Hannah Silverstein

Everyone involved in this child’s kidnapping is going to hell.

let's hear it for Unsubscribe Wednesday

Jenna's Promise in Johnson, Vermont, has great coffee and is built around addiction recovery

Though to truly imply he didn’t lose, they would have to lose the 47

POEM It doesn't matter if a poem is clear or not hard or not It's basic and ongoing creation of the universe in terms of its particles as I speak it the poem If you're reading it you hear me too the bits of sound thought word seen, without senses if you're dead All you have to do with it is nothing Everything else is such a big deal thing poetry's mere reality No proof just be here Proving's a human invention poetry is what you do with mind which is what there is just listen a little. No one cares if you understand it who understands why we're alive I haven't understood anything since ... an academic subject I was walking say near the Grands Magasins—How? you once learned you learned how to walk the man with the monkey and three dogs isn't there anymore. I go inside and buy presents Baccarat or Swarovski I understand death now. A crazed taxi driver told me he did time for protesting war in front of Galeries Lafayette is this part of the poem 1 gave up and just listened to him for which audience he was so grateful he carried my suitcase to my door in Decem ber when I had had surgery but not yet radiotherapy He was from La Réunion and it is possible, holding it together, with what are called words but again particles of communication thee particles all that's there? all that's there.

just listen a little. / No one cares if you understand it who understands / why we're alive

Alice Notley

the way he frames himself between the bookshelf and Breughel, just to drive home the point...!

They’re pretty much the only reason to visit meta sites these days

I've grown more conservative as I've grown older but the things I want to conserve are democracy and decency

"The makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals. They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again."
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
We should reject the disgusting project of AI with everything we have.

The new Turing test will be when the tech turns on the tech bros

As bubbles go, tulips at least had the advantage of being pretty and encouraging folks to play in their gardens

Best case scenario is we are all figments of a cephalopod dream

reupping for no reason in particular

And "women ruined the workplace," per the New York Times last week.

Me Too didn't fail. It was buried alive

A nudibranch sea slug with two horn like rhinophores, two oral tentacles and a lot of finger like cerata covering its back the body is translucent with highlights of blue, orange and brown

Once again I'm begging people not to compare politicians to invertebrates. Inverts are cool and diverse and play an important ecological role. Politicians are the lower order.

We cannot afford a divided and weak opposition party when an authoritarian is invading our cities, terrorizing our communities, and corruptly self-enriching at the expense of the rest of us. We want to celebrate a Democratic Party that fights back. But after this latest surrender, the next step is primaries and new leadership. We get the party we demand, and we intend to demand one that fights.

It’s not left v. center or progressive v. liberal or anything like that. It’s fight v. don’t fight.

One of our country's greatest war criminals just died, the president is arguing with himself about whether or not to let 40 million people starve, and there is an actual courtroom drama about a five dollar footlong.

How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.

Ah, the end of Daylight Saving Time, when I must once again try to persuade my pets that it is Not Supper Time Yet, and they must once again try to persuade me that Clock Time Is a Malicious Fiction. (One guess which of us is winning...)

thugs

Day 24 of Emmanuel Garcia being in federal custody.

He’s a 15 year old autistic boy who went missing 4 weeks ago. Houston PD found him, contacted ICE & his Mom is fighting to get him back

She’s not allowed to visit him.

They’re keeping a disabled kid from his family & the media is largely silent

“You guys”—ok, Art. Give me a socialist who doesn’t sport SS tats and we can talk

This is the absolute minimum I expect of my electeds

Known Lethal U.S. Attacks on Civilian Vessels in the Caribbean Total reported killed: 34 people Notification Date Number Reported Killed Approximate Location Notification URL September 2, 2025 11 “in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility” (later revealed as between Sucre, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago) View September 15, 2025 3 “in International Waters… in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility”; Colombian president claimed it was a fishing boat in Colombian waters View September 19, 2025 3 “in international waters… in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” near the Dominican Republic View October 3, 2025 4 “in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela” View October 14, 2025 6 “in International Waters… just off the Coast of Venezuela” View October 16, 2025 2; 2 reported survivors “in the Caribbean” View October 17, 2025 3 “in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” View October 21, 2025 2 “in the Eastern Pacific” View

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.

adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

Read the whole things, but some highlights:
- Their new median estimate is *5.5 million* people protested yday
- protest levels are 4x what they were in Trump's first term
- at least 12.8 million people, or 3.7% of the population, have demonstrated against the president since he took office

Wait, her name is Moriarty?!

White River Junction VT had a narwhal 🐋🦄

Beautiful!