I also had two of the neighbor kids running beside my truck as I drove down the barn road, grinning at me as they raced along. So today's trip was delightful.

Second time this week I've gone to the barn and happened to pull up just as one of the huge local coyotes - a different one this time - loped across the mare field and into the bushes at the side of the road. They've also been yelling quite a bit lately. One of my favorite parts of living here.

I went out of my way yesterday to put the horses in so they'd be dry for tonight's vet visit. It's beautifully clear outside this morning. Oh well. If I hadn't put them in, it would be pouring this morning.

I stopped by the barn today just in time to see one of the big local coyotes lope across the pastures, right by the mares, and across the road. It paused before diving into the blackberries to stare at me before vanishing. The mares didn't even look up. A very appreciated moment in a rough month.

Random internet trolls should not be able to get away with ruining a good person’s life simply because she (fully legally!) posted a joke about them on the internet. If you have anything to spare to help my friend fight back against this monster please donate.

Also, this injury happened when I was 13. I learned to use a broken body extremely efficiently because I didn't think it could be fixed. The idea of being even partly...normal?...physically is fascinating and exciting.

I went through an intensive chiropractic assessment over the last 2 weeks and found out that maybe I hurt because my head is literally not on straight. Slipped disk, pinched nerves, spine only has 2 vertebrae in the right position, pelvis tilted and twisted.

Press release:

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

What is antifa, and why should you care that Trump wants to outlaw it?

Thanks, LinkedIn, I'd love to apply for a job that's onsite AND pays literally a third of what I make now.

It seems worth noting that Project 2025’s handbook extensively targeted LGBTQ+ communities nationwide, across multiple areas.

Mmmm, it sure would be funny if he pisses off CK's sudden new fanbase...

Me: I'm going to send myself an email so I remember to do that thing tomorrow. Me, five minutes later: Ooo, a new email! I wonder what that is!

This is straight, uncut 1930s-style Nazi propaganda. They're still trying to tie the assassination to someone — anyone! — who is transgender. The fact remains, however, that a white man from a conservative MAGA family in Utah murdered Charlie Kirk.

Today's work is a great challenge to my imposter syndrome, as I dismantle the templates the company I work for uses for its entire process and say "yeah, but I have an idea..." I am a developmental editor at heart. I've just never done something this immense, with such high visibility. No stress.

When I was injured 20+ years ago, the only solution was to fuse a bunch of stuff together. 10 years ago, massage and exercise. Now, soundwave therapy, laser therapy, specialized massage, physical therapy...now we can undo the majority of the injury AND the 20+ years of living with it.

But he did a full-body assessment to measure the impact of my teenage riding accident and oof. The entire right side of my body is held together with duct tape and prayers, which I knew, but seeing it all written out was painful. The good news is that we should be able to fix a lot of it!

Thanks to a rec from one of my beloved massage therapists, I met with a new chiropractor last night for an assessment. Waiting on xray confirmation, but probable herniated disk in my neck, which could explain several other chronic issues. Answers are good.

Sometimes I wonder why my hands are so dry. Other days, I peel fire-charred chilies with ungloved hands and then, two hours later, scrub acrylic paint off with a dry towel and have paint-stained hands for two hours.

AI companies in general and OpenAI in particular are part of an authoritarian project to centralize power. That's actually how I would define AI tools: not by their tech stack, but by their political goals. @ali-alkhatib.com wrote a great piece about this and I cosign 100%

and like the larger authoritarian project, the insistence that it all has to be treated politely is part of how it is normalized to a lot of people that are mostly looking for social cues as to how they're supposed to navigate the world

in fact, some people who use these tools are *looking for permission to refuse* they're being told they HAVE TO TRY IT and they don't want to be the first one to stand up and say uh this sucks i don't want it publicly rejecting it gives permission to refuse

tl;dr - I don't think coaching people on how to use ai is an effective form of harm reduction - I think we should use different messages for the people pushing AI and the people they're pushing it on - People who know better shouldn't use it or encourage others to use it

A weather page I follow posted about a frost advisory, but I'm so used to seeing an ice cube emoji as the signal for immigration terrorism that it took me a solid minute to redirect my brain.

I got THREE vaccines yesterday (covid, flu, 1st Hep B), and have been feeling quite icky this evening, so I decided to take a nice, long bath. Got settled in, glanced at my phone, and saw a lightning storm heading for us. So, I'll be reading in bed...

Folks also asking for more photos of specific agents. They're all very covered up, but here you go. Pls don't try to crowdsource IDing them in the comments, this almost never works out, but do message if you recognize! (No capacity to alt text these, sorry)

Lots of people still asking about this patch. Here's the whole thing. It's a Chicago ICE field office SRT patch—that's our skyline and our flag with uhhhh some kind of winged long gun/weapon looking thing with a thin blue line on it. Tldr;—cops are tacky.

We couldn’t possibly be in a worse information environment for what’s happening. Which is probably, in part, why it’s happening.

Attention #AcademicSky Everyone is talking about books, but thousands of academic journals were also pirated and are entitled to up to $3,000 *per pirated volume!!!* if editors submit titles to join the suit. Incredible opportunity for underfunded journals to get some $$! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky

Can anyone point me to any livestreamers working in Chicago tonight?

There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed. So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.

Everyone knows Vimes Boots Theory, but everyone forgets that passage is bookended by Vimes further musing on the difference between new and old money, and how the truly rich can live like they're poor while the nouveau riche feel a need to show off their wealth in tacky ways

When even Rand Paul thinks you’re despicable.

ICE is turning around now, escorted by Broadview police. Crowd is jubilant. Someone is shouting, "this is what it takes! They are turning around!"

Chicago really hates Trump. Good for them.

Can’t express in words how big this rally in Chicago is. The president’s fascist goon squad is not welcome here.

Anti-ICE/Gestapo protest - Chicago, IL Right now!

Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.

Getting 1 million people in the streets in one city is a massive organizing feat. Feel free to stomp your feet in the mentions.

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda How quick we forget.

So very happy to live on the West Coast right now.

America heartbroken to discover president somehow still alive

Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week. newatlas.com/energy/large...

The City of Atlanta is opening its first municipal grocery store today. The city is spending $3.5 million in partnership with a neighborhood grocery chain in an effort to eliminate a downtown food desert. www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

I know all this is frequently compared to Nazi Germany, but I wonder if brownshirts were as gleefully, aggressively hated as ICE and our cut-rate goosesteppers are. Reporting locations, driving them out of hotels, outing them, blocking them into buildings...there is a lot of resistance.

With news of a reported settlement with Anthropic I went back to check the class action form and it now allows authors outside the US to input their address, so it may be worth adding your known pirated titles (from the LibGen pirate database) www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...