I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland. Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.

Here’s a palate cleanser! BRB, going to pick up citrus and some crunchy veg.

May every fools’ gold excrescence with his name be blotted out.

New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

When your wannabe god-emperor is really just an old guy yelling about tariffs. That’s some shade.

Brilliant nomadic adaptation!

@deprongmori.bsky.social seems up your alley!

Yo Seattle—Stuck in a Tesla but don't want it to be quite so obvious? Your friendly neighborhood #teslatakedown is here to help. Come down to Tesla SODO this Sat from 10-12. We'll take your Tesla badges off for free. If you want new ones slapped on, it's BYOB(adges) actionnetwork.org/events/tesla...

A #ladybug preparing for takeoff They can eat up to 5,000 aphids in their lifetime, making them natural pest controllers! In some cultures they’re associated with luck

@deprong.bsky.social Idea for CERT or other community resilience?

I just checked in at the Atlanta airport and the kiosk wanted me to show a "passport or permanent residence card." The airline rep who was helping me said "I don't know why it's doing this it's been doing it all morning."

I said there was a Dr. Manhattan comic in that… and I'm a person of my word.

Or, as noted below, “Swiss Army Barbie.” Lots of shade for those who are good at none of the skills. Being -good- at them all is evidently beyond heroic. mythologyvault.com/mythologies-...

There’s an Urdu name for a “Jack of all trades” that translates to “every talent Lord.” A Korean version is “eight direction beauty.” But my favourite name for someone who tries their hand at lots of different things is the Lithuanian Barbė devyndarbė. It means “Barbie nine jobs”

HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE. (President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)

Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog). This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to

Sisters, Brothers, it’s dance party time. youtu.be/lV5dbcOmw6I?...

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

This x10,000. All day every day.

Local Hero at today’s Capitol protest

Take a step back and look at the news with perspective, one week at a time. The Sift has your back.

Take a break. Contemplate the chickens. Text the link to someone who needs to contemplate some chickens. Nothing to do or buy. www.chicken.pics

Voter suppression. Stop the damn SAVE act.

Fantastic resource. Links to tables and also the thread has callouts in plaintext per state.

last severance episode confirms nobody fucks with the jesus

asked @maxwellfrost.bsky.social abt marching Democrats to the Treasury against Elon, overcompliance, Dems like Fetterman joining Trump, and if he's willing to risk arrest to fight the Trump admin — while staying in it for the long haul @teenvogue.com “Are we the minority, or are we the opposition?”

Following the Senator from CT here. En route to lobby our CA Senators to follow suit.

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜 The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization. Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

Concrete ways to center and reconnect, no matter your path. ❤️

If you see this quote with a bridge from your gallery Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge at sunset from the deck of a harbor tour

Thinking @tamsin.reimaginedgirl.com might want eyes on this. Citizen journalism springing up.

BRB, making knotwork wallpaper for all my devices

A powerful reflection of the whole of that service.

Some tactics of reply-bots below. There are Agree types too. Blockity block block!

It’s a good say to lift up those who envision alternative futures. Want to get your visions in fictional form? Spec Lit feed has you covered. bsky.app/profile/did:...

How do you do, fellow kids? I score 1. Never recorded music off the radio. But I proudly own a foot-thick 1940s dictionary on a cantilevered iron book stand. For some reason my folks thought I’d be the perfect kid to inherit it. 📚

I could stand to cultivate my garden here. Some tips you might find useful, too.

Back East for a dearest friend’s memorial. I cried for the first time finishing a draft of the eulogy yesterday. But it was wonderful sorting through her collection of hundreds of Tarot decks, the bespoke art she collected, to showcase her wide-ranging creative loves.

Reminds me of the time at WorldCon when an ASL interpreter completely stole the show from Scalzi by signing the HELL out of a short story filled with weird alien words. Scalzi was laughing too hard to read half the time. ASL interpreters are valuable and amazing and must be protected.

But Thin Mints are forever. Right? RIGHT???

Spotted: a spiffy two-color Mini Cooper with the plate HERRCUT ✂️💈

Sing a cheery farewell to the Yuletide season with science carols!

We watched “Scrooged” for the first time. It is a romp of an 80s time capsule, but Carol Kane’s take-no-prisoners Ghost of Christmas Present is timeless and worth the price of admission. Do NOT mess with the Good Neighbors, no matter how sparkly and winsome. Merry Christmas, friends.

As much as I dislike the drunken mess SantaCon can be, perhaps it’s a return to form for the season.

Exciting to see daylighting in Berkeley! Looking forward to working with Council to employ engineering, rather than punitive, solutions to maximize effectiveness and equity. “The idea is not to ticket people — the idea is to get the safety improvement.” -me www.berkeleyside.org/2024/12/11/b...

There is another batch of bad abortion-related opsec advice going around, so I'm just going to link to Digital Defense Fund's guide to abortion privacy, which is realistic, practical, and explicit in its threat models: digitaldefensefund.org/ddf-guides/a...

The United States has the highest GDP in the world by *ten trillion dollars*. It's not even close. Americans should retire at 60 w/ full pension. We should have free universal healthcare. We should have free PreK-PhD education. This belt-tightening ideology is a neurotoxin limiting our potential.

Great profile of the Prelinger Archives, rescuing bygone days through film others might bypass. (My partner did some of that work!) If you’re in SF there are a few seats left for Lost Landscapes.