I don't think people or corporations should own coastline

Uses of the Light I would rather stay home and paint yellow tulips than march in the street and protest; yet I must, lest tyrants steal more than the good October light. (Poem and painting by me) #NoKings #poem #watercolor

My latest blog post is on a topical matter rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2025-1... "All empires end" is also a statement of hope. If all empires end, then this situation, no matter how enduring, unstoppable, or inevitable it seems, will also end. #NoKings

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go! Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest. /1

I refuse to mention Sylvia Plath’s husbands’s name and refuse to read any poetry he has written because I think he seriously contributed to her death by suicide and then minimized her legacy.

Create an alternative Formula 1 league with no advertising on the cars, costumes, or courses. Instead it all has to be decorated with original art.

Yours truly, a narrow shouldered pale female person, has been perambulating the streets of San Francisco well into the evenings since 1980, and I haven't really had any problems of the mugging/personal assault kind in this millennium, but tech dudes are timorous.

Do docs like Stripe.

Tomorrow is Columbo's Day, so remember to eat the traditional chili dogs, wear your best disheveled raincoat, and above all, don't let any rich assholes get away with anything

Honor two Italian-Americans for the price of one non-Italian non-American by declaring Sacco and Vanzetti Day nationwide. We'll put it on the second Friday in August and keep Indigenous People's Day where it is, advancing the noble cause of at least one legally mandated day off per calendar month.

Backdate the release note

document the temporary workaround

Today is National Coming Out Day! It's also Freedom to Read Day, aka the last day of Banned Books Week. This feels right — because the main reason they try to ban books is to keep people from dreaming they could ever come out. My latest newsletter: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

In recent years, I’ve not done as much for National Coming Out Today, since it no longer seemed as necessary given the progress we’d made. We now have a regime that wants us all to go away. Complete erasure. So today I’m gonna be extra gay in honor of these bigots.

It’s also a kind of reverse conspiracy theory, in that mgmt assumes there’s some 500% (!!!!) efficiency gain to be had because their workers didn’t have the right knowledge or assistance… after laying off 100s of employees from Reality Labs and over 10% of Meta’s total workforce earlier this year.

Staring intently at myself in the mirror, practicing my lines for next week. イカのzineはいかがですか？ イカのzineはいかがですか？ イカのzineはいかがですか？

Might make my own little audio lesson for last minute cramming on the flight over. "Ok, Sarah. Repeat after me. Would you like a squid zine? イカのジンはいかがですか？ Which way to the squid? イカはどこですか？ Thank you for the squid! イカありがとう! No octopus please, I only like squid. タコはやめて、イカだけが好きです。"

A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...

I’ve been taking watercolor classes about once a month as a treat. I’m taking one tomorrow about painting gourds and I’m really looking forward to it caseformaking.com/products/pai...

I swear to god, you give an engineer a grandma killing technology and 9/10ths of them would be like, “How does this work? Does it have an API? Do you have a staging server I could play with it on?”

To me, applying LLMs to style checking is like taming a bear into dancing a two hours ballet opera. It'll get distracted sooner or later and then bite you in the back.

A new Pynchon novel is coming out in a week! Somehow I missed any pre-announcements and just learned it from a review. Shadow Ticket is another wacky detective novel, this time set in 1930s Milwaukee. Can’t wait!

Wednesday!!!! If you're an East Bay person who's missed all my San Francisco events, you can come see me along with some truly incredible authors, no need to cross the bay! <3

Another visit to the remaining part of the defunct coal mine "Anna" in Pszów. #believeinfilm #filmphotography

When a person at the coffee shop took my husband’s croissant order but ignored me, I thought it was middle aged woman* invisibility, but maybe it was bi invisibility. I should try buying some pastries today.

Reminder to my fellow bisexuals: do not do crimes today. You are briefly visible. Wait til tomorrow when you can no longer be perceived.

