It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?

Really appreciating this thoughtful essay by @magencubed.bsky.social because of the way it describes so much of my own relationship to social media, notably the way I dropped off the map in 2012 bc of... well, read the essay. I'm still trying to figure out how to show up & still preserve my energy.

When you stare into the void, the void... stares back demanding to know why it hasn't already been fed. #Saturday #officecat #morningvisitor

Yeah. A few yrs ago (having studied Russian in, you guessed it, college in the 1990s) I was watching Russian TV on Netflix & was quite surprised to learn how truly scary it was in Moscow then, while here in the West so many of us were pie-eyed & clueless as to the power vacuum or its ramifications.

Neurodivergent tangent incoming: My kid (also ND) is a new smoker. I hate that he's doing this to himself. But he hated how #ADHD meds made him feel. Smoking, he says, helps him focus even better than caffeine. If we want to curb smoking maybe address underlying reasons why ppl take it up.

Once upon a time I thought abt becoming an epidemiologist bc of investigations like this & the ones detailed in Berton Roueche's "The Medical Detectives," a collection of narrative journalism this skeet reminded me of. Outstanding.

So, this week I'm finally off for my full 3-day weekend w/o any overtime or 2nd job. (I work 4 10-hour days currently.) While I'm catching up on #writing, I'm also chronicling my own habits of both procrastination and "procrastivity" -- the former = self sabotage, the latter = natural #ADHD.

Prometheus stole fire from the gods to give to the people. Techbros, through AI, are stealing fire from the people and using it to warm themselves. What precious fucking irony that is.

New post published. In it, I discuss what led me to #emergencymanagement, how & why I took a break, & the NEMA webinar that has me rethinking how communities engage w current disaster response models: trauma-disaster-healing-recovery.ghost.io/if-disaster-...

When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it. Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...

Epstein survivors just dropped a powerful message for Congress, and it hits like a warning: no more waiting, the truth is coming, ready or not. Watch till the end @housedemocrats.bsky.social @houserepublicans.bsky.social

Off topic & yet not (bc that is just how my ADHD brain works): was just revisiting a webinar where the case was made for including economists in emergency management / planning. You know... planning for disasters that make vulnerable ppl more vulnerable. 😬

My whole life as a longtime undiagnosed neurodivergent, summed up: "Diversity can’t exist because it threatens the high contrast right-wrong rigidity found in fundamentalist authoritarianism." If you can't do things the way we say ("right") then you're wrong & deserve punishment.

I really really appreciate the way this skeet sorta blew up! I'm a neurodivergent abuse survivor writing about the complexities of navigating various forms of crisis here: trauma-disaster-healing-recovery.ghost.io

I think it’s great that our media elites have decided that men in their 30s saluting Hitler are just rambunctious kids who got carried away, while 16-year old girls being trafficked and raped by billionaires are “underage women” making informed choices. Definitely reflects well on us as a society.

Never forget the same people defending pedophilia have spent years trying to convince the public that drag queens and trans people are a threat to children. It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.

So, that whole "difference between a 15yo and a 5yo" thing is why I wrote this reported essay (1st in a series of 5): trauma-disaster-healing-recovery.ghost.io/why-its-more... 🧵

This. The people you think know & respect you, the value you think you have to the community... all end up mattering way less than his.

It’s not enough to simply thank our veterans for their service. Millions of them rely on SNAP and the ACA. Many struggle with PTSD and worry about access to mental health services. Today, on Veterans Day, let’s renew our commitment to keep fighting for those who fought for us.

It can further stigmatize these communities and make advocacy and awareness much more difficult. It also can start crossing the line between "protecting the kids" and censorship REAL quickly.

Can't help thinking of the communities that sprang up from young ppl sharing their experiences being autistic, ADHD, AuDHD as well as with mental health & yes, abuse (all interconnected). Limiting online speech = preventing these communities from forming = isolating young ppl = enabling abuse.

Convincing you to read my (collection of interrelated novellas) by the first sentence. Share yours if you want! Here's how "Sodom & Gomorrah on a Saturday Night" begins:

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets. no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

To me among the most infuriating parts about the healthcare debate and ACA credits is this would not be an issue if we were like every developed country on Earth and GUARANTEED HEALTHCARE AS A HUMAN RIGHT. We'd pay half per capita what we're paying now, have more coverage, & longer life expectancy.

Me: *has been in Maine since Thursday* Me: Maybe I'll see what's happening in the world Me: *opens Bluesky for the first time since late afternoon Friday* Me: Nope nope nope abort retreat nopeity nope nope

Yeah. That was me. Not the reason I'm no longer self employed, but I could see the writing on the wall.

