Trivial Thingling

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

Terracotta pig.

Ran into this absolute unit in Cleveland

it's really funny that we endured an entire summer of "Bluesky is DYING because nobody engages with me the one time a month I post here" thinkpieces all summer just for this bozo ass government to try to open up shop here because nobody they're trying to piss off uses Twitter anymore

actually now I’m realizing that the hardest one to explain to strangers is why I keep all my time travel scifi next to the Watergate shelf and not with the rest of the scifi

time travel does not live in the same box as space or robots in my head, it lives with like The Warren Report 😂

sitting on the concrete of the porch and kicking my toes around in the adjacent sunshine :3 while snacking on dry cereal

Not everyone can care about everything; that's fine. I just don't love being in the bucket of "things I don't have the energy to care about."

Some of these folks have done things like texting me to make sure I've gotten home safe; in retrospect, that just feels performative for their benefit.

A struggle that pops up from time to time in my heart is between my deep love of well thought out RPG mechanics driving emergent behavior and the fact that most of the best games I have ever been in have just been people talking.

your shoes are gorgeous 🤩

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

Hope builds courage. Pass it on.

Crowd at America the Beautiful Park, Colorado Springs

It’s not the turnout in big cities that has me crying today. It’s turnout in places like Colorado Springs. Deep red, no Democratic member of Congress in over 50 years.

This was today.

yes! exactly! that is a shoe car that should go vroooom, putt putt putt, vroooomm!! across the play rug

i love him

the whole article could have just been ten pages of “Brilliant Things Eleanor O’Brien Said,” and some gold was left on the cutting room floor, but this is such a banger of a closer and it’s so very much the theme of today

I just keep thinking about the first guy to put on the frog costume reading the news today and seeing frogs literally all over the world

what a fucking thing, man

that 25 year old did more for the country in a week than most of the NYT op-ed section in a lifetime

"KNOW YOUR PROTEST RIGHTS You don’t need a permit to protest in response to breaking news and you don’t need a permit to march in the streets or along sidewalks, as long as you’re not obstructing traffic or access to buildings. When you are lawfully present in any public space, you have the right to photograph anything in plain view, including federal buildings and the police. If you believe your rights have been violated, when you can, write down everything you remember, get contact information for witnesses, and take photographs of any injuries. If you get stopped by the police, ask if you’re free to go. If they say yes, calmly walk away. If you get arrested, you have a right to ask why. Otherwise, say you wish to remain silent and ask for a lawyer immediately. Don’t sign, say or agree to anything without a lawyer present. If you get stopped by a member of the military or any law enforcement office at a protest, you have the right to remain silent or to tell them that you’ll only answer questions in the presence of an attorney — no matter your citizenship or immigration status."

If you're taking to the streets to protest today, know your rights.

so a lot of people who haven't been to a lot of protests are out right now and I need to make clear to them:

do NOT sign your name on anything. Doesn't matter who they say they are, do not put your name/signature/phone number down.

I've seen a lot of photos of people taking lists, and it seems well-meaning, and also you're setting up your own people to be comfortable around and to not see a really common trap

I moved from solid Blue Austin, to red,
Starting to blush purple Colorado.

I’m in a military town. A place that hasn’t voted for a Dem Rep in the half century of my life.

There’s a solid No Kings protest out in America the Beautiful Park.

We are breaking through

lord, i see what you're doing for other people . . .

3: good job! you did it! okay one more thing

which of these doors is the one that leads back out, instead of opening into an occupied office that you have nothing to do with

hope you were paying attention to your route !!

2: here's your glasses back. okay now make your way through this crowded room of people. they're all talking to each other, but they're all looking at you. expectantly. just watching.

1: hand over your glasses, now cross this floor that's covered in wiggly snakes and scorpions and such

(yes they're motors and rubber, but can you be suuuure?)

wait okay

👻HALLOWEEN GAME👻

please design a three-room “terrifying to you personally” haunted house

1. real things only

2. SCARY not GROSS please

3. incorporating Trump is not forbidden but IS playing on the lowest difficulty setting

I’m opening replies and quotes, don’t make me regret it!!

a red, two door squashed round 90s suv. What are you doing, little guy? what's your deal? the world would be better if cars like you stuck around.

seriously, who is this little guy? where's he going?

oh! oh! he looks like a little shoe

im a little dizzy and sleepy but i have a 3 week old kitten napping on my lap so i guess i am stuck for a bit

General reminder:

It is less important to be able to recognize that someone is a fed or other bad actor infiltrating your movement

Than it is to be able to recognize the bad advice or suggestions that they provide.

It doesn't matter if, for instance, the people saying "the best response to violence at a protest is to sit down and show the cops you're not a threat" are trolls, feds, or well-meaning dupes.

It's important to know that the advice will get folks hurt or killed, and should not be trusted.