And remember, neighbors in the southeast US, we get ice here as often as snow.

huge

I tell teens, “Yeah, we had Amazon when I was a kid, but it was called Sears and the website was a big paper catalog they refreshed 4-5 times a year.”

Merry Christmas! I hope yours is filled with love. 🎄

#frostflowers try their hands (What hands?) at tying bows and ribbons #photography #nature #winter

I spent part of my morning in a room where very few people get to go. Today, I had a one-on-one meeting with Congressman Jimmy Panetta. I walked in there intending to ask the hard questions…the questions about survival, about the rule of law,

I can believe our Lord, Savior, and King was born in a barn. I can believe angels brought news and directions to a band of shepherds. I can believe wise men came from out East to bring gifts and worship. What I CAN’T believe is that the mother of a newborn would tolerate a kid banging a drum!

As many of us begin Christmas meal prep, allow me to share the advice that my ER nurse sister puts in the chat every year: A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.

Okay, so at the request of the lovely @trance.bsky.social , I'm going to tell a story about what happens when a shitty person is "just joking", and then discovers there are consequences. AKA That Time Kat Started An Antifascist Hallway Riot In The Third Grade. Grab your beverage of choice.

Every repost of my pinned to signal boost helps! <3 Thank you so, so much to everyone who's shared and donated already! Almost to my goal thanks to you all!

Try Boxer farts. A couple of months ago, Jardiance was messing with my intestines. I tossed my meals up from my own gas, 2 times.

This one?

CBS News has capitulated but Democracy Docket never will. I created it without any corporate backers or private equity investors. It's only accountable to its members who help support its 22-person team. Become one now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

By comparison, Miya (my orange cat) is a saint!

I've now watched the censored 60 Minutes report on CECOT. If you watched it too—and if you have any decency at all—I'm sure you came to the same conclusion I did: winning elections won't be enough; people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem will need to be charged and imprisoned.

The Sugar Plum Fairy dances on Christmas Eve. A happy holiday to all who celebrate it. #photography #frostflower #winter

Santa has just been to Sydney...

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.

The authoritarians didn't want you to see this 60 Minutes story. They even had it removed from YouTube. Everything this administration does is on our dime & in our name. Speak up. #meltICE #CECOT #60Minutes #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory ia801007.us.archive.org/2/items/60-m...

I wonder, has anyone queried an AI about a subject they’re familiar with? I have to use it at work, and asked for an XSLT script to extract HTML headings for a table of contents. It worked, but I easily reduced the code by half. I wonder if that’s general: somewhat valid but non-optimal results.

I’ve made a copy of the 60 Minutes INSIDE CECOT segment. If Substack takes it down, I’ll put it up on my website. I know there are cleaner copies out there, but I kinda like the punk rock bootlegged version. The link is in my pinned post if you haven’t seen it yet.

Sort of poetic, huh?

Thanks to the people who didn’t bother to vote or put Harris through an unrealistic purity test…this is on you.

I'm just gonna post a piece of my art from my files every day til the New Year because WHY NOT. Here's an ancient acrylic I did waaaaaay back in 2007.

from Brian Krassenstein (1 of 4) New Epstein Files Released. Most SHOCKING of what I have found so far: 1) A Victim, I assume since the name is redacted, claimed that a woman named Ghislaine "Lisa" Villeneuve told her that the party that Trump invited them to at Mar-a-Lago was "for prostitutes".

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

Bomb Cyclone Expected For California Christmas https://www.newsbeep.com/us-ca/106288/ The national weather service has issued weather warnings for virtually the entire state of California as a rapidly…

All right people so literally I downloaded one of the government documents to Books on my iPad. I highlighted some text that was not redacted and it included some that was redacted and I copied it over to notes and I pasted it and you can see everything unredacted. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

Lawrence O’Donnell’s MSNOW show has 2 Epstein survivors blasting DOJ for failing to properly redact names, leaving some survivors‘ identities newly revealed. They suspect DOJ’s top priority is to protect other people — not the survivors. “We’re being re-traumatized by our government.”

Charlie is going on 10, although he’s developmentally around 6. And yet, he’s enjoying this book at bedtime. I’d like to think some of it is sinking in.

Watch out. This post is leading to an infected site. Some bad actors are amongst us

In the meantime... And donate to PBS because they're going to need to replace our networks. bsky.app/profile/theb...

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

#privacy It’s almost lost, but there are things you can do to mitigate risks. If you’re a cord-cutter, for tv use an antenna for local channels & Roku or other device to access streaming instead of built-in tv systems. Abandon most social media, share pics via email. Share your solutions in a reply.

Trump's in the Epstein files over 600 times.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

Brightened my mood! 🇲🇽 🔥 🇲🇽 🔥 🇲🇽

Turning Point attendee.

Don’t forget to take your dementia prevention supplement

Oldie but goodie #holiday pic

NEW: The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

It’s like how VS Code tries to lay down the next dozen lines of a script I’m trying to write. Sometimes it gets it right, but I have to check what it’s suggesting before moving forward. I think it raises my anxiety levels. VS Codium (same app with AI and telemetry stripped out) is much calmer.

“Let it Snow” is the consensual version of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.”

I still don't have any takers here - it's a complex use case, so I didn't expect one right away, but if you know anyone who uses or could benefit from switch access hit me up

OH FRIENDS. Please "bololy go" into this Star Trek advent calendar ~experience~.

An iPhone has so many privacy and security features that it’s very easy to miss them. Now’s a good time to dive in and get to know them all. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.