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Devastation my door was left open wide
You brought me into your heart, then you swallowed my pride.
I had a feeling you were hiding your thoughts
I made a note to myself, i nearly forgot.

What's the deal with indoor air quality? From CO2 monitors to better building codes, Dr. Georgia Lagoudas outlines how to clean up the spaces where we spend 90% of our lives.

Today on Volts: for years, I've wanted to do a podcast on indoor air quality, and I finally found the perfect guest! Dr. Lagoudas & I discuss indoor air pollutants, the policies and technologies that can control them, and the growing need to frame indoor air quality as a basic human right.

When I've done it before, I sliced the top off the garlic and roasted it standing up. Spooned out the clove meat at the end. Still fussy, but not too messy.

Pauli Murray - Wikipedia

Today is Pauli Murray's 115th birthday. If you're a law student (or just a curious person) and don't know who they are, look them up! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_M...

(And if you're in Durham, go check out @paulimurraycenter.bsky.social ! I had the privilege of visiting yesterday and it's great.)

Seals singing in a sea cave

#Orkney 🦭🎧

YouTube video by KEXP MJ Lenderman - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

Timeline cleanse. Cackalack energy in the KEXP studios. #ladiesandgentlementheweekend www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCgZ...

So weird how the algorithm churns. I never see Alton's stuff, though I definitely watched his channel on YT for a while. I wouldn't be surprised if I explicitly blocked his channel. if there's anything the age of GenAI is teaching me, it's that these systems require a "firm hand."

very funny to be scolded by a train conductor for having my bike in the wrong place, showing him the literal rule written on the amtrak website showing that i have my bike in the only place it is allowed to be, and being told that we’ll have to “agree to disagree”

Siembra NC | Home Join Siembra in the fight against ICE, abusive employers and landlords, discrimination and criminalization of the Latinx community in North Carolina.

I've been thinking about the incredible work that @siembranc.bsky.social has been doing over the past few years ago and how so much of that work helped lay the groundwork for the community resistance that's taken place over the past few days across NC. I made a donation: www.siembranc.org

Sign on telephone pole. Text “the only out of towners not welcome here is ICE”

Three blocks from my house. Hell yes Durham North Carolina

Boomers in Oregon and Washington can tell you where they were when it happened.

AI World Clocks The current time as rendered by 9 different AI models. By Brian Moore.

It's cclo5'ko somewhere. h/t Metafilter. clocks.brianmoore.com

North Carolina Rabbit Hole | Jeremy Markovich | Substack Get lost in the strange minutiae of the best state in the country. Click to read North Carolina Rabbit Hole, by Jeremy Markovich, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

Also! I'm in the process of migrating everything over from Substack to Beehiiv over the next few weeks, so no new newsletters during that time. If you're thinking of becoming a paid subscriber, now's a good time to...wait? All stories will still be available at the same URL (ncrabbithole.com).

oof. if it makes you feel any better - we had a good size patch in our backyard, and I went back to where it was last night and didn't see any. the leaves are gone. so you'd have to have already flagged the vines or stems.

Arrests now top 250 in immigration crackdown across North Carolina Federal agents have now arrested more than 250 people during a North Carolina immigration crackdown centered around Charlotte, the state’s largest city, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sai…

Arrests now top 250 in immigration crackdown across North Carolina
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Tonight, as the sun set in Durham, while hundreds more joined patrols in Charlotte, courageous local officials, people of faith, and community leaders gathered to say: Enough is enough.

Thanks for the clarification. I was just going by what was in the article.

A small concrete garden statue of King Kong. A plant is growing right in front of the statue, creating a spray of leaves in front of King Kong’s crotch. It looks like King Kong has a fig leaf like a renaissance statue

G took this photo. He titled it “accidentally hilarious foliage”

Homelessness is a HOUSING problem.

Homelessness is not a drug problem.
Homelessness is not an economic problem.
Homelessness is not a climate problem.

HOMELESSNESS IS A HOUSING PROBLEM.

When we don’t build enough homes, the price of housing goes up.

via @zillow

Article was corrected, no connection to Hendrick Automotive.

Federal Agents Are Coming to the Triangle. Here’s What We Know. Officials say Customs and Border Protection agents are in Raleigh today, and immigrant advocacy groups say they may appear in surrounding areas.

Although Durham officials were not informed of any planned CBP activity, individuals have reported seeing agents in the city, and Nida Allam, who chairs the Durham County Board of Commissioners, said she witnessed three people taken into custody in a Durham shopping center on Avondale Drive.

This fascist panopticon is powered by Motorola and @reuters.com.

Danny DeVito with a dachshund on a leash

Happy birthday, Danny DeVito!

Today marked Day One of Customs and Border Patrol’s Charlotte Operation. And as we’ve come to expect from these operations, federal agents targeted workers throughout Charlotte and the surrounding areas.

Came in to say "TIL this isn't a Jim O'Rourke composition". Side effect of the MP3 era of music exploration.

yeah, easy to rationalize not hanging out with "bad opinion" family members when you live cross-continent. "we'd look past our differences if we were nearby." the existential questions of "who am I living with" and "what am I living for" are louder now. careful to which train you hitch your wagon.

I'm spending the weekend meditating on what circumstances would encourage me to spend several hours discussing the weather and gratitude with the fascists in my family at Thanksgiving.

Such a good *idea* for sparking change, but I haven't seen much development of my abilities in previous attempts.

YouTube video by Calexico - Topic Victor Jara's Hands

Thanks for posting this - I don't know it, though I love Wyatt and Thorn. It immediately made me think of Calexico's tribute. youtu.be/SU-388Ey0OI?...

yeah, I had a lot of angry thoughts too when I read that WSJ article last month. wild how it matches the "what am I even reading" vibe of 2025 political news.