#3goodthings 1. Princeton University Press's 70% off sale 2. Second cup of tea 3. Slept through the night last night

#3goodthings 1. apparently managed not to catch COVID on either of 2 crammed-full flights (thanks 3M Aura) 2. even if I caught asymptomatic COVID, I stayed masked at the funeral, so I most likely didn't pass it to anyone 3. Cooler, drier weather!

The president. Of the United States. Used artificial intelligence. To generate a video of himself. Defecating on the American people. And there's no mention of it. In the New York Times. Instead, they went with this pressing news.

Every time I see someone attribute homelessness to mental illness, I contemplate how few sleepless nights it would take to reduce me to a shuddering, screaming ball of anxiety. And that's without the loss of all my stuff at random intervals and the threat of both state and individual violence.

Any San Francisco kid under the age of 5 can get a free book mailed to them every month under a new partnership announced Friday by city officials and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. The first book that all children will receive in the mail, addressed to them, is The Little Engine That […]

#nokings Orlando

#3goodthings 1. Double rainbow this morning! 2. No drama at family funeral yesterday 3. Spirited Away at local art house tonight

Thinking today of my late father, and his favorite hymn: Once to every man and nation Comes the moment to decide In the strife of truth with falsehood For the good or evil side. Some great cause, God's new Messiah, Off'ring each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, 'Twixt that […]

Spotted the Antuba at #seattle #nokings

crowd’s kinda melted in the rain but still holdouts and cars are enthusiastic also i liked this sign #bothell #seattle #protest #nokings #cascadia

Missed No Kings, but my brother-in-law's funeral also called for solidarity.

Know your protest rights. Six essentials from the good folks at #aclu #nokings

#3goodthings 1. made it to agility class last night 2. Henry had a blast 3. tabling at a chill event today

Exactly what many of us have been warning about since 2016, but even moreso since January. Red alert.🚨

#3goodthings 1. local art house showing Spirited Away 2. tabling at an event I like tomorrow 3. kid still doing OK at end of day 2 of 8 day hike

Thanks for the new theme song, dipshits. We need more songs that lots of people know already, that we know will piss you off.

Noem: "arrest anybody and everybody who appears to be the slightest threat to you." ICE Dudes arrest clarinet player playing "Ghostbusters." Noem: "WTF? How am I gonna spin THAT?" ICE Dudes: "You said arrest anybody and everybody." Noem: "you left out the 'threat' part." ICE Dudes: tl;dr

#3goodthings 1. We're back home. 2. Dogs are fine. 3. Youngest is off on their trip, day 1 of 8 completed.

#3goodthings 1. Flight still on 2. Weather gorgeous, 55 degrees 3. Dogs happy about cool weather

Mad props to KTAU in #portland for setting up a live camera running 24 hours a day outside of the ICE/Gestapo field office where DHS Secretary and dog-killer Kristi Noem recently visited. I just scrubbed thru the overnight footage, which was boring as hell because there isn’t anything […]

#3goodthings 1. Off work for the next few days 2. Get to see our youngest, assuming flight not canceled 3. Middle kid is dogsitting for us

Reflect Orbital is the latest evidence that you don't have to have any good ideas; you just have to have gullible people with money who think your ideas are good.

I recently drove through the small town of Yatesville, Georgia, which has a Chitlin Hoedown later this month. I thought y'all might like to know.

Preordered Ann Leckie's Radiant Star (new Imperial Radch book out in May)!

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

Just got my official letter for the fellowship to New Zealand! And I have a possible lead on a local farm sitter, but nothing is set yet. So I'm just going to put this out onto the Fediverse again, in case someone who knows how take care of goats in Real Canadian Winter (down to -40C temps) […]

@[email protected] I will echo this same offer for up to two communities! I'll do the install, maintenance, upkeep, and keep the lights on. I have the automation to be able to run any of these: - Mastodon - Pixelfed - GoToSocial - Sharkey - Akkoma - Bonfire And for that matter if anyone […]

I have an offer to make: do you want to run an instance on the fediverse for a group that's underrepresented here? I'll pay the bills. Period. I'll do admin if needed (software updates and the like). But you decide what kind of community you want it to be, so you put together the mod team. DM me.

