My wife and I are watching every episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel" in universe timeline order and it has been a load-bearing part of our ability to stay sane this winter. Recommend!

Bic Clic Stic and it's not even close

When the boss brought in that big new power loom, I was skeptical. He said once he got it running, we’d be out of a job, so when the boys started talking about breaking into the factory and smashing the thing, I was on board. Until, that is, I saw the funny tapestries it could make.

Anywho, there's no better time than now to put your ideas out there and invite other people to do things with you. Might as well try. You don't have to know everything before starting. You can just start.

perhaps I have made a mistake

February is once again proving that it is the longest month

I feel like maybe we should watch movies about people thriving in snowy places? Proof that it can be done? Requesting your silliest, off-the-wall, campy, not-stressful snow-life movie recommendations please

This has been a hell of a nor’easter in Rhode Island. I can’t even begin to capture how much freaking snow there is in our neighborhood in Providence. The street is a river of wavy, windswept snow mountains. At its shallowest, the snowfall is 22”. Drifts up to 5 feet. Never seen anything like it.

You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.

Fascism is here and yet we insist on continuing to make things. Keep creating. It's so important. Do not let the fascists colonize your imagination or curtail your creativity.

I urge you to stop what you're doing and watch Alysa Liu's free skate from yesterday. I have never seen anything like this. I understand why sports writers are born now. I have never seen anyone as free from the burdens of this world as this pierced Oakland girl spinning to Donna Summers.

Need to share with y'all the southern delicacy "pear salad" which is canned pear halves with a huge dollop of mayo inside, some shredded cheddar and a maraschino cherry on top. Iceberg under it all if ya fancy

One year ago I made this "How to ask for users' gender" parody page in a fit of indignant rage about Trump's anti-trans executive order and the lightning speed with which previously inclusive government forms, in now requiring binary gender options, functionally erased the existence of trans people

"But what of the worker who begins their work a decade from now, who has been specialized to do nothing more than ask for something? What kind of people are we designing now?"

I was expecting the National Design Studio’s freedom.gov site to be some rag-rah patriotic pablum but this is somehow even more embarrassing for the organization and the nation www.reuters.com/world/us-pla...

I left Instagram and thus almost all of my consumption of video content 6 months ago, and I can slowly feel my brain rewiring. Highly recommend

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

Starting my day with this and O M G

Gayest moment of the past week: my wife says, “I picked up this graphic memoir for you at the bookstore”, hands it to me, and the author is my ex-girlfriend’s ex-girlfriend

I saw a lot of beautiful, moving, strange, and utterly human art this week and, y’all, AI would NEVER

Striking, isn’t it, that every AI assistant with a human name has a female one right up until they invent one that’s there to help you code, and it is Claude

I fear that men are about to do what men do. They are about to characterize any sober thinking about power as non-technical and therefore unserious. We have seen this pattern over and over again in tech criticism. Women and people of color repeatedly lead on understanding tech changes.

JD Vance getting booed, as called around the world (auto transcribed & translated, mostly):

I have incarcerated comrades & loved ones who are enduring the daily torture of US prisons. They also continue to make art. They often don't have the proper supplies and yet they make it knowing that it will never make it out to anyone else. But they continue to make art nonetheless. Keep making art

I've been working on a network of webrings to connect people's hobby sites! I have multiple lines that I visualize as subway lines, so I call it the Smallweb Subway! Every station is someone's website. You can explore it here: gusbus.space/smallweb-sub... #smallweb #webdev #webring

Driving in Atlanta? Piece of cake. DC? Fine. Philly or NYC? Ok, sure. Boston? Fucking NEVER

📚 we're needed fam www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

thank you for everything you did for we here and for the library and information science profession, fobazi. you were an incredible friend, thinker, writer, supporter. you’ll be dearly missed 🤍

THIRD PRINTING ALERT: This is my first book and @wehere.bsky.social's first book. The response has been overwhelming (two small printing selling out in a matter of days), but also has meant a bit of lead time in-between. If you've read and enjoyed, please share this out so more folks can explore!

Damn. May her memory inspire us to care for ourselves and each other.

So I know a lot is going on right now, but I do want to share this: I’m excited to share the launch of the new Microsoft Inclusive Design website 💙 This project is my love letter to the community and practice that’s shaped my work for nearly a decade. inclusive.microsoft.design 1/

The best advice I got about buying tickets to Newport Folk Fest: (1) Tickets will sell out *immediately*, but (2) Join the waitlist ASAP, and (3) You'll likely be notified in June that tickets are waiting for you because that's the deadline for NFF friends/family to use or lose their tickets

"Accessibility is where infrastructure failure shows up first. ...We are in a moment of real political and institutional backsliding, and that reality deserves to be named. But meaningful action is still possible." Will be thinking about this post for a long time. Thank you @annaecook.com!

Elder millennial by birth, gen-X adjacent by the grace of god

Listening in to the Q&A segment of a webinar and there is something SO satisfying about hearing this gen-X speaker let out a deep, existential sigh when asked about AI. I see you, I feel this feeling too, thank you for sighing like that

Minneapolis/Twin Cities mutual aid opportunity - Alexis is a friend, this is legit!

you say "i asked chatgpt" i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]" an improv group wrote this report instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

momentary exception to not posting to amplify how beautiful & powerful this Providence protest is #ICEout

Checking up on the modal situation at meetup dot com. Today's count: 3, but only because I was already logged in

❤️

Anti ICE protest moving through Providence

Being a gay kid in the '80s fucking sucked in a million different ways, but staying up late in your parents' basement to be utterly destroyed by Catherine O'Hara's talent made up for some of it

Damn. Catherine O'Hara was always all in - never afraid to fully commit to the bit, never afraid show the humanity in her characters, and a GENIUS physical comedian with impeccable timing. A tremendous loss 💔

Tens of thousands of working-class kids are organizing walkouts against ICE, coordinating with students in their region, and pushing back against the regime. Not only does this give people confidence to keep organizing, its going to have a massive impact in families and communities across the US.

Providence, RI 📍

With news today about a surge in gas-fired power generation for data centers and AI, here's an occasional reminder that I maintain Against AI and Its Environmental Harms, an open library with journalism, peer-reviewed research, and other media for teaching: pad.riseup.net/p/Against_AI...

A lot of people gathered tonight outside the Department of Veterans Affairs in D.C. for a vigil memorializing Alex Pretti, who worked as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital.

Virginia, ICE is here too: ongoing; trying to build a detention center in Hanover Co, VA (board meeting tonight! www.reddit.com/r/rva/commen...); & don't wait to be prepared to act (the QT'd Migra Whistle site flyers are a neat model for gathering your friends or community)

If you want some support & company in responding well to frightening realities, I wrote you a book for that. Stories of models & mentors, questions for reflection, practices for connection & action. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kate-...