Speed dating is going to be downright torturous to my autistic ears tonight. Way to pick a venue neurotypicals.

America's data center boom is being fueled by companies you've probably never heard of. About 70 firms — most predating the AI boom — are racing to build the infrastructure behind AI, raising billions and colliding with protests along the way. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Stand with Us and Demand Amazon Protect TPS Workers!. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/stan...

This is abuser logic extended to summary execution.

Odysseus broke xenia and agape like Oppenheimer broke the atom.

After Denmark became the first country in the world to end letter delivery, it became a case study in why we must protect our postal infrastructure. Danish postal workers urge the EU not to prioritize profit over public service as it prepares to rewrite EU postal rules. https://ow.ly/NbT850ZpJRN

‘Most people don’t know we’ve set up a doomsday system’: physicist Laura Grego on satellites, nuclear weapons and the battle for our skies

The thing I find most ironic is that corporations actually are intelligent artificial agents - that actually are destroying the world in the single minded pursuit of their goals. Corporations actually, tangibly *are* the threat that idiot sci-fi fantasists attribute to word prediction machines.

"The moment you start caring about what a gallery or a publisher thinks, you stop being an artist and become an employee." — Remedios Varo

My assault not being charged in the indictment (time barred) means I do not have access to victim compensation for therapy etc. I am asking friends to support me by sharing my Help Hope Live. Thanks for support. helphopelive.org/campaign/159... www.paypal.com/paypalme/kar... Venmo: KARRIE-HIGGINS-2

It's a scam all the way down. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed implementation of food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...

They kept distributing it until Thursday. So we've still 2 weeks of poss. new cases. "The shredded iceberg product was distributed June 29th thru July 16th in AL, AR, CT, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, and WI." www.taylorfarms.com/recall/

I am available for poetry manuscript consultations. I've done manuscript consultations for Frontier Poetry and I was a Visiting Professor at the Iowa Writers Workshop in 2022, as well as being the author of 4 books, the last two from Copper Canyon. Rates are flexible. [email protected]

Ritalin didn’t earn my MFA, I did. Could I have gotten through grad school without it? Yes. But, I didn’t have to. It’s not wrong or cheating for the disabled to have accommodation. I don’t have to prove anything to anyone here.

give what you wish the world had because there’s only what you bring to it

Jorge Luis Borges, “To the One Who Is Reading Me” [Tr. Tony Barnstone]

Want to avoid explosive diarrhea? Pass it on

I was happier when writing. How do I get back there?

Not only do we stand by our reporting. Madison Square Garden’s ridiculous lawsuit actually confirms it, noting the company did, in fact, track the sexual orientation of LGBTQIA celebrities in its talent database.

Before the gold mosaics, Klimt mastered the "Glow." In Lady by the Fireplace (1898), domesticity becomes drama. By using the fire as a spotlight, he transforms a quiet interior into a moody, psychological stage.

Marco Rubio's "ANTIFA as terrorism" summit is about criminalizing dissent. It will allow the state to target citizens opposed to Washington's fascist agenda. Canada's decision to send delegates makes us complicit. We are ANTIFA. We must hold our ground. youtube.com/shorts/vb9OQ...

We’re our own person, but we’re also a synthesis of all our family members’ genes and personalities. I’m seeing what I got from whom, and trying my best to leave some things behind going forward. You don’t have to be your parents. You’re not fated to become them.

Tweets disappear. Emails get buried. But a postcard on a desk? That gets noticed. civicmail.org/about-campai... via @civicmail.bsky.social

Looking for a quote. The gist is one thing truly experienced in it’s entirety is enough to fill a life. I think it’s Rilke. I’ll be up all night looking for it.

I know, I know, it’s substack, but hear her out. celestemdavis.substack.com/p/epstein-fi...

Maybe Television will rub off on the mainstream after that Anthony Bourdain biopic trailer. Marquee Moon’s a great album.

Banks: stop funding KEPCO's coal action.eko.org/a/banks-don-...

Park rangers fined Sandra Shachar for vandalism this morning at the President’s House, hours after the Trump admin installed its version of history. The 72 year old has been posting news articles on the site’s walls since the slavery exhibit was removed. If she does it again, she’ll be arrested.

“Punk rock and alternative music would not be what it is or where it is without Jennifer Finch. We send loving energy to her. Please—if you can—every contribution helps. Thanks, xx Michael” www.gofundme.com/f/jennifer-f...

Miss Kitty just puked all over one of my new t-shirts.

Jenny Holzer, Lady Pink, Trust visions that don't feature buckets of blood, 1983-84 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137826

Mass firings, critical agencies gutted, exposed personal data, life-saving international aid cut. DOGE wasn’t efficient, it was reckless. Tell Members of Congress: Lead Investigations into Musk & DOGE. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

new lizard just dropped in the yard

WELCOME TO THE POLICE STATE: A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance.... www.wired.com/story/sfpd-d...

Let’s see how this Robert Alter Ecclesiastes translation goes.

BIO You were a wild spark crackling out of a fire, an ember going from nowhere to nowhere. You were a fluke, a freak, a mistake no one else would make.

No. apnews.com/article/mitc...

Happy #smallpoemsunday Bring on the light for all of us, please 🖤🕯🖤 @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

René Maltête, Square Richard-Lenoir, Paris, 1965

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

this, for me, is the defining Lindsey Graham statement

Every tornado warning. Every hurricane forecast. Every flood alert. They all depend on the National Weather Service. Send a postcard to save it today. bit.ly/4vg1Nm0

A little night music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6NQ...

Love in a nutshell. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlSs...

Been crying a lot today, and maybe I need to for all the times I couldn’t.

Even beauty is pain because it reminds you of what you can’t have.

My parents had no idea the damage they did to me. If only they’d given me time and privacy to weather my emotions. Or kept the good psychologist they didn’t like, too expensive, instead of the bad one. If only they didn’t push me to the point of breaking and respected boundaries and my limits. But …

I don’t think I’m ready for dating. It’s stressful and draining and plays with my head.

The passport should represent 340 million Americans, not one elected official. civicmail.org/about-campai... #advocacy #politics #government #usa #America #News #change #activism #BreakingNews #ICYMI #civicmail #petitions #actions #petition #political #policy #progressive

“CalMatters used annual reports to create a mass inventory of the equipment found at California higher education institutions, which includes hundreds of semi-automatic rifles, thousands of munitions containing the same chemical as chili peppers, and hundreds of thousands of rifle munitions.”