Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

Hello, I am looking for freelance writing gigs quite urgently due to being a victim - now twice - of theft. Any help is appreciated. I have written widely on games, TV shows and film for a variety of outlets - IGN, The Verge, Slate. If you have or know anything, plz DM me ASAP.

Specifically the former King of Thailand. He established a fund for any Thais looking to open a restaurant overseas that you could apply to for low cost loans. To this day, if you look around a Thai restaurant almost anywhere in the world, they have a portrait of the old king on the wall somewhere

Nobody wants this war.

Excellent and thought provoking article even for those of us who aren’t big into sports.

Helping my fourth grader with her history homework is kind of a trip right now. Checks and balances, the American revolution and tea party, the founding fathers, everyone still being mad about the British quartering soldiers in homes…. I’m like, oh honey, we’re talking about this stuff every day.

Useful public domain image database!

Okay, so I am obsessed with this woman’s answer… we do in fact have the opportunity to shape our own brains to become the kind of people our 8 year old selves would be obsessed with. WOW. I think I want to. www.instagram.com/reel/DVFrINZ...

As a reminder, a small and important thing you can do as an individual to combat racism and sexism— When they make One of Those Jokes in front of you, don’t laugh. Even awkwardly. Be silent, stare, and when the laughter dies down, say, wow, that’s not funny at all. Then sit with the silence.

An excellent essay on thinking in the age of AI ryanholiday.medium.com/26-rules-to-...

Call your house rep and tell them to support HB 2540 which will increase the amount disabled people can save from $2k to $10k and remove the marriage penalty where you lose your only source of income if you get married regardless of how little they make. Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

Half of what I do as a ghostwriter is ask good questions and push people to figure out what they actually think, clearly and at depth.

Hope is an act of rebellion.

To everyone thanking me, much appreciated but not why I posted! Pls support your local immigrant defense group like: The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota: www.ilcm.org/donate/ Or my hometown LUCE: www.lucemass.org/donate Or Google your city/state & “immigrant defense” to find your local heroes!

The actual observation is dead on here, but also… this is an example of truly phenomenal nonfiction writing. The point is made in the specific, relatable examples. It gets you in the human gut with emotions, without cheating. Specific. Relatable. One example per sub point. Emotions. You win. :)

I am generally dismissive of these things but this actually feels scary. This isn't just a scam email, it is an elaborately worked out and callous deception scheme, enabled by AI, and it is hard not to feel targeted. Be careful out there, authors. Be *very* careful.

Interesting research in HBR today about how the productivity boost you can get from AI tools can lead to burnout or general metal exhaustion, something I've noticed in my own work https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/9/ai-intensifies-work/

Expertise is the product of lived experience. AI processes are simultaneously embeddings of linguistic encoding because any attempt to encode meaning is always inherently a linguistic work, but they always necessarily lack the lived experience that produces that meaning.

Congress is scrambling to pass a DHS funding bill by Friday, and we need to make it loud and clear that our senators and representatives must oppose any bill that hands ICE and Border Patrol more funding or fails to include strict safeguards to protect our communities.

Always ask these things about Ai ads and possible intimates : - “helping” by controlling your access to information and inserting themselves in - isolating you by demanding reliance where you should be growing resilience - creating an enemy out something they don’t control - future faking

You don't have to immerse yourself in the news or the conversation. However. Please, when you see injustice, speak up. The goal of all this hate is to normalize it. To make it okay. Let them know it is not. And that will do not accept this reality.

This is so charming.

This is an important point. Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist. The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes. So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.

My favorite quote from a software engineer is “they’re trying to solve a people problem with technology. You can’t do that.”

anyway i know how many of you hate that i’m so vocal about this and think it makes me a naive shitlib or whatever. but again, i think the best thing you could do for yourself here is to get involved in election administration where you live.

Just to throw this in at the end: if you can afford a donation, the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund is helping detainees post bond and get them out of custody ASAP. A worthy cause.

My older cat is mad at me because kitten, sigh

*Law morality and the state *Family love and marriage in early modern Europe *independent study in writing science fiction *Irish literature *Freshman Seminar (a masterclass in critical thinking)

I love people getting the details right. :) Definitely something I’d research before writing!

The cats are getting along! Considering one is new, that’s huge.

I know I’m in my forties because I saw an opportunity to argue with someone who was clearly wrong on the internet, and I kept walking.

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BREAKING: The Senate just blocked a bill that would have renewed ICE's budget without real, enforceable changes. This is a direct result of hundreds of thousands of people across the nation demanding that our Senators vote no.

In an Irish context this was called ‘felon setting’; a favourite tactic of Dublin Castle to punish via RIC/DMP visits to employers & landlords. But after #EasterRising Irish Times eagerly leaped to print detailed lists leaked to them, not realising how this would soon be a roll of honour #spéirgorm

As a reminder, measles is sadly actually a thing again. Protect yourself. Go get a vaccine now, and if you had one as a child (and that was a long time ago), get a blood test to make sure you still have the antibodies. Measles is the most contagious illness known to man. Multiple times covid.

I appreciate those out there protesting at great risk to their lives however i think the nation needs to grind this economy to a dead stop. It's something everyone can do safely. No spending on ANYTHING but absolute necessities. I understand some shut ins can not do this but very many of us can.

Help Minnesota www.standwithminnesota.com/ Resist anywhere #rapidresponse share.google/0WDY5CcA1nnz... #mutualaid www.mutualaidhub.org/table-of-networks #visibilitybrigade visibilitybrigade.com/group-directory 5calls.org www.nokings.org Indivisible.org fiftyfifty.one/ workingfamilies.org/

An incredibly valuable video on trust, and what builds and destroys trust, from Brene Brown. Yes, this includes self-trust! brenebrown.com/videos/anato...

Say hi to this little cutie who just joined our family.

I know this will likely not apply to a lot of Minnesotans, but keep it in mind for when your turn comes: if you live in a community with professional management (apartments, townhouses, HOA), check your documents for Loitering policies. 1/2

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TWIN CITIES FOLKS WHO WANT TO HELP AND DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START: I put together a big list of resources. Do you want to deliver groceries? do people's laundry? work in community defense? I want to help you get connected! naomikritzer.com/2026/01/19/h...

Additionally, MIWRC needs funds to keep their emergency warming center open to our unhoused community members. Please contribute and share to help keep our relatives safe!

Richly fascinating. The human body and sensation is so cool.

Today feels extra in terms of doomerism and I don't know if it's bot driven or reactionary. Probably a combo of both, but there are many, many things you can do, in both short term immediate assistance and long term. Thread below:

Just deleted a couple of skeet replies, because in context I think the story of my mom didn’t support the poster well enough, and I don’t want to hijack an important conversation.

@ziibiing.com made this page, which contains a lot of suggestions for where to donate and provide mutual aid in Minnesota:

wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.

as it is particularly cold in Minneapolis and we hear scary rumors, I want to highlight a few groups. MIWRC is operating a warming facility to make sure unhoused people are not on the street, especially during the hours traditional shelters are closed. www.miwrc.org/donate

Still in post viral fatigue and still unable to work a full day without major rest breaks. I don’t like this.