“A growing ecological movement sees the solution [to the climate crisis] in bioregionalism: the idea of reorganizing social & economic life around the natural boundaries of the ecosystems that host & sustain us.” — @dougbierend.bsky.social #climatecrisis #bioregionalism #esg

audience for last night’s band practice

hating cars 🤝 hating ICE

for some reason it's the mass firing of national park rangers that has fucked me up the most. what did a fuckin park ranger ever do to you

normal rockwell is a dangerous man who shouldn’t be trusted. i say this at great personal risk

effin cold but also effin pretty

maybe folks hate the billions and billions (and billions) spent on building the most annoying industry in history, instead of funding a richer, broader and more equitable education system. billionaires seemingly can’t recognize value in anything unless it’s expensive and innovative and has a fat ROI

for many years i’ve felt sore about being excluded from creative/professional cliques, a lifelong extension of my experience in high school. after 13 years i’m not really part of a peer group, and i am humble. but i also know my value, and i’m proud to have found my own, strange path as a writer

it’s been the case for decades that the us military can do incalculable damage, but can’t actually win a ‘war’ (usually an occupation). the trump regime seems hungry for a more conventional, continental scale conflict, but chances are we’re just as doomed in that endeavor. gives me hope.

i think a lot of today’s social ills can be traced to a certain set of privileged people becoming enamored with the idea of abstracting the world into design or engineering terms, and believing that doing so offers a unique insight into Actual Reality

i’m speaking into the void here but does anyone happen to have a suggestion for accessing data on old drives from a 2008 and 2014 macbook? data recovery services are crazy expensive and i think the drives are functional, just need a way to interface with them so i can browse some folders

if i sell my house, at least now i can boost its value by virtue of not being under the airport’s flight paths

lots of valid criticisms of the graphics, but the voices are the most unnerving part to me…are they ai generated? is this what zuckerberg thinks ‘humans relating’ sounds like?

the 2020s, aka the decade that proved all the alarmists right

mark my words we’re going to learn elon musk has hundreds of kids

wonder how the “don’t like it? then leave” folks feel a about this

guitar pickups are such cool objects imo

if you encounter someone who actually thinks AI should be used to administrate government, education, air traffic control etc, ask them what they think of the fact that the best models can only multiply 3 x 3 correctly about 97% of the time

surely collapsing tesla’s valuation is a worthy cause and one around which many can rally

i remember when musk was considered a branding genius it’ll be a rough ride for everyone, but i think we’re about to witness one of the great hubristic downfalls in human history

This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.

there is a very different but equivalently dramatic and strident version of the restructuring of the federal apparatus that i would wholeheartedly support. of course the targets and intention differ greatly, but hey, when the whole thing inevitably comes down, so will the aspects that are evil.

between the looming pandemics and the collapse of the federal government, i’m thinking the airline industry as such may not exist for too much longer

The opening paragraph of Philip K. Dick's final novel, THE TRANSMIGRATION OF TIMOTHY ARCHER, belongs in the opening-paragraph hall of fame

Look this sucks but news outlets need to start realizing there's limited journalistic value in sitting in a room and letting a person behind a podium lie to you. You're not holding anyone to account when you do that.

Roses are red, violets are blue

any chance the uaw can accelerate their plans for a general strike?

i knew the movie was prescient, but i never thought we’d end up with actual characters from dr strangelove at the top of our government

clearly i did something to anger the ice gods

connely’s first words as ranking member on the oversight subcommittee is to cough into the mic a few times and say ‘excuse me’ so, strong start

someone on the oversight committee just misspoke and described elon as “igor to engage on twitter” and i feel like that’s a line they should stick with

i sometimes wonder what i’m doing wrong to get traction on this app, then i remember that everyone i’m reading posts like a thousand skeets (or bloops or whatever you call these) every month, so i may just not be cut out for success

thinking of turning my shed into a neighborhood tool library…

there’s plenty to criticize bernie for, but he’s committed to naming what’s happening right now, and has consistently shown more leadership than any democrat at times of crisis. remember when he hosted informative events throughout covid, while campaigning? damn it i’m getting mad about 2016 again

maybe consider not flying!

We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

one thing the last year has taught me is that americans generally eat way too many eggs

we should just call the nazi salute the ‘ingraham angle’

MAGA forces have begun what they believe to be their final offensive against everything on the Left. One way to fight back is for organized labor to become a conscious anti-fascist movement.

don't let musk's celebratory hitler salutes fade out with the news cycle. that motherfucker is a fucking nazi and no one should ever shut up about it

my friend and her dog jasper

this country was always a racket, it’s only natural the racket becomes a country

organized worker power is the only lever left

we’re literally up against the villains from robocop, and it’ll be equally satisfying when they meet equally cartoonish ends