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The Federal Way H Mart has rearranged the store & I feel more emotional about this than I probably should.

Every time I think they can't get worse, there's a new low.

Talking about the detention center workers in case that wasn't obvious.

Every single one of these fuckers needs to be in jail.

I shouldn't have come to Costco on an empty stomach when they're stocked for Lunar New Year.

UGH we just can’t have a conversation right now about AI technologies designed expressly to fool people into the belief that they are interacting with sentient agents who care about them so that they will deliver all their private data directly into the hands of a corporate oligarchy

SCA friends did some of the props for the movie The Thirteenth Warrior (filmed in British Columbia). A bunch of us did a viewing when the movie came out on DVD so we could pause to zoom in on "Gerhard's stirrup" & other props they'd made.

The Continent Issue 228 Cover

1/ Issue 228 of The Continent is out: Wagner’s info warriors, post-Prigozhin. Leaked docs reveal their influence in 22 African countries. We focus on South Africa, Mali, CAR, Niger & Angola.

*Wasn't *that* magical

Over on FB, friend of a friend has made an "AI says this about X" comment & I'm trying to decide how rude it would be to reply, "You should know that AI is just a word-generating machine that makes shit up, not a fact-checker."

Hugely excited to listen to this one: Meryem is major force in leading Delaware away from an unjust and unstable model of fines & fees, and is doing tremendous work to make meaningful criminal justice reforms that protect lives and individuals' rights, no matter their wealth.

A knit fingerless glove in sparkly crimson red yarn with the word "fuck" in bright gold on it. The quote in the upper right reads: Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. Assata Shakur

Working on something and am reminded of the words of revolutionary Assate Shakur:

"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."

#showmeyourknits #craftivism #yarnsky

Kids with notebooks helped bring salmon back to Seattle’s forgotten creeks 🐟📓 Their patient observations changed city policy—and proved adults wrong. Read how they did it: https://hyperlocalnews.website/wiki_en/kids-who-sat-by-the-creek-and-proved-adults-wrong.html

She also said she'd grown up in South Seattle & was only now finding hidden neighborhood gems like the Royal Room.

The Womxn & Blues shows are every 2nd Thursday through May & we both agreed we'd be back for the next show.

Went to another Womxn & Blues show at The Royal Room tonight. Leaving after the show, a young woman said to me, "Wasn't the magical?!"

NBD: One of the easiest electric bikes to ride | Tern Bicycles Meet the NBD

Tern NBD. I got the model with the carbon fiber belt instead of a metal chain.

I'm thrilled to hear you're back on your bike!!!

I got an ebike in November & it makes me *so* happy!

An English cream golden retriever lying on the cold stone flooring of a hallway, & staring morosely at the door while he waits for his Person to come home.

Sometimes when Kid goes out he leaves his service dog at home. This is what Dog does the whole time he's gone.

I'm feeling pretty smug right now about not changing my last name when I got married *and* having a passport.

#BHM Day 12: Earth and Sky Bearer🧶

What does it tell us when a Black figure appears not as an exception, but as part of the everyday visual world?

This colorway is grounded in a late 15th-cent. image from Le Kalendrier des bergers (The Shepherds’ Calendar, 1493), a popular
#yarnsky #yarnmarket
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I repost so much because there are folks who can put things so much better than I can.

Visiting my parents in Minneapolis. My sweet 87-year-old mom has been having nightmares of ICE forcibly abducting her out of her home.

On my flight today, a chatty lady said, “I can’t go to New York with all that’s going on over there.” And I said, “What? Free child care?” And she stopped talking to me.

There was a disturbing agreement about the nature of the problem in 2024, too: Immigrants weren't following the law. Democrats decided more should be spent on enforcement, to make them obey.

The alternative "make immigration vastly easier" wasn't one that the major parties offered.

The actual lesson is that if you try to engage in draconian immigration enforcement to appease the xenophobic right, you are just confirming to them that they are right and encouraging their xenophobia.

Last week, Education Minnesota, the Minnesota teachers union, filed a FEDERAL LAWSUIT against Kristy Noem, DHS, and ICE to stop the government from terrorizing students. Did you hear about? Probably not. We need to uplift their bravery. Watch here: open.substack.com/pub/wkamaube...

Another aspect of this story: some action by political leaders / govt institutions is impossible … until it isn’t. And public statements and threats to remove subsidies works.

Minnesota child care providers try to make ends meet as immigrant families keep kids home • Minnesota Reformer Two weeks into January, the director of a St. Paul child care center called a family to ask why their daughter had been absent on-and-off since late last year.  “We reached out to just see, ‘Hey, what...

The federal occupation's skin-color-based discriminatory attacks on BIPOC Minnesotans of all citizenship statuses is quietly undermining our early care and education system.
minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/06/m...

I used to get sick multiple times a year, enough that I almost never had more than 1-2 days of sick leave available, & my colds would drag on for weeks. I'm *so* glad that's no longer normal for me thanks to masking.

🧵 From an immigration lawyer in Minneapolis