vogue ass cow

This sucks but I think non-Americans being justifiably angry at Americans for what the American government is doing and threatening to do, and Americans experiencing that anger and frustration personally in ways that are unpleasant, is probably an important part of any path back to stability

"Brazilian authorities refused to isolate January 8 as a spontaneous and feverish riot. Instead, they treated it as a conspiracy with identifiable authors. Days after the attack, police searched the home of Anderson Torres (...Brasília’s then–security chief)..." jacobin.com/2026/01/janu...

finally some fucking diplomacy

www.jezebel.com/wyoming-supr... 4-1

(Gift link) www.denverpost.com/2026/01/06/c...

HANDS OFF VENEZUELA! No Blood for Oil! Join us SATURDAY, January 10 at 1PM in Santa Rosa's Courthouse Square and make your voice heard. 🗣️📢 ¡MANOS FUERA DE VENEZUELA! ¡No a la sangre por petróleo! Únete a nosotros SÁBADO 10 de enero a la 1PM en Courthouse Square de Santa Rosa y haz oír tu voz. 🗣️📢

Beginning 2022, I started having arguments with people who didn't experience the loss of a loved one to COVID & associate "lockdown" with sourdough starters & WFH rather than Zoom funerals. I just had to accept that we did not have a shared reality, nor were they willing to remember.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of finding one constructive real world offline thing you can do to use your particular skills in service of fighting fascism as a psychological defense against the constant drumbeat of fuckery

the patent and trademark office keeps denying the name "Las Vegas Athletics" because "Athletics" is not descriptive enough and "Las Vegas athletics" could be used to describe anything in LV. www.gerbenlaw.com/blog/uspto-d...

Our next Coffee with Comrades is this Sunday, January 11th from 12-2 PM at Aqus Cafe in Petaluma! Come warm up with us ☕🧣 ¡Nuestro próximo Café con Camaradas será este domingo 11 de enero de 12 a 2 p. m. en el Aqus Cafe de Petaluma! Ven a entrar en calor con nosotros ☕🧣

It's becoming standard procedure across all news media to explicitly not mention in the obituary of a Republican member of congress that they voted on Jan. 6, 2021 to overturn the election

We need to teach the kids about Erowid

let's make lemonade out of lemons. maybe today is The Day.

Petaluma and Morgan Hill are being sued by the US govt on the basis of local ordinances banning gas in new builds. Some may remember Petaluma was the first city in the nation to also ban the building of new gas stations. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Meadowlark marching through the short, dry grass 🪶

Also, come to the nature side of bluesky. We have lots of tranquility. But also block a lot #birds

🪶 A #BlackAndWhite downy woodpecker (with a spot of red to show he's a male) for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme. #birds #photography

Punchbowl News & Fox News are reporting that U.S. Representative Doug LaMalfa, a California Republican, has died. LaMalfa represents a currently ruby red district (CA-01) that is becoming pretty reliably blue under the state's new map. There'll be a special to replace him under current lines.

The rise of deepfakes and AI CSAM prove public and private sectors don’t actually care about abuse, but still punish sex workers, queer people, and women under that guise. Credit cards companies and law enforcement punish consensual sex and sexuality, but ignore and therefore encourage abuse

As we, the good people of America, remember J6 with horror and sadness, spare a thought for the residents of the city it happened in. DC is often overlooked as a place where folks live, but this trauma happened to us, on our streets, in the place we call home.

Every dog or cat in a video game should be pettable.

Spaghetti is the worst pasta shape. It should be banned.

Mononoke is Miyazaki's masterpiece. But Kiki is so cozy. And Totoro is a perfect fairy tale. I cry every time when Chihiro eats onigiri in Spirited Away. They're all good.

this is her, btw. The little gray cat who decides everyone's gender. If you even care

@antagonic.bsky.social nice flo mask! Love mine, real life saver especially for long flights.

Sincere question and I hope we can make a safe place for this discussion, are there people out there who feel like they don't know how to get involved and make a difference? What do you feel like the barriers are for you getting involved in organizing? Have you tried and failed?

Five years ago.

In late 2024 someone IRL read something I wrote on social as monstrous — in spite of my track record which easily debunks the narrative they spun — then proceeded to nearly destroy both me and the local Pride org they had founded. People literally schemed to isolate me from my own community.

Fwiw, my kid and his friends (11-14yos) regularly diss AI slop and are super dismissive of it, it's great

"If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money." I keep thinking about this post and how it's one of the best, most succinct messages Democrats could use in 2026 campaigns.

my 75yo mother told me last night that she’s planning to delete Instagram and Facebook because she’s sick of not being able to tell what’s AI and what’s not, and I genuinely don’t think tech companies have reckoned with this kind of move as an actual possibility

ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT INTERNET

Seems like good advice tbh 👀

Join us at the East Rec Center in Santa Rosa next Monday, January 12th for another installment of "American Fascism: What it is & what to do about it" with speaker Fred Glass! 🌹

I've said it a lot lately: the problem with nonconsensual deepfake porn of adults isn't the "porn" part, it's the "nonconsensual" part. That HAS to be accounted for when regulating, otherwise you're just banning legal porn, which is (1) unconstitutional but (2) what the Heritage Foundation wants.

I actually would like to see more pro-democracy messaging in politics but instead of throwing it around like a magic word you could tell people how it connects to their social and economic life experience. Here are a hundred ways your life is shitty because a handful of evil dorks make the decisions

The number one thing I've been hearing from people in tech lately is, basically, "How the hell am I supposed to work in this industry anymore?" Though most folks are kind of afraid to say it out loud. So I wrote about how to think about it: www.anildash.com/2026/01/05/a...

I'm not saying the International Criminal Court has to immediately go after the US Executive Branch leadership, they could start with prosecutions of anyone who's contributed to the Enter vs Shift+Enter and "insert a newline" vs "submit this message" behavior confusion.

If you won't listen to us, maybe you'll listen to this horse.

This is one reason I think it’s important for people who are here for politics to also post about their whole selves. Tell me about your hobbies, your film/music/sports takes, your random life drama, thoughts, or wins.

i think the worst new word of 2025 i started seeing used everywhere was “vibecoding”. please stay on linkedin with language like that

An official NYT response means this is clearly a sore spot for them and people should keep hitting the target

important news that's going under the radar: the mayor of SF is putting together a group to rewrite the city's charter that's composed almost entirely of tech fascists, with very little representation from labor groups (or anyone left wing) missionlocal.org/2026/01/sf-c...

land value tax Land Value Tax LAND VALUE TAX

If you’re wondering why authors you respect are still on Substack, it might have something to do with the six-figure payout they got to be there. If you’re wondering how they can lecture you about fascism while living off fascist blood money… you’ll have to ask them. buttondown.com/MaxGladstone...

last month, @wired.com broke the news about ai image generators being used to undress photos of women. my reporting resulted in a 200K+ subreddit getting banned for nonconsensual deepfakes. doing more software accountability reporting this year. reach out to me on Signal with tips! reece_rogers.01

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