Literally the only reason I maintain an empty lurker account on the other app is to check in on @esghound.com trolling Sable weirdos

You can tell it's New Year season because everyone on the bus is reading a paperback instead of staring at their phone

This is one of those weird mornings where you wake up on the west coast and find out that there's a Whole Thing

honestly this is basically the point I've been trying to make since I got in a fight with that east coast based other intern in grad school

I'm only at the halfway point but this is basically a Minecraft version of @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social's A Paradise Built In Hell

cars cars cars cars cars cars

A guy who is now on exxons board (lol) once told me it was sequential: do well THEN do good and well, we are still waiting aren't we?

i feel like it should be harder to bribe this great nation

Shout out to my new induction stove which immediately recognized that I'd turned the wrong burner on at full blast and shut it down rather than burning down the house #electrifyeverything

now do cars

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

proper opsec says most of these emails should have been a meeting

When I teach students organizing I teach them that every tactic must both 1) move you closer to your goal, and 2) build up your organization for the long term. Dem senators are doing neither.

Riding the bus and looking out the window as we pass a string of local businesses just in time to see one place's Roomba wander out the front door and continue its journey on the sidewalk

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

AWS having issues means my work phone and my task list app are down. I have never been so free.

give the nobel peace prize to dolly parton

I was so excited to be able to easily haul a 7x9 rug home on my small cargo bike last weekend that I forgot to take a picture for @americanfietser.bsky.social 😮‍💨

though it would be hilarious for me to invite like a conservative think tanker, so they can see how little universities pay people for talks here's a $250 honorarium and reimbursement for your flight that you'll get 6 months later

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023 www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

The last 100 years of US politics

Most NIMBYs aren't Neoplatonists. (probably)

I’m heartened to see this.

After thinking about it for a long time I panic bought a wine fridge/beverage center during the first tariff freakout and a few months in I am firmly on team @notalawyer.bsky.social, a good purchase and a real appliance, also bougie as all hell

Is Day 2 of packing to move too early to start labeling every box as "misc"

Good morning to everyone who wonders why they didn't just use paint and plastic flex posts to protect this fire hydrant.

Cargo bike friends! I'm moving to a building with good bike storage, but I'll be upstairs and across the building from said storage. Is there any pannier bag with features of a rolling suitcase, ie wheels and a pop-up handle when needed? Cc: @americanfietser.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Nothing makes you realize you actually did have an impact on your graduating students more than starting over with a new group of students

#NoKings in Santa Barbara went for 1.5 miles down Cabrillo Blvd

We feed you. They hunt us.

Seeing a massive divide online between Angelenos of all political stripes who understand that the protests in LA yesterday were mostly peaceful and any violence was ICE-initiated and East Coast establishment liberals lecturing “the left” on how riots just amplify right wing talking points.

Even if we imagine him powerless before this action, he could be explaining what’s happening more clearly. He should be reminding California Guard members of their real role, as well as their legal and ethical responsibilities. He should be advising communities on what comes next and how to respond.

Same channel with two different feeds going re: ICE raids in LA, two very different framings. Notice which has more viewers.

omg I got off bean club wait-list, I'm officially in bean club ☺️

The first episode was SO GOOD. It's so helpful to have sources like @drilledmedia.bsky.social that go beyond the most publicly visible parts of protest movements and into the slog of organizing and legal battles that accompany them

I'm looking through lists of books referenced in workshops and talks I've found helpful to see if there's anything I should buy with a small amount of leftover end-of-the-year funding, but @ifbookspod.bsky.social has me convinced they're all probably terrible

‼️BREAKING: A CA Superior Court Judge signaled an intent to grant an injunction forcing Sable to cease work in its pipeline restart. While @governor.ca.gov talks tough on Big Oil, he’s done NOTHING to shut down the pipeline and fight Trump’s fossil fuel agenda.

I was flipping through books with students today to select next year's book club read and opened up to @kendrawrites.com's interview in @ayanaeliza.bsky.social's "What If We Get It Right?", right to a paragraph where they discuss my UCSB students from 3 years ago and our campaign against Exxon!

Last week the CA State Lands Commission Chair implied that Sable Offshore is deceiving the public and its investors by claiming it started oil production when it had not, and does not have a permit to do so. Yesterday a judge issued an injunction against Sable. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social is silent.

I think removing one of the police's biggest pretext for illegal warrant-less searches, the traffic stop, and replacing it with automated/robotic traffic enforcement, is actual anti-surveillance.

Just saw the guy who a month back took my order from the lunch takeout counter only to come back and yell at the girl at the counter for giving him the wrong thing. Full nemesis energy.

Just bought something from a local retailer's website-- they never changed their covid online ordering message reading "in these uncertain times, it's important to stock up early" and hey I guess it's nice it's up to date again

Every day i have people tell me a theory of change that, on questioning, turns out to be a theory of personal emotional regulation

Ok not to detract from the excellent joke but what was happening between 882 and 928 that popes were just getting murdered left and right

ICE targeting elementary school children is child abuse, period.

126 people signed up for public comment at a Coastal Commission hearing re: Sable Offshore's repeated violations of the Coastal Act. A $15 million fine, full restoration of, and a non-expiring cease and desist are under consideration.

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.