brass solidarity band, formed at george floyd square, perform at the anti ICE rally in powderhorn park after an agent killed renee good in minneapolis

🤬🤬🤬 we can’t be neutral over disregard for what once was normal process.. or what is valued as human… Can we? ??

Rochester, NY

Reading is a superpower. It builds amazing skills like critical thinking, empathy, and knowledge. Here's to not only more reading in 2026, but using our superpower to create a better world 💗

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

The media wants the war and likes Trump and so will not report on this war as if it is unpopular, despite overwhelming polling showing that it is. Covering things as if they are unpopular is for things they want to stop and they want the war and want it to succeed.

I mean…

Remember playing M.A.S.H as a kid? Really psyched to share my 2nd place winning poem, M.A.SH for Poets Cento, which also appears in my current WIP, *Divination Ritual.* Thanks to Cleaver and Kazim Ali for selecting it! www.cleavermagazine.com/mash-by-eliz...

Why is this limited grainy digital photos **of** stacks of actual photos in a drawer and not the original photos themselves?

There's a lot of nastiness out there but today I am focussing on the light that art brings. There are 2 days left to see the Small Works Exhibit at Main Street Arts in Clifton Springs, NY. Pictured is curator and executive director Heather Olson's ship in progress. Keep the ship steady.

Books of the Year 2025: Part One alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/12/book...

I do not want my computer to be a partner. I do not want companies to analyze my data to "better advertise to me". I do not want advertising in my personal computer of any kind, ever. I do not want all my personal info to be looked at or digested by LLMs or other AI. I do not want any AI "feature".

Something I wish I'd understood when I was younger is that all the words you cut are still in the story. That's why it's stronger without them, but only if you write them first. Those missing words are deep inside the remaining words.

Also, this headline. Monroe is considering doing the OPPOSITE. The legislation is opt-out legislation. I’ve emailed the news director — they have caused a lot of harm.

Thinking a lot about this moment from literally the first chapter of "1984."

New on my blog: Five Winter Books I’ve Read alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/12/five... #BookSky

"6,769 federal datasets have been deleted, including those tracking maternal mortality and sickle cell disease...Also removed: data on workforce diversity and environmental exposure in historically redlined neighborhoods"

Rep Rashida Tlaib and 20 other members of Congress—all Democrats—have put forth a resolution to recognize “the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza,” something the United States has consistently refused to do, even in the face of U.N. evidence. trib.al/MFBNqqG

Books to Look Out For in December 2025 alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/11/book... including titles from @srlpublishing.bsky.social @serpents-tail.bsky.social

While we are waiting for our politicians to cause more chaos and devastation to those of us with ordinary lives who want ordinary things, here's a pretty picture from the nearby woods.

An indictment of how Rochester and Monroe County handle homelessness

Along with National Common Sense Gun Laws and Fair Immigration Laws..end of ICE

Read up while you still can

What could be better than travel and books? @alifeinbooks.bsky.social blogs are always special reading occasions!

New on my blog - Books to Look Out For in November 2025: Part One alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/10/book... #BookSky

This is terrorism.

🎃🎃

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Five More Novels About Long Relationships I’ve Read alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/09/five... via @alifeinbooks.bsky.social

The list of heavyweight Dems in New York and across the country who have endorsed Mamdani keeps getting longer. This is shaping up as a real litmus test for politicians' understanding of the future of the Democratic Party.

Rochester area friends: This Saturday is HarvestFest at Tinker Park in Henrietta where I will be hanging an installation. Come on out if you're in the area! 11-2pm.

The world has become unfathomable on every level so I invite everyone in the greater Rochester area to come to Tinker Park, Henrietta NY to walk the trails and see some art. This is a collaboration with Jappie King Black who did the grapevine figures. Yesterday we installed the banners.

To enter the drawing, sign up here: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8395665/R... For more information on the event, see Morelle’s website: morelle.house.gov/media/press-...

Do you love alpine plants, ancient DNA, and/or population genetics? My lab will be hiring a postdoc soon to be based at the University of Maine! We’re looking for someone who uses genetic tools and thinks like a community ecologist. Happy to chat at #ESA2025 if you’re interested.

Fuck yeah. Right?

#Rochester has its priorities straight. www.reddit.com/r/Rochester/...

Well, I’m gonna insist that you listen to this. Definition of terms: “these people” = Latino migrants “Inner city people” = Black people “We tried to get them [inner city people] to do it” = slavery & sharecropping

Today in Rochester NY 🏳️‍🌈 #ROC #art

The opening of Main Street Arts exhibition Geo+Metric featuring over 40 New York State artists was my second day on the job as their new Community and Office Coordinator. Pictured is artist Jean Stephens (right) in front of her piece. Clifton Springs, NY also sports the fantastic bookstore, Sulfur.

We're living in a carnival world so instead of telling you what's on my mind and it not mattering to anyone who can change things, I'm going to advertise this great art gallery and opening of a new exhibit (and yes I have a piece in the show). Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY, Sat Aug 2 3-6pm.

Rochester! Check out friend of the fest's @richardbcolon.com new photography exhibit “Community Over Competition” opening this Friday at @flowercityarts.bsky.social! flowercityarts.org/events/commu... Reception: Aug. 1st 6 - 9pm Free entry #ROC #RochesterNY #FirstFriday #photography

Good reminder as we sit through our daily deluge of Trump and his cults lies.

"[The situation has] reached levels where you cannot comprehend the amount of suffering." - Amy Low, Medical Team Leader in #Gaza. Amy Low has worked with Doctors Without Borders in Gaza three times. She describes her experience with @CTVNews. www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/0...

"The issue of government has always been whether individual men and women will have to serve some system of government and economics, or whether a system of government and economics exists to serve individual men and women."  —FDR, 1932

It's too hot to do anything more than be, this is my Sunday reflection. Photo of Hemlock Lake, NY.

“I like to think that the border between Canada and the United States is the only frontier where armed forces guard against illegal entry not by keeping people out, but by welcoming them in.”- Harry S Truman Happy Independance Day from a Canuck friend.