This is a way to help some folks who need access to free support & by donation consultations, therapy (for those in NY) and workshops- And get access to some writing and conversation in exchange These subscriptions allow me to offer services on a pay-whatever-you-can-or-not basis

I don’t wanna look back at this year. I’m still dragging myself through all the same stuff and looking back will make me MORE TIRED.

This one! With Janine de Novais www.whatashrinkthinks.com/recorded-dis... bsky.app/profile/jkma...

Tornado Warning inside a Severe Thunderstorm Warning inside a Flash Flood Warning in LA County at the moment, if you're wondering how things are going... #CAwx #LArain

The results are in! People hate AI! But not as much as they hate the people foisting it on them!

I knowwwww! Creation and creativity are the world's greatest joy and pleasure and they are all saying things like "but a machine could do it." Goddamn I didn't know that the goal of AI was to make life stupid and dreary

Standing upright

On Trump’s orders, the National Center for Atmospheric Research will be shut down after more than 50 years as a leader in global research on climate science and monitoring. This is what authoritarian science looks like. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

I don’t know what this is or isn’t other than its in the files But this “They are aborting babies after they are born!” is something nonsensical that he has said 1000’s of times and makes more horrific sense if this is so.

"Patients with acute myeloid leukemia — a rare cancer of the bone marrow and blood — have long faced limited treatment options...until now, thanks to a drug developed through innovative research by Jolanta Grembecka and Tomasz Cierpicki, professors of pathology..."

College boy returns home for the holidays Finally comes out of the bed room.

Bits of Hafez circle in my brain: You could become a great horseman And help to free yourself and this world It is a naive man who thinks we are not Engaged in a fierce battle, For I see and hear brave foot soldiers All around me And carry your heart through this world Like a life-giving sun

The Onion got scooped again

wendell berry QUESTIONNAIRE

You all: I’ve been talking about this for a year. What is your license worth when conversion therapy CEU’s are eventually required (currently accepted) in order to sustain it?

Not again with this Greenland bullshit. He's out of his mind.

“.. More than 42 million Americans hold student loans.” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/12/23/s...

More than 1,000 Palestinian patients have died while awaiting treatment abroad, amid collapse of Gaza healthcare sector.

Every “nice” 60+ degree day in December has its costs. I am chilled to the bone in this winter drought when people talk about how “beautiful” the warm snow-cap-less day is.

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Seems like a reasonable idea (not to be confused with a new idea): “The lack of progress, and occasional bad blood between the commissioners, has prompted some to call for including more people at the negotiating table.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

"…ICE does not say what it accepts as definitive proof of legal status. Is it a driver’s license? A green card? A folder of immigration documents?" I'm hoping it's a passport card. 😬

Of historic proportions:

Why are we still allowing scammers to ruin people’s lives? This is a solvable problem. www.currentaffairs.org/news/if-demo...

I grew up in a big free untweezed eyebrow era, thanks to Brook Shields And there is a whole intensification of the hyper groomed BIG HEAVY darkened eyebrow in this era that sometimes freaks me out. Like I can’t pay attention to the face because it’s underneath two huge authoritative eyebrows!

STOP CALLING THEM BATTLESHIPS FFS, people

🥚 We live in barbarism. No abortion, health insurance, or affordable childcare for you but please feel free, young lady, to endure a pregnancy, risk your life in childbirth, and throw your baby in a box so rich people can have it. Adoption supply chain infrastructure 👇 time.com/7299476/baby...

🚨JUST IN: #ICE is barred from re-detaining #Salvadoran native #Kilmar #Abrego #Garcia through the #Christmas holiday, the federal judge in his #immigration case said. [Link in ALT]

"Researchers found that withdrawing support for rapidly advancing mRNA vaccine technology could result in over 49,000 preventable deaths annually among patients diagnosed with four major cancers..." Pro-death administration.

“We feel helpless in the present because we cannot even for a moment stop its movement to direct it more intelligently” ~ Otto Rank, 1939

The 2025 Symbolic Lab is a collaborative, online, arts-based research project facilitated by @sheainthecatskills.com & myself around the theme of trust. These gatherings are offered by donation. No prior experience is needed to join! sheainthecatskills.com/the-symbolic...

Remember we live in the bizarro world. Don’t forget or you’ll look for truth in a sea of lies.

“It turns out that banishing the slur from public discourse was, in fact, important. Because now it’s back and it turns out that it does matter when subtext becomes actual text, when terrible people enable open hatred and bigotry, encouraging others to emulate them, degrading us all.”

Important context here: when Peter Thiel and David Sacks began their war on diversity as undergrads at Stanford, thirty years ago, the very first tactic they adopted was to normalize slurs that had already been stigmatized out of mainstream society. This return of these hateful terms was a key goal.

I’d already given up all faith in CBS news as anything other than news from the State. Others still had faith that journalism could still happen there?

"prompt theft" is funny as hell like oh no somebody did the same google search as me. grow up

I save the notes people write me about how my writing has consoled them in a folder labeled “kindness” - and look back at them when I imagine I am shouting into a void, or merely chasing illusions.

I have spent a long time planting a lot of seeds without seeing much of the fruit. I believe it is out there just not in my own yard. And I’m going to probably keep on anyway knowing me.

Digging in:

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

I should probably feel more hopeless than I do, But I’m feeling something heavy lift off the past few days and am glad for it.

New -- I spoke to a physician warning that AI industry incentives are a "perfect storm" for a public health crisis: “If we fail to act, we risk letting market forces, rather than public health, define how relational AI influences mental health and well-being at scale.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

*laughs in archivist* anyone who thinks it's all been digitized is out of their goddamn mind. We don't have the staff, resources, or digital infrastructure to digitize, store, check, and maintain at preservations standards a digital copy of every single item in our collections.

I’m going to be immersing myself in Otto Rank’s “Beyond Psychotherapy” over the next month or so and sharing my reflections in this series if that interests anyone

Weird dream eye-ball boy

I also had to learn how to rotate the tapes to fill in for the tape librarian when she was out sick or on vacation. The computer room was always cold.

Also: because frankly there is nothing more gorgeous than work deep in an archive and surfacing stories that would be almost entirely forgotten otherwise. Its BEAUTIFUL.

CBS News(max) is officially cooked. Bari Weiss killed a whole-ass network.

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.