Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

I have found my new favourite song. #BreadAndPuppet #MakeTheRevolutionIrresistable youtube.com/shorts/3ThGN...

I do love my neighbourhood.

The regime's desire for authoritarianism is bottomless, but their capacity is not. Not even close. They rely on bluster and memes to make up the difference. The threat is real, but less powerful than they say. Freedom-loving Americans outnumber them by a lot. Communities can resist. Like this one:

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Just made my contribution - can you chip in to help the residents of Kinlochard take ownership of this viral piece of land?

Our small community is working hard to bring The Field into community ownership.Find out more by visiting our website thefieldkinlochard.co.uk

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I’ve been cheering on the Kinlochard community as they work towards bringing The Field into community ownership. This is a vision rooted in their Community Life Plan and shaped through extensive consultation.

they think they can just erase trans joy and trans freedom. they can't. they can make things a lot harder and more painful. but that joy and that freedom is not theirs to take and it is incumbent on all good people to say so.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

In one final gift to us all, since news of his death broke, Tom Lehrer’s songs have been filling my timeline and making me laugh yet again. Legend. youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs?...

WeTransfer is just quietly changing their TOC to give themselves “perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable license” to user content. So they can do whatever they want with your content and also sell it on. I can’t imagine that their user base will stay.

Octavia Butler was a prophet.

As the kitten recovers from her surgery, I’ve been playing the “Cat Sleep 🐱Relaxing & Calm Music 🌙” playlist from Spotify. We are in hour 20. My house has never been so peaceful.

I know the world is chaotic but could you send some love and good thoughts to Eowyn this morning? Poor wee soul heading into surgery in just a few hours for her broken leg.

A timely reminder this morning: “the future is being made in the present, does not yet exist, and committing to it means a shrugging off of all the false prophets who as cynics, defeatists, and even optimists pretend that the future has already been decided.”

We are utterly dismayed by this news. The loss of ancient woodland to a development anywhere is shameful. To see it destroyed in a National Park beggars belief. This proposal contravenes multiple regulations and sparked vast opposition locally and nationally. 🧵 1/2 👉 buff.ly/OIP5tbf

Absolutely insane that Scottish Government is granting permission for this development. The community has strongly opposed this, as have the National Park (who unanimously refused the planning application), SEPA, the National Trust for Scotland, & the Woodland Trust. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good morning from the Great Glen Way.

This is a great chance to join our team at @communitylandsc.bsky.social!

I cannot get over that picture of the activists celebrating the UK Supreme Court’s abhorrent decision today. Just so much joy over such a horrible cruel verdict. Trans liberation now.

Little Dog and Big Cat.

The absolute joy of discovering that I have a new 2 hour and 45 minute video from @contrapoints.bsky.social in my future.

The next round of Primaries will be interesting. If we make it that long…

Incredibly proud of my former high school on the #IsleofBarra that lifted top prize in the Freestyle category of the schools pipe band championships for this amazing musical arrangement. Delighted that @eilidhstrust.org.uk helped fund them to attend. #musiceducation #youthmusic #outerhebrides

Just restating the simple point: President lacks the constitutional authority to close a department created by Congress. Full stop. Both the creation and on-going funding of these Depts are LAWS not suggestions. This is criminal conduct. www.wsj.com/politics/pol... via @WSJ

It’s weird when the details and debates of your work suddenly get brought to the attention of a new audience. The comments on this are really interesting. Who Gets to Own Scotland? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/r...

So much this. There is no ethical way to participate in what Twitter has become. As a friend said to me recently, I feel like this is one of those times where nuance isn’t needed. Sometimes the right choice is easy: just don’t be part of a platform owned by and overrun with facists.

“We have an obligation to resist kings. We have an obligations to resist oligarchs. We will resist. We will prevail. We outnumber them.” Easy to forget that last point. But we do. We absolutely do.

I lived in Maine while Janet Mills was State AG, and she inspiring then too, refusing multiple times to represent the state when then-Gov LePage’s administration’s policies had … questionable legality. So grateful to her for her continued integrity - and for standing up for trans rights.

Yesterday many thousands of federal employees were terminated. This is a Reddit thread for federal employees that got laid off.

I’m particularly grateful to @legaleagle.bsky.social and @lizdye.bsky.social these days for helping navigate through the absolute chaos. Still feeling powerless — but at least I’m coming to grips with the legal structures that are being tested right now.

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

Reading this book about grief and loss and the seductive pull of nihilism and the miraculous ability of ours to endure until we have the strength to fight again … reading all this during these horrible ugly days of Trump’s presidency was therapeutic and hard and luminous all at once.

I know that the tsunami is the point, that they are trying to overwhelm us with these nightmarish acts - but waking up to this fresh horror hurts so much.

More of this please.

Read, share, act.

Wee Éowyn is tuckered out. Turns out it is very tiring being a once in a generation storm.

What’s the non-Meta-owned alternative to Instagram? www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...