Muting words and accounts is self care

This is Big Dude. He's an Eastern Box Turtle that lives in our garden. Picture 1 is August 2017, picture 2 is today.

need people to understand that accepting or conceding that he has the authority to do these things is tantamount to giving him the authority, and so your preemptive dooming is actively counterproductive

River Beauty growing in Denali National Park. It's a shorter type of Fireweed.

Trump assembled one majority, but that does not preclude his opponents from assembling another. We often talk about elections as if we are baking a cake — with the outcome fixed and irreducible — but it is more akin to building a Lego model. The pieces can be arranged a different way.

Pointing out how safe DC by showing the low crime rates isn’t going to convince conservatives because “people breaking the actual law” isn’t what they mean by “crime”. To them, “crime” includes merely seeing black people, unhoused people, and anyone else the bigots clutch pearls about as “crime”

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Lightning strikes occur on Earth more than a *billion* times per year. What triggers it? Turns out, exploding stars. Yes, seriously. And also, black holes. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/what-trigg... 🔭🧪

Sometimes you’ll have to hold your own hand.

Watching people's faces shift from skepticism to excitement as they realized we'd built something that could finally help them was one of the more cathartic moments of my career. We can finally focus on what to do, instead of constantly struggling to make a way to do it. 🧵 8/9

Be. Someone. You. Would. Love. Someone you would want to spend time with, dress like, listen to, open up to, snort-giggle with, maybe give a tender kiss on the forehead.

I don't think most Americans realize how hard tariffs are about to hit them. The combination of 1) escalating tariffs, 2) companies slowly passing the cost to consumers, and 3) the repeal of the de minimis exemption in the Big Beautiful Bill, a lot stuff will be more expensive in 2027.

Echinacea in the garden this morning.

Half the time I post something related to race on this website I get someone in the comments like, “yeah america is a racist country what do you expect.” I’m starting to think folks like this are bots or ops designed to make people feel helpless. Think we should call it “doomsplaining”

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I wrote a memorial essay in praise of the great Joanna Macy over there at my newsletter.....

Do vaccines protect against dementia? A new EHR-based study of >430,000 older adults found that AS01-adjuvanted vaccines (Shingrix for shingles & Arexvy for RSV) were associated with a lower 18-month risk of developing dementia whether given alone or together. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rest in metal, sir.

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I feel seen.

REVERSAL came out from Dark Horse in March with zero marketing. Nothing. Yet it’s close to earning out, just on word of mouth / that cover (by @coreybrickley.bsky.social). Please consider buying it! It’s about waking up one day and magic existing again, and everybody fails to cope (except some kids)

Denali!

Like lmao

This @cwodtke.bsky.social piece is great — technically fluent, well-sourced, doesn’t mince words about the lies & bullshit from the companies making this stuff. I’m not personally as conciliatory about some of the capabilities promised, but it’s well worth a read. cwodtke.medium.com/i-love-gener...

a refreshing and consummately reasonable take macleans.ca/politics/tax...

Gentle reminder that virtue lies not in being the most upset about any given bad thing beyond your control, or giving it the largest share of your mental real estate - but in doing the absolute best and most helpful at whatever it is that is under your control.

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The enormity of the universe is a comfort.

"Because we see our democracy's in real trouble. We see a president who has made himself a king and dictator." "We're disgusted and we're scared, and we know the only way to fight this now is for the people to come together." - @markruffalo.bsky.social on why he's at the #NoKings event in NYC

How Alaskans show up! #King #Salmon #Alaska we come in peace!☮️

Emotion is in the human who shaped the prompt, & chose the lines we are the source of meaning, not the machine I am not saying: don’t use AI. I am saying: remember who’s alive in the room.

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

Know your history, folks.

Despite warnings from the law enforcement not to attend today’s No Kings rally after this mornings shooting of Minnesota lawmakers with the killer on the lose, the No Kings Rally is happening at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.

They’re trying to stop you from showing up. They want you to stay home. If your state says it’s safe to go, you should protest. Meet people, march, make posters, organize, have fun, be seen. Don’t let the bastards win.

Today in Charlottesville, Virginia. Crowds on both sides of Rt. 29, and thousands of drive by supporters.

every day i am just floored by humans ability to do good. we have these choices before us and the terrible ones make headlines, but i have no doubt love is so much more potent when it counts. so blessed to be a human being, because all human beings trot with this potential and i hope to honor it

Sunday is Father's Day!

just heard that BRIAN WILSON has left this timeline and dang it hits hard. there are so many thoughts trotting through my mind, but id like to take a moment to talk about my personal connection to this and what brian wilsons music meant to me, so bear with me buckaroos.

also a reminder that kent state did not involve an intentional order to fire on civilians, it involved poor training and incompetent on the ground leadership. and so if the claim is “the guard will fire on civilians if ordered,” you don’t even have an example with which to use!”

there really seems to be a strange “green lantern theory of fascism” that some people on this website have internalized, in which the white house’s desire for martial law — it’s desire for organized repression — is tantamount to a guarantee that it will happen

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"I am proud that Richard's and my name is on a court case that can help reinforce the love, the commitment, the fairness, and the family that so many people, black or white, young or old, gay or straight seek in life. I support the freedom to marry for all." -Mildred Loving, 2007