Uh werid comms. Used Slack to record notes for a pre-event team meeting. Action lead responded like I was being critical and to give them patience. I don't have edit access to the doc. we're using. Slack was just a notes list! I'm just confused by what I said that led to a 2 paragraph reply.

Regarding the Economist on "Ai."

Please, let "Ai" crash and burn. A tech bubble desperately searching for lucrative contracts with businesses and the education sector.

This is not true. This is argument that pro-gun people use to discount red flag and waiting period laws. Ease of access and lethality (let alone cheerful instruction in the best method!) is the #1 predictor of attempts leading actual completion. The more barriers, the more people live.

Worth noting, this is profoundly ignorant of suicide, prevention, and how it kills us. Nobody starts serious. We arrive there through suffering, isolation, desperation, and no health support. This is not a matter of willpower.

we are, as of tomorrow, within the 5 darkest weeks of the year. which means, five weeks and a day from now it will be lighter than it was today. we can do it. we can do it.

I should have photographed the Italian almond crescent cookies my bestie made. A pistachio bundt cake is coming, and then I'm requesting a Limoncello cake and cannolis. Paying for her equipment, supplies, and labor is a gift to get stuff Portland doesn't have.

SCOOP: The United States Tennis Association (USTA) quietly updated its player eligibility policy to ban trans women from competing as women in their leagues, tournaments and competitions in order to comply with Trump's anti-trans sports executive order. The policy went into effect on Monday.

Cool

as always, remember how Nancy Pelosi rallied the entire democratic establishment to help this guy barely win his primary against pro-choice progressive Jessica Cisneros

They've been a fun find on videos, a comedian I found just recently.

Heya friends, to share with community

in fact, i would ENCOURAGE everyone to try to take advantage of the handicapped parking permit application. go ahead! next, try applying for SNAP. go on, it’s fun.

Just blocked two people I was previously following for gloating about ICE raids targeting Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan. Be better people for fucks sake. I cannot fathom what is wrong with you

This makes me wish I had a free link because it must be so absurd.

Shocking footage out of Minneapolis emerges as activists on the ground report ICE is pulling people out of their cars simply because they look Somali:

The Dalles is solid MAGA country by nearly 6pts in 2024. This is not a popular administration, and their policies are being actively rejected.

Another today's read

I'm not sure there opening hook is a good setup, but this was recommended for a today's read.

Dedham Priest pissing off all the right people by removing Jesus from the church's nativity scene and putting up an ICE WAS HERE sign in His place. www.boston25news.com/news/local/i...

I've got a piece up today at @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Welcome to Hell World. Check it out: www.welcometohellworld.com/a-coordinate...

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I got excited by Walz. It was really simple. He was a coach that enabled a LGBTQIA+ and allies club in a public school. And when was the last time I could name a vocal advocate on the national stage? It certainly wasn't "I will follow the law."

I deleted 3 replies to the Gaza Harris posts. They weren't hostile replies, but why am I litigating this again? We are so far beyond the past election.

"Nobody asked Dem voters to overlook Gaza." Today's random quote is a surreal memory of the entire election cycle.

Damn, had to get a new fridge. Repair couldn't fix it, and they didn't charge me for anything. I measured my too narrow of a door, and I'm not sure it will fit. At least I can refuse delivery with no penalty fee if it can't fit.

I shifted my bestie from "why would they...I don't understand" to what pleasure do they get from cruelty and punishment?

Almost two years ago Nex Benedict, a non-binary high school student in Oklahoma, was found dead a day after a physical assault in a school bathroom Oklahoma has a bathroom ban & ban on use of proper pronouns for trans students Please think of Nex next time you post about an essay score 🖤

I love how his dress is a constant notable. Mangione was allowed to wear normal clothing to the hearings instead of a jail uniform. He entered the courtroom in a gray suit and a button-down shirt with a checkered or tattersall pattern. Court officers removed his handcuffs to allow him to take notes

we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying

Don't make choices that lead you to this moment.

Didn't want to intrude. IDK about the uptick because on FB it is a constant stream of right wingers celebrating cruelty and punishment. My friend and I are now past "the cruelty is the point" axiom to what are they getting out of that? What kind of pleasure is it for them?

just called ai "the mediocrity machine" in a meeting and the tech bro is shaking a finger at me and twitching so hard he can't even plug what's happening into the machine so it can tell him how to respond

I love this.

Chavez is a deadly street that functions well for no one. It's stressful to drive on, the 75 is slow, virtually unbikeable, and walking along or across it is a harrowing experience. We can and should do better. @pbotinfo.bsky.social @mayorkwilson.bsky.social @councilormorillo.bsky.social

Totally seperate, I'm curious what community does with bipolar mood phenomena and managing your soc media attention? It's a monitoring task for me, always checking for red flags. I get fighty or obsessive some days to excess, and I have to check myself hard that I just took it too far.

Ok, thank gods my deceased dad didn't have this tech when alive. He would tell me, I almost called the police because you didn't pickup (in 24hrs) on some random day. He so felt entitled to that he should know where I was.

I'm feeling struck that Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo have passed into generational forgetting and diseducation. But perhaps I am overestimating it's impact from then beyond my personal one.

Thought I read Zohran will be changing city code so cats are allowed in bodegas.

Good gods his cinematographer team is so good.

This has had me laughing for a good hour.

ICE was blocked and impeded by people all the way to the Lincoln Tunnel

I think we have meds dialed in after some adjustments. The hypomania episodes have been far less frequent and excessive in the agitated energy.

The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

NYC: ICE is staging at Centre and Howard St. Get down there if you can.

ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join. NYPD arriving with barricades.

Imani Barabarin has been talking for years about how many disabled folks vote for Republicans because Republicans show up at their events and speak openly about their issues, whereas Democrats rarely do. This is not some new Republican strategy, this is an old strategy. This is maintenance.

getting the onion newspaper is worth it alone for the ads

Carvel ice cream cakes have no cake. Is it still cake?

Sweet potato pie didn't work. Not enough brown suger and still too much evaporated milk.