If it wasn’t for you all I wouldn’t have known there was an aftershock. Maybe I’m too sleepy from the overnight 4.3 to notice anything. Generally I think anything below a 4, I can’t feel unless it’s right under me. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

I did a bunch of big swatches of all my watercolor paints. I’m feeling a bit rough lately and not very creative, but creating this big color sheet gives me something creativity-adjacent and will be a good reference for later. #watercolor

Sobotnie #beztrybie

You are probably very good looking & don’t realize it. You are almost certainly hotter now than you ever will be. You also have more energy than you will in the future. Your 20s are a great time to make the most of that by partying and sleeping around. (Just use protection & avoid injectable drugs)

Do not read your phone while sitting on the toilet. Not because it’s gross, but because sitting on the toilet too long can contribute to hemorrhoids. If you must, do your stuff, put down the lid, and sit on the lid.

Don't apologise for your dog showing up during the Zoom, apologise for hiding him all this time

Today I watched the sunrise as I tuned in to a 16-piece orchestra halfway around the planet recording music made uniquely for my second nature documentary, Prairies Unearthed. A wonderful way to focus on the beautiful things happening on Earth. Thank you to my music composer @edithmudge.bsky.social

A new blog post about watercolor painting in which I give myself permission to doodle on the good paper Mark making and color rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2025-0... #blog #watercolor #watercolour #art

The real reason is probably that I have other hobbies, many of which are physical and in some cases literally involve touching grass (to rip it out as I gradually replace the lawn with native plants and wild flowers)

Once again I have to remind people that it was a surfacing of already on-going radicalization movements and that it was where the whole thing picked up a lot of steam, but this also ignores a lot of other disparate alt right and fash movements already happening, but not in gaming culture

I was exposed to heavy doses of existentialism by reading Sartre when I was 18. Soon after, I also read and absorbed a great deal of Camus and Nietzsche. I have been a committed existentialist since, and I cannot avoid knowing that I am my actions and not my sense of inner self. Keeps me grounded.

I have been too worn out to write a new blog post this week, so please enjoy (?) this topical rerun rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2024-1...

"GIGO" doesn't even apply to LLMs, because even if they had only "good" data and enough of it, they are still set up to make papier-mache out of it --- to extrude synthetic text, that no one is accountable for. >>

JetPens, every time: Day 1: Your order will arrive in 2-3 weeks. Date not guaranteed. We don’t work on holidays, thanks for understanding. Day 2: We packed your order. Day 3: We shipped your order. Between day 3 and 5: Your order is here. Every time. And I have a habit of ordering on weekends.

I got very excited about the new Air Pods doing live translation like a Babelfish and was like I must have them and then I checked the list of supported languages and nope, never mind, I’m going to wait until they expand available languages, if they do www.apple.com/ios/feature-...

I told my dad I wanted a kind of painter’s smock/apron with lots of little pockets all over, and he proposed altering some of his old scrubs into one. He gave me one shirt to play with, and he’s also going to work on a more complex design for me.

I learned how to fix colors in scanned paintings, so click over to my blog to enjoy Imaginary horizons In which I use atmospheric perspective, highly-saturated wet-on-wet washes and muted wet-on-dry foregrounds to create the illusion of distance. rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2025-0...

Over on Mastodon, a friend who is better than me at search suggested artistpigments.org This may be exactly what I was thinking of and more.

OH: if vaccines caused autism, we’d have way more trains in the United States

YEAH! Also, it must be something in the zeitgeist because I’ve been thinking about this structure lately, and I spent the last week talking about with people in person in seemingly every conversation.

How do artists who have a lot of paints keep track of them? For watercolors there’s a lot of what paints you have in tubes vs pans, which palette has what, how much is left in a tube, costs to replace, planning out palettes etc. Do people do it all physically or are the systems or tools?

I learned how to fix colors in scanned paintings, so click over to my blog to enjoy Imaginary horizons In which I use atmospheric perspective, highly-saturated wet-on-wet washes and muted wet-on-dry foregrounds to create the illusion of distance. rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2025-0...

Don’t let electric eel fool you, his species does NOT swim up toilets. Get REAL eel facts with an eel facts advent calendar. Calendar designed by real human artist @ehrenenglish.bsky.social Eel facts written by a real human scientist (me). Get one at EelFacts.net