The gaslighting is equal to or worse in severity than the incident itself.

I just passed a baby CRACKING UP and pointing at a curly haired dog. It made me smile and I hope you do, too.

A UN human rights lawyer working in #Venezuela was in my mindfulness teacher training cohort. When I interviewed him last year on how to respond to 47, his point was that #resistance matters less than building local community. [...]

Rally today in Pershing Square, DTLA at 2pm…Please come to vent, to express your anger, and to give a voice to this injustice!!! @dsa.la @socialists.nyc @dsaelectoral.bsky.social @demsocialists.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/events/no-wa...

International law won't constrain Trump's thirst for oil. But every solar panel that goes up makes crude reserves that much less valuable billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possi...

My first (hopefully not only!) entry for the 48-Word RPG Jam... Whelm! Very, very pleased with how it came out! maggiefrench.itch.io/whelm Download it for free on itch! (And go check out the other jam entries while you're at it!) #gamejam #microrpg #ttrpg

2 stories we should be giving our attention to: • the auspicious beginnings of the #Mamdani administration • the heart-driven pilgrimage of the #WalkforPeace monks That’s where the Light is. Don’t let the clowns in the White House hijack your attention. Amplify the goodness and organize around it.

I went off IG literally 54 weeks ago, but...trying old things again. Kind of hilarious to see the evolution from 2024 to now. Who should I be following? Where you at? I'm www.instagram.com/lighthivelog...

My theme this month is "gathering," and I'm opening with a website of offerings to do so. I'll work with you to build something that serves your group's needs and budget. - Group agreements - Mutual aid pod formation - Creative Coalition: play and imagination activism lighthive.notion.site

Logan's re-importing of game design concepts back to real life both enlighten and entertain. Check out this beautiful meditation on friendship.

Quite a piece!

AI cannot make art that changes the way I see the world, so I'm just not interested in whatever it can do (other than guzzle water and electricity and give rich people another way to hoard money)

Over the past few months, I’ve been making progress on the how and why of mutual aid pod building. Let me take you on a tour. I began with mutual aid pods and standardized time because the truth is: we are stronger together and all of us are finite. lighthive.substack.com/p/how-to-mis...

“Relational architecture” refers to structures—practices, gatherings, norms—that hold us in relationship when everything is falling apart. This essay explores play and shared meals to build lateral coalitions and generators of collective capacity.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

oh ALSO im on the everyday anarchism podcast to discuss my complex feelings around "agency" and how games can be used to untangle political philosophy www.everydayanarchism.com/174-rules-ga...

Wishing all radical left scum, and all radical lefties that do not identify as scum, an excellent and easeful day. Regular lefty scum probably also included

What if you didn’t set goals next year? What if you didn’t create a vision board? What if you let your heart and mind and creativity and joy and passion and self live unrestricted of the confines the world and society place on them day to day? Give yourself permission to live out of bounds.

Gentle advice: You don’t have to have a solution for everything You don’t even need to plan on how you’ll fix it all tomorrow You just have to get through this moment right now as best as you can

One thing that really stands out about this week's California storms is the highly unusual risk of severe thunderstorms, both overnight Tue Wed and then again late Wed into Thu. Multiple low-topped supercells may generate very strong wind gusts and even a few tornadoes. #CAwx

If anyone struggles with December 24th gatherings (or the lack thereof), I’ve made a simple activity and a place to check-in. Please share! lighthive.substack.com/p/bonus-boxe... #XmasEve #Christmas #DieHard

Last week, I wrote about types of friends and made some fun information cards about - the sage - the witness - the rock - the helper I got feedback there was room for the person who brings cultural connections and joy to the group. What else might belong? lighthive.substack.com/p/what-kind-...

I wrote about a friendship that struggled under the weight of pronouns. On relational accountability, transformative justice, and difficult conversations: lighthive.substack.com/p/friendship...

This week someone tried to recruit me (??) I think, to do communications for their decentralized AI platform. I’m drawn to the idea (/fantasy) of a decentralized web, so I met with them. When I said I didn’t feel comfortable supporting a project dependent upon AI, they were like,🧵

You WILL do what it says. They even did a favor in adding an extra word (bonus!) to make you their puppet. Sigh.

