No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

It seems I've developed a fun new allergy to raspberries. And by 'fun', I mean a totally different word that also starts with F-U.

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

I note with concern that my voice, which has been gone for about 8 weeks, has only just started to improve in the last week. 7 weeks of good behaviour, water and veggies. One week of hoovering up sugar and eating crap, and now it gets better. I think my body may have ODD (or just IS odd).

So, hypothetically, if you were to make a solo-cup-in-chain-link-fence message over an overpass, you’d be putting in the letters backwards. And, again hypothetically, you might want a template for that. Hypothetically.

This CAN'T be real. Anyway, there IS paperwork on Greenland - and the US signed it! The 1916 Treaty of the Danish West Indies. The US bought the Danish West Indies for $25 M - and in return, the US GAVE UP ALL CLAIMS TO GREENLAND. It's actually posted on the Dept of State website - for now.

I've seen enough superhero type movies to know evil billionaire villains are gonna evil billionaire villain. What's really shocked me is how many working or middle class Americans have responded by... bootlicking and cheering it all on. I actually can't comprehend any of it.

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Finished work for the year on the 20th of Dec. Still sleeping 9-9.5 hours a night and neither my voice or my higher order thinking capacity are back yet. Tell me again what a bludgy job teaching is... 😫

A PSA: there are Stranger Things than Milwaukee.

That’s the woman who said whatever that guy is saying, 5 minutes ago, but got ignored.

Political activism in 2025 has looked very different to what I expected. Love the bumper sticker, @operationinflation.com. Give me ribbity!!

It is Dec 2nd and I still have the Halloween decorations up. It's been that kind of year.

End of an era, today. My back had gone into complete spasm, caused by extreme coughing fits, so I took my mother's last ever valium tablet (she died last year).

As a kid I always did kind of suspect that eventually I was going to turn into this guy.

...and yet she never apologised for adding SS to her name, for shame, Sussan, for shame!

Dear France. Can we please have a quote (fees and timescale) for "Statue of Ribbitty". Sincerely, Portland.

Ever since the announcement of the No Kings protests, I'd thought something along these lines would be a good placard to run with. I was thinking an image of Lebron in a crown, with the slogan 'America's only king'. This is good too. #NoKings

Awesome piece from @ronnisalt.bsky.social on The Shot. And yep, I need to learn from it, too.

Tried to get my real ID. I had my license, my SS card and my birth certificate. I was not allowed to get my real ID because my birth name is different than my married name. Now I have to go dig up a marriage certificate. You know who wouldn’t have to do this? A man. Never change your last name.

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

⚠️This is the Jimmy Kimmel monologue that got his show pulled. Not hate. Not celebration of death. Just the truth: Republicans rushed to blame the left before any facts about the shooter or motive were known. Keep sharing it. Spread the truth.

If you want an informed explanation of what the messages on the bullet casings used by Tyler Robinson actually mean to the extreme far right internet edge-lord culture that he was embedded in, please watch this excellent video from @roterote.bsky.social. #r4today vm.tiktok.com/ZNdboB7vo/

My local newspaper said the bullets were "inscribed with anti-fascist ideology". What?! In 1941 we called "anti-fascist ideology" my Uncle Ron, fighting Mussolini's troops in Tobruk. Since when was that "ideology"? www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/world/n...

Have to vent. Today I declined an invitation to commit to a weekly evening thing as I'm busy, and the response was "We're *all* busy, Gen". I work full time in a school. I work part time in a uni. I am doing a part time PhD. I am a parent. 'Scuse me, bitch, but I am f**king busy.

A reminder for those who will claim the protest march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge tomorrow in support of the Palestinian people is somehow anti-Semitic, the Jewish Council of Australia supports it. 👇 And here's their full media release: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/08/medi... #MarchForHumanity

#BREAKING 🚨 Four major global news outlets – AFP, AP, BBC and Reuters – have released a joint statement, saying they are “desperately concerned” for journalists in Gaza The UN says the situation is a “horror show” as more people, including many children, starve to death

Do you have Concentration Camp experience? Apply within, as many times as possible. If I haven't made it explicit yet, these are ICE positions on Indeed. We need to make these applications unusable.

Sunday, June 29th at 2pm is Bessborough’s annual commemoration. If you’re in Cork / want to visit, see the poster below for details. All welcome, regardless of a Bessborough connection or not. Speakers are Dr. @cmcgettrick.bsky.social & Prof. @ka-od.bsky.social. #MotherAndBabyHomes

I looked this up, and yes, it is real. I've included an article about it in the comments. Please share for those who may need it. Thank you!

My father was studying in Detroit during the race riots of '67. As an Australian, his stories seemed like they belonged in a different world. Sad to see it all playing out on my nightly news now. Plus ça change. Solidarity to the protesters.

Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows

At work we had a session on being trauma informed, and a competitive quiz. I won the quiz. By a lot. Like, A LOT. Spent the rest of the day being complimented on my knowledge of trauma. It's from actual trauma but thx I guess?

Liam Cunningham turning out to actually be pretty much identical to Ser Davos Seaworth was not on my 2025 bingo card.

Here we go. I don't have much to say about this one to encourage you to read, and the title will turn many of you away - and maybe it should - but I don't know what I would do with myself if I didn't get this one out:

I’m from Louisiana, and this has been spreading again on facebook because of the fire (if anyone is interested in a plantation that doesn’t do the wedding shit)

I was given a tip that if I'm searching for non AI images, limit the search to images generated before 2020

Reminded tonight of those great words from the film Michael Collins: our only weapon is our refusal.

Toasting common sense reigning with a glass of Parliamentary Gin.

Just in case anyone else finds the "they don't teach about the ANZACs in school" folks all up in their mentions today, this is the link you need: v9.australiancurriculum.edu.au/f-10-curricu...

Look at these awful people.

Just opened itunes, to get a popup informing me all of my content (some of which I'd moved from CD, some of which I bought from Apple) has been moved to Apple Music. I'm assuming this means I can no longer listen to my music offline... and who knows what happens when 1/2

Consider that the historical record will now show, no matter what horrors Trump inflicts on the American people, and the rest of the world, he was the President of the United States who levied a trade tariff on an island inhabited only by penguins. The President Who Taxed Penguins.

No. Sleep. 'Til Washington? Love Cory Booker's work.

History made

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