When I came back to Vermont, I was supposed to retrofit my closet to blend in around here, but I just found a worn-once 100% merino Brooks Brothers sweater in a thrift store. At least I can tell people I got it for $14. That should appease the New Englanders.

After two weeks of below-zero nights, it's finally starting to get to me. I want to go OUTSIDE. And have it be PLEASANT.

In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”

LMAO UHHHH TELL ME YOU HAVE NO MEDIA LITERACY WITHOUT TELLING ME bsky.app/profile/page...

I see it's When Did Green Day Get So Political Day again.

Okay, so, I thought of one, and then thought I would just go check collection and see what else was in there, and then I couldn't stop.

Found True Lies in a dvd bin. Orpheus reviewed it as "not bad" so I watched it. Folks, it's so bad. The female lead (no slag for the actor) goes from "sexy if she would only take off her glasses" to "Jar Jar Binx in a little black dress." This transformation is achieved by traumatizing her.

About a month after adopting a chronically deficient local free shelf, it has finally achieved hat saturation, meaning they don't all disappear the same day they're dropped off. So I've moved from crocheting hats to thrifting winter socks and cleaning them up.

abolishing ICE is not enough its members need to be prosecuted

It's the warmest day of the week, but the car wash was still experiencing technical difficulties.

Could just one platform refrain from trying to destroy publishing, please

This borders on a Bad a Leftist Confession post, but until today, I had an Amazon Prime credit card. I needed the signup bonus cash to get some basics when I moved. So shoot me. Anyway, I called to cancel it today and had a pretty funny conversation.

Me, medicated, trying to introduce a friend to Pat the Bunny.

Migraine day! 🙃 Actually, this is day three, but today the meds aren't working as well. I wonder how many people get their first migraine as adults. And of them, I wonder how many think they're dying. Because this is not a normal human body feeling.

News notifications lately have mostly just made me feel like I'm having a stroke, but this one is a more clear-eyed and sincere "What the fuck is happening?" No idea how this will play out. Guess we're gonna see. Also, prepare for the news to be nothing but this for a while.

the whole country is on fucking fire and Mamdani is just over there going down the checklist of shitty things no one should have allowed rich people to get away with, and honestly it gives me hope for a better world.

Dreamed that a friend had negative feedback about one of my hacker books because there "wasn't enough detail about the architecture in it" and that was all they were interested in right now. Woke up and solomnly made a note to sprinkle in more Boston building detail for the new edition.

A little part of me wants to believe that bitcoin is crashing because I said something mean about it earlier today.

There's too much "sad that immigrants did this" in the comments, so I would like to participate in putting a stop to that: if you actually read the article, it says both of these men are from Texas.

In the south side of Minneapolis, community members have started setting up filter blockades- which are make shift roundabouts. The intent is to slow down the erratic ICE driving behavior among other things. Full report to come on @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

Makes me wonder if organizers have read Pratchett's Night Watch. Also, if you have winter clothes and a chair, that's all you need to participate.

liam and his dad are home! and someone please get rep. castro a coat!

The defense in this article is "but a few people crossed the imaginary line in front of the ICE facility!" That is not a good reason to tear gas hundreds of people, including kids.

The weather app does not know what is happening anymore

Unbelievably, it turns out that not doing a thing means you don't get good at that thing

My primary participation in the General Strike was to not shop today. But I've spent the last year deleting accounts with tech monopolies, unsubscribing from all streaming services, and removing my books from Amazon, so. Participation enough. Long-haul participation.

I started therapy last year. Mostly to see if I could be handling chronic pain and disability better. But we end up spending most of my sessions talking about sociopolitical theory, mental health funding, and mutual aid methodology. I think I'm doing therapy wrong.

Every time I get a news alert, I want to throw my phone into a lake, and by phone I mean government

Hey, remember that time they tried to use AI for fast food drive-thrus and it kept accidentally ordering hundreds of dollars worth of chicken nuggets? Why? No reason. Anyway. Delete Chrome.

Our Lady Peace Billy Talent Gob The Creepshow The Planet Smashers As for best songs, how dare you. HOW DARE.

I know I could not to Orpheus's job, because every time we reason through a tech support problem together, my conclusion (whether we solve it or not) is always "Computers were a mistake." I'm pretty sure he's not allowed to say that to end users. I would say it every damn day.

Okay, look, I had a couple drinks by the time I saw this, and yes, it could have been much worse and I'm still concerned, but the fact that she was so ready to just FISTFIGHT HIM gives me heart.

It is now 12 hours after the forecast said it was supposed to stop snowing. It is still snowing.

All of the storm cleanup plans revolved around a forecast of the snow stopping by 1 AM. Parking bans were in effect. Plows were waiting. It's 3 AM and still coming down like it can do this all day. Have a feeling I may not be leaving the house tomorrow, either.

The moderate position is that every law enforcement officer in the US should be banned from using chemical weapons.

Hey, let’s go to Maine in the dead of winter, a time of year that certainly won’t make us more recognizable to a populace that has the ability to spot an out-of-stater from 500 yards away.

Not to skip over how illegal and unhinged this is, but: if they really fuck around with Maine, I don't envy what they're going to find out

I live in the middle of nowhere in Vermont. If ICE tried to bring a whole circus to town, they would find one local gas station chain open to them and almost nothing else. Also, there is one hotel. We would know where to find them at night. With bagpipes.

There is no such thing as apolitical art. Art that pretends everything is beautiful and fine when things are otherwise is also political art: the bad kind. This is the good kind.

Think I may be losing my mind being snowed in. Doing some book work. When I can't get into flow, I usually go for a drive, run errands, and try again. This time, I resorted to ballet warmups for some reason.

Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.

Woke up wondering how much snow we got. Looked out the window to discover that it's still snowing. Harder than yesterday. Parked cars are up to the top lug nuts in it. But hey, it's up to 13°f, so that's something.

WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT, REUTERS? WHAT DO YOU CALL IT WHEN SOMEONE KEEPS TELLING SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE TRUTH WHEN THEY KNOW IT’S NOT THE TRUTH? WHAT IS THAT CALLED? USE YOUR WORDS

The second amendment is only for people they like. We're having that conversation again today, but it's not new.

Not sure why the art brain decided "fluffy sleep paralysis animal" was the way to convey this, but here we are.

At this point I feel like I should just make a shirt that says "Abolition Now" and when people ask "Abolish what?" I'll say "What have you got?"

Seeing the NYT switch to active voice feels like watching a seal holding back the apocalypse crack

This is one of those days where my first impulse is to say "Stay safe," and I need to check that impulse to say "Stay brave" instead.

I found a copy of Snatch in a dvd bin. I forgot how bad it needs subtitles.

Watching Minnesota out protesting and giving their cold weather gear approving nods. Mitten game is strong. Solidarity and wooly vibes from Vermont.