By the way, I want to be clearer why I think this is a bad idea. It seems fine as long as you keep control of the phone. You don’t have to hand it over to make the tech work. The encryption seems solid. But once they steal your phone and have physical access, you have a SERIOUS PROBLEM.

I think we need a timeline cleanse. So plush. So soft. So judgmental. #catsofbluesky

Language evolves, but I'm having a hard time understanding how someone can be "doxxed" who has appeared on C-SPAN

This speech is amazing.

Friend’s extremely Minnesota protest sign

Someone I really respect is starting a new substack and I just 🫠

All the best lawyers say this.

friendly neighborhood barred attorney telling you to never put your ID on your phone

I keep finding new patterns for making things easier. The latest is for this and similar stews, where you’re shredding the meat after and blending the sauce while it’s hot. It’s a stew; it’s better the next day anyway. Putting it all in the fridge overnight and dealing with it the next day is fine.

I’ve been seeing stuff for the past day or two, but when one of our Congresspeople report it, that is enough to pass on. The linked article is somewhat ambiguous so far.

My office is aware of unverified reports of ICE activity in the Seattle area. We are monitoring the situation and will share information as we learn more. Please stay safe, everyone. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Not that I want to wade into ✨discourse✨ but people who have different government roles should be saying different things and will appropriately get different responses because they have DIFFERENT JOBS.

If you have people in Minnesota, please tell them about this statewide call for a general strike on Jan 23 which is supported by regional labor and faith leaders:

I’m self employed, but I’ve told my clients that I won’t be working Friday 1/23. It’s not going to be noticeable — the only person I work full-time for is me — but it’s something.

dmca 1201 takedown demand from Arcs Corp. help

*frantically googling* moral arc bent wrong how to fix wikihow diy moral arc fix moral arc technician near me

moral arc right to repair

“That leaves Republicans in Congress as the last barrier. They owe it to the American people, and to the world, to stop Trump from acting out his fantasy in Greenland and doing permanent damage to American interests.” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social lays it out.

@vienna_official today we welcome his imperial highness archduke franz ferdinand to sarajevo. unity, stability, progress. @pan_slav_posting wild that austria thinks this is a good idea but ok

Good morning to everyone except those fools who think they will do laundry. #catsofbluesky

In the first of what's likely to be many collaborations with @hebagowayed.bsky.social (and my @us.theguardian.com debut) we argue that abolishing ICE would be a good start.

The Tufted Titmouse of Particular Judgment.

Someone keeps just asking questions about who’s attacking Stancil, and I’ve seen multiple answers disappear as if blocked. And one response saying ~ “I answered you, why did you block me?” I’m not going to clearsky to validate (that place would be bad for me), but it’s an interesting pattern. 👀

The past decade of US politics can be summed up by liberal pundits persuading themselves that radical leftist sh!itposters nowhere near the levers of power in the Democratic party represented such a threat to liberalism, it was better to put radical far-right sh!tposters in charge of the govt.

I like the genre of posts where someone shares a video of a little old lady in Minnesota going “oh gosh, I sure hope those boys don’t freeze” and all the replies are people saying “that’s Minnesotan for I’m going to feast on your bones in Valhalla”

Brief operational term of art 🧵 to help better define what we're experiencing. What we're experiencing is state terror. I've seen a lot of terms thrown around for what the Trump admin is doing w/ICE, CBP, & other federal law enforcement (LE). The now largely out of use term is state terror. 1/

Minnesota nice is a social contract broken at your own peril

I did something like that in Mock Trial when I was like 14.

This is very funny and I’d totally move back to California! (Note that while the sentiment is evergreen, the article next in thread is from early 2025.)

Also, when you defy Trump, you’re kind of implicitly making fools of the elite law firms and universities and media companies and billionaires and Congress, which is fun.

Good morning #caturday

They must be SO mad watching Renee Good become the murdered folk hero they wanted Charlie Kirk to be

It is not normal to need to patrol your neighborhood to protect children from violent kidnappers who are also in league with giant pedophile rings. It is not normal so we don't have to operate like nothing has changed.

Amazing hat!!!!

The FBI raided this reporter's home today. Follow her and share her reporting even more widely.

I was excessively responsible & proactive in trying to file my Seattle biz taxes. When I called, they said they don’t send the information you need to do it until February. 🤦🏻‍♀️ But they gave me the number and now I am done with state & city. On to paying 4th q federal estimated taxes, due tomorrow!

Alright let's sleep the hell out of this night. 🐣 🪶

I've mentioned this before, but one thing I've been closely watching for is when crypto people begin to distance themselves from Trump. November 2024 vs. January 2026

New house is powered almost entirely by an ancient obelisk out the back I’m saving so much money

When my mom divorced, she chose her own unmarried name. When I’m required to put in a “mother’s maiden name” on a website, I use a randomly generated password. [Bank] never asked until I called. They’d gotten the info from public records. THEY MADE ME DEADNAME MY MOM TO TALK ABOUT MY ACCOUNT. 🤬

i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.

‘Dueling Banjos’ A silly thing I painted 11 years ago and apparently haven’t posted here before

BREAKING: Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife has made a “transformational” donation to the LGBTQ+ advocacy group. This large gift comes just months after the Trump administration shut down counseling services for queer youth. My latest for @wired.com:

It’s great for me that the client has started using an LLM to do compliance reviews bc I get to document all the stuff it missed, but WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. I am not saying an LLM couldn’t do this even. If @ed3d.net said he had it working, I’d believe him. I’m saying the way they use LLMs can’t.

Was anyone able to tell for sure what weight(s) the kettlebells on the Hegseth-terrible-swing video were? The ONE think I like about the steel kettlebells is the color coding. (This is an expression of personal taste and anthropometry, not a comment on girya sport.)

drawing is a fine motor skill and will fuck up your muscles and tendons if you don't stretch and the cool thing about tendons is that once you fuck them up they take anywhere from months to years to never to unfuck. so stretch

the new year

So at this point, I’d say Boar’s Head is a very hard “No.” There are other brands involved in this one, but Boar’s Head is in all of them it seems.