Do not cite the Deep Cringe to me, Witch. I was there when it was written. (Cleaning out a filing cabinet that I have not opened since college)

When they defeat ICE, Minnesota will have 34,000 trained volunteers to observe the police

AOC: That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

If you have any funds to spare and want to help Minneapolis right now, getting dash cams to observers is crucially important and especially after today

ICE just executed someone in cold blood in Minneapolis. The agency is frantically trying to spin it but the videos are already out there. Murderous fascist pigs.

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

it is outright murder. talking about it on here means bracing for the inevitable "they do this all the time," which is true!, but probably not a useful comment, as the point is not to engender dialogue & analysis, but to join together in outrage at state violence

Turns out a therapist deciding to not charge you for a session hits real different than say, a bartender comping you a round 🫠

“If you die before me, promise me you’ll die in a less annoying way than this,” is a thing that I had to say to my husband today. How’s your 2026 starting?

I’m facilitating the rehoming of two sweet cats who belonged to a friend who recently passed unexpectedly. They deserve a stable place to land. 2-3 year old bonded pair, one male one female. Please send me a DM if you have the interest and ability to care for these sweet voids. Located in Oakland.

Spending the last week of the year alternating between staring into the void and trying to dodge the last few punches that 2025 is trying to throw my way.

Sedentary liberals have a messianic faith in the power of information alone. But what matters is how we act on in response. The fact that Trump is an authoritarian—and that he has participated in violence against young women—will have little impact unless we set a precedent for acting on that fact.

Damn. RIP Jimmy Cliff www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHAb...

Braving Berkeley Bowl on Thanksgiving week after a hard therapy session because I am, if nothing else, a consummate masochist.

Unsolicited hot take: with the world on fire and everyone struggling to enact positive change on the world, I humbly submit that everyone indulge themselves and order a glass of wine and eat at least 6 oysters a week.

Reviews for our wedding are in.

I know I just wrote a thing about accepting "imperfect comrades" but I don't mean people with Nazi tattoos, just the ones who get them covered up.

A friend described standing in this engine room as a religious experience, and honestly, he wasn’t wrong.

Timeline cleanse.

“My challenge coin is going to be a sick skull with guns” hell yeah dude, you’re twelve.

Another day of remembering that all the blood sweat and tears I’ve put into this little boat are immediately worth it the second we get out on the water.

I have reached the point of engaging with the wedding industrial complex that every time I have a bad thought about my body I glue another rhinestone onto my wedding outfit.

Oh no the fancy perfume store absolutely has my number.

Ta-Nehisi Coates understands. Klein doesn't. It's really that simple.

Wheeeeee!

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Timeline cleanse.

They have never, ever expressed anything close to this level of pain and sympathy for school shooting victims.

It’s fine to say that violence is never the answer, but I can’t help but observe that for Charlie Kirk violence was always the answer, and it was the only answer he offered, and, because of the privilege that he refused to admit he had, he could enact it from a comfortable and respectable place.

I forgot about this for a while but the Bryce Elder "Sam Altman's kitchen" piece may be one of my favourite things I've read in business or tech history. www.ft.com/content/b180...

On nutrition, Jeffrey Dahmer has broken sharply with the mainstream.

Closest to heaven a sailor will get.

Uttered the phrase “raw dogging my trauma” today and made my therapist laugh, which immediately reminded me of this:

“It’s tempting to believe that there is some sort of intellectual barrier between you and the powerful — that the confusing and obtuse way that they speak is the sound of genius, rather than somebody who has learned a lot of smart-sounding words without ever learning what they mean.”

Earthquake...?

RUDE.

I have returned from the frozen north. It is 80 degrees in Oakland today and I am melting.

Working on boats gives you lots of practical skills but also leaves you with incredibly strongly held opinions over things like pens. Want to throw a fun apple of discord into the officer corps? Try to suggest that the .05mm version of this bad boy is superior.

"why is no one talking about this??!?" maybe because they decided they dont want to. maybe the vibes are bad

Alina Habba, Trump’s personal lawyer and now the interim U.S. attorney for NJ, announces that the Trump administration has arrested the mayor of Newark at an private prison that ICE had decently contracted as a detention center. His arrest is seemingly for trespass.

We're about a month away from the Master Mariners Benevolent Association regatta, which means you have just enough time to snatch up this ready-to-go Bear and enter the race! bearboats.org/renegade-nee...

I really love this little boat.

A film that takes place where you’re from: (Woodsboro, California is not real, but Healdsburg is and I spent many a degenerate teenage night drinking Wild Turkey on this exact fountain.)

I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Well, for the first time in my maritime career I have had a drug test result come back unsatisfactory. Mind you, I tested negative for *everything.* But my sample was too "dilute." That's right. Ya girl is so well hydrated I have to retake my drug test.

Long Now ass skeet.

The revolutionary thing about *consciously* choosing to engage in social issues like drug abuse and homelessness with empathy and kindness is that it allows you to remove your own ego from this sort of commentary. Which I guess is why I find headlines like this are so galling and tasteless.

Help get rid of these: open a 311 obstructed sidewalk complaint! These are all illegal because SF does not allow sidewalk planters to be over 36" wide. Cite DPW order 179,231: sfpublicworks.org/sites/defaul...

Everything is hard but these boys are soft.