KC

It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school.

They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.

Do not cite the Deep Cringe to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.

(Cleaning out a filing cabinet that I have not opened since college)

When they defeat ICE, Minnesota will have 34,000 trained volunteers to observe the police

AOC: That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

Is there a need for more people with printers to start making whistles? Would love to help.

If you have any funds to spare and want to help Minneapolis right now, getting dash cams to observers is crucially important and especially after today

ICE just executed someone in cold blood in Minneapolis. The agency is frantically trying to spin it but the videos are already out there. Murderous fascist pigs.

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people

really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

it is outright murder. talking about it on here means bracing for the inevitable "they do this all the time," which is true!, but probably not a useful comment, as the point is not to engender dialogue & analysis, but to join together in outrage at state violence

Turns out a therapist deciding to not charge you for a session hits real different than say, a bartender comping you a round 🫠

“If you die before me, promise me you’ll die in a less annoying way than this,” is a thing that I had to say to my husband today. How’s your 2026 starting?

Would you mind taking the post down? I’m already getting more interest than I anticipated and it’s stressing me out.

Never will be a problem.

I’m facilitating the rehoming of two sweet cats who belonged to a friend who recently passed unexpectedly. They deserve a stable place to land. 2-3 year old bonded pair, one male one female. Please send me a DM if you have the interest and ability to care for these sweet voids. Located in Oakland.

Yeah. I think I’m gonna give dry January a go and see if it sticks. Feeling similarly.

Spending the last week of the year alternating between staring into the void and trying to dodge the last few punches that 2025 is trying to throw my way.

🖤

Sedentary liberals have a messianic faith in the power of information alone. But what matters is how we act on in response.

The fact that Trump is an authoritarian—and that he has participated in violence against young women—will have little impact unless we set a precedent for acting on that fact.

YouTube video by Perry Henzell Jimmy Cliff Recording The Harder They Come In Studio Session

Damn. RIP Jimmy Cliff

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHAb...

Braving Berkeley Bowl on Thanksgiving week after a hard therapy session because I am, if nothing else, a consummate masochist.

Wild Oyster Project The Wild Oyster Project works to bring native oysters back to San Francisco Bay through restoration, community engagement, and thoughtful urban planning.

And if you truly can’t stomach oysters, be they raw grilled or fried, at least chuck a couple bucks at folks using them to mitigate climate change effects, like the people at Wild Oyster Project wildoysters.org

“But oysters are gross!” They aren’t. Oysters used to be the food of working class folks until they were overfished to extinction in the SF and Seattle bays. I think part of the reason people turn their nose up at them is because they eventually became classy, and it’s easy to eschew luxury foods.

Oysters have a rare environmental distinction among foods. They are net positive. A new lifecycle analysis found that the bivalves bound tons of carbon in their shells and soaked up six-fold more nutrients than they produced.

Why? Oysters are not just sustainable on paper but also in practice. Science backs it up. www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/05/more...

Unsolicited hot take: with the world on fire and everyone struggling to enact positive change on the world, I humbly submit that everyone indulge themselves and order a glass of wine and eat at least 6 oysters a week.

Reviews for our wedding are in.

I know I just wrote a thing about accepting "imperfect comrades" but I don't mean people with Nazi tattoos, just the ones who get them covered up.

I’m not a super patriotic person, but getting to sail on the Jeremiah O’Brien always gives me a deep appreciation for what once made this country great: applied ingenuity and resources, and the continued caretaking of a monument that put in the work to fight fascism. More of this, please.

Just remarkable that a ship built in 56 days, out of mostly off the shelf components and steel, with an estimated lifespan of 4 years, is still afloat and doing her thing 85+ years later.

A friend described standing in this engine room as a religious experience, and honestly, he wasn’t wrong.

Timeline cleanse.