ICE is currently (11:43 am 11/18) at Alston and Liberty in Durham. Pass the word. #durham #bullcity #iceraid

for printout purposes

ICE will be in Raleigh tomorrow, and city officials have reason to believe Durham also. - The state is not and will never be our friend, any of us. - These are our neighbors and our community. They fail if we don't do our part in preserving them. - People aren't illegal.

Anyone have an open source publishing tool they recommend (on the individual contributor level) that isn't Asciidoctor?

Why has the government been closed at all if Senate Dems cave now? Didn't they say that they could not go along with throwing millions of people off health care? What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.

So it. Republican Senator for Alaska spoke out - meaninglessly ofc but she did - because the pushback on states for funding SNAP applies from their own budgets and applies retroactively to states that paid prior to the Friday ruling. He wants it retroactively illegal.

I threw a bottle of body lotion at a bug, and it was a direct hit. That’ll never happen again.

Grandpa Simpson was really kinda brilliant. Wish I could tell him that. (For the purposes of this post, I'm NOT referring to the show. I ALSO called my grandfather that, because that was his name.)

@frankturner.bsky.social released a cover of "This Year" by @themountaingoats.bsky.social, and it's GOOD. It's played with the same sincerity & uniqueness as he did with "Virtute" live somewhere. I still struggle to listen to the song when the year feels cursed. It feels like I'm taunting God.

"6 7" isn't unique in being weird and nonsensical in a way that drives older people crazy. "Alice's Restaurant" from the Vietnam War era did the same thing to the military and right wingers. People were positive it contained hidden messaging about activism. It didn't.

I slept better postpartum. That’s 1:13 hours of sleep with three interruptions. That’s with Ambien and no caffeine.

It happened. I used "Find My" to locate my watch in the bin, thankfully in paper-based recycling in a bag.

Whenever I see bands with a sizeable and/or cult following (specifically @themountaingoats.bsky.social today & two yesterday) what they think about Spokane. I don't miss any part of Eastern WA except in memories. I love my home now, but my heart aches for those memories. The desert is also pretty.

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Durham Public Schools is requiring all staff to attend a workshop from prominent anti-queer church on their teacher workday (4 Nov.). The church, World Overcomers Christian Church led by Pastor Williams, said as recently as 2024 that Christianity has “bowed to this—

lost my glasses and also the glasses I use to find my current glasses

I really hate to be this person, but I doubt he feels limited by the term limit, nor do I think anyone with any kind of power to stop him will. All of this is absolutely an abuse of power, but none of the legal safety rails matter a single pixel unless someone actually stands up.

Sam Altman is a jackass.

I’ve been dreaming about my grandparents house - always empty, haunted - do the first time in years. I found it on Google Maps. Birdie bunts my face like Grim did. I dream that Grandpa’s left awful, haunted energy, and it follows me. I have to make myself small (conceal my mana—

RIP Chris Shrewsbury, a beloved member of the NC con scene and accessibility & disability advocate, as well as a very loud-spoken supporter of cityofdurhamnc.bsky.social Schools, in particular Durham School of the Arts (formerly Durham Magnet Center). We'll all miss you terribly.

Anyone got a fax machine? Durham County apparently lives in the early 90's still. They don't do email; I asked.

Elizabeth is such a cool human being. I love her, but I like her independently of that, too. She's witty, she sees things I don't, she expects me to follow the rules of the house (and I agree with her), she cares about people, and she's thoughtful. She still gives me a hug and kiss goodnight.

Psyduck. They suffer migraines until the power of their headaches and anxiety causes them to blow up.

Been needing oxygen again lately. I'm so tired without it. I wonder if I caught the Covid spike around. I have an appt tomorrow with my new PCP. He's plenty good and takes me seriously. I haven't regained the weight. He does give the Paxlovid alternative; Paxlovid and buspirone are contraindicated.

I’m going to send this to him. It’s dorky but that’s my right as a sister. Forgive the family guy reference, this voice is eternal in my head.

Having a seizure was like my brain blue screening, the post-seizure fugue aphasia was the start up, and actually coming to was the windows login chime.

Unrelated - sometimes Spotify knocks it right out of the park with regard to suggested music.

Every DoJ attorney promoting and defending at this stuff should never again eat food that is less than 10% spit

Been offline for a lot of the day so just now seeing they permabanned Link? AJ Link? A person who has done more community activism and organizing than I can reasonably name and one of the kindest, most giving, consistently community-building forces on this website? They fyckiung banned *Link*? jmfc

Hind Rajab’s last words on earth were exclaiming her fear of the night and prayers to Allah with the emergency operator. I so hope she’s safe in another plane with her whole family. She was so brave.

Reposted with #AltText! 🫂

this is a fucking terrible joke but I had to

“Now more than ever”

This isn’t funny, but if k don’t laugh I’ll cry. Trump stole this storyline directly from Blizzard/World of Warcraft.

A lot of us are expected to be hit by the arms of both hurricanes this week; believe it or not, NC is one of them.

This is true. I’ve been priced out of Zofran before - regardless of the Dx. Gastroparesis, cancer, and HG in pregnancy, all these have been denied by insurance on Cigna’s Open Access Plus plan (all three were this plan). At RH, that plan for a family cost 800/month.

HEY CORPORATE MEDIA, Say it with me. Your headline is REPUBLICAN CONGRESS FAILS TO FUND GOVERNMENT: SHUTDOWN IMMINENT Let me know if you need any help with this

Consistently low enough oxygen post-Covid led to a stroke at 34. The most common question I get almost four years later are about comorbidities clearly looking to place the blame on me for having one. I was working on a PhD, working full time, jogged daily, a year off caffeine.

No no WAY the lying globally genocial fascist lying fucking scumbag conmen LIED to us AGAIN about how bad for all of us its dogshit art theft human exploitation machine that doesn't even fucking work wow no fuckin way I don't believe it

I think I’m going to declutter big time before winter. There’s a lot of stuff I don’t really need. I’m thinking Restore, the DV shelter. I dropped out of the PhD program officially. Couldn’t do it anyway. It’ll free up time. I also sold concert tickets from everything. It’s unsafe.

fatigue has been so so bad

I want to read this later.

The weirdest thing about almost dying was how calm and just sad it was. Being too tired to fight it and say goodbye feels like a fever dream now. I emailed my church to pray for her because I didn’t think I was waking up. They never spoke to me again, but I meant that. It was like logging out.

@ ea

Legit question - Does the potential bill on banning VPNs include TOR in its scope?

I don't understand this interaction. X: "Why does abc happen?" Y: "I don't agree with why abc happens, but it happens for def reasons." X: "Yeah but those aren't valid, and you're getting upset. You don't need to get upset." Why did they ask then?

As kids we talked about how brave and good we’d have been under the Nazi regime in WW2. Most of the people I knew growing up who said these things turned out to be lying liars who lie. It’s time to be the people we always hoped we’d be. Don’t turn in your neighbors to the fucking stare.

Dear Grandpa— I learned today the work you did was declassified and I can search your papers. Your research. I am working on a doctorate, and I think you’d be proud. I think you’d also understand the weight of the research tuning over horrible things and doing it anyway.