Boosting for possibly my longest time # writing friend, whose #booklaunch deserves all the love bc it's so good (& no not just bc he's my friend)! #scifi #booksky #bookstodon #indieauthor # lgbtqfiction mefi.social/@lhauser/115...

THIS IS AMAZING. ALSO WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID WE FORGET TO RUIN?

“The robots are people too." 🫠

the fact that USDA tells grocers that they cannot give SNAP recipients discounts in times when people are starving is a whole different kind of cruelty. People will die from this, and none of them had to.

More than learning to embrace my inner impostor, it's fairer to say I'm motivated by the emergencies I've dealt with, the disasters I've lived through (a pandemic, two hurricanes, an assortment of winter storms), and (1/2)

Rewatching the movie Unstoppable & noticing 2 things: 1) how I'm able to contextualize at least a little of the FEMA training I've taken on #emergencymanagement incident command & decision making

As a food-sensitivity-haver, this has been on my mind a lot since Helene last year. Mass care isn't set up for people on autoimmune diets, & yet, if I expect to function (during #disaster recovery no less), most staples are out of the question.

As SNAP hangs in the balance for nearly 42 million people, misinformation is rampant. Myths of laziness and fraud persist when we should be talking about too low wages for workers, income inequality, and our threadbare social safety net. In this guest post, Adam Chandler sorts fact from fiction:

Resources for those needing food! If you've got the ability to help, this can also show you some good places to start for donating food, toiletries, etc.

"Rather than move to a new platform, what if we focused our efforts on making decentralized experiences more user-friendly? Coming up with solutions to help people build audiences and find content that's meaningful to them—solutions that are based in their needs...." #ghost #decentralization

Also I feel shitty trying to sell books when so much is going so wrong. Feels like scummy opportunism. But... in late 2020 when my novella collection was published, I didn't promote it. Was too busy trying to make it through a failing marriage, then divorce, still the pandemic...

I wish I could say the obscure pieces of #fiction I wrote at the end of last decade hadn't contributed to all the predictions of where we are, but it's hard not to.🧵 trauma-disaster-healing-recovery.ghost.io/five-years-a... #dystopianfiction #indieauthor #supportindieauthors #booksky

"Hurricane scientists have long been frustrated by the constraints and shortcomings of the Saffir-Simpson scale as a communications tool for the general public, and many are searching for a different metric that would be as easy for people to understand..."

Sickening. I'm not an expert on community care networks by any means, but the little bit I've read suggests 1) they could offer a critical backfill & 2) they're still too dispersed to do so, reliant on likewise struggling ppl & overall inconsistent. & this doesn't even consider e.g. natural disaster

🧵*10/29/2025 noncooperation thread* A daily-ish thread of acts of noncompliance & defiance by individuals, communities, & institutions. * Middle-class-&-up ppl often don't grasp that, w/o SNAP, some folks will literally have *nothing* to eat. Today's thread focuses on the ppl getting folks fed.

I feel this so hard. Divorce has meant learning to adult on my own for the first time in my entire life. It's... been a lot. But also the reason I'm planning to pursue a degree in trauma informed emergency management.

I'll take "dystopian hellscape" for $200, Alex Or maybe "WTAF" for $400

One year ago my community was just beginning to recover from # HurricaneHelene. Imagining dealing with a shutdown on top of that boggles my mind. “Impacts of the U.S. Federal Government Shutdown on Emergency Management“ by Barton Dunant on Medium: medium.com/the-liper/im...

"A legion of essential jobs contribute to America’s disaster workforce. As the world burns, floods, and melts around us, those jobs — and the people who do them — have never been more important."

The cognitive dissonance of overhearing 2 Trump voters talking about medical science advancements & vaccine efficacy. I can only imagine they thought they'd get a repeat of his 1st term, Project 2025 fears were overstated / alarmist, etc.

“Local Officials Have a Powerful Tool to Warn Residents of Emergencies. They Don’t Always Use It.” www.propublica.org/article/ipaw... - @propublica.org #CAFire #Disasters #EmergencyManagement #Floods #Gatlinburg #HurricaneHelene #NCwx #SantaCruzMountains #SonomaCounty #TNFire #TXwx #Wildfires

ADHD isn't a superpower in my opinion, and while sometimes things are very hard, I also don't find it to be a disability. It's just a matter of knowing yourself well enough to find a job and environment where what WE find easy is an advantage, and the things we find hard don't matter as much.

Amidst all the bad news, this is great: Libraries across the country host cookbook clubs, offer classes in demo kitchens, loan spices + kitchen equipment, include food pantries, host farmer's markets, offer English language learning through cooking, host nutrition literacy programs, etc.