#3goodthings 1. apparently our flights have not (yet) been canceled 2. the floor project is DONE 3. the dogs have survived the psychological trauma of having Strangers Working In The House

This is a wild ride. Who stole 24,000 bottles of tequila from Guy Fieri and his business partners, and how? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCNN5ePoYbo

Hey, this is a good question, actually.

Ugh we're in one of those cycles where we can't do anything unless we first do something else. Furniture sliders may be involved. Several stores that claim to have them, don't; but oddly, the grocery store had some.

Front of baby quilt is done! Next steps are add batting, add backing, and figure out how I want to quilt it. It's small enough I could do a simple pattern with my regular sewing machine. There's also a makers space in Denver that has a quilting machine (not long […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

#3goodthings 1. Back home! 2. Click & Clack (the Car Talk guys) get an unusual call (surprise near the beginning, a 2nd surprise near the end): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moAqzM4ptm8 3. Chose the right route for my trip: 3.5 hours of trees and cows, vs. 3.25 hours of billboards and semis.

"FBI severed ties w Southern Poverty Law Center, civil rts watchdog, after push from MAGA on social media... Musk called the group “an evil organization that spreads hate propaganda relentlessly” and accused it of “incitement to murder Charlie Kirk” […]

Here's some good news: This wildlife overpass over Interstate 80 in Utah has reduced vehicle-wildlife collisions by 77%! https://www.kpcw.org/summit-county/2025-09-17/utah-state-study-shows-summit-county-wildlife-crossing-success

#3goodthings 1. Made it thru my conference presentation (poorly, but I'm still alive!) 2. Nice dinner on rooftop with view of river 3. Home tomorrow!

Welp, guess Carlsbad Caverns will have to stay on my bucket list for a while. Next to what other folks are up against, it seems pretty trivial.

Here's the thing. Growing food, and bearing and raising children, are hard work. You can refuse to pay the people who do that work a fair wage (or a living wage, or anything at all); you can make their working conditions more brutal or less brutal; but you cannot make the work itself easy […]

#3goodthings 1. I don't work for the US federal government 2. I'm not in the military, nor is anyone in my immediate family 3. Still employed My best wishes to anyone who isn't as fortunate.

#3goodthings 1. Last day of the grant year, one more report to submit (not mine) 2. COVID vax today, 10 days before plane trip (not ideal, but much better than nothing) 3. Conference presentation Thursday, expenses covered.

Acquired COVID vax prescription! Got turned away as a walk-in because "we're slammed" (you're always slammed, because you're always understaffed. Stop advertising that you take walk-ins.) Made an appointment for tomorrow.

It sure would be a shame if the ESA or JSA "hacked" and "stole" the OCO-2 satellite.

Guerrilla Knitting! 😅 More 👇👏

Remember when Reagan couldn't tell the difference between real life and his movie roles? Now we apparently have Trump unable to tell the difference between real life and a deepfake of himself on an imaginary Fox News broadcast.

Yesterday Lyricdancer and I engaged in a Swiftboat-style river patrol just outside Portland with our Antifa unit (the "Manbun Kerrys"). How are *you" contributing to the war effort?

#3goodthings 1. No hurrricane for us! 2. Squeaked in to the show just in the nick of time last night 3. Show was a delightful romp!

Reasonably sure Mastodon peeps like libraries and might like a peek at this wowzer I stepped into today. #dascdmx

#3goodthings 1. Seen on the morning dog walk: Big doe industriously stomping on wet lawn bag to rip it open & snack on tasty trimmings 2. Book cull yielded over $100 in used-book credits at my local indie bookstore; bought my first 2 used books at half-off (The Serviceberry and Secrets of the […]