Missing my Daddy this time of year. He was a Christmas 🎄 fanatic. So many Christmas activities now remind me of him. He also loved my mom’s Hannukah 🕎 latkes - he was an equal opportunity holiday lover 😂

Cool, cool, cool Trans people exist. Palestinians are human. The US needs a public healthcare option.

I keep hearing about how some things are “Spiritually <whatever>“ So, I think I am “Spiritually Feline”: Sleeps at strange times, enjoys basking in sun beams and bird watching. Hates being dirty. Usually calm, except when I get the zoomies 🐈🐈🐈

When you don’t own a car by do own a cargo bike and have an engineering degree 😝🤓

MS NOW sounds like they are demanding to get multiple sclerosis. Or maybe a Masters of Science degree? Anyway, terrible name. I move to call it the MEOW network instead.

When I picked up Alfred from barnehage yesterday, they were still playing outside. They are usually inside by the time I get there. But yesterday I got tour of his favourite puddle. Anyway, yes, we do laundry every day 🤣

That feeling when someone asks you about a party that you weren't invited to and didn't know about until they asked.

I keep trying to use AI to make my work go faster and it just consistently slows me down. I spend more time fixing its stupid mistakes than I would have just making the thing myself. It certainly has its uses -I like getting article summaries and learning with it- but technical writing isn't it.

Let's bring back RSS and independent blogs. This system disappeared basically because it was not possible to enshittify them or profit at scale from it. But it was great for readers Substack is basically the modern incarnation of it, but with monetization built in and a sketchy company behind it.

Sickness in a family with multiple small children is bit like singing in the round. At least 1-2 people is "singing" at any given time, but at no one time is *everyone* sneezing together, or not.

At what point do we, as a society, finally admit that not everybody needs to know algebra? Most people can have perfectly happy and productive lives with a mastery of arithmetic, basic statistics and basic geometry. Unless you want to have a STEM career, you do not need to know how to solve for x

My kingdom for an undo button in Polytopia.

Yesterday, Alfred decided to do his hardest puzzle with all of the pieces flipped over so you could only see the cardboard back, not the picture. I think we need to get him some harder puzzles 🤪

Perhaps I suffer from Stockholm syndrome because of being forced to listen to it so much by my children, but... I think the K-Pop Demon Hunters sountrack is legitimately good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDSE...

It seems incredibly likely that Trump had a stroke sometime in the last week. But no MSM outlet is talking about it. What is happening?!

It has never been about Hamas, defense or hostages. As I have been saying (while people accuse me of paranoia), it has always been about a cynical acquisition of land/resources/Real Estate. This is why the US/UK/EU have been so on board. www.ft.com/content/0b1b...

To be clear: When someone claims that the phrase "Death to the IDF" is anti-semitic, they are implying all Jews are members of a military guilty of many documented war crimes. They are saying that Jews are inherently violent war criminals. That claim is antisemitic. The chant itself is not.

I have run out of words and tears but my heart still breaks for these innocent souls. I don’t know what to do, but do we must do something to stop this.

'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Another infant has died of starvation because Israel is preventing formula from getting through. This one wasn't even in the hospital. I don't understand why @eyeonpalestine.bsky.social has stopped posting here. I have to go to the Bad Place to get their updates. Anyway x.com/EyeonPalesti...

As I said a few days ago, the hospital babies have started dying of hunger and dehydration. It is only going to get worse from here. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH EVERYBODY? WHY ARE WE NOT FORCING ISRAEL STOP THIS GENOCIDE?!?!

There is no more baby formula left in Gaza. Prepare yourself for horrific images of dead infants in the next few days. Premature babies. Other babies who rely on breast milk but their mothers cannot produce anymore because they are starving themselves (or couldn’t produce in the first place)

Can we turn that #NoKings energy into an anti-war protest?

Is it a sinus infection or a 2-day migraine? I haven’t had one of those since I was a teenager. I find out by taking sinus medicine to see if it works… The Sinus medicine helped slightly (usually very effective). So… its both. And I can’t do much about it. Yay. 😭

The silence from Gaza is deafening. I can hear their dying screams. Can you?

