Today is my birthday.

I hate AI so much. So. Much. Please stop trying to make me use AI. I will never use your ChatGPT, your Copilot, your Grok 🤮 I will die on this hill. It is unethical. It is error prone. It is predatory. It is destroying us. I hate it. I hate it all. I will hate it forever.

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

I tried to work, but the clouds were too pretty.

they should make dog poop bags you can open

not just the worst city I've ever been to, the worst city I've ever lived in: Independence, MO

It is Birthday Eve. I would prefer not to be thinking about the threat of nuclear war.

Yesterday I led a book club discussion about defunding the police. Today I edited copy for a mutual aid flier. Tomorrow I'm attending a meeting for admins. Soon I'll be facilitating a group therapy session. I was never good at patrolling, whereas this stuff is resistance work I'm actually good at.

The shame I feel. The disgust. He degrades all of us, on this holy day, as his handlers avert their eyes. Shane, disgust, and fear too, because what’s to stop him using a nuke in a war he is so clearly losing?

Snek

Going through a Bonnie Raitt phase

Nine years ago

At today’s inaugural meeting of the Book Club for the People, we discussed We Keep Us Safe, by Zach Norris, and one of the people needed to offload her daughter’s excess Girl Scout cookies (that the grandma hadn’t sold already paid for!) so look what came home with me

This is gross. Some rando replied to a thirst trap post on my alt account. I love it when people respond with enthusiasm. I love validation. Give me 🥵 all day long. But this? I don’t know you, fucko. Get your goddam tongue back in your mouth.

This is a wicked dog. 3/10

20 pages to go, including acknowledgments. Let's go

Describe your Bluesky account with a single image

Aerial conditioning class. I’m getting better at these piston exercises. Better form, longer endurance.

Me, reading the last 40 pages of "We Keep Us Safe" so I can lead tomorrow's discussion at the inaugural Book Club for the People (composed of anti-ICE resistors) pausing occasionally to type my response in a sexting session on OnlyFans #MultiTasking

Pam Gondi is that anything

water for all

Weekly gratitude practice, Good Friday edition. What's everyone grateful for? My hyperlocal group met over the weekend to discuss what's next, now that the ICE surge has receded. Forty+ adults (plus their kids in the next room! because we value inclusivity!) committed to carrying on the work.

They were on holiday

this is true for me as well.

With my history of bad birthdays, I'm trying to get up to at least a neutral birthday experience this month. A Lyra classmate observed how long my hair was getting; I explained how it's never been this long, how I never had the long-hair experience as a teen; and now I'm planning a braiding party.

🚀

Astronaut Victor Glover, pilot of the #ArtemisII, and his family. They must be so friggin proud.. www.nasa.gov/learning-res...

Et voila.

I’m reposting because life is so hard, and the news has been bleak for so long, and I am so very grateful for everyone & everything like this.

I'm going to be so mad when I'm destitute because no one hires editors anymore because we have AI

in honor of april fools' day: let's just post some punchlines

In honor of (hopefully) today's launch of NASA's Artemis II mission, the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon in more than 50 years, here is a to-scale graphic of exactly how far away the Moon actually is. (Click image to expand.) You could fit about 30 Earths between the Earth and the Moon!

Who’s a pretty bird? Who’s a pretty bird?

Everyone pony the fuck fpr the librarian who just got sacked for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from the kids' section of the library.

Olaf but synced with the drums from In the Air Tonight - Phil Collins

love getting a marketing email advising me to Spring Into. it's a pun because Spring is a season and a verb. spring into savings, don't mind if I do

which editor did a CTRL+F to change it's to It's, capitalized like that, and realized the error far too late so now she has to undo it manually in a 103k word document this editor right here. I'm up shIt's creek

A cool thing I didn't know until I moved here -- there's a vibrant trans community in the Twin Cities especially in the burlesque, dance, and aerial circles I move in

This does not look easy to clean

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

Nelson's Ice Cream on Snelling is open, for all of your absurdly large servings of ice cream needs

Hi all, I'm looking to hire a freelance editor to work on an article this week. Paid gig. Familiarity with extremism and/or the military is a plus. Email me at nick /at/ informant /dot/ news if interested and available.

Have they tried looking under the bed

Feels important to know that the racist American leaders of the early 1900s understood that birthright citizenship was settled law, to the point that they didn't challenge it when the USA took over new territories—instead, they changed the meaning of the USA itself www.scotusblog.com/2026/03/when...

[Beastie Boys] wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous BEASTIE O, what a panic's in thy BREASTIE

My local Mutual Aid / Patrol / Rapid Response team met for a potluck to discuss strategy. For many, it was the first time seeing one other in person. Three, count them one two three, people were like "Oh you're Blue Flame? I love your sense of humor." Inject that straight into my ego

Ok step one is to make them look less delicious

No dates, no prospects, but the first potluck of the 36 and Rice Rapid Response, Patrol, and Mutual Aid hyperlocal is going to get a serving of fashion. Also green beans and chicken parm bake.

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.