apropos of nothing but it's funny how certain folks will always try to chase the style of studio ghibli/miyazaki but only on a surface level and never tackle the themes of environmentalism, anti-war, and empathy i.e. the stuff that made those movies masterpieces

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

Feeling this, bigtime

As things get worse, we are going to get progressively more angrily frustrated at our inability to reach and hurt the people making things worse and that’s going to increase the urge to attack anyone we *can* reach, indiscriminately

We really, really need to not give in to that urge

I cannot currently afford my asthma inhaler.

And that wasn’t idle speculation. The ADA came about in large part because of the dramatic protests of disabled activists.

This was the “Capitol Crawl” in March 1990. The ADA finally passed in the House soon after.

This may sound primitive and unscientific, but through the fairies, we COULD ask Mothra for help

Making caldo de pollo for the first time, trying to take deep breaths & remind my nervous system that there is not anything I can currently do about the hostile takeover of our government that is currently taking place. Coups upon coups.

people are losing their right to exist but at least groceries are more expensive

“Accelerationism proposes that we collectively let things unravel to their full extent – socially, politically, economically, environmentally–by stoking, rather than seeking to mitigate–the forces that drive us toward devastation…”

The barred owls are mating tonight - it sounds like wild monkeys when they do it! That means owlets in the spring. I’m counting every good thing to look forward to right now. Owls getting busy is a good start!

Now streaming on BBC sounds in case anyone else needs their midwinter fix www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The account (ran by PhD student Claire M. Zagorski) behind this got deactivated suddenly. Here is not only the original image of the alleged UT-Austin emailed list of words they'll surveil & censor and also the link to the OP's Instagram too, this time archived.

archive.ph/HQhkf

Holy shit they did it

May as well dive right in.

Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball?

According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’”

Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking.
Everybody knows that the captain lied.
Everybody got this broken feeling.
Like their father or their dog just died...
Everybody knows
— Leonard Cohen

Hey lil clouds, I’m here. Gutted, still numb to our burgeoning new reality, & grieving a few big losses (personal & political), but here.

Connection with good people feels more important than ever - & our voices calling out to one another across dark distances… So. Let’s see how this goes.