Church of Inconvenience

Absolutely

I did not know that 💕

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

There’s a thing about what I call “puffy face” - an indication about stress, cortisol levels, general ill health. I swipe left on puffy face.

yes yes

Honestly Mass Sabbath is in my top 5 most memorable shows. Multiple years but I lump them together

We would make a great team

I’m sure there is someone out there who may have seen a crazed woman in a bathrobe smashing one with a hammer on a driveway in the middle of the night, maybe. (It was beeping. It was in a renovation trash can next door, it was INCESSANT)

Wow (!)
Also so great to see your videos here on bsky!

Stop glorifying ‘centrism’. It is an insidious bias favoring an unjust status quo | Rebecca Solnit The notion of a neutral and moderate middle is a prejudice of people for whom the system is working, against those for whom it’s not

Still pertinent (ever more so) ..."As [Martin Luther] King notes, the status quo is always changing, and the centrists are often resistant to change that expands rights and justice, more mild about efforts by the right to shrink those things in favor of more inequality and more authoritarianism."

I will take a bite of a date or candied ginger, really. Or even jam. Please be jam.

Dammit I was hoping for indoor potatoes this month.

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

HOLY HELL YOU MUST READ THIS
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Bowl full of frisée lettuce

Final frisée harvest - overwintered.

Gosh I hope they aren’t wasting their time making new diseases, they can just sit back, relax and enjoy measles’ comeback and wait a little longer for our friend avian flu waiting in the wings…

you’ve got to be kidding me

This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models.

For all the artists out there! Turning handbags into toasters since 2025…

www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/23/1...

You capture it so precisely.

I hope she likes the taste of shoes when there is nothing else to eat

Virginia. Prisoners setting themselves on FIRE because of deplorable conditions (this prison has been on Human Rights Watch since 1998!) “More than 2/3 of its inmates are held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day, ranging from two weeks to 14 years. One inmate spent over 600 days in solitary”

This is beyond horrible! Are any chaplains able to get in to find out more? I would like to know what can be done to help those suffering and amplify the situation…

The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.

Just good to review and implement if you haven't already...
www.wired.com/story/the-wi...

Sidewalk salt brain

Convenience might be the death of humanity, eventually

John Ashbery Something It Wasn't Better homes and gardens for many but for the rest, we are not so sure. We need a place to turn around and be unctuous in, feeling it not as a lack but as something to be warded off. We are not done with shoe polish yet in a way we are. Isn't that inventiveness or something coercive like a lash that cracks close to the cheek, something you give back after keeping it for a while? As sure as there are servants in heaven others will come up to you and ask what it was you did today, whether nests were full and anxious, and what kind of sun sprayed on the corners of a cheap notebook to be dreamed as all things are, except for fountains and animals lisping kind losses, fervent, over here. The way it is right now.

“Something it Wasn’t” by John Ashbery

Wow, thank you for sharing that 💕

Wow, beyond egregious. I’ve been boycotting Amazon for about 5 years - it’s hard, and I’ve probably purchased from them a couple times since then, but in general, I feel like a get better products and customer service when I go direct to the producer/seller. sorry to hear your son was stolen from

You have to trust reason as the long game

From what I’ve heard from my senators they have a lot of reason on their side, they are “monitoring” a lot of things, and writing a lot of inquisitive emails. Very effective.

Me too! Just paid for a subscription altho many articles are free. Finished his book Blood in the Machine just recently and it’s a Must Read for everyone IMHO. So glad he’s doing this