I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time

Perhaps the most annoying facet of strength is that the only way to acquire it is through consistency, writes Senior Editor @marginalmarisa.bsky.social We just have to continue to do difficult things until they’re easier. And they do get easier. antigravitymagazine.com/column/lette...

If you haven’t been able to get to a Union Migrante training yet, get thee to the @neworleansbookfair.bsky.social right at 11 for their workshop on solidarity in the face of ICE

Had a horrible run recently of people talking, in some cases nearly screaming, during almost every single movie I’ve seen in theaters recently. I dunno if people have just completely forgotten how to act or what but it’s made me apprehensive about going! Which sucks! Because I love movie theaters!

New Orleans folks: Do you hate Facebook but like the Marketplace feature? Want to help beta test something different, better, with actual local humans at the helm? Sign up! nolapickup.com

the chokehold that the coffee Blue Bell ice cream has on me…

I want people to displace the imaginary depictions of *revolutions* that they have come to create in their heads with the actual small revolutionary acts that happen daily. We might get closer to revolution that way.

Had a wretched birthday weekend but this email from Quest might be what tips it all over the edge

‘dear rax, the VP at my day job is an AI true believer and it fills me with despair — is hope lost?’ www.patreon.com/posts/143594...

Calvin Duncan wins Orleans clerk of court race Duncan, a political newcomer and former prisoner, defeated incumbent Darren Lombard by a wide margin in Saturday's runoff.

here’s the thing I’ll never download an app to attend a party

🚨NEW STORY 🚨 Last month, over 400 activists were imprisoned by Israel for trying to bring aid into Gaza. 1 of them was Zue, an army vet. Here, me and Zue discuss her voyage to Gaza, imprisonment, NOLA's role in the ongoing genocide in Gaza, & more. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/zue-...

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

The annoying thing about not drinking is that when something feels bad it’s way more confusing to figure out

I love handing out candy :-)

For anyone who needs a good meal tomorrow, the food at Crescent City Cafe is delicious & free to all. Service is restaurant style & the volunteers are respectful & kind. 8-9:30am at the side entrance of Rayne Memorial UMC on Gen. Taylor, around the corner from 3900 St. Charles #NOLAsky #NOLAtwitter

No recipe has ever told the truth about how long it takes to make a roux

State begins process of potential takeover of New Orleans finances A little-known state committee will meet Wednesday to determine whether the financially troubled city meets legal criteria for a takeover.

In New Orleans, I always encourage folks to support the smallest, most direct service orgs, and that goes for food programs, too. Community Kitchen, Trans Income Project, and NOLA Cans 4 Food are all feeding people without a lot of nonprofit nonsense. Find them on instagram, give money and/or time!

Have you noticed plane turbulence is getting worse? It’s not your imagination. It’s climate change.

Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

my sharing a wall neighbor vacuums EXCLUSIVELY at 11pm

Working at a film/print/framing shop has been awesome for my DIY tendencies

I have to shout out Katie who's been crushing it especially this year with heavy duty feature Q&As, and I would also like to use this post to say if you are a photographer who can write, or a writer who can take decent photos, you will be practically unstoppable as a journalist/storyteller.

If the political, environmental, and social ramifications aren't registering, just remember using AI looks tacky and lazy as fuck too.

Stop using AI it’s stupid and evil and politically advantageous for the worst people on earth

I must take a moment to make a plea to the general public to please, for the love of fucking God, stop using AI, writes Senior Editor Marisa Clogher. antigravitymagazine.com/column/lette...

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NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

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TONIGHT! I’m tabling at the first and then popping over to the second one! You can go to one, both, or neither, but you deserve the RIGHT to CHOOSE 😤

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Dozens of delegates from multiple nations walk out of UN hall as Israeli prime minister prepares to speak.

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

i think the reason i find relatively well-heeled american people’s doomerism hard to bear is that it’s no less self important than evangelicals’ assertions that these just happen to be the end of days. and compared to people in e.g. the global south most of us ARE relatively well-heeled

repair your sanity and piss off the fascists with this one weird trick

People are longing for art that’s true, and tangible, and alive in a digital age, and Prytania Theatre is the only remaining New Orleans movie house with the equipment to screen movies on film, writes Senior Editor Marisa Clogher (@marginalmarisa.bsky.social)

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Jason's hearing is on Tuesday, and he's asking folks to write nofdpio at NOLA dot gov with the subject line "Do Not Fire Jason Affolder." He's been a firefighter in New Orleans for 20 years and now faces termination for a joke on Instagram.

I feel what I most often need when writing is for someone to sit on top of me so I focus and sit still. unfortunately, I almost never receive this

9/11 is a great time to remember that the imperial power will seize on any opportunity to do what it was going to do anyway, especially if it gets to do it under the gaudy pagentry of being the Aggrieved

Been catching so many romantic glances at the moon this week, she’s especially gorgeous

Despite things being wildly unstable right now, I feel that we’re on the front end of learning how to figure out the new world. So I can’t abide by "Why bother?", writes Senior Editor Marisa Clogher (@marginalmarisa.bsky.social). antigravitymagazine.com/column/lette...

In the same way you can draw a straight line from the confederacy to the third reich,you can draw a line from someone organizing for free healthcare in Maine to some future freedom that will be won in Mississippi. Not to be cliche buts it’s always been just one war

“the south” doesn’t really have to be abandoned or defended. That’s mostly just cope or posturing. It needs to be liberated from the boot of capital. And anyone fighting to de-commodify survival anywhere is helping to do that. They are my brother and sister

And many of the same liberals disgusted with the horrors down here benefit financially from the environmental racism, prison labor, gentrification, etc that white supremacy provides. We aren’t separate regions as much as different organs of a body.

I do understand the frustration with how cruel and paranoid white southerners are as a whole. But the south also functions as an extraction colony for the capitalist class of the north.