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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

The "technology of togetherness" is a beautiful (and important) phrase. <3

It is NOT just you, I promise.

If we've learned anything from the part of our history where we created the extremely powerful, world-changing, uncontrollable new technology of a social internet, it should be that whatever is about to happen with AI will, if nothing else, be extremely dumb.

Quite fitting, seeing as that powder had lead and those wigs had mice and lice.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Sometimes I remember Reagan removing Jimmy Carter’s solar panels and I think we’ve been enduring this shit for way too many years.

Three printouts of poems. Lift Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson. If We Must Die by Claude McKay. On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase the Poet's Freedom by George Moses Horton.

Ologies with Alie Ward Astrobromatology (Space Food) with Maggie Coblentz.

This week in our #homeschool - centering Black poets, & learning about space food, with Algebra, Ecology/Evolution, & Prehistory as usual. <3

"There's nothing special about any of us. We are just people who said 'Hey, I think somebody needs something, I wonder if I can get it to them.' And then we ask 'What do you need? Can I give it to you?' and then we give it to them. I think a lot of people think they need permission to do that, or you need to be a trained organizer, and honestly it is the easiest thing in the world to just say 'Hey, do you need anything?'"

I want to leave you with this, from @mostlybree.kitrocha.com:

Age verification? I remember when Rent opened on Broadway.

Writers Who Use AI Are Not Real Writers Dorothy Parker famously (but probably not really) said, “I hate to write, but I love having written,” which is a sentiment I don’t largely understand or agree with in the broader …

Read that article about the """writer""" generating 200 books a year with AI and needless to say, I had THOUGHTS

All the worst people in America are having a terrible time because of Bad Bunny’s Superbowl set, just like they had a terrible time last year because of Kendrick Lamar’s Superbowl set and I am HERE FOR IT. May they sob into their beige food all day.

Kid Rock only has that one song and it came out when I was in high school and he can't even lip sync it correctly? Absolute loser shit.

You're laughing? The team that lends their plane for deportation flights and whose owner is best pals with Trump got utterly humiliated in front of a hundred million viewers, and you're laughing?

america could be such a cool fucking place if we’d just let it be

Not to be out here defending the sanctity of toil like some kind of Protestant, but I believe the process of learning a new skill is genuinely good for you, and making something yourself is one of the most human things you can do

This. Zero interest in anything "created" using AI.

Democracy Dies In Oligarchy

Against a pink and purple sunset painting "micro joys are how we survive macro grief" is written in white text.

a woman says i fear neither death nor pain in a dark room Alt: Eowyn from Lord of the Rings says i fear neither death nor pain

*Middle aged women everywhere pick up swords.*

Give @anniepreneur.bsky.social endless funds and let her cook. Also @honoriavalemon.bsky.social is now Queen of Norway. End of discussion.

My book club spent the AM daydreaming up our fictional feminist John Wick-like assassination squad/future world order & celebrity allies (Rihanna! Tennant & Sheen!) and assignments to rid the world of all evil elites -- and LET ME TELL YOU the normie wine/LaCroix moms/aunties are raging out here.

Everything is terrible but @midnightsociety.bsky.social exists and sometimes that's enough. I laughed way too loudly at this. <3

When you build an unprecedented amount of renewable energy but it gets used to meet new data centre demand instead of replacing fossil fuels

70% clearance rack of pink Christmas decor.

Sale rack of Stanleys

Clearance rack of Stanleys

Clearance rack of Stanleys

Michael's is like just 60% landfillcore microtrend junk now. So many racks of leftover trendy Christmas decor 70% off that no one wants.

We light up the sky by Lilliam Rivera, paperback, on a colorful rug.

Ologies by Alie Ward. Paleohistory (Why Teeth Exist) with Yara Haridy.

This week in our #homeschool - Algebra, Biology, Prehistory, & Creative Writing per usual. Teen will read WE LIGHT UP THE SKY by Lilliam Rivera. We'll listen to @ologies.bsky.social bc we're in the trenches of extracurriculars & will be in the car a LOT.

LIBERATION LIBRARY a nonprofit organization that sends books to incarcerated youth in Illinois

It's really easy to get involved with Liberation Library if you're in Chicago. Sign up to help pack books on a Sunday. You will be glad you did. www.liberationlib.com

If there comes a day when police put their bodies between the feds with guns and their targets, I will praise the police for doing so. I don’t expect to see that day. It might even be a dangerous escalation. But until that day comes … I assume they are helping the feds.

Sam and Frodo from Lord of the rings talking. What are we holding into Sam? Sheer fucking spite, Mr. Frodo.

Watching 12 hours of Lord of the Rings with the best gang of nerds in the world. <3

Stack of books on a coffee table. Bluebeard's Castle by Anna Biller. Generation Dread by Britt Wray. Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? Sunrise on the Reading.

Books on a coffee table. Rainbows and Rapture by Rebecca Paisley. The Unveiling. The Man no one Believed. The Possession of Alba Diaz.

What I read in the absolute horrorshow that was January 2026. Obviously, genre was all over the place. (The Posession of Alba Diaz was my favorite.) #books