This morning I woke up to the news about the Israeli strike on Iran. I explained this to my 8 yo. Her response: “Doesn’t that mean Israel is really busy now?” (She knew vaguely about Gaza) Yes, child. Yes it does.

I had a long talk this morning with my 8 year old about free speech, peaceful protests, appropriate use of police force and the place of the military in society. I think a lot went over her head but she asked some insightful questions too, so I think a lot of it got through.

Members of the military who believe their orders are unconstitutional should call the GI Rights hotline at 1-877-447-4487

Share! Then call your reps. Tell them to pressure Netanyahu again.

I went to check on the #freedomflotilla since It was supposed to arrive in the next few hours. I am concerned to see it has turned around recently but can’t find any news about what is happening. Does anyone know?

America's unofficial motto is "Go big or go home." It's a double edged sword. Go big on funding science*? Great. Go big on portion sizes? Not so great. It looks like we are about to "Go big" on our collective insanity in CA. I hope cooler heads will prevail. *historically 😥

To be fair, gay stuff definitely NEVER happened on Navy ships. And it never will, thanks to this re-name.

🤣🤣🤣 He posted this 6 minutes after my original comment.

I wonder if Elon will next start airing some of Trump’s dirty laundry soon 🤔 Either way, I suspect I’m gonna wake up to some interesting headlines…

The speed of writing code has never, and will never be the bottleneck. The bottleneck, the limiting factor, is always in the thinking about the code and how it works, understanding it. People who use chatgpt to write code are literally removing the only part of programming that is actually useful.

The first chapter of KSR’s “Ministry for the Future” should be required reading.

Hunger strikes are hard. Ashamed I gave mine up after a 3 days. I think I would need to do it with others and have the support of my family to make it longer. Meanwhile, I’m trying to think of other ways to make a difference when aid is not getting through.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Approaching the end of my first day of a #hungerstrikeforgaza (which I should probably call #250calstrikeforgaza since I am eating 250 cal/day in solidarity with their average intake right now.) I’m hungry! But today the UN said 100% of the pop’n was now at risk of famine there. So, I continue.

OH MY GOD. Ok, I will not sully Picard by associating him with this 💩 But Picard’s head in hand is exactly how I feel. Is he ACTUALLY this ignorant or just playing one? FFS🤦🏼

Whenever some resourceful journalist does the work, I very strongly suspect we will learn that the GHF is funded mostly by the Kushner family. Jared recommended moving the population and “cleaning” the land so it could be developed in 2023. 😡😡😡

I spent five weeks talking to federal workers about knowledge loss and brain drain across the federal government, and its implications, both right now and for decades to come. Their stories are frightening, but I think it's important to know what we're facing: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I’m starting my solidarity #hungerstrikeforgaza today. I’m still figuring out exactly how I will do it. I saw that some people were doing 250 cal/day since they claimed that was the average amount eaten by most people there. But the number seems to come from thin air and I want to do some digging.

Disturbing. open.substack.com/pub/statedep...

“Why did burning girls matter in Vietnam but not in Gaza?” The 'Napalm Girl' photo shocked the world and helped end the Vietnam War, writes @jehadabusalim.bsky.social for Zeteo, but a child surrounded by flames and other similar images in Gaza can't even provoke a ceasefire. Read/share/subscribe:

Everything that must be said has already been said

Yes 💔😭

I'm sorry, but understanding that your country is carrying out a genocide should change you. Seeing the people being crushed should change you. That's your soul pushing you to do everything you can to stop the horrors. You can listen, or you can try and ignore it. But you change all the same.

I have no words. Nine children. Each life, precious and beautiful. How. How can we allow this to go on? How can anyone see this and still say ANY of this should continue? This photo will be in history books. This moment will forever be a stain. This can never be forgiven nor forgotten.

This will happen more and more if aid is not let in immediately. If, like me, you cannot bear doing nothing but also can't donate and have no political power, please join me. #hungerstrikeforgaza The more people who join, the more effective it will be.