How did I live before I had cats?

Lemme help y'all out with this since I see folks struggling with this concept in the comments: Not liking Zionists =/= antisemitic Equating all American Jews with Zionists and vandalizing their place of worship = antisemitic Hope this helps!

Consolidation in the EHR market -- where there are 2 dominant vendors -- is creating a big risk of a catastrophic cybersecurity event. @ajh.bsky.social, @natea.bsky.social, and I ponder the possibility of a "single-point-of-failure" risk in the EHR market in this Health Affairs Scholar commentary

If you're at a protest and need to fix a bicycle tire, you can use one of these on a keychain : www.walmart.com/ip/Tire-Valv...

The wonderful Data Curation Network datacuration.network (a collective of institutions focused on curating research data) is hiring a Director! The position is hosted by the University of Minnesota Libraries and has remote working (within US) possibilities! hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370...

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

New POLITICO report: Trump admin is “exploring options to sell parts of the government’s $1.6T student loan portfolio to the private market.” We're announcing our willingness to purchase the portfolio for its market value. We will then subsequently cancel the debt. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Two longtime @wiscon.bsky.social and @otherwiseaward.org volunteers, powerhouse bi organizer Lou Hoffman and poet and quilter Terry Garey, passed away yesterday. Our sympathies to their loved ones and communities. 😢

IT IS ALIVE!! Behold the cover for Rabbit Test and Other Stories, out in April! Preorder while it is still legal to distribute through the mail!

I think we are well past the point where future historians look at us and say that civil war could not be averted.

Booooooooo!!!

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson. www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Academics love our fine distinctions between concepts, like "it's not really fascism, it's a hybrid regime, or it's 'competitive authoritarianism'." Uh huh. Not technically wrong, but if you don't see all the fascism in your competitive authoritarianism, you're equivocating on democracy's grave.

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

did you have to reboot, @piranha4d.bsky.social ? The still standing list/feed disappeared for a bit and I thought oh noes!

With just one month to Election Day, I am honored to be the second candidate running for mayor ever to receive the endorsement of @jvpaction. Minneapolis is ready for a leader that will fight for human dignity, justice and freedom for everyone - no exceptions.

I need to stop trying to have actual conversations with someone I care about. This sucks.

If you've lost someone to opioids in whatever fashion, maybe talk to pain patients, people like me who need opioids to be available in the very long term. We know the subject well, and share a lot of the same goals.

What was that site that last month we were all trying to get our addresses and phone numbers off of? I can’t remember the name.

All my friends need opsec, everyone please stop showing your identifiable tattoos 😭😭😭

Is there a suggested safe way to take white nationalist flyers down? I have heard sometimes they tape up razor blades with them.

Can I preserve spinach? Like blanch and freeze it? Right or I have a choice of fresh spinach from the store, some of which I will cook with, and some of which will end up in the compost heap, or frozen, always more than I need and also cooked within an inch of its life.

This is me and my cat, Don’t Lick My Head. I call him Bobby for short.

Is there a suggested safe way to take white nationalist flyers down? I have heard sometimes they tape up razor blades with them.

You know all those Hatch Act violations? Guess who is now in charge of investigating them? www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

I will never stop smiling when I get a reminder that I live in a country where the political literature at election time features an eco-communist coalition. Blessed.

you should watch the quoted video and then read this by emily st. james episodes.ghost.io/childhood-no...

Today, ICE agents kidnapped people who were working on the roof of a house in my neighborhood. That’s the closest to home it’s been for me, quite literally. Fuck ICE.

This is an *excellent* piece about how systemic accessibility failures happen and what we can all do to stop them from happening as often, to which I would add:

Davis Moturi email to city council, read aloud by CM Wonsley Wednesday. Sees similarity between his case & Mariah Samuels: "A black person in fear for their lives, and a department who can't be bothered to forward a case for consideration of charges in our time of greatest need."

As we use AI to scale, we need to know how to threat model to evaluate what the AIs produce. That's why my team and I are revamping Adam Shostack's Threat Modeling Intensive just for OWASP from Nov 3-5, 2025 in Washington D.C. The AI revolution is now. Stay secure from day 1. tinyurl.com/yexsbccm

I don’t know who needs to hear this but you can now pick up a @mplsforthemany.com “Rank 3 for Change” lawn sign at @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social or Bench Pressed in S Mpls

Yay! Found my local shot and I'm scheduled.

Forced to fly for a memorial service and just went through TSA at MSP. There’s no apparent way to opt out of facial recognition here now. The regime already has our mugs from the ré-entry we made at Sault St Marie by car. Cameras pointed directly into the car while waiting in line.

On the off chance you don’t know how to check your account online: www.minneapolismn.gov/resident-ser...

The Robster being comfy during the tornado siren test.

Awooo!

I have a shoddy immune system. Sewage systems are sexy.

These stories of state-led law enforcement cruelty with no respect for process, inflicted on ordinary citizens with tiny infractions, remind me of my time reporting from authoritarian China.

I've hit $50 towards the $600 needed by TOMORROW to save my storage unit from being auctioned off. Can anyone else please help me get closer? Any amount makes a difference- and please share!

Either real-time bidding data or app SDK data is being bought and used by ICE to seize people from the streets. If you didn’t believe that the adtech stack is a human rights concern, I’m not sure what more evidence you need. www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

If you think this is US-only, it's not. If you think the GDPR protects you, it's doesn't. If you hadn't realised privacy is a national security and corporate espionage issue, it is. If you think politicians can't tackle this, they can. If you believe that tech or business need this, they don't.

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

absolutely lost my shit in the middle of a teams call because while something was discussed i wondered what the early images of Lilith were and i'm sorry but look LOOK en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith#...

I have to choose between build mastery and self soothe. This is hard!

people were worried about a behind the scenes loyalty test and once again they get around outrage by just doing the thing right out in the open

Getting tattoos of popular or unpopular media is always a risk, because one day that person is suddenly revealed to be a puppy kicking nonce and then you have puppy kicking nonce lyrics on your arm