Take a lesson from the Black Panthers who understood how to feed people

Working on my Halloween costume and thinking of @joesparker.bsky.social.

I’m awake with body aches and the hot-colds. Historically, with Moderna, it’s been a lot worse. The H1 helps; let’s see if it reduces the duration as well as the intensity.

I chased my COVID and Flu vaccine with 10 mg of cetirizine and orange Gatorade. I hope that’s enough to be able to sleep through the worst of it.

On Threads, the usual suspects are telling ppl about to lose SNAP benefits to just start a garden. As a gardener, I had to laugh. You need at LEAST an acre of land to feed a family of 4. Start-up costs are enormous. But yes, subsistence farming on the balcony of your rental apartment is the answer

I have to get an endoscopy soon, and I'm oddly looking forward to it because it's a really solid nap.

Do you remember Janelle Monae’s clock monocle outfit? Girl says she’s already time traveled. www.bet.com/article/aoyc... I bet she did in this outfit too!

So, how did everyone’s DR test go today?

hey frequent travelers, is there any particular hotel chain that smells soothing to you? It used to be Westin for me. Now that I’m staying at Hyatt more often, the Hyatt scent has moved to the top spot.

Y’all I have 4 different weather app and a separate flight app which tracks flights with an additional weather radar overlay. I may have a problem.

“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a state of rage, almost all the time…. It isn’t only what is happening to you. (1/2)

"Nonviolent direct action is militant in that it is active, confrontational, strategic, and disruptive against systems of oppression. It's combat. But unlike conventional warfare, this method avoids physical harm to the opponent." -- @theandrehenry.bsky.social

"I am still absolutely convinced that nonviolence is a most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity. It has a way of disarming the opponent." (1/2)

Once again tapping the sign that says don’t post pics of faces from protests even if people are posing for them happily because they don’t realise the risks

This is correct. It’s VCs who spend their time doing drugs and inventing weird religions, executives who have boners about firing workers, and non-technical hucksters who are pushing this stuff. The vast majority of people doing actual technical work on the ground feel the way this piece describes

I wore a Black Lives Matter shirt to a conference today and after talking about gender representation, someone came up to me to thank me for wearing the shirt and bringing my perspective. Just because a movement is out of the news doesn’t mean we should stop advocating for change in our spaces.

I made two poop references and also said shit four times by quoting @drdoylesays.bsky.social in my presentation for an executive audience. Yup, on brand.

That time you roll up to speak at an executive conference in a @danhausen.bsky.social hoodie instead of a suit jacket.

I hate my anxiety, but I do appreciate that when I have something big and looming that I’m all anxious about, my brain likes to randomly queue up motivational music snippets. Today’s ear worm: “We can do it, we can do it. We can help our Cinderelly.”

Every time I cook up some BBQ, I think of Frank Bennett. “The secret’s in the sauce.”

Story starter: what if chronoception hypersensitivity and temporal processing issues weren't actually due to a person being autistic?

Can we have a security conference that has a track on self-care? Not just avoiding burnout, but like what you need to know about skin care, how not all drinking water is the same, lunches that don't break the bank and don't suck, effective chair stretches for non-yoga people, those kinds of things.

If you want to start taking steps to enhance your digital security, it can be hard to know where to start. Here are some simple concepts and tips. ssd.eff.org/en/playlist...

Why yes, I did make a business comparison to the menstrual cycle today. I did say luteal phase in a meeting with my male co-worker. I am not ashamed, and he understood the underlying point I was making with my far-out analogy.

Minor good news: Starbucks is bringing back both the snowman cookie and eggnog lattes this year. about.starbucks.com/stories/2025...

My husband brought a set of shed antlers from his parents’ cottage For the new house. I didn’t know he’d walk through the door with moose antlers. That’s ok. I’m putting up a disco ball in the same room as the antlers.

I am a responsible adult except in Michaels and Home Goods. Today, I bought a full-size disco ball on clearance at Michaels and this 5 foot outdoor-safe statue:

Websites do not like this any more than you do! None of us want to be collecting this information! But you're gonna have to take it up with your states, not with the websites themselves.

I'm a grown-ass person, and I still have a crush on Robin Hood.

HHS better not come for my ginger ale and Vicks.

So, is anyone working on new Schoolhouse Rocks songs for all the political process changes?

One more for my King of the Bums And fellow knee surgery twin! #AEW #WrestleSky

Two of my favorite loves together. Crafting and wrestling. See you at All Out! #AEW #WrestleSky

Blessed be the people who make videos about bypassing the minimum temperature settings for hotel thermostats.

Why does it feel so good to yell “dickheads!” at the tv while watching football? #GoBirds

Is it just me or does the recent commentary feel like the vampires singing “Pick Poor Robin Clean” from Sinners?

I may have decided to be one of Moira Rose's looks for Halloween.

Here are the items I have taken out of the kitten’s mouth over the past week. She was just on my desk and now a yubikey is missing.

A refusal to seriously address racism is why everyone is here. I don't know what to tell you.

Work in progress.

At FanExpo Toronto, the only guest i wanted to meet was John Boyega. I wanted to say thank you for supporting Belly Mujinga’s family and his speech at the Black Lives Matter protest in London in 2020. He is the embodiment of the Resistance to me. This is my Finn.

I’m in a sad mood, so I’m ordering skeletons on Amazon to feel better.

Yeah, sure, let's watch three episodes of Chernobyl straight through tonight. That seems healthy. (especially after I watched it straight through when it first came out while on an international flight, and I swore then that watching it straight through was overwhelming and a Bad Idea.)

"What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all. What can we do then? What else is left but to abandon even the hope of truth, and content ourselves instead... with stories."

Halloween!

Waking up every morning and not knowing if your body is going to function, or how, is definitely one of the hardest and most debilitating aspects of being disabled. Any plans, no matter how much you want/need to do them, can be stopped at any moment, totally out of your control.

Just wanted to remind my Michigan and Ohio friends about theumc.ca. They advertise "USA Patients Welcome. Cross-border prescription services from a Canadian pharmacy and physician, conveniently located 5 minute drive from the tunnel or bridge."

In the ER and listening to a woman complain that she has been here for 3 hours to a doctor. He apologized explained that they were short staffed on a holiday weekend. My inside voice said to my self, “Ma’am, three hours is nothing at a US hospital.” This hospital is moving along just fine.

One day until I put up Halloween decorations!