Sam I Am

If anyone knows Wizard Frog, please tell them thank you a thousand times, they're giving me some slight hope

Y'all. I'm tired. I feel like everyone is gaslighting everyone about everything. I just want to go live in the woods and never talk to people ever again.

MAGA friend heard a podcaster he likes was down at ICE livestreaming the 'anarchy' so he went down to the war zone he's been fearing for over two weeks. Came back all buzzy about the great people he talked with and how fun it was. I was like "how's that war zone working out for you?!?" 🙄

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

The rain has soaked through everything. Your socks just sprouted a mushroom. You haven't smelled decent BBQ since your last night in Texas, before mustering. Suddenly, a metallic creak echoes through the fog. They were coming again. The naked cyclists. "Just four weeks a year," you mutter.

I just feel like I'm in crazy town the past few days.

Oregon: We ultimately have a perception vs. reality problem. Trump thinks there's a war going on. In reality, Portland is a beautiful city.

My friend says my 'reality is broken' and I'm 'only seeing what I want to see.' I guess the fact that I'm not seeing riots and destruction downtown is willful ignorance? Exhausting

My MAGA friend who also lives in Portland has sent me Nick Shirley's latest and some videos from something called UnDivided to 'prove' that I'm imagining that we're not in a war zone... I said it felt like these videos were engineered to me. Here's a video of Nick leaving the protest.

Oh interesting, I thought, my danskos are a little worn out, what could I get instead? Then I saw the prices 💸

Finally saw the "Fuck ICE, not the solid H20 kind, the other kind" graffiti by my house #warravagedportland

"They are literally attacking and there are fires all over the place...it looks like terrible." Dude, I just rode the bus downtown and back and encountered zero attacks or fires. It's raining so that was looking pretty 'like terrible' but that's on par for October here

Local News Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

I'm going to vague-post into the universe that I have a couple of opportunities this week that I would dearly love to work out for me and my family and appreciate any positive vibes tossed my direction 🙏

Quick reminder that it's 100% fine to be autistic.

ZERO idea or clue.

Funny story. A MAGA acquaintance was telling me all about Charlie Kirk this and that, and then asked me if I was familiar with his "hard work in American politics." I responded that most of us in higher education were aware of him primarily due to the watch list and resulting death threads. "Oh."

nobody will remember:
- your salary
- how “busy you were”
- how many hours you worked

people will remember:
- the twenty-first night of september
- changin' the minds of pretenders
- chasin' the clouds away

UC employees, not waiting on leaders, sue Trump for 'financial coercion' over UCLA cuts University of California employees on Tuesday sued President Trump over a $1.2-billion penalty against UCLA and federal demands for sweeping campus changes. They argued that the actions are unconstitu...

The lawsuit alleges Trump is illegally forcing conservative ideology on UC education through financial coercion and constitutional violations. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Folks, I don’t know what end is up right now.

People responding to this saying “the internet is forever”, but actually 38% of web pages that existed in 2013 are no longer online. Data, documents, and websites need to be archived and (importantly, this is a distinct thing) preserved or they will go away.

Thanks to @etvpod.bsky.social for the early morning chuckle and new personal label in the phrase "Gold Star atheist" 😇

November 17, 2021 www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-n...

Lord help, I have found a tiktok that taught me a lot and makes sense

This is totally insane - like invading Iraq in response to 9/11. What evidence is there that any of these horrible events are related to universities?

WIth my first kid I had six weeks' leave, with the second I had 5 months. You can guess which one was breastfed, because there was no way we could get that figured out in six weeks.

The killer may turn out to be a confused, young, white man from a gun-friendly Republican home with no coherent set of political views or inspirations.

But that’s not the weirdest possible scenario here.

What follows is a 🧵 that considers a far more bizarre scenario…ready?

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Some thoughts on yesterday
www.garbageday.email/p/the-logica...

This. We're going to see a crackdown on 'leftists' posthaste, including and especially involving higher education. So many people saying on the right that this is just what happens at American universities. We should all be very worried rn