On a good day, I counter a “no worries” with “not worried.”

#Iran. #Minneapolis. The people will always have the power. We always persist beyond institutions, corporations, and administrations. ✊🏻

#LunarNewYear is the Fire Horse?! 🔥🐴 so far this feels more like the year of the FIRE HOSE 😓

#CCA closing end of 2027. No new admitted students (into my one year program) this fall. News is public here: cca.edu/about/vander... I have so many thoughts. But my first one is… C C… C YA LATER

Had a vivid two-part dream, styled in the manner of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, where Lazarus’s gold teeth were unearthed, and to touch them meant you’d be eviscerated. There was some sort of leadership hierarchy I didn’t like and I managed to recruit/save one person for the resistance! 😮‍💨✊🏻

I am 54 years old in the year of our lordt twenty twenty six and I now get very buzzed from one (1!!) cocktail, in this instance a home made mezcal negroni, good night,,,

Avoid the Cloid

I: A: Just connected with you on LinkedIn B: Just Linked you In C: Linked with you on LinkedIn D: loathe the platform E: reply with your preferred way of saying this

HNL ✈️ OAK Mood: relaxed (after three weeks of island time) and exhausted (from weird sleep the past few nights). CARNT wait to be home in my own bed, and to kick this year into high gear! 🤙🏻🙏🏻🤘🏻

Capitalism is the OG pandemic amirite

• Degauss a monitor • Order type and burnish it in a comp • Use proper hyphens, vs en and em dashes • Oh idunno, use bullets in bulleted lists?

Asking three questions in an email, each on separate paragraphs, and getting one answer back like it’s not 2026. 🫠

nbd just weeping at this inauguration, the poetry, the dedication, the diversity, the reality and relatability — my home town, my origin story 🙏💗

First tastes of 2026: Iced americano Smoked pork belly (in a bowl with mashed potatoes, scrambled eggs, cheddar, spinach).

My favorite season is the fall of fascism.

Launch my new business & site. Place 5–10 candidates. Land at least one retainer client. Relaunch my personal website. Retain one day a week dedicated to my own creative practice (music, writing). Gym 2x/week min, hopefully 3+. Celebrate & honor a 20 and a 40 yr friendship with those friends! 🥰❤️‍🔥

Turning Point USA was founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk and Bill Montgomery Two of their major policy pushes were a more prominent gun culture and zero COVID restrictions Bill Montgomery died to the COVID virus Charlie Kirk died to gun violence

Can’t even cover their cover up

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Too stupid to President

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Uhhh… it’s ALL POLITICS BRO

OAK ✈️ HNL Mood: relieved and ready to relax. 😮‍💨 Last month or so has been a whirlwind of moving cleaning organizing and shedding a few things, rehoming others. Hope to do some inter island travel while out there! 🌺🤙🏻

Birthday dinner in an unpacked new home: A Waldorf salad with arugula, grilled lime chicken, apples, cherries, celery, toasted edamame and goat cheese, in a yuzu vinaigrette with ghost pepper. AND a bowl of sweet potato oven fries with old bay and two dips: more of the vinaigrette & sriracha mayo.

I like to treat & go to movies by myself at the Roxie in SF’s Mission 💗 On Oct 7 I saw “Orwell: 2+2=5,” an impeccably timely documentary by Raoul Peck, who was there for Q&A. Wish we had longer together; I learned so much. One brilliant nugget: “Fascists like to make history, not learn from it.”

Thank you to the person who gifted me a cookbook. No thank you to Amazon who did not include a gift card or any explanation whatsoever.

Old guys: don’t sit in a public place and stare at ppl with your mouth open. It’s creepy. 🫣

Nice 2.9 rumble from the new place (2nd floor) a half hour ago. Didn’t feel a thing but I did HEAR IT! #earthquake #bayarea

The cupcake chop. Harder than it looks to split evenly. Also I moved houses yesterday did 16,000 steps and got five hours sleep, so. I will practice more. @conniechiiiwa.bsky.social was kind to let me have my 15% of it. 🙃

Separated at birth? Stripe and Bandcamp #branding

Come on Oakland crickets in DECEMBER! Love y’all. 🦗🤎

Me, too much lately: [invited to do a thing] oh thanks, I appreciate your reaching out and inviting me, but [perfectly valid reason] Them: are you sure? could you change? do X or Y differently? Me, grumpier: no, but thank you Them, still asking for change: Me, about ready to walk into the ocean:

’Tis the season of being so so very grateful for my chosen family… because my blood family is only making my blood boil. 🤬

I cringe the same way when I hear designers say “a feedback” as when they say “a creative”

It’s giving… Tuesday #someonehadtosayit

Packin’ 📦 and snackin’ 🥒

True or false: 7:45 is a terrific time to go to bed

Hirsute? But she knew it was casual Friday 🙄🤣

Healing energy is: picking and eating cherry tomatoes from my backyard garden in November. Green, yellow, and red are all still coming in, and the reds are most voluminous. 🍅❤️‍🔥

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Going to see if anyone’s waiting at the Casual Carpool spot on High & MacArthur tomorrow morning around 6:50am 🤪 #Oakland

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

Buckle up, kids. #Epstein #AndTheyAllFallDown

I realized tonight — because I feel great and dinner* is delicious — that I haven’t been taking great care of myself recently. Have been sleeping neither well nor solidly; sometimes I wake at 4 or 5, scroll & nap til 6. BUT! I had a long gym sesh at 7, and I’m excited about tomorrow’s final crit!

can’t spell “notifications” without “no”

I think Americans are realizing that democracy is a participation sport, and the the government is ours if we want it to be. I feel like we got complacent and hoped some other third party would do the work for us. Seems like we have to learn that lesson every generation.

Theory: authentically asking “why not?” leads to a stronger “why.”

#EastBay #Oakland folx! Tonight I am new to Vientian Cafe www.vientiancafe.com — HOLY WOW such complex and delicious flavors, nicely spiced, family run, lots of diverse families dining in and picking up!!!! My one (1!) note would be to find better lighting? But I had takeout so lol whatev, 15/10 ❤️‍🔥

Wifi in BART when? Cell service in the Tunnel WHEN!

oh cool that sounds