We literally have a textbook example of “intent vs impact” and so many people are like “but he didn’t mean it!” Yeah bro but it still feels shitty to hear that, and an apology is necessary. Also why they didn’t censor that for the broadcast is beyond me, it was recorded hours ahead of time.

Meanwhile in Boston Mayor Wu who generally get it is super tone deaf and is “calling on residents” to help shovel out “problem spots” www.boston.gov/departments/...

#TeaSky, I would like some tea pick/knife/needle recommendations. Because I am a knife nerd, I admit I've been looking for one made of interesting steel, but it's not necessary.

A member of my extended family is working on an Android app designed to provide good audio access to Project Gutenberg. To submit it to the Google Play store, he needs at least 20 testers to use the app regularly for 14 days. Testers can be blind or sighted, and both are wanted so their […]

I am looking to start a #microfiction #flashfiction writing group. The goal is to find 5-7 writers/readers/reviewers to work with over time. We would help each other w/ stories/skills, but also organize ourselves to submit to publications, magazines, blogs, and contests. Anyone interested? #writers

#ShareGoodNewsToo www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I am alleging that the redacted name is Donald J Trump. Now newspapers should print that DJT allegedly talked to Epstein about how to get rid of poor people. Every redacted name is DJT until proven otherwise by the DOJ unredacts them. Every. Single. One. (That isn’t a target of course)

Cut the check, Donald Trump.

Heads up, New York families: time’s running out! Free 3-K and Pre-K enrollment closes 2/27. Make sure your kids don’t miss out → myschools.nyc

So there's a black girl scout troop trying to raise money to to to Europe but they aren't close to their goal as of yet. Please share this and buy some cookies if you can digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/reagan...

My 10yo caught a t-shirt they were throwing at the Hornets game. My 6yo wanted one too but they didn’t throw one to her. She cried a bit… Some guy 5 seats away goes out, buys her a shirt from the concession stand and hands it to her. #randomActsOfKindness

How does The Onion know what the Trump administration is going to do before it happens? Clearly there must be a lot of leeks inside the White House

I have a friend who will occasionally say something like "All this work we're doing is in the computer. When you close the computer, it's no longer there. I try to remember that perspective and prioritize things outside of the computer."

Yeah, we really need people who aren't in Minnesota who have some extra funds to remember us & step up. If you donated to a rent relief fund last month or earlier in this one, odds are the same folks need more money now (or will very soon). Many of our neighbors are still in hiding & can't work.

a fucking pedophile sexually abused nearly every prospective and actual Olympian gymnast for over two decades, and the political discourse is hyper-fixated on the hypothetical unfairness of trans girls competing with cis girls

A good thing about expressing our value commitments clearly, say ‘no kids in cages’ as opposed to just ‘this is outrageous,’ is it leads you to ask—where else might kids be caged.

1 reason why I get so angry at anti-trans "safety in women's sports" people is NONE of them do SHIT or say ANYTHING about actual safety in womens sport. There are ongoing histories and challenges and abuses in sport, and folks are more than welcome to pay attention, and give a damn. But they don't.

If the right dominates the infosphere, if they can demonize any marginalized population they turn their eye on, then strategizing around *a current snapshot of public opinion* is almost definitionally misguided. They can change that opinion. Dems can't seem to, or won't try. All else is noise.

Something something printing press / photocopying has helped the masses resist Something something 3D printers printing whistles today

HELLO, FRIENDS! The women's shelter where I volunteer lost almost all of their art and craft supplies last year. I can't fix everything, but I have a big network here, and so do a lot of you, and I'm pretty sure that together, we can fix this. www.thingstogetme.com/2169641a9c163

I called today. Receptionist told me they had medical care onsite. When I said reports were saying it was inadequate, she hung up on me. Phone number is 830.378.6500. Hit 0 for reception when the message starts.

I'm hoping to put my unfortunately sub-$1000 tax refund towards eliminating a card and associated minimum payment, but if I could get some help, I could eliminate multiple and get closer to being able to manage this on my own. I really appreciate the help I've gotten so far.

YouTube is down and apparently Google doesn’t have a status page to check for it?

Something something printing press / photocopying has helped the masses resist Something something 3D printers printing whistles today

I often think about the fact that if the FBI et al had not killed Fred Hampton, he would be 78 today. Younger than Jesse Jackson was. Must have felt strange to outlive many of your contemporaries by decades.

Speaking of whistles... it's just a countdown now to see how many hours it takes us to cross 750,000 whistles. Shortly after that we'll cross 500,000 for February. When @courtneymilan.com told me we were going to ship half a million in February I was like "lol ok" but I should not have doubted her.

if someone at paramount wants the licensed indie game renaissance (the lindienaissance) to come to Star Trek my dms are open

Again, why do people continue to legitimize and platform the NYT?

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Currrnt mood

My kind of people

Is a jelly donut a sandwich??

I have searched the depths of Scientific Ideas not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be submitting an irrefutable Nature paper in the near future

Five years ago @ashoncrawley.bsky.social posted a thing about care that feels really timely again. www.facebook.com/ashon/posts/...

So female associates of Epstein in the files are resigning or in jail like Maxwell, but men are going to keep their jobs. This what happens when rape culture is policy

This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old

yep, they're still at it in LA and Portland too the media is gonna be like "time for a new narrative" and it's so important to keep talking about how none of the cities they invaded have become more safe since the spotlight shifted away from them

Rafael Edwards Cruz votes to stop people from voting if they've had a name change...

It is absolutely outrageous that Moderna’s flu vaccine was met with a “refusal-to-file” even after their approved their protocol with FDA and carried out the trial as agreed. This vaccine works better in older adults than the current flu vaccines. apnews.com/article/mode...

Trump's DOJ tells the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office to block investigations into ICE shootings and prosecute Don Lemon instead ... Joseph Thompson *quits Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office and *represents Don Lemon instead good shit

The more I see of everything, the more anarchist I become: because centralized, hierarchical systems keep committing the most horrific atrocities imaginable, while regular people, often in decentralized networks, keep engaging in the most incredible acts of community defense and care.

let's do this! send me a receipt showing $50 or more donation and i will mail you a set of postcards with anti-ICE graffiti plus some other goodies (email allisonannecollage at gmail with receipt and mailing address)

See it’s not that hard kids

This direct mutual aid fund is tax deductible and your employer can match it, if any of my followers have been looking for one like that!

Some have reported they had to go to Control Center -> Search Party (ESP if you have more than one camera?)

In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in: - Hagerstown, MD: $102 million - Surprise, AZ: $70 million - Hamburg, PA: $87 million - Tremont, PA: $120 million - San Antonio, TX: $82 million - El Paso, TX: $123 million - Social Circle, GA: price unknown This is unprecedented.

New mutual aid option just dropped (OK, maybe it didn't just drop, but I just found out about it): a direct aid fund run by Shir Tikvah. Takes donations by credit card or ACH. www.yesodfund.org

Here’s hoping the estate of Fred Rogers picked up enough royalty dough to fund PBS for a few decades.

One of them was probably a deepfake but 2 Jeff Goldblum commercials got my attention