Thanks to @mskellymhayes.bsky.social for giving us another wonderful book to read during this time and for an extra letter that arrived with this. @akpress.org did a great job packaging and delivering this on time. thank you all, I look forward to reading this and sharing this with my comrades.

"The book is called, Read This When Things Fall Apart. I read it when things fell apart. It cradled me when I fell apart ... This book will have wisdom for you. May it hold you the way it held me."

the most popular smartphone maker in history literally had to stop using "AI" because it would constantly just make things up and had zero contextual "understanding" of what it was doing

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

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Mashup: Washington state and California.

And I suddenly realized after scrolling through social media... I sure have been to a lot of TED Talks.

Discworld QOTD, from Interesting Times

TIL a new word: vanillin. (An organic compound that is the primary component responsible for the sweet, creamy flavor and aroma of vanilla.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanillin

The intensity of a Grind album and the density of a Black Metal album, but it's really an Occult Death Metal album - "Dedicated To the Impure" still sounds nasty today. #MetalSky #DeathMetal #Grind #Crypticus crypticus.bandcamp.com/album/dedica... open.spotify.com/album/0tXYxU...

Edison's Frankenstein | @danieltuttle.com #BandcampFriday lifetowardtwilight.bandcamp.com/album/edison...

I never knew you You were a roller skater

#arcade #retrogames #retrogaming MechWarrior Battle pods (Incredible Technologies/ VWE, 1992) Located at Cleveland Gaming Classic Expo, Berea, OH.

Nepali Anarchists on the Toppling of the Government : An Interview with Black Book Distro

Quote post with a picture of street graffiti on your phone. West Oakland 2025

What's the difference between bunnies and rabbits and bunny rabbits?

What's the difference between kitties and cats and kitty cats?

they’re so excited to get eaten :3

Fall of Civilizations Podcast - The Songhai Empire - Africa's Age of Gold www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfUT...

leftist solidarity isn't gonna start til we all start loving the people who are different flavours of weirdo from our own particular brands of weirdo

Bougainvillea.

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Happy Hispanic Heritage Month 🇨🇴🖤

HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH AM I WRITE?! 🇨🇴🖤

Very California.

decarbing marijuana with sous vide

@nori.gay ∘˙○˚.•

I'm just leaving this here. *leaves QUICKLY before anyone complains about putting on weight just looking at this* 》》》 www.tinnedtomatoes.com/2017/12/vega... #vegan #veganfood #vegansky #veganrecipes

I wish I had the words to make people see me as human. To break past the dehumanization. The words that would make everyone understand if they just heard them. I keep imagining there’s some magic arrangement of words I know that could do it - even as I know I can’t. I just got to try and hope.

At a meeting last week with comrades, I remarked that I felt that our collective political & social imagination is stunted and shrunken. They said that they felt the same. Perhaps some of you feel the same. Where are our spaces for collectively imagining what we are FOR & what we want to create?

Stencil-colored lunar ballerinas in AN EXCURSION TO THE MOON

People conflate empathy with tolerance

Everyone, Cassiopeia Penelope. Cassiopeia Penelope, everyone.

genuinely love listening to live jazz recordings from a club and picking up idle chatter from the band, the audience, glass being bussed, lighters being flicked 🥰

Blood | @danieltuttle.com #BandcampFriday lifetowardtwilight.bandcamp.com/album/blood-2

I am currently doing a work session to find our last role to be filled and we really need to get over this hump today, can #filmsky #scriptsky do me a solid and share our link? And if you have some spare cash, throw some our way?

The dream.

Each passionflower bloom has exactly five sepals, five petals, and a corona of filaments, nature’s own tiny mandala. (At Bottoms Up Community Garden in West Oakland.)

The main people who got us here cannot get us out. That's what everyone is seeing in real time.

LLM truthers keep trying different ways of saying "But how do we KNOW that using statistical regression to create a string of tokens that resemble an answer to a prompt is not the same thing as actual thought, though?" And the answer is always: because it isn't.

The Summer I Turned Pretty romanticizes codependency and limerence.