Dropping something beautiful and magical for the top of my timeline until I can check in again. 🦉

Hi beautiful people. I haven't posted in 25 days. Been on a social media diet. Realized social media was an energy leak, and the little ship that is my body has been sinking. Slowly repairing the leaks. It's a slower process than I realized.

Today has made me feel like I need to vomit until I pass out. I don’t have four years of this in me. I don’t know if I even have another month in me.

Just over four months of Trump. America in upheaval. The global economy overturned. The Middle East burning down.

New thread #3 A US defense official tells the WP this attack, which Israel says will continue over multiple days, will provoke a significant Iranian response that the Israelis will then ask the United States to help counter.

🚩 RED FLAG WARNING 🚩 Low humidity and breezy southwest winds will bring elevated fire weather conditions to portions of North East California this evening. Stronger winds Friday may lead to 3–8 hours of #CriticalFireWeather. Fire ignition and rapid spread are likely.

Are we really fucking doing this. Had nothing happened to Senator Padilla at all, what she was describing is a federal takeover of a major city by military force with no specified end-date, with no legal authority. Do not let the fascists talk their way out of that.

Krispi Gnome wants to “liberate” Los Angeles of our democratically-elected leaders. What’s the word for this?

Here's another angle from Fox News reporter Bill Melugin of Sen. Alex Padilla getting roughed up by law enforcement after he tries to question Kristi Noem at her presser: “I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary. Because the fact of the matter is, a half dozen... Hands off!”

From Sen. @padilla.senate.gov's office: Padilla “is currently in Los Angeles exercising his duty to perform Congressional oversight of the federal government’s operations … He tried to ask the Secretary a question, and was forcibly removed by federal agents, forced to the ground and handcuffed.”

The delusion-dissolution pipeline is so exhausting. Can we meet in material reality at some point soon and decide as a nation of millions to hold some power-obsessed goons to account?

Pulitzer prize for this Jay L. Clenendin image of LAPD stormtroopers in front of Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)"

LA airspace has been busy AF today, and while I expected to see lots of cop copters, I was surprised to see Fire helicopters out again. Turns out there’s a non-protest related reason: Bethany Fire, just NE of Burbank.

I don't know who needs to see this, but I'm not going back and forth with strangers online about what the protestors are doing. If you take issue with how they're protesting, I'm gonna tell you to head to the front line and take it up with them, personally. Thanks, Decidedly Not Management

Correct. When the only so-called “provocation” is you existing somewhere, and you’re suddenly being attacked by heavily armed men, if your response isn’t to let yourself be pummeled, then your response is self-defense.

Lil earthquake here in West LA. 12:18pm, 3.4 magnitude centered off Manhattan Beach.

Can a producer for @lauracoates.com @cnn.com @cnn-news.bsky.social get in touch with me ASAP? Your guests are factually wrong on the law in California and this is dangerous. Press exempt from arrest per CA Penal Code 409.7. I negotiated language of the law. You need to correct this ASAP.

So this is a civil war now, apparently?

“Best prepared, most lethal military”

This delivery, man. Almost makes me feel like I’m from here. 😂 Everyone in LA knows this guy. (Not this actual guy—just This Guy.)

IDK, IMO this slaps harder than ever.

Israeli prison officers threatening to mark Israeli Jews who dissent with the Star of David. Genuinely couldn't make this up. How can they not see who they look like?

Thailand urging holiday travellers to wear masks in the wake of the latest Covid variant Nimbus (nicknamed razor blade throat). We’re starting to see more & more media outlets discuss masking… which is highly unusual given they’ve been driving the “it’s over” narrative for years. Respirators work!

"The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters." Oh Antonio, if only you could see us now. It’s monsters all the way down.

These Grits & Eggs guys are funny and pretty smart. I don’t know them, but their hearts seem really open. I know their podcast isn’t exactly FOR me, but let me learn something here.

