I’m curious if anyone has found an alternative to instagram that allows you to import your images from instagram? I’m simply unwilling to leave my profile behind at this point. Perhaps that’ll will change as it did with twitter, but twitter didn’t have moments and memories of my soul cat.

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

On the subject of the press naming/quoting Becca Good: Often when news media is unsure of someone's identity, and/or whether they would consent to be named in a dangerous situation, journalists refrain from naming, this seems like it was the case here until today.

By design.

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

So hey, while Frey is doing soundbytes and spouting off, Sheriff Dawanna Witt and Frey's Police Chief Brian O'Hara's people were at HCMC last night protecting ICE agents, refusing to trespass them from the ER waiting room there despite requests from the hospital, and elected officials.

TW: Medical professionals and weight loss. Yesterday I was told I needed to fail 3 classes of medication before my insurance would cover botox for my migraines, even though my doctor thinks that is where we will end up, I've already failed one. 🧵

Weird to be commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Am Rev while living under a government that has a) sent armed troops to occupy cities perceived to be too rebellious, b) rendered largely irrelevant the representative branch of government, and c) claimed imperial right to rule other countries.

This lyric has been playing in my head a LOT over the past few months. "I do not find worthiness a virtue I no longer try to be good It didn't keep me safe Like you told me that it would" Sympathy Magic Florence + the Machine

this is the universal academic experience™

I’ve heard from multiple friends today about daycares being raided and parents being ripped out of cars (in one case with a child left behind in the backseat). Grim times here.

Thank you! I’ve been really hesitant to share things about her because I’ve seen a lot of different versions of her story. Excellent use of public records and this definitely tracks with the picture that seemed to be emerging. I kept seeing offhanded mentions of “wife” and someone else in the car.

the spectrum of queer experience is vast and complex, and none of us know what's going on inside families that are not our own but my feed is full of media outlets describing a woman with a very-much-living-and-in-the-picture wife first and foremost as though she was a man's widow, and I just

This is really amazing and also means we need to quickly reevaluate a lot of "known" findings. Especially problematic because I can't even remember which facts in my head come from mturk studies!

Ameen.

Everything feels really bad right now so I had French toast and bacon for dinner.

A federal agent killed a U.S. citizen in a state that never asked for federal involvement — and now the federal government is blocking that state from investigating the killing. That isn’t federalism. That isn’t public safety. That is occupation.

Clearly in my feels on this one: I'd love to see the outpouring of media and interest for state schools being stripped of academic freedom the way we breathlessly looked at funding coersion against the ivies. Florida, Ohio, and Texas educate exponentially more students.

Oh my gosh you guys! The House just passed my bill to extend the health care tax credits for three more years!

It’s easy to think that schools in Minneapolis are closed because the Feds murdered someone in the street but no, the actual reason is that while that was happening, the Feds were busy doing other heinous shit across the city like tear-gassing a school

It has been yet another rough day to be very online, so here’s a cat for your timeline. Zuko, now available for all of your perfume modeling needs. The way the bottle matches his eyes. I feel like the second one is giving Blue Steel 💀

A poet.

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

According to witnesses, this is the masked ICE agent who shot the driver in Minneapolis. He shot from the side into the vehicle. This is him walking away from the crashed vehicle.

Reminder: ICE has a budget bigger than most militaries around the world. It has increased its spending on weapons by 700% since Trump took office. Trump is building his own personal military to terrorize American cities, trample on civil rights, and intimidate his opponents.

Today, let's celebrate a drawn and illuminated crane that functions as a pointing gesture to a new paragraph (in a fourteenth century manuscript). It looks like he is walking into the text, right? #bookhistory

Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

I want to see this ICE agent prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

A gift for a friend who loves Hydrangeas, for her 40th. #handembroidery

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

This is absolutely spectacular

I'm just two fire signs giving main character energy, and an earth sign begging everyone to stay in and be cozy, in a trench coat.

Things I didn’t expect on my first day back at work, but maybe should have - the number of times I would gravely turn to a colleague and say “yes, you should watch the gay hockey show.”

Give me something pleasant to read in the morning. What is the Jane Austen adaptation film or tv that you would lay down your life for? We are not here to declare supremacy for any one adaptation or to talk about the ones we don’t like. Please and thank you. 1/2

the other tech companies working on AI will — not now, but eventually — regret having chosen not to draw a bright line between what musk is doing and what they're doing, and google, of all companies, really should know this firsthand, given how much tesla's self-driving informs opinions about waymo

oh shit tomorrow is circle back day already

I’m so glad that when I finally truly left twitter over a year ago I didn’t just leave my account or disable it, but used an app to literally delete every tweet I’d ever made going all the way back to at least 2011. I downloaded my data first then tossed a match and walked away.

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

It wasn’t even close to the most important thing we talked about that day, but I keep coming back to it because I’d never put it that way before to myself or anyone else. But once I’d said it I was like “huh, yeah, that feels right.”

In a recent conversation w/ my friend @sprayadhesive.bsky.social I said something along the lines of - “when I was growing up I liked the idea of having kids one day, but looking back I think I liked the idea in the way most men like the idea. Bc I grew up and was like “me? A Mom?! God no!””

Call your reps + please read the thread. Do it now, please. Script.

My villain origin story is going to be people saying "but he's objectively evil" JUST LIKE THEY DID WITH SADDAM HUSSEIN IN 2002 and 2003. WE KNOW BUT THIS IS ILLEGAL AND CORRUPT.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

International rule of law was supposed to matter. For instance, what now stops China from invading Taiwan? Or how about Ukraine special forces kidnapping Putin? Trump’s actions are *mad king* shit.

goodnight, and remember: library late fees suck. they simply discourage library use. you should be glad if your library abolished them, and if it hasn’t, you should tell them it should. 📚

I used to think X had no public utility but it is developing into some sort of monument to billionaire hubris. It's a living museum of paranoiac mania, a Grey Gardens situation.

Mayor Mamdani has nullified every executive order issued by Eric Adams after he struck his corrupt bargain with Trump to secure dismissal of the indictment against him.

Welcome to the Public Domain, THE MALTESE FALCON (1930) 🦅💎 🕵️ Sam Spade is on the Case of the Disappearing Copyright as The Maltese Falcon novel joins the public domain. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree