Ew. Gross.

Hey. You stressed? So am I. Watching this helped me a lot, so I'm reblogging it for you, who ever you are. <3

Shout out Smitten Kitten, who have been doing insanely good sex education work for decades.

Ohhhh, neat! I'm familiar with the Simple Sabotage field manual, but this is an update of it for the 21st century!

*Takes a deep breath* Helped someone find their dog today. Past me was a genius and made sure we had no brain food for dinner. Also, my cat made his first blep. There are good things in this world.

These two. Right now, I'm chilling next to the Mississippi.

I was 18. I'd just graduated high school and it was beginning to hit that the future I hoped I'd come of age into might be DOA. Thankfully I was still cocooned in a thick layer of disassociation so my egg made it all the way to 2010 without breaking, and by then I had some community and support.

... Well, the upside of a bunch of apps and services I've been using declaring themselves evil or evil-adjacent means I don't have to waste decision spoons on whether or not I use them enough to keep. *Dust dust sweep bag-tie hup hup hup SWISH* 🗑️

...y i k e s ?!

(Re-blogging so I can find it again.)

I had a brief + minor interaction yesterday with someone who was insisting there needs to be something to replace ICE. They muted me, so this isn't necessarily for them... it's kinda for me. I do not think ICE should exist anymore. I think it was always a bad call. Greg Pak says it better tho.

🤭 Oop.

Real-time ice activity mapping, sponsored by iceout.org

“Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.” Shout it from the rooftops.

Duluth Trading Gear is amazing. Most of my winter workwear came from them.

The people who came before me didn't have special training either. And I have access to tech and comms they never dreamed of. I can do this. We can do this.

If you are in Minnesota, or within 1-2 hours of Minneapolis, and you want to help, see if there is a rapid response organization in your hometown. These guys drive out in packs, rent hotels in small towns, and start harassing people in the Walmart Park lot. They're already here in my small town.

Want to help people in Minneapolis right now? Here are a lot of ways to help!

Thread of remote ways to support Minneapolis

Folks on the ground are asking me to lift this up because the need is still growing, all around Minnesota. If you can give, please do, and if you can't, please amplify!

Good Morning Minnesota! Ready for the week? I'm not, but I'm gonna walk into it anyway! Catch you on the other side.

ICE has a new tool to use location data from data brokers to identify the movements of protestors. Please remove your phone's Advertising ID and disable always-on location access forapps that sell your data (most of them). Instructions for Android and iOS from the EFF: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

o.o;

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

Wait hold up this poster did way better on the alt text than me.

*Yelling*🤣

Some more concrete advice and links to help you find your organizing home in this thread: bsky.app/profile/greg...

*presses lips into a grim line* Yeah I'm gonna get back into learning Spanish.

Man, fascism is Hell on one's skin.

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

You will do more for your community by getting to know your neighbors by name, than you will by watching violent videos or sharing political speeches.

That woman has a wife. That wife is now a widow. Their marriage is legitimate and I'm fucking annoyed at you for trying to dance around it. That six year old still has one mom. Stop straight-washing this woman's life goddammit.

*Unconsciously winding vacuum cord up like it's a bondage rope -- because it's a good way to swiftly secure -and- deploy the cord quickly without tangles* Boss, who just used vacuum: That's a really clever way to wind up the cord, really efficient Me: *Eheh. Whoops* Thanks!

*braces self* Whole lot more attention than I like. While I got you here, if you ARE in Minnesota and you want/need to do something, there's this: youtube.com/shorts/yERQK...

*jump-scare* Yikes. That's a lot of likes.

ICE was created in 2003. This is the millennial app, most of us lived thru a time where ICE didn't exist. Things were fine. It's not that hard people, ffs.

I live in rural Minnesota. Rural Minnesota is fucking pissed, y'all. Old white grandmas and grandpas out in rural Minnesota are keyed up. They're turning -out-. Don't you fucking dare let the bot campaigns tell you otherwise.

Hey. I know it sucks to see shit on fire in the feed, so I'll at least say that I try to keep it down to two or three at a time. I often use my likes and reposts as a way of saving stuff I want to get back to after work, cuz I'm a tiny lil account and I can still kinda get away with that.

Worth noting that Minnesota Public Radio is NOT doing that. They're interviewing people on the ground, chasing down witnesses and facts, and treating ICE statements with the appropriate amount of skepticism.

surrounding them after they just killed somebody and shouting “you can’t kill us all, nazis” is legitimate “ready to run through a wall” inspirational

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

*Finally watches the clip* ...yeah, that was murder. That ICE agent murdered a woman. That guy was not in danger. Neither were the other ICE agents. He deliberately shot a woman who was behind the wheel of her car, for not complying fast enough. I saw what I saw. DHS straight up lied about her.

Minnesota Public Radio: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0... The Minnesota Star Tribune: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Hang on. Deleting first reaction post because the story is still developing.

*Just...looking at this current discourse over a horny mod of Isabelle with my hands over my mouth, studying the carnage like a plane just crashed into a ferris wheel* ...I think the wrong people are pulling ahead in the psychological warfare here. And it ain't furries or trans women.

So, Vought is successfully dismantling PBS and a litany of other radio stations across the nation which served to deliver all kinds of arts, music, and humanities programs to rural Americans - for Decades. This really fucking sucks. Here's something to do about it if have money to spare.

*closes eyes, opens app and screams as loud as I can into it* I AM AN UNCLE TODAY. THE CHILD ARRIVED AND THEY ARE THE COOLEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN. SWADDLED IN PINK -AND- BLUE BLANKETS. I WILL LOOK AT THE DOOM RECTANGLE LATER, THIS IS MORE IMPORTANT 🫀 *Lobs this like a grenade and skitters out*