I was attracted to the ghostly trees on the left side of the image. Mount Shasta in the distance

Enjoyed the fog the other morning.

Today in Haku. Laundry rack.

Today in Haku—the mop rack.

Word Cloud almost adequate to the current historical moment. I made this using Adobe Illustrator and need it on a tee shirt.

A lot of simple, straightforward, yet crucial steps and things to know here, whether you're headed to a protest this weekend or not.

The whimsical juxtapositions of a day in early Spring.

Looking out the kitchen window toward the Klamath valley where Iron Gate dam was removed and the salmon returned.

Ahead of Trans Day of Visibility, join Alliance for Justice tomorrow for an important conversation on the state of trans rights and discussion on strategies for advocacy, legal intervention, and grassroots organizing to fight back against regressive policies. RSVP: streamyard.com/watch/TthfSN...

Disconcertingly relevant commentary on Wieland, a 1798 Gothic novel by Charles Brockden Brown.

Having run afoul of Isis, Athena finds her temple menaced by Bastet.

I’m pleased with how my design for the Lumon water tower printed. The top is removable and the pipes hollow so it can be used to water a potted plant.

'Bubble Vendor' (1842) rom the series 'A Set of Goldfish' Utagawa Kuniyoshi

I’m finding this useful for understanding how fascism and trans exclusion are bound together. Serena Bassi, Greta LaFleur; Introduction: TERFs, Gender-Critical Movements, and Postfascist Feminisms. TSQ 1 August 2022; 9 (3): 311–333.

I planted crocus, my favorite flower, near an old well on our property.

This helped me get in my groove while grading. Then I noticed the track is called "It's Raining Vengeance."

Let’s keep the comment flooding going! Join us for our Comment-A-Thon tonight at 7pm EST. Our team will guide you through writing and submitting impactful messages on the anti-trans passport changes. Register here action.transequality.org/a/freedom-fl...

Silent movies did some pretty wild things with trains

Jamie Raskin is encouraging people to file Federal Privacy Act requests on their personal DOGE data. Fillable forms here: jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...

Thank you April Baca for this review of Scientia Sexualis. www.artforum.com/events/scien...

Anselm Kiefer’s works featuring deserted buildings are based on photographs of projects by architects who worked for the Nazi regime. This watercolour contrasts the silhouette of a painter’s palette at the centre, graceful and fragile, with the severity and order of the surrounding architecture.

Spies (1928) Directed by Fritz Lang

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The Dao of Haku.

2020: attacks on “BLM” 2022: attacks on “CRT” 2024: attacks on “woke” 2025: attacks on “DEI” BLACK. THEY MEAN BLACK.

This is the best warning message in history. I will start using it on office supplies I don’t want people to borrow. At least if they are durable, like a stapler or heavy scissors.

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In addition to the clouds, I love how scruffed and scraped the world can look in March.

I mistyped the Resistant Real as the Resistant Teal, and now I can't stop thinking about it.

Holly beneath oaks beyond the South Meadow. I especially liked the curving branches and shadows.

This helps me understand some of the connections between White supremacy and anti-trans hatred. From an article by Kandi Amin. References in comments.

Looking West from the Klamathon Bridge yesterday.

I joined more than 350 LGBTQIA+ historians in signing this letter protesting the government attempt to erase trans people from history by censoring the Stonewall National Monument website. Erasing a word does not erase our existence--now or in the past. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Looking East late in the day

The swirling exposed root structure of a massive eucalyptus stump.

Here’s a free opportunity to learn, connect and celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth with current and former Advocates for Trans Equality board members. Hosted by the Intentional Man Project, the event happens this Sunday, Feb 16th at 11 AM PST. theintentionalmanproject.org/events/power...

Out and about with San last week.

My piece on Trump's executive orders targeting trans people is out now at N+1. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

The only reason passports include sex markers AT ALL was because of a previous moral panic over gender.

In grad school, to help me critique toxic masculinity, I read Klaus Theweleit's work on masculinity and German fascism. His theoretical framework is dated, but I can learn from Theweleit's example of uncovering the anxieties, evasions, and weaknesses that foster such thuggish allegiance.

You can't really write a takedown better than this Like, it's more or less scientifically impossible to verbally murder someone harder than ALC does here archive.is/RHUnJ

Sunrise over Willow Creek Valley

You ever feel like you were constructed for the sole purpose of being sacrificed so other people's lives can have some sort of meaning? Haha me neither

Say what you will about Warren but I have zero doubt she knows the actual function of every wire Musk and the skibidi crew are chewing on

San suited up for our excursion.

I'm finding Ana Teixeira Pinto's work on fascism and technology helpful, but especially "Capitalism with a Transhuman Face: The Afterlife of Capitalism and the Digital Frontier"

I’ve never found Sylvian Tompkins cybernetics-inflected personality theories wholly convincing. But they are *ideally suited to analyzing how the algorithms and feedback loops of social media* amplify affects and ideas. Source in comments.

I cannot wait to see #Enigma, Zackary Drucker’s latest. What a gorgeous review! www.out.com/film/enigma-...