Remember, the Holocaust didn’t start with gas chambers in Auschwitz. It started with politicians dividing the people with “us vs. them”. It started with intolerance and hate speech. It started when people stopped caring, became desensitized, and turned a blind eye. Remember.

Woo-hoo! Go Seahawks!!

Part of my problem is, I want to watch the games today, but I also want to do other things at the same time, at least for the first game (chores around the house, stuff on my computer, read a book). But it feels rude to go to a neighbors house and then read a book while watching the game with them.

Blrgh. Our only plan for today was to stay in and watch both football games, but then the tv died (or probably the cable, but the result is that the tv won't work). It glitched yesterday but was fixable. But nothing is helping today. Frustrating. We have a neighbor we can watch with, but still...

Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

I am doing my best to respond to this without a string of expletives. But let's be very clear. What just happened in Minnesota was cold blooded murder of a civilian by out of control federal agents, aided and abetted by the entire Trump administration and their fascist enablers.

I've been writing about this nonstop. www.lawdork.com/p/noem-says-...

I apparently forgot to put my phone on silent last night, so I was woken up a couple hours early by multiple text messages coming in. BUT...it was actually a good thing, as it was my brother texting me the livestream link for my niece's dance competition, so I got to see her perform live.

The 15 richest people in America saw their collective wealth jump nearly $1 trillion during Trump's year back in office. Many of them were standing alongside Trump at his inauguration one year ago today. How are you doing?

You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.

Oh, man, I'm not a "true" Broncos fan (I root for them, but it doesn't y'know, *hurt* me when they lose). But I feel terrible for Bo Nix and the Broncos and their fans. They won the game, but it really sucks that Nix broke his ankle on that mostly-unnecessary final play. :(

Well, *that* was a nice start to the Seahawks game! :)

A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

I wish I had something coherent to say about what the US did last night, but my internal monologue is mostly just a stream of incoherent disbelief and profanity. The US has a long history of meddling in South and Central America, and it's never been *good*, but this is worse than most...

Obviously I'm rooting for the Seahawks, but I have to say, the 49ers black unis are pretty nice. All-black tends to be boring, to me, but they've got some nice red & gold highlights and the black background makes the color pop. (I still think the Seahawks should've worn their neon green unis). :)

I checked my book log, and I read 79 books in 2025! 25 of those were novellas. 45 were books I read for the first time, and 24 were books I re-read (some more than once during the year, ha). Lots of "comfort reads" since it was a stressful/frustrating year in general.

I went for a run this afternoon, and saw a coyote! For much of my run, I was on a path next to a currently-dry creek bed. At one point, I heard some noise, and this coyote came running along the creek bed! It went past me pretty fast, but still was very cool to see. :)

Seahawks are playing the 49ers Saturday for the division, #1 seed, and first-round playoff bye. Just heard that the 49ers are wearing their all-black unis, and I seriously want the Seahawks to bring back their head-to-toe neon green uniforms, just for the sheer contrast. :)

@claire1224.bsky.social Happy belated birthday! I've been off bsky for almost 2 weeks (just life getting extra hectic) but hope you had a lovely day, and a wonderful year to come!

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Basically haven't been on bksy since the power outages (almost 2 weeks ago). I got so behind on everything in my life, and feel like I was scrambling to catch up. Not that I'm caught up now, but the things I'm behind on are less time-sensitive...

Power is back on!!! A little after 6 pm, so we went ~52 hours with no power (after 12 hours with no power spread over the 2 days before that). Definitely not what I'd recommend, particularly the weekend before Christmas. :(

We lost power for 8 hours Wednesday, a random hour Thursday evening, 6-9 am Friday, the it went out again ~2 pm Friday, and we still don't have power back. I'm at the library, taking advantage of power/heat/lights. Luckily it hasn't been *too* cold, but the house got down to ~55 degrees last night.

Sounds like there were wind gusts at the Boulder airport close to 90 mph. So yeah, definitely windy today. And apparently it's supposed to be windy again Friday (though my forecast online doesn't think so), so they may shut off power again Friday...

Strong windstorm here this afternoon/evening. The power company preemptively shut off power to much of Boulder, to reduce the risk of fires starting from downed power lines. As annoying as that is, after the devastating Marshall Fire 4 years ago, it feels like a worthwhile trade-off.

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We got 8 inches of snow on Wednesday! (we can always use the moisture). One of my Mom's neighbors has a plow, and always plows her driveway for free. Another neighbor shoveled the front walk. The next day, they also dug my car out! (it's parked on the street). What a sweet thing to do!

It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration. But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants. The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.

Years ago, I created a pair of holidays - Last First, and First Last. Dec 1 is Last First, the last first-day-of-the-month, and Jan 31 is First Last (the first last-day-of-the-month). The overall premise is that you can make changes in your life at any time, not just New Years Resolutions.

Well, everything was delicious, and I'm stuffed. :) But not too badly over-stuffed; I managed to dish up slightly more reasonable amounts of everything than some years. Just my Mom and I this year; bro & his family are on vacation, but hopefully we'll see them Sat or Sun.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

In the slippery hands of Pam Bondi Justice is AWOL, abscondi! She’s corrupt to the max, Like all Trumpian hax… If she ever had ethics … long gondi.

Well, congrats to Aaron Judge. With the season he had, he certainly was deserving of the MVP (But I just happen to think Cal Raleigh was a little *more* deserving this year) :P Oh well. I'm glad Cal won several of the player-of-the-year awards voted on by the MLB players.

Oh my goodness, the Northern Lights were super visible from here in Boulder tonight. My camera (phone) insisted on taking long exposures, so all my pictures look at least 10x brighter than what I actually saw, but there was definitely color & moving light visible to the naked eye. So cool!

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

These operations would be unlawful even if those murdered had all been criminals. But it's important to show just how much deception is involved from start to finish in this gruesome charade.

Here's another one of these to absolutely mess with you. You're so very welcome.

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

Listen all the way to the end. :)

I voted a couple days ago (Colorado does 100% mail-in voting)! I miss going to a polling place a tiny bit, but the convenience of being able to vote on my own time, with my computer in front of me to do research, makes me vastly prefer voting by mail. Our results are also available faster!

Hell yeah this is my rep in Colorado.

And congrats to Toronto. They're firing on all cylinders right now, which is what you need to make a deep run in the playoffs. I really don't want the Dodgers to repeat, so I hope Toronto stomps them.

Well, that sucked. I think the Tigers got their revenge in the end (though if our best starting pitcher hadn't gotten injured in his last start of the season, I think we'd have beat the Tigers without needing Game 5 at all). Whatever the reason, the M's just didn't play well enough.

There were definitely more people at the Boulder No Kings protest today, than at the last No Kings protest (and there were a lot then)! Lots of great signs, some fun inflatable costumes, a peaceful day of protesting.

If Adelita Grijalva was a Republican, Mike Johnson would have sworn her in long ago to the office she was elected to. If she wasn’t the deciding signature to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files, Mike Johnson would have sworn her in long ago. All his bs excuses are lies.