The only thing that ever stopped the bullies when I was a kid was doing strength training and dragging the worst of them through a bus window I smashed out with my fist. You have to hit them as hard as you dare. You can't ignore them. Then, they never touch you again. Just sayin'.

one day I'll finish the script and film my long video essay on white media people harping on "cancel culture" as a form of anti-Blackness because it really did boil down to "Black people scary"

I just sent copies of my Mvskoke Nation citizenship card and my certificate of degree of Indian blood to 5 trusted people. Natives I suggest you do the same.

Storm battering the lochside again, but we are on the lee-side of it. I am very, very thankful for my hyperspecific studying of weather patterns for four months before we ever moved to Scotland, because the last thing I wanted to do was put us directly in the path of Beast of the East annual storms.

Holy shit, Anthem Executive Producer Mark Darrah just posted a nearly FOUR HOUR postmortem of Anthem www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxwr...

In Minneapolis

The British Medical Journal (BMJ) covers our letter calling for respirator use in healthcare to protect patients and staff (reporting by Elisabeth Mahase). I’ve shared The Guardian coverage in a separate post. www.bmj.com/content/392/...

please support pow wow grounds! they were getting hassled by ICE the other week as well (as our Indigenous relatives have been targeted heavily by ICE as well) & AIM patrols have utilized this space as a hub during community safety patrols.

behold this artistry: a thread

This would require Keir Starmer to not be the biggest wimp in Wimpdom and we already know that he has a shit track record for having a backbone, especially towards Trump. He and the UK government should take Doctrow’s advice and I hope they do, but I’m not holding my breath.

And some cunt in my feed was trying to tell me what a strong, independent country the UK is a few days ago. Child, please...the UK doesn't make anything, doesn't own anything, and doesn't sell anything anyone wants.

This is not incorrect. It was so sparse here, you'd run out of content. I also came in via invite code. And if there was something we should have absolutely kept, it was invite codes.

Was thinking on what literature shaped us as children, and I mentioned several, but one I very much slept on (and I shouldn't have) was Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. The movie scared the hell out of me as a kid. It's not a fantasy story - it's a study of morality and control.

Thanks to all the folks who got me to the lady’s goal this week. It freed me up to help Marty. Please send him a donation and I’ll get it sent right along to him. He needs the help. I’ll keep updating till it’s reached. Watch Michelle Robinson’s short video explaining the situation in the meantime.

Me and Slartibartfast, forever working on the Fiddly Bits.

I’m not even talking about wearing one all the time, or talking to people who aren’t in spaces that discuss these things! I’m talking about a few hours out of your day, to people who I *know* have heard all the reasons and still just flat-out won’t do it.

not to be disabled and grumpy on main this morning but I would have a lot more hope for collective action in this country if leftists who have been repeatedly begged to do so would show me they’re willing to wear masks for a couple of hours in public spaces like protests and doctor’s offices

We've got a sunrise double rainbow, folks

I might be wrong, but I haven't seen anyone in St Paul talking about ICE hitting them over and over again. For those who don't know, St Paul is, predominantly, white and middle class, or was back when I lived there in the 80s. Minneapolis is where a lot of Black and Global Majority live.

Hi, Mohammed's friend here. He asked me to upload this video for him to show you the situation in his camp right now. Please share and donate if you can; they need all the help they can get. chuffed.org/project/help...

A little good news today. For the first time since December 2000, the entire state of California is no longer either entering or recovering from a drought! That's 25 years of drought conditions. www.drought.gov/states/calif...

Ok, if we all finally admit that Twitter sucks, we can also talk about Substack again, aye?

/run DOS

Oh, this look amazing! store.steampowered.com/app/4285930/... Not only it's a RPG set in modern-day India, exploring their folklore & myths, it's also made by a team of Indians who have a channel of animated videos on Asian history: www.youtube.com/channel/UCpZ...

Vancouverites - sharing this widely! It's about time. If other dentists want more business, it's time to adapt to meet the reality we're living in 🦷

ICE killed a Black man, Keith Porter, 7 days before Renee Good, and I hadn't heard about it until today. His vigils went unnoticed. His life came and gone and America forgot to blink. Two Americas.

Thank you, past me, for making bulk gumbo. Breakfast gumbo is best gumbo <3

update: the professor was like “fuck around and find out”

Minnesota friends, The State of Minnesota does not need to be invited to participate in the DHS "investigation" of its murder of Renee Good. The sovereign State of Minnesota can and must conduct its own investigation, present its findings to its own grand jury, and bring its own criminal charges.

I think I've heard more Minnesotans dropping the F-bomb in the past 24 hours than I heard in the 18 years I lived there.

I am pouring Florida Water into my spraymop if you wanna know how I'm gonna be moving in the future. Still want to put some haint-blue on my doorstep this year, see if I don't.

Out of respect for my brother's wishes, I am only re-skeeting this month (next month, no promises, I'm feeling better, believe me!). But please help, I am in awe of how much plants love him, and will grow for him when he asks.

These systems that allow ICE to kill and terrorize communities come from settler colonial law. The same law that stole Indigenous land, and justified other violence, like stealing Indigenous children and putting them into Indian boarding/residential "schools" under the Doctrine of Discovery.

"They have declared olive trees independent from their inconvenient roots. So many olive trees, inconvenient olive trees with inconvenient roots in an inconvenient land that was cared for by our inconvenient, non-existent grandparents. Why do they hurt olive trees?" Painfully beautiful 🖋️

On this day, my offspring sent this video to me (don't even know what movie this is) and said "This is the most 'you' thing I've ever seen in my life." And...yeah. Give her some melanin and a "Oh I KNOW you did not..." and that's me down to the bootcuts. 😅 I don't play! youtu.be/tSy7rmtHuRA?...

Almost certainly the best photograph I have ever taken from an Iron Age hillfort of the sun setting over an estuary as summer segues majestically into autumn.

This is really, really great. wantmymtv.vercel.app

The US may be about to launch an operation from its bases on UK soil against an oil tanker. I ask what and when the UK government will be informed about the operation. Will we have any say on its nature? No answer #Sovereignty?

Look, all I'm gonna say: Black people marched knowing they'd probably get killed for decades. Indigenous people stood in front of tanks and armed men with nothing but drums and songs when the pipeline came knocking. Being afraid is natural. Nobody wants to die - but what do you want to live for?

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Look, all I'm gonna say: Black people marched knowing they'd probably get killed for decades. Indigenous people stood in front of tanks and armed men with nothing but drums and songs when the pipeline came knocking. Being afraid is natural. Nobody wants to die - but what do you want to live for?

If you're on the Death Star, nobody cares that you only did it for the college money

Ok, I don't wanna be here all day tbh. Got some stuff to do! Love, love, love, kinfolk.

We literally have a snowman sitting on our balls how's your day going?

The Complete Collection of English Literature, starting with Chaucer's Tales - my mum's English Lit book from University of MN. I read it cover to cover; which is how I totally understood Tiffany Aching reading the dictionary.

stabbed a knife through my left hand cutting meat out of a coconut. I discovered I apparently heal like my father...the doctor was baffled there was no blood. Hit tendons in first two fingers, and played guitar instead of did physio, so those fingers are perma-borked.

This is a horrible realisation. That there are no adults hovering, about to intervene. No referee to step-in. But the fight against this fascist can only truly start once the period of mourning for the past is over and your importance as the *only* people who can stop him truly sinks in.