Is this the aging nerd's answer to whittling?

We should all be clear that this administration and national elite are absolutely determined to make sure that moral action and intellectual rigor are economically and socially penalized.

Their goal is to make traditional "success" literally inaccessible to moral and intellectually-engaged people.

Oh, & the ebook of ON REPENTANCE AND REPAIR is still only $2.99 on all platforms! This is the time!

It applies an ancient moral framework for accountability for harm to not only healing the harm we cause in our own lives (we're all people, we all *do*) but to institutional, systemic, national harm:

Wanna know more about Einstein's anti-racist work, usually in collaboration with the great actor/singer Paul Robeson? I wrote about it for Smithsonian! (don't tell the White House) www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

Yes! Not buried like, I dunno, a story about Bolsonaro's sentencing or something. 🫠

Deleting an article is not the same as a journalistic retraction and apology. WSJ and every other publication that ran with this nonsense without any fact checking and put trans folks at real risk need to run apologies.

We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.

The amount of obeying in advance in the form of just giving up is upsetting.

slightly diminish a book

Fahrenheit 450

I know the problems feel big.

I know you feel like nothing you can do will ever be enough.

You’re right. It won’t be.

That’s why we work together.

"peaceful protests don't do anything" I hear some of you saying. They show the world that the people are not OK with what is happening. Trump does not have some overwhelming mandate

And thousands of people are getting used to saying no, loudly, on a Saturday afternoon

I am a hypermasculine and extremely powerful alpha male. As such my greatest fears are seed oils, rainbows, people who don't look like me being on TV, and preventative medicine. I cannot explain any of these fears and consider that to be your fault.

Forget dating apps, we need to bring back yearning.

Watched this after your post today. So cool to see it with the story in mind!

My early thoughts on the Anthropic settlement:
a) good, fucking pay us
b) no, that’s not enough
c) shouldn’t have stolen our shit to train your stupid mediocre plagiarism artbarf robot in the first place, you fuckers
d) this isn’t something to celebrate; it is a Pyrrhic victory at best

Boop.

Speak on it 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽
“Now it is the job of the courts…to ensure that important research is not improperly subjected to arbitrary and procedurally infirm grant terminations, even if doing so risks the wrath of a government committed to its agenda no matter the cost” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Charis is such a great spot. Y'all go!

Anyway shack up with your favorite menopausal besties and nurture your revolutionary politics on the lanai.

Every time I think about The Golden Girls I'm struck by how regressive and conservative a lot of media is now. I don't know if that show would air today.

Bringing sweetgrass I grew and braided up to camp this week so it's been in my car during a couple of long driving days. It's making me think I need to keep it in my car more often - most delightful and soothing "air freshener" ever.

How is babby formed

🧵!