Holy shit.

If you have a Ring camera, get rid of it now.

Can hugely recommend; these are good stories.

If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status. Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487

Maia's post about Substack also has links to guides, etc toward the bottom. www.patreon.com/posts/substa...

Oh hey, for the early morning crowd . . . www.standwithminnesota.com Also be sure to take your morning meds, drink something, eat something. Listen to a song you like. 💜 There are more of us than there are of them.

“We can’t abolish ICE, that’s ridiculous.” Buddy, they just abolished the Department of Education. We can do whatever the fuck we want.

Caturday - our little anxious dude Mabon has really been freaking out this week of house deep cleaning/rearranging Stuff. His sibs are keeping him close. 💖💖💖

I know plenty have folks have shared it but in case you missed it, Discord is asking for user opinions on adding AI to the platform. Give em hell and tell them precisely how you feel about it. Including the intent to leave if it's added in. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

@rokhanna.bsky.social’s report on X of his visit to the immigration concentration camp in CA near NV, operated by CoreCivic. Many in thread 🧵 “I might be the first Member of Congress to enter alongside a staff member who took detailed notes to tour the ICE California City Detention Center.”

The aging pedophile who wants to be a king has kidnapped the leader of a sovereign nation without congressional approval. If the United States had an opposition party, they would treat this as an illegitimate act and start impeachment proceedings immediately.

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Celebrating at the end of the year: a highly favored discovery this year is Shared Cultures miso made on all manner of different-than-soy veggies and grains. In Japan some purists say it's very interesting but not miso but we don't have a better name for it; we say yum: www.shared-cultures.com

So - I'm making Mutual Aid request here, on behalf of a schoolteacher friend in Minnesota Winter whose furnace needs replacing asap. She's got all but about $2000 of the bigger bucks she's needed - can you help bring her up over the top? Every little but helps. Thanks! gofund.me/43738e7be

Tom, your alt text game is utterly On, in this thread of great portal pix.

#COMPANIONSofCHRISTMAS: Tante Arie and Marion Plenty of livestock was present when Jesus was born in a stable, including a donkey who was the first animal to acknowledge the baby’s divinity, bowing down at his cradle and thereafter affixing herself to the Holy Family. 1/

#COMPANIONSofCHRISTMAS: Shmutzli! Schmutzli was a chimneysweep in Switzerland, and took in many children from the local orphanage. He didn’t do this out of love or charity; he wanted tiny workers to do the dangerous job of going down the slimmest chimneys to remove the soot and coal ash. 1/

#COMPANIONSofCHRISTMAS: Guinefort, the Cajun Christmas Werewolf! When Santa Claus visits the bayous of Louisiana, the dense canopy of trees that blanket the rivers along which its people live preclude him from employing his reindeer-pulled sleigh. 1/

And so the Shortest Day came and the year died. Everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world came people singing, dancing, to drive the dark away.

The courts have ruled multiple times that AI output isn't copyrightable because it has no author meaning: 1) AI writing is public domain. You don't own any of it. 2) You can't be sure that the writing in your piece isn't stolen, because authorship be damned, you are responsible for what you sell.

"I'm the type of woman that if I want the moon, I'll get it down myself!" Frida Kahlo Good morning everyone, so just go for it, whatever you want and have a great Wednesday. #ArtAdventCalendar #moon #skyscape before #sunrise #photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

Oh my. All the Christmas kittens

As the literacy rate declines, you’ll ask yourself why the quality of life continues to deteriorate in ways large and small, and in almost every instance the answer will be: because people stopped reading.

just gonna put this here www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-complete...

Calendrier de l'avent d'enluminures médiévales, jour 1. Une petite marginalia (= dessin dans une marge de manuscrit) représentant... un lapin dans une camisole de force 😅?? BNF, ms. Francais 95, fol. 138v ; un roman arthurien copié vers 1270-1290.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: Grey Whales Blue whales (on the same day!) Stellar's Jays Banana Slugs Hummingbirds from egg to babies to fledgelings to next year's grownups come back to nest in our avocado tree Why yes I have lived near Santa Cruz, CA.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen Kevin Burke down at St. Mary's by the Sea in PG Rhiannon Giddens Jethro Tull 50th Anniversary tour Indigo Girls Postmodern Jukebox not naming musical theatre or countless social dances with amazing live music tho they count in my heart

Hurrah, Hurrah!

Hillel: put your right foot in Gentile: done Hillel: now take it out Gentile: ...ok Hillel: put your other foot in, shake it all about Gentile: wait what? Hillel: what is hateful to you do not do to another Hillel: that's what it's all about

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Happy book day to Cynthia Erivo, whose well-produced, self narrated work, Simply More, dropped today. Reflections on creative, present life & living through the lens of autobiography, it has been a heartwarming and encouraging evening's Listen. Received with love & gratitude.

Alice Wong has died. Rest in Power, and may her memory be for a blessing.

#RemembranceDay Lest We Forget 🙏🕊

I'm hearing these SNAP benefit updates: -100% Washington state -100% Michigan -100% California -Partial Illinois -Partial North Carolina -1/2 Vermont (Note that not everyone in these states received money today because their typical day of the month for benefits may not have passed yet)

"Last week, I watched a flaneur spend his entire afternoon staring at a blank piece of cardboard. When my manager asked what he was doing, the man responded that he was 'Kinda just raw-dogging the Montmartre, waiting for the light to hit.'"

@governor.ca.gov Governor Newsom, given the abject failure of GOP transphobia tonight to get them absolutely any success whatsoever with voters, will you be reconsidering your policy of throwing transgender Californians under the bus to further your political ambitions?

We are deeply enjoying our first dip into Michael Twitty's new book, Recipes from the American South, and look forward to this program about it!

Feel like I need to drop this in here, people need to know youtu.be/eXXYfigdfw0?...

"Trump tore down the White House without permission" is even easier to understand than "No Kings"

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

Oh, I love that monorail in Seattle. Thanks for posting the No Kings rally view!

Help me share to 100 (big number!) You know you want to 😀 #RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth youtu.be/G71MZynajjQ?...

Ooohh... This is fascinating stuff.

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread: I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong. So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

Oh, sweet summer children. If you see this, quote repost with a game that released in the year you were born! #gamesky Yes, released as in published (feeling quaint).🤣🤣🤣👍💖

Reminder from your resident high school lubrarian: if you plan to do a Banned Books Week display and programming, prioritize living marginalized authors. Use this time to help those who need it the most.