In my many months absence I have bought and started fixing up a house, started grad school, been getting crushed at work, and watching all of Ken Jennings's original Jeopardy run.

Also I don't know why Trump has to workshop mean nicknames for MTG so hard when my MIL has been calling her "Marjorie 3-names" with a devastating sneer for years.

Might have to come back to bsky to have a repository for thoughts like, "Twitter in the 40s would be like IF YOU'RE IN LINE TO DESECRATE MUSSOLINI'S CORPSE STAY IN LINE."

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Hi I'm still alive. I was super sick for a few weeks and then we went from, "maybe we should buy instead of rent?" to cleared to close in three weeks to the day, and now we're moving. I see everything has continued to be the expected level of terrible despite my absence from Online.

Having a really wild Friday night of mid-90s Law & Order eps on Hulu, NyQuil, and going to bed at 6 pm.

The irony is that this administration's policies are going to inadvertently push American consumers into drastically more environmentally sustainable consumption habits.

The true lesson of the past few weeks has been how hard it is to build good things, and how easy it is to destroy them.

I've been sick in bed with the worst bronchitis for almost a week, but it was nice to have something more pressing than the downfall of America to attend to.

Will add that my husband texted the group chat to let them know I got home okay but my phone was out of commission and they spent the day speculating that I literally Hulk crushed it in a rage at the Signal leak story--that was a pretty good hypothesis; my takes are too spicy for primetime.

My phone battery exploded on Monday and I just got it repaired, but after two full day hiatus from being extremely online I'm gonna see what I can do to limit my screen time more significantly.

Oh fuck yeah past me left future me which is now current me a bunch of lime Topo Chicos in the fridge for when I got off the plane.

Apologies to the rental car return guy I accidentally called baby and to the good people of Boston I clearly endangered by driving while tired enough to call the rental car return guy baby.

Me: What a great vacation! I love seeing my friends and being in a real city-- My body: HELLO THIS IS YOUR BODY WITH A SCORE UPDATE. I HAVE BEEN KEEPING IT. Me: Body, no. Please? My body: AS OF TODAY THE SCORE IS FATIGUE, HEADACHE, MALAISE, LACK OF FOCUS, AND BONUS COLD SORE. Me: Thanks, I guess.

Have developed a temporary mutual enmity with the old fuck in front of me on this plane who put, I shit you not, an empty duffle he "didn't want to crush" and a TENNIS RACKET in the overhead bin preventing my bag from fitting. Flight attendant mediated, which prevented me from catching a charge.

"'The Postal Service is the only entity that delivers to every address in the country, no matter how remote. If we privatize it, those rural customers will be left behind,' warns Tony McKinnon, president of the NC Council of the APWU."

I miss the subtlety of comic-book villains

"In conclusion, China is a land of contrasts. Thank you."

One of M's best senior officers he ever worked with described this as "experiential saturation." So many things happen so quickly to military families, some of them the kind of trauma that would derail anyone else's life and is considered a normal occurrence, you can't possibly process them all.

all these systems need massive reform. but one of the most dumbfounding things about Trump’s buzzsaw approach is how to makes so many of us small-c conservative—trying to preserve the systems we have because of the unconscionable costs of losing them outright—when we’d like to imagine better worlds

There's a role for everyone and some people are going to do stuff you would not do and vice versa. Personally my background is in civil movements and my tools are organizing civil society and mobilizing the kind of people that it looks really bad to shoot. There are alternatives and I respect them.

ANCIENT BRAIN CELLS HAVE BEEN ACTIVATED

Some people really need to consider conserving their dissent capital for future use. If you get arrested for making blatant threats on social media two months into this administration, that means you cannot participate in mass action, malicious compliance, or other activities a year from now.

“You seem like such an affable, kind, nice man,” Morgan said, her voice hesitant. “But I am so angry. I am so scared. I feel our democracy is in danger. ... I wish you’d be angry.” My story on Democrats in Congress facing rage from their constituents at town halls: www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Visa holders face more risk than US citizens & permanent residents from device searches at ports of entry, Saira Hussain told @theverge.com. “If you refuse a search of your phone or your laptop, customs officers can use that to potentially revoke your visa.”

When FEMA recently removed the Future Risk Index tool from its website, it took away a critical ability to quantify the economic impacts of climate change & erased years of data from multiple federal agencies. But 2 software engineers were able to rebuild it www.fastcompany.com/91294411/tru...

If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...

Find myself growing frustrated with the many essays, some beautifully written and poignant, some condescending and argumentative, dissecting all the reasons we suck, the reasons we're not doing enough, the doom we're creating for ourselves and each other. Not to be like personal responsibility! But.

Get the fuck off WhatsApp, guys.

Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:

I'm trying not to catastrophize beyond what I'm capable of intellectually processing today, but this, to put it lightly, seems pretty fucking bad and I feel pretty bad about it.

And then denied the TRO. Seems bad.

Gotta assume this would be the reaction if a judge reviewed in detail the resume of just about every employee ousted by DOGE.

Wrote this a couple days ago and seeing more people talking about this kind of thing, and maybe joking but also we tend to joke about things we're thinking about in some degree of seriousness.

Everything is bad but sometimes you are driving in the Spring wearing the kind of sunglasses that make everything Technicolor and there are no clouds and the tree leaves are highlighter yellow and you're listening to Radical Face and for that moment things are pretty okay.

Guys, I know I'm really strident about this in an off-putting way, but stop buying smart home devices. All of them. Throw the ones you have down the stairs repeatedly and then take them to electronics recycling.

Early in the pandemic I remember feeling so much all consuming rage at other people because I could not understand why they didn't understand that things were permanently different, sometimes things change permanently from one day to another and there's no going back, and we had to live anyway.

You rely on this agency’s data for weather and climate forecasts. DOGE is decimating its workforce. grist.org/politics/you... #NOAA #Weather #MUSK #DOGE #TRUMP #Climate

Language used by individuals associated with the federal government who deported people without trial or due process to a concentration camp in El Salvador, defying a court order, has a specific resonance that, historically, has been used to change regime type. snyder.substack.com/p/the-evil-a...

A lot of what might not have been considered "sensitive work" or "activism" a month ago now is. It's a good time to reevaluate your digital safety paradigms, the communities you're a part of, and how you can positively contribute to the data security ecosystem.

And remember that the best security practices are the ones you will actually maintain. Pick a set of actions and settings that fits with your lifestyle. Are you going to enter your PIN every time you open Signal? Prob not. That's okay! Pick sustainable practices and then practice them.

Lex Porter, a WWII Ojibwe Code Talker (and my grandmother's cousin) received a congressional medal of honor in 2008 for his service to the US--a nation that had spent decades trying to drive Native languages to extinction. He and his fellow Code Talkers have been removed by the DoD as "DEI."

Many little Buddha statues in Osaka 大阪には小さな仏像がたくさんある #Japan #Osaka #Buddha #大阪 #仏像

I have plenty of utopian aims and dreams but am almost wholly uninterested in the politics of anything if it does not start with what can be done today in real life.

I've been yammering on about this for months, but the chance is that the judicial defiance and tariff gyrations pale in comparison to the diplomatic standoff when we end up killing 50 Mexican citizens in drone striking a compound in Veracruz without a good sense of who are "cartel terrorists."

I know everyone loves to see the defense industry take Ls, but having fewer people who know what they're doing and have spent their careers executing operations under the rule of law when there is a cabal of enthusiastic would-be war criminals in charge of the military is bad, actually.

From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

The defence and protection of the environment continues to come at a high cost for activists. 🌱💚 We surveyed climate activists created a guide to limit social media monitoring.