If you need some extra distraction from *gestures broadly at everything,* Kilauea is here to help. The next eruptive episode, episode 41, looks to be kicking off right now! Fountains are starting to grow in height. USGS LIVE stream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXKu...

#btv I plan to stand in protest of the latest Minneapolis ICE murder at 5pm on the corner of Pearl Street by the Federal Building. I'd welcome company and will have a basket of 3D printed whistles with me.

A nurse. A researcher. A helper.

Who’s gonna save us?

Anyone in VT feel a big boom at around 8am this morning? 1/24?

Friends. Coyote or Husky? This beauty was at our trail cam into Gilbrook here in Winooski a few nights ago for the 2nd time this winter In the evening. Could be an off leash pet but no collar.

Maine, it's all getting closer. Winooski and Vermont are just a matter of time. Feeling hopeless about everything.

We need to get those numbers up, folks. These are rookie numbers! We can do better!

Love this show so much, another Apple banger. This is a fun full of spoilers look at how it might work in the real world, and it's kinda neat.

I think most people are underestimating how bad this is. We are at the end of what we know to be normal in this country. Unless someone swoops in and does something like we did to OBL, there is no way out through process or laws, or anything because...none of that exists in anything but spirit.

everything is too heavy

Times like these I wish my job didn't take place on a computer with the www.

I am genuinely confused. I didn’t think the level of abuse being openly committed by ICE was possible in this country. Explain to me like I’m a 5th grader why there seems no way to stop it?

There is no “better training” for an organization that does this.

"Beyond the epic assholery, bigotry, cruelty and unfathomable entitlement consider the depth of Stephen Miller’s immorality and contempt for other human beings." steveschmidt.substack.com/p/a-piece-of...

I guess I wonder what is next. We just keep working and going about our normal lives until...what? Is there some sort of tipping point here? We used to be the ones to step in and help, is anyone going to do that for us?

Taking a moment from my morning end of the world doomscrolling to just say how much I enjoyed the Texans ass whooping of double-a-ron last night into retirement.

I wonder about bank accounts, I'm not sure they are safe anymore.

The US should not host the World Cup. Move all the games to Canada and Mexico.

Well, everything is fucked. We're not going to make it.

That heaviness you feel after events like yesterday is real. We've all accumulated a lot of mental and emotional weight in the first year of Trump's disastrous presidency. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-physic...

I can't stop thinking about how any group of racist, power-hungry men can just put on vests they bought online and wander around, taking people off of the streets into unmarked SUVs to who knows where. Masks, no warrants, no IDs/badges, unmarked vehicles, etc. No accountability.

Meanwhile, in Vermont, the chickens have had enough

Great day to have functioning eyes and a working brain

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis. Say bad things are bad.

Camp Johnson putting up new perimeter fencing, I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

He's gonna start a massive war, no one in DC is gonna stop him, the media will stroke him off like they always have and always will. I need to log off for a bit.

We should send more presidents to prison. In the five years since January 6th, two other democracies both faced their own version of insurrectionists attempting to overturn elections. Both countries handled it better — and more definitively — than we did. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/five-ways-...

America is always like “ok but the NEXT regime change will work,” like when I “cut out carbs” briefly every January.

impossible to explain how fucking crazy this is, we are living in batshit crazy doublespeak orwell times that make me feel completely insane.

Nobody is doing anything to stop anything, thus I come to the conclusion that most of the people I thought were good are also benefiting from all of this shit. Just letting it all go to hell. Just waiting for them to all die naturally ain't it.

Just over a week out from saying goodbye to our pup, cannot get used to the quiet house, lack of walking routine, changes in…everything. So strange. So sad. We miss her.

Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who don’t. www.wired.com/story/people...

Saw this from @powderhound.bsky.social on twitter and it is super interesting. Made me wonder what @vermontgmg.bsky.social has to say about this theory. Certainly lines up a lot of stuff. thedreydossier.substack.com/p/trump-isnt...

Ain’t nothing gonna happen till he is expired. It is a lot easier mentally to manage that space for me. Stop kidding yourself that any normal process will remove him, that ship sailed long ago.

Check on your older fam and friends, they are all getting fucking hoodwinked by AI at an astronomical pace. It’s so bad. Everything is bad.

this is a w.

Holy, and I mean this sincerely, fucking shit!

the number of big heavies coming and going from BTV has been wild. I can't remember how I felt going into the last big war, but this one being entirely ego driven to hide from the pedo files, aligning with former enemies against former allies feels....different.

Its really easy to be like oh yeah, AI is bad, and equate it to pop culture movies and stuff....but holy shit, AI is bad. We are all going to suffer because of it. There will be good things, there are good things, but in the end.

Can't think of a time in US history when the disappearance of 5-6 individuals could so drastically improve our democracy, society, and overall lives.

Someone help me come up with a name for a type of party where everyone just hangs around and talks. I feel like we've all forgotten how to hang out without there being a central "activity." Like, just come over and drink and bitch about the government with me, ok?

Nothing I regret more in life than opening LinkedIn

Is there anywhere in Vermont where I can get cured meats? Like, not processed stuff? Like in Europe, walk up and get fresh slices off a leg kinda situation?