"Starting off with that initial $10,000 loan just over five years ago, BCI recently passed the $3million mark in non-extractive capital deployed: there’s a lot of cooperatives getting on their feet in the DC region with BCI’s help." seedcommons.org/projects/org...

Freezing fog!

I'm still finding it baffling to have my personal possessions spread out across more than one room.

muppet riddley walker when

a lot of people who sew prefer to be called “sewists” which is good and neutral (and a huge improvement over, ahem, “sewer”) but i’m thinking about reclaiming “seamstress.” i’m seaming. due to stress. or something

As an indexer: “Do you have to read the whole book?” (Tied with: “Can’t AI do that?”)

"Building a pod for ourselves + being part of others pods is a critical kind of community infrastructure we can invest in creating. The kind that is endlessly adaptable, hard to destroy and a kind of renewable resource we can draw from again and again." www.soiltjp.org/blog/pods-fo...

Hey people, Listen. This has been going on for almost 9 months. And yes, I have seen projects literally fund overnight Let's fund this. Mend the world with love.

The Unintended Art Of Others The shipyard painters who cleaned their brushes on the shipping container they store their paint in. Banff Scotland

I do not like your AI slop I do not want this worthless glop I do not read its overviews I don't care what Grok says is true I do not like it here nor there I'm tired of it everywhere

I've barfed in the Kennedy Center, on the BART, and while driving 55mph on 81N through Pennsylvania. Thanks, migraine.

It’s ridiculous to me that there’s not a multimodal path from the city to PVCC and Monticello

blessed to be able to read cursed to be unable to resist reading

I didn’t have “using my nerd sewing hobbies to give a middle finger to mass surveillance” on my dystopian bingo card, but here we are.

I think November might not actually exist in any real temporal reality. Like, 11/15? No. It was October 31 yesterday and tomorrow is December 1. That's how this works.

SciAm did a story www.scientificamerican.com/article/jeff...

Jim Ryan wrote a letter to UVA detailing his "resignation" and I'm gonna get some fresh tea before I read it because I feel pretty certain I'm gonna be filled with righteous anger by the end I'll do a thread but here's the full letter provided by the chronicle www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

I fear that as management turns increasingly to AI to write their emails and their reports, work that can be done poorly in automation, they will think all work can be treated this way, and they will lose whatever critical capacities they once possessed when they had to draft their own emails

The discontinuation of the ACA tax credits means 8,811 people will die and 4.8m will be without health insurance. In 2026 alone, 340k jobs will be lost and hospitals will lose $32b. Republicans need to pass a standalone bill to extend the ACA tax credits. www.aft.org/press-releas...

i’m ready for something different than whatever the fuck this is

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With 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving being 3 weeks away and SNAP being a shit show—but with some retailers and nonprofits offering turkeys for low or no cost—I'd love to get my free cookbook #AfterTheFeast to as many folks as possible. Would you kindly share it here and elsewhere? 🙏 ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...

nowadays every app wants to be a platform, and platform logic requires that they become the *only* platform. that's why they all start as Specific: The Tool That Does A Thing and five years later announce they're rebranding as Totalizr: We Manage Your Life

Someone needs to start a new publication, hire the talented, diverse people being fired and call it "Teen Rogue"

Apple cider, gingersnaps, and extra sharp cheddar cheese.

The new Florence+the Machine album is exactly right.

🎃 Some lessons from Hallowe’en: 👻 Little kids should be able to walk in the streets, even at night, without worrying about cars. People who are well-off are expected to give out more candy. Candy is for anyone who asks — no means-testing. Whatever else we are, we are each other’s neighbors.

Not seeing much on Bluesky vs Twitter but St. Elizabeth parish in Jamaica is devastated after Hurricane Melissa made landfall there yesterday. This is the government’s official support site, which is quite well organized.

Today is Quintidi the 5th of Brumaire in the year 234. Brumaire is the month of mist. Today we celebrate geese.#JacobinDay More information on geese

women are about 78% of the healthcare workforce in america. i know people know this but it’s always worthwhile to state it outright. not only is it gendered to underpay healthcare workers but men who get “caught up” in it are undervalued for doing female-coded work. same with teachers.

This perfectly describes how day to day life feels lately when every bit of news feels like an assault on decency, logic, and reason.

I'm so sick of technology. I want my devices to do their basic functions such as "text/make phone calls" or "access the internet" or "have word processing software and decent storage capability." I do not want one billion gigabytes of AI bloatware that spies on me and fucks with my work!!!!

Tried to move away from Gmail and use more privacy-oriented email services instead but now I have four email accounts with multiple aliases and everything I actually want to receive gets stuck in the spam filters. My Gmail's running out of space, 15 years of data to sort through.

Public health is like cake. Cake has layers. Public health has layers. And when we stack the layers of public health – think combining sanitation + nutrition + medical treatments + vaccines + addressing social & environmental factors that impact health – we get to enjoy more birthday cakes. 1/9 🧵🧵

In Defense of Being Human aeon.co/essays/our-c... with @allisonpugh.bsky.social #LastHumanJob #digitalwthics

Lately I've been thinking of this as "platform logic" bc it's pretty much always got a platform You aren't connected to a person or people. You're connected to the platform, which can facilitate specific types of interactions with people. You don't have a dr, you have a care platform

i made a template you can use to think about what "frame/negation/kirby" looks like for other issues. For example: Frame: DOGE is a govt efficiency project to save $ Negation: Actually it made things less efficient and cost $ Kirby: DOGE was a project to break and privatize federal bureaucracy

Web searches I never expected to make: "how to borrow a puppy" 😂 #parenting

‘The internet was better when it was on a computer in a designated room and not in our pockets’, we all post, from our phones, that we purchased for significant money and use for hours every day

Happy 3²/4²/5² day

I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.

Found a cool coffee one too 🤩

EVERYONE STOP cheese wheel of cheeses

Last time I was at pride it was still in the little park by the library, and I had a partner and a toddler on our shoulders. It's bigger now. I'm bigger. The kid is bigger. Our family is bigger. And I'm all alone now.

Must read by my former @brooklyncollege.bsky.social student and EMS union leader Anthony Almojera: Time to let FDNY EMS stand on its own thechiefleader.com/stories/time...

at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.

Defeating fascism cannot be done under the guise of a “return to normal” - doing so will just reset us to a point where we will once again work back towards this political moment. It has to be about creating a new world - and that means a complete change in how our world works, tbh.

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

Now, instead of reading the latest email from the Subdean for Academic Affairs and Climbing Wall Management, simply click on the ADMINISTRATOR LANGUAGE DETECTED icon to reveal the message in simple English and determine the threat level to your department, program, or mental health.

This might be the greatest speech from a living politician I've personally heard youtu.be/Q04p3OJdhpU?...