wow seems like a thing that pretty much everyone in every workforce should be united against

morning / evening

resharing this cause ICE is definitely ramping up in pittsburgh.

Casa San José goes virtual amid increased ICE presence in Pittsburgh

i'm usually pretty good at managing my depression amidst all of the evil shit that's going on out there but i that was not the case today.

Link to the article... archive.ph/3UpJS

my baby's voice sounds like jimmy durante.

hey pittsburgh—if you're not already involved, i suggest joining up with Frontline Dignity. they're an organization that's working to monitor ICE activity in and around pgh. we're hearing that there's been credible reports of ICE increasing activity here over the next 2 weeks...here's how to report!

The Trump admin is detaining Pittsburgh-area asylum-seeking immigrants (who have work permits). One was released this weekend after his boss spoke up for him and reached out to congressional reps, but another remains in detention. www.axios.com/local/pittsb...

trip to the museum

I cannot say this enough: there is NO middle ground when it comes to writing and AI. Anyone who uses AI to write and admits it should be loudly shamed, hideously embarrassed, paraded through the streets of shun until they flee writing forever

the terrible machine

the face of the current best player in the nhl.

When you've accepted that you'll vote for 99% Hitler, everything else looks too pure for you.

If you work in a high school and your students are walking out for a righteous cause: Don’t get in their way, you’re going to look like an asshole

I'll be sharing a few more fundraisers from the twin cities, and once again, I am only sharing those that are vouched for by people I personally know who are on the ground. This is a bail fund that helps people who were arrested and are facing charges.

heads-up to any concerned parties, my band had to pull out of this show due to some unforeseen circumstances!

i think i forgot to post this when it actually came out but a few months ago, i recorded an interview about my book for About The Authors TV: youtu.be/52Noor2waA4?...

hey if you are in pittsburgh and enjoy the loud + fast style and devil-may-care attitude of hardcore punk music, my band is playing at the rock room tomorrow night. our first show since last summer so lots of new material never before heard by civilian ears.

I love whatever is wrong with Jake Gyllenhaal in any film he’s in

Hi everyone, with no eviction moratorium happening in Minnesota, mutual aid organizations like @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social could always use more donations (I mean they always could be, but the need is getting ever bigger): linktr.ee/sanctuarysup...

Don’t blame anybody for not being able to do it. We can’t really afford to be doing it either, but we are. It’s not the superior choice, just a choice. If you don’t mind the ask, we’d love for people to check out the site and consider an online order tonight or this weekend Eveninghousebooks.com

Boycotts work. Most of Canada has justifiably boycotted the United States, and most of the United States can boycott Amazon. If you haven’t boycotted them because you think they’re too big for to matter, that’s why they’re too big, and that’s why it matters! Amazon is nothing without customers! ✌️☯️⚖️

had a dream last night in which i was doing something that required me to handle some weirdly textured material that resulted in me getting a very small, sharp fiber stuck in one of my fingers. today, one of my fingers is painful and swollen, as if a small, sharp fiber were stuck in it.

lol "novel sales >50,000 units." who the hell do they think is actually going to apply for this?

Pittsburgh deserves worker-centered journalism. PAPER is raising funds to research, support and build out exactly that. I've joined several meetings and can say there is enthusiasm, community support and now grassroots money behind it. Learn more and contribute here: ourpapernow.org

An ICE agent covered head-to-toe in body cams, just thousands of tiny cameras, beating the shit out of an old woman. That's the bipartisan dream

quote with 5 jobs you've had: - university professor - EMT / ambulance - toys r us cashier - guy who loads newspapers into a machine that spits advertising inserts into the fold - guy who works the bungee jump rode at the state fair

every time someone has asked me the last week or so about priorities it is rental assistance. please please please people need rent to stay in their homes. scroll down to rent relief funds and pick something www.standwithminnesota.com

do any former pittsburgh post-gazette workers follow me here? I've encountered an extremely minor ethical dilemma that i'd like to get a PG union-member's take on.

"Work for the elimination of concrete evils rather than for the realization of abstract goods. Do not aim at establishing happiness by political means. Rather aim at the elimination of concrete miseries." —Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations

do any former pittsburgh post-gazette workers follow me here? I've encountered an extremely minor ethical dilemma that i'd like to get a PG union-member's take on.

Hey, this Bovino thing is a pathetic attempt to make all these horrors the fault of one guy, and it would be a serious, serious crisis if people fell for it. ICE needs to be abolished, bc this - terror, murder - are what it exists for. Nothing else. This is just an attempt to mollify us. Stay angry

NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.

You know me I don't share fundraisers unless I can tell you I trust them with my whole heart and my own wallet. This one gets protective gear to legal observers in Minneapolis / Saint Paul www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...

More money for training? I'm sorry, are they re-releasing Birth of a Nation in IMAX or something?

shout out to matt petras and @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social for this wonderfully generous profile of me and my book. feels like a genuine blessing to have someone engage with my writing this deeply and this broadly 🙏

But tell me more about how AI is worth it

Hi my community is currently being raided by masked federal agents. It’s terrifying and I’m very scared. You can donate to support detained people and their families here:

A great, encouraging thread on the situation in Minneapolis

this list by @naomikritzer.bsky.social is excellent & helpful, & of course i hate that we need it, but we really need it. please read & share. everyone can do at least one thing from this list every day & that's a fact. naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

the thing i want to be working on is a long, depressing story about suicide and parents and memory and getting older but i'm afraid the thing i'm actually making progress on is an idiotic series of flash pieces that are linked in the fact that they each involve some guy's pants falling down

turns out there’s a whole vibrant world of nice people having thoughtful dialogue on blue sky, such a far cry from the swamps of twitter/X that i will endeavor to plant my flag and chill here. anyways, i really loved engaging with @tyler-m.bsky.social’s work and hanging with him for this profile.

nice

i've had this rex begonia for i think 6 years and i've never seen it do this before.

maybe my favorite thing about this is the fact that i've truly been given the profile treatment: