they've been fired at […]

They locked this firefighter up for FOUR WEEKS without due process (finally released). He had proper paperwork and status to work in the US--visa being processed, he was contributing to helping fight fires in Washington. He was ONLY released because of legal action. "The attorneys argued […]

#bostonweekend 25x Sat CELLO Zoe Keating in #SomervilleMA - composer who does interesting things like Cello x looper pedals. Also a show in #brattleboro #vermont Friday night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jToYxrS0oKw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoë_Keating […]

This actually gives me some hope, if true: Microsoft doesn't want to be known as a vehicle for surveillance of civilians. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgjx0zve2no #gaza #microsoft #surveillance #ai #bds

Happy to see that Violet Affleck is still doing advocacy work for Long Covid! Many thanks to The Sick Times for this story ❤️ "Violet Affleck advocates for children with Long COVID, masks, and clean indoor air at United Nations event" […]

Allowing DHS to kill people without consequences cannot stand. 'DHS lied': Bodycam footage casts doubt on justification of fatal ICE shooting https://www.rawstory.com/dhs-lied-bodycam-footage-casts-doubt-on-justification-of-fatal-ice-shooting/ #kristinoem #icebarbie #southdakota #dhs #ice […]

I did actually make it out to the end of the Fluff festival in #somervillema today. This is basically the only photo I got, but it's a banger! This guy said he voluntarily got decorated with a peanut butter and fluff sandwich. His partner said there would be thorough showering when they got home. 😆

I hate telling this story, but when tear gas is in the news... telling always feels importantm Tear gas is an abortifacient. When I was tear gassed, we were trying for a baby. The following day, I bled in a way I never have before. Like no period of my life before or since. Horror movie stuff.

I'm watching the movie "Good Night and Good Luck" with @hakamadare tonight. Star-studded cast, and riveting. Particularly worth watching at the moment, as well, given today's politics in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Night,_and_Good_Luck #uspol #politics

I continue to be impressed as heck with Marcos Candido Jr in Lowell, candidate for a ward city council race. I learn something every time I read his newsletter, and he sends them out every other week or so. Here's the latest, which is on food prices and the history of MARKET BASKET […]

@knizer do you yet know about the Central Sq night market this weekend? https://mailchi.mp/centralsq/unmissable-events-in-central-square-19194544?e=8ea6c4b836