"What we care about is everything to us. We (...) all get drawn away from it by responsibilities & doom-scrolling & junk food, & argument. But we return to it, don't we? And this is, I think, the hopeful thing(...) Part of what will save us (if we're going to save us) is simply caring."-Peter Mulvey

This. I never need to wait for the bad takes ('surely our noble military will resist!') to appear; the East is on it immediately so I can snort at all of it equally and then get back to doing what I can in my own realm.

A reminder, while you're all hoping the military will somehow turn into the noble elite virtuous cadre of heroes that it's marketing says it is, but it has never actually been: www.npr.org/2021/01/21/9...

Has anyone figured out what movie shows Portlanders rioting? A quick reminder: www.esquire.com/news-politic...

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

Eugenics is more than a failed social movement driving debunked and outdated race science. Eugenics was and remains a collection of beliefs that persist throughout our societies, undergird our scientific inquiry, and shape our public policy as well as our interpersonal relationships.

Little Free Anti-ICE Libraries: yesterday multiple people were abducted by ICE in my Chicago neighborhood (Avondale). This morning I added 40 ICE alert whistles to three different LFLs, including one box that is about a block from one of the kidnappings. I have ordered 700 whistles.

Blues Cat #cats #kittens #caturday

The idiom "like a moth to the flame" dates to at least the 12th century, to Persian love poem "Layla and Majnun". Shakespeare references it in "Merchant of Venice." But here's the thing. Moths DON'T fly to flames. And we're just now understanding that. Let's talk about dorsal light response.

Napa is getting a new trail with ‘big views’ for hikers and bicyclists—Rather than spend an estimated $10 million to repair the road, the Napa County Board of Supervisors voted… www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art... Gregory Thomas @sfchronicle.com

Sinclair restoring Kimmel to its networks, and this whole situation in general, needs to be a lesson that we imprint in our minds and add to our arsenal of fighting back against fascism. If we are forced to live under capitalism then we can wield capitalism as a weapon and win.

I dunno who made this but I applaud whoever did. Perfection.

Make no mistake: public pressure works. But remember, Trump will still try to abuse his power to pressure CEOs and silence his critics. And the dominance of these media giants is still a major problem. So to everyone who made a difference today, stay in the fight.

We need to be careful of the phrasing and framing here. The far-right Sinclair corp won't stand up to Trump; they *want* this.

this blew my tiny mind

"Pope Leo XIV said a proposal to create an AI-version of him so people could have a virtual audience with the pope pretty much horrified him."

approximately three hundred of you have sent me this and you know what? Sure. I’ve got time today. Put 40 bulbs of garlic in my pasta, coming right up

Oo! When my son was an infant, I was part of a scientific study at Monell Chemical Senses Center that researched whether babies drank more or less breast milk depending on flavor. They expected garlic would limit their interest but they discovered it was the opposite! Babes love garlic breast milk!

Ok, but what did he have to say about acceptable losses of people who get shot thanks to our current interpretation of the 2A?

He's insisting that they create a uniform for him because he's tired of folks critiquing his suits?

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Is your local CoC a wee bit cult-like, or is it just the one here that keeps sending "ambassadors" to proselytize about how amazingly helpful they are, I should attend a zoom, host a mixer? We have paid our dues and I point at the sign, but new folks keep showing up and repeating the same script...

This fall, @megstampede.bsky.social & I are collaborating to create a 2026 calendar! Each month features a different animal, facts about them, & actions we can take to help them! Sales will fund our '26 Native 🌱 Project Order before 10/1 to get a free plant sticker! www.etsy.com/listing/4366...

Want to see some insane video of a sinkhole opening up? It's over on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiI5c30QI0E&t=8s Wow.

youtube.com/shorts/ru3y1... What to say to a bully: "Fuck you, Make me."

For others curious about context, history of "spoils of war", etc: uscbs.org/background/

From an IRL convo this morning: Pretend we're playing Family Feud: What're the top five answers to "If you had a time machine, how would you change history?" I'll leave the implications of that to the reader...

Okay, this one’s a little bit diffferent — a quick video from me, wondering if “Taylor’s Version” might give us a glimpse to a way forward in the war against AI robots scraping up all the content of the internet without consent or compensation. youtube.com/shorts/6SIH_...

As I was saying…

The thing about being neurodivergent is that I Like It. What I don’t like is that the world imposes numerous taxes on me for being like this. I don’t view it as a Me problem.

Well as long as we’re not raptured we might aa well keep pointing out that Donald Trump is a pedophile who is hiding that his name is in the Epstein files

Negativity bias has a bunch of people immediately gravitating to believing the worst about folks. YET in reality, most people are pretty decent and are trying to live their lives. Folks buy into the "people are terrible" hype and that only serves other terrible people.

I get asked for political donations all the time. Before making one, I'll check this list I made. Those on Cook Political's list of competitive seats who didn't vote yes make the cut.

Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches. This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists! Archaeologists! Please volunteer www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

New York, U.S., Wills and Probate Record, Jan 1883. Died in Pittsburgh, PA on his way home to Flushing, NY. It's the where he had "journey(ed) to" that surprised me. (Not a relative, I'm down a rabbit hole based on a gift card found inside a book. As genealogists are wont to do.)

This one is a gem

I was fired from my gig as a primary and middle school drama director on Monday. We live in frightening times. Take care of each other, and reach out to me if you want to talk 🧡

Realizing upon actually waking (not at 3am) that the ShakeAlert that woke me up (at 3am) probably arrived *after* the quake, and I otherwise wouldn't have woken up at all. The cat did not miss it, however, and was still on high alert when I went back to sleep despite my attempts to comfort him.

Same.

Wow. 4.6 earthquake in Oakland/Berkeley, and I missed it entirely in San Rafael. The ShakeAlert woke us up, and we waited, and... nothing. If it weren't for folks posting about it, I'd think it was an error!

I grew up in the “spiritual warfare” zone and let me confirm, lest you doubt the evidence of your eyes, that it is exactly as dangerously unhinged as it looks.

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

All seems pretty similar to what the non-denominational evangelical Church I attended as a kid told us. This is doctrine. If you've never had to hear this before, please do stop & consider what it means for people to hear it weekly from a 'man of God' they trust - this guy is just parroting it.

Y'all, I dreamt I had a shop cat. Now awake, I both love the idea and absolutely do not want to have a shop cat.

Oh hey, just drinking my Sunday coffee out of a mug I created:

Y'all, someone in my neighborhood is *blasting* the bagpipes version of Amazing Grace...I can hear it in my living room.

Virgo: Two heads are better than one, and if you defrost your freezer you might even fit three.

I'm at the point where I have a limited ability to act on my empathy so I'm reserving all versions of my support for people who had no choices... or at least didn't actively choose to oppress others. Those who voted for Trump can now take care of themselves and/or be someone else's rehab project.