Good god. The last verified number I’d heard a couple days ago was around 170,000. Hard to understand how there’s still any internal support for Russia’s invasion.

Right now is quite possibly the best New Moon of 2025. It’s unencumbered and fertile for aligning your emotions, your sense of self, and your mind, and then planting seeds of POSSIBILITY in rich & nourishing soil.

Cynicism is a survival mechanism we learned to keep us safe from disappointment, but living from survival mechanisms is as Hobbesian as it gets. If you want a nasty, brutish, and short life, then cynicism is fine. If you want something else, try moving different. Retraining the brain is fun.

It’s amazing how scrolling social media has a near-immediate negative impact on my mood. We are captured by cynicism, and I find it nihilistic. If you believe nothing else is possible, then you are working to make it so. This is a claim I can back up with neuroscience. Try something different.

Entertainment is a tried and true engagement strategy. But I’m still curious about David Bornstein’s proposition (see above) to engage from, well, curiosity. bsky.app/profile/mnol...

Interesting convo happening around Bsky & general social media use. Is engagement across all social platforms dropping? If so, doesn’t it stand to reason that ppl can only take fear-farming for so long before complete nervous system collapse & platform abandonment?

Yes, we are living inside an era-ending rupture, and still, there must be a better way to inform ppl and talk about our present & futures than thru constant fear? This guy suggests our innate *curiosity* might the human tendency to lean into, given a choice, rather than fear. Worth a damned shot.

The limbic hijacking of our metrics-fueled media environment is definitely the source of much of my exhaustion. Listening to this convo opened up some space of possibility for me; a badly-needed (partial) counter-balance. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Why have I literally never fkn heard this?! Weight impacts effectiveness of emergency contraception?!?! Seems kinda important to know 🤦‍♀️

This is true but also *Twitter* is dramatically less popular than it was 2-3 months ago. The engagement over there is complete trash. I’ve seen people say this entire social media format is dying, but rest assured I will never stop

Desperately trying to improve my mood. I think the only choice I have now is to go back to the neighbor’s house where this bounty is blooming.

You're using math, which has a well known liberal bias.

Thank you, @willdalrymple.bsky.social. Even if it's not possible for this Labour government to feel shame, it's still good to see you articulating the collective revulsion of regular people up and down this country.

My favorite kind of history chelates the lead-filled blood of men who write the poisoned hegemonies. www.waterstones.com/book/unfortu...

JFC, it’s literally the Vinayy skit.

US government bonds drop as worries over Donald Trump’s tax bill flare up www.ft.com/content/c2dd...

Just feeling this more and more every day, as we see more and more evidence of Trump’s corruption and incompetence. bsky.app/profile/laka...

It’s amazing how scrolling social media has a near-immediate negative impact on my mood. We are captured by cynicism, and I find it nihilistic. If you believe nothing else is possible, then you are working to make it so. This is a claim I can back up with neuroscience. Try something different.

I gotta make some changes, man. (I’ve visited this meme a lot, but today it’s making me feel extra naked 😭.)

Generally brilliant all round, but if you want to understand more about the background behind the current India/Pakistan troubles, then William Dalrymple and Anita Anand map out the colonial and post-colonial picture superbly. open.spotify.com/episode/51M9...

The ICC’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen. American staffers at the court have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest. NGOs have stopped working with the ICC, the leader of one won’t even reply to ICC emails.

How I check my negativity bias and rebalance my nervous system, Spring/Summer edition: a facefull of summer jasmine. I just inhale it until well-being courses through my circulatory system. Plant medicine.

Roses are red, Treats are not tricks, COVID's in semen,

This is exactly what the tariffs are—wealth redistribution from bottom to top. Also worth noting that “revolution” can be a radical consolidation of power at the top as much as it could theoretically be radically democratic.

I reflect often—probably too often—on the well-recorded phenomenon of the ancient Greek cognitive bias that had people believing that physical beauty was proof of a person's inner beauty—bc (1/2)