I'm taking Eve to see their first lion dance, today, a completely reasonable (except for the crowd) way to spend a vday. But events like this make me wish I'd gotten myself a cane chair. I'm pretty ok in motion, but the minute I have to stand for 30+ minutes on a hard surface 💀

For heart day, I dug up this still-relevant opsec guide for you. (And built an updated version into a zine for trusted folks).

A lot of folks don't have money to spare, but many of you have skills & time! There are so many ways to do the work, and I KNOW some of you can help with this stuff!

Happy heart day to those who have a heart To spare or to share.

It's enraging to think about how many environmental and financial resources are being burned to the ground to allow for this new, absolutely horrible, version of adult Minecraft. Bots that argue with bots. "AI assistant" crammed into literally every app. Not a genuinely good feature in sight.

Maybe it's the trauma, but I forgot that citizens united vs FEC was only 2010. We've only had this particular level of hell for 15 years.

"Now they're asking for the coins back." Lol. Lololol.

I mean, D.C. should be the 50th state because Hawaii and Puerto Rico should have their fucking sovereignty back.

Look, I'm just going to tell you... I've had a Verdant Tea subscription for going on 3 years now, and it's one of the nicest things I have ever done for myself. Their tea is fantastic, it's in partnership with farmers across China, and I'll never be the same.

Lol. Lololol. Accounts with the word "human" in their bio.

Pastme built this greenhouse, and now I've got a spot to go stand and feel warm. Even when my bones ache with the weight of the world. And some of my plants are even thriving in it.

Good morning. Please join me in screaming like a possum. Aaaaaa it's only Tuesday.

Before the election, everyone: This guy Mamdani is a muppet. After the election, everyone: This guy Mamdani is a muppet *with charisma*

Hahaha my electric company just reminded me that I bought my house 15 years ago yesterday. So is it half paid off? No. Because I got divorced a few years later, and had to reset the clock on the loan.

I finished a pretty solid (and dense, but solid) opsec zine, and now I am poking at options for safe distribution. Ah, hobbies.

I told y'all to stop using discord to plan anything. Let this be what kills this company.

So this article just dropped. www.theverge.com/policy/87495...

I don't give a single solitary fig about football or the big game, *except* that I want the patriots to always lose. So in that regard, fuck yeah.

Seeing a painful amount of preying on hungry authors, lately.

Around here, we call them switches

We don't live in capitalism, we live in feudalism. But our feudal lords are corporations, and we don't get harvest days off anymore.

Doing my Sunday chores to the Phantom of the Opera (2004) soundtrack.

Today, I'm making some beans and home fries and cornbread.

maybe somebody thinks they’re being funny - ACAT being a letter off from ACAB, and all

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Oh, fuck you, fortune cookie

Good morning Bluesky. I was playing FF5 last night and forgot about this good time.

On a Professional level, it's really telling that digital companies have aggressively pivoted from "prevent harm to your employees" to "prevent harm to your reputation."

I went to verify this, and they don't make it clear on Submittable. It sure is clear as day on their terms page on their website, though! ogre .red/terms/ (broke link on purpose) This cannot possibly be defensible, but don't risk it.

Given tech naming strategies, why haven't we circled back around to calling it deep fishing.

Hey. I got you this. #Cats

my most peepaw-coded trait is that I angrily refuse to use DoorDash (and similar apps) because I know the markup is so insane versus “picking the food up myself” - and that money doesn’t go to the restaurant. By god, I will drive or walk my ass over to the restaurant and get it myself.

I know of a really cool jewelry artist who does all kinds of work with fur, whiskers, and ashes as well fallenwhiskersjewelry.com

Palate cleanser cat is here with some ginger chews. #Cats

Please pay attention. Don't use Google, not to search or to email or to aggregate docs or anything, but especially not to organize. Don't use Facebook/Meta. Don't use Twitter. And don't use any AI-powered anything, not even to generate captions. They'll all turn you in for free, no nickel rqd.

Since I lost Merrill, I'm planning to do cat pawprint pendants for the twiblings. One loves Hawke most, and the other was deeply attached to Merrill. Finding a good creator for this has been a ride in review scouring.

I'm going to put together a condensed version of my opsec guidance that y'all can zine print, I think. 🤔 It's clear that people need it.

If you're white people joking about lynching, you're the baddies. 🤔

We are going to win this, neighborhood by neighborhood, child pick up by child pick up, grocery run by grocery run. We are going to win.

Okay, look, I wanna say something about this, because I know a lot of people are like "oh look the weird nerds are having a Day" and yes, we are. But this is not really about 3D printing so much as it is about community.

That feeling when you poke your head in to the feeds and then can't tell if New Bad Things or Revisiting Previous Bad Things. So you sigh, pet a cat, add another log to the fire. The usual. Love is hard when the world is tired. But we gotta.

EVERY county has its own caucus procedure and date. This is very annoying! You can look up your county here: www.coloradodems.org/caucus/deleg...

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Good morning to your tired heart. What will your soft animal body love, today?

When people ask me for relationship advice, I want to say: Only get into relationships that you could reasonably break up from. If you feel like you can't possibly live without somebody, chances are you can't live with them, either.

Every good de-iceing kit needs a lot of salt, gravel, and a shovel.

I just made some blackberry sour cherry jam, spiced with vanilla and allspice. #GardenVarietyQueer

That "Dubai" chocolate, though maybe it's more Kids These Days beloved. It seems like most of the people so into it have never had quality ingredients before. And the imitations are worse.

This person is right about (nearly) everything. I would rank cream cheese frosting the highest, but I also make mine a bit tangy with some lemon juice. Goes great on chocolate cakes.

I lost one of my cats last night. 😞