I'm not sure most folks are aware of the immense magnitude of loss this would entail for the global weather and climate community, and beyond. NCAR has played a greater cumulative role in advancing weather prediction and atmospheric modeling than perhaps any other single entity in the world.

Another brief clip from yesterday's rapid response livestream regarding what's at stake with the potential loss of NCAR, and what we can do about it: "What would we lose if the National Center for Atmospheric Research is dismantled? Quite a lot."

LA County buried 2,308 unclaimed Angelenos last week — nearly 500 more than the year before. Since 1896, LA has held an annual ceremony in Boyle Heights to honor those who died without next of kin to claim their remains. bit.ly/4oY1b1z

ICE took their family members. The holidays aren’t the same "The days are coming where family gets together with pozole, enchiladas, but we don’t know what we’re going to do.” lapublicpress.org/2025/12/ice-...

For those of you who are not on the Everything App Where Comedy Is Legal and are curious about LA politics, there’s been some frosty exchanges between Mayor Karen Bass and LA County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath. (There have been whispers for months that Horvath is considering running for Mayor in ‘26)

In the 90 minutes since I posted this, I've gotten two more death notifications. ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.

“Participants act out how to respond to encounters with immigrant agents in various situations, including agents coming to homes, stopping someone in their car or approaching a street vendor.” religionnews.com/2025/12/18/l...

I knew the Reiner family tragedy would lead people to say some fucked up things about people living with addiction, but it's still hard to see that stuff. If you've lived with an addiction or loved someone who does or has, you know cruel generalizations don't help anyone or anything.

I’m not sure if this is going to work but: Does anyone from Lexington, KY have a photo of The Bar from the 1960’s?

Omg this is spot on

Oh My Goodness, PEOPLE! Please understand, a museum only has access to /the things & info it has/!! I cannot possibly tell you the location of a house in 1660, because the earliest map I have is 1795! Please stop asking me to "just check & see if you have any older maps." I don't. And I would know!

Friendship modes based on Buddhist teachings. lighthive.substack.com/p/what-kind-...

This is where we are now techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/m...

“I want to be part of a [mindfulness] movement that supports people in waking up to the connections between us, that helps us to see that personal stress reduction is not separate from fair wages and safe working conditions, that does not hide from questions about power and privilege.” Ditto. 🩵🫶🙏🏼👇

Excellent 👇

There’s a whole lot of alarms to sound about this, but one that really sticks with me is hearing from associates in the business who have produced through Netflix And how they are never allowed to release physical media of their work So Netflix can control every aspect of access. Forever.

Want to be a #LibraryDefender? Join (or start!) a Friends of the Library group. #FriendsOfTheLibrary groups are a great way to strengthen your local library and fight for #InformationAccess for all! Learn how in our new Friends of the Library 101 Zine! www.librariesforthepeople.org/resources#fo...

Next week, I'll cover games featuring new ways of seeing. Namely, @moreblueberries.bsky.social's the time we have handles sight and access in a fascinating way. @pandiongames.com's Route Scouts changes how space is visualized, based on movement and traversal. What other #ttrpgs should I check out?

Writers! Take a class with me this Thursday 12/4 on my favorite MFA taboo writer word: “plot.” We’ll talk about how a good plot is animated by character, and how to create tension in your story by listening to your characters talk to you about all their many problems. ocww.info/event-6282786

“Regardless, a cis woman refusing to share space with a trans woman is no different – and no less wrong – than a white woman refusing to share space with a Black woman” ^^ This Right Here ^^

What are some creative ways to “gift” a bunch of #ttrpg pdfs? So far, I’ve thought of QR codes in a little handbound book, and that’s basically it.

Practices of self-absorption, self-examination, and non-self in this week’s essay about bodies, agency, and who gets to decide what we mean. open.substack.com/pub/lighthiv...

I write about agency under constraint. Co-creating stories. Making meaning. This essay is about how to practice and offer agency, through witnessing, especially those who have already been told who they are. lighthive.substack.com/p/radical-fe...