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Grew up in beautiful Altadena; now aging in place in the great damp PNW.
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coffee is for closers and marshmallows are for team players

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

Toad sat and did nothing. Frog sat with him.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I guess I never realized that you still have to do chores during a coup. BigBalls has my social security number and I’m folding the laundry

submitted 18 days ago • 20 comments

Also, hell no.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Woody Guthrie songs all day, every day. "Deportee" tells the story of the plane crash of Jan 28, 1948, when 28 migrant farm workers died, as they were being deported from California back to Mexico. Their names were not reported in the news.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Frog and Toad went for a walk. Toad tripped over a rock. He bumped into a tree. He fell in a hole.

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

We are about to enter an era of extreme and dangerous culture war in the United States. How do we protect our communities and work toward a cultural ceasefire? In this piece I wrote a couple months ago, I offer one possible path. wapo.st/40q1BDn

submitted 33 days ago • 506 comments

G'night

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if you lived here you’d be gnome by now

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Morning

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments

'night

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I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies by June Jordan www.divasofverse.com/2016/08/i-mu...

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Time to re-read Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler. Climate change chaos, apocalyptic fires, the year 2025... Octavia Butler lived in Pasadena and Altadena for many years, and is buried there. (She went to John Muir High School and Pasadena City College -- me too!)

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Altadena... "The Eaton fire in Los Angeles swept through Altadena, a historic Black neighborhood. It was among the few neighborhoods not subject to redlining. Residents have included Jackie Robinson, Octavia Butler, and Eldridge Cleaver." wordinblack.com/2025/01/dest...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Besides reading Octavia Butler: can we rally and support Octavia's Bookshelf--an independent, Black woman owned bookstore in Pasadena: www.octaviasbookshelf.com

submitted 45 days ago • 3 comments

Not lost on me that it's nonprofit tech, app.watchduty.org, showing up & actually working in the midst of the LA fires (donate to them!) Meanwhile platforms fail to surface key news, vital info is paywalled... As I've been saying, we need a new tech paradigm, yesterday!

submitted 45 days ago • 84 comments

'night

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Meanwhile, in Greenland

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

In addition to pricey mansions, the homes of working-class people were also lost in the Palisades fire, including a mobile home park on Pacific Coast Highway. “It was rent controlled,” one resident said. “I had been there for 10 years in this trailer with an ocean view. I was so lucky.”

submitted 42 days ago • 22 comments

Altadena, our old hometown. ♥️ Eliot Jr High, NY Drive, palm trees and mountains, El Molino Ave ♥️

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

🌹Wishing you all love, solidarity, and liberation in 2025🌹 (Send cats)

submitted 52 days ago • 8 comments

Altadena is an old, important Black (and multi-ethnic), middle-class neighbourhood that has been flattened by the fires but people are busy complaining about rich celebrities complaining they have lost their homes.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

submitted 44 days ago • 430 comments

My letter in today's Guardian. Just asking, like. But I think we know the answer.

submitted 45 days ago • 376 comments

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we had a great 8 years of it being acceptable to be publicly queer but the right tapped into their hysteria and are trying to push us back decades. this is why the left warned of relying on rainbow capitalism because their support was about profit above all else. the solution is for us to not hide

submitted 43 days ago • 118 comments

That time has come again. bsky.app/profile/mani...

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

"Are we going to do anything about it? ...if we thought there was a 50 percent chance of an asteroid crashing into North America a year from now, would we be content to hope that it wouldn’t?" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands,” Bourdain wrote in “A Cook’s Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines,” his 2001 memoir.

submitted 451 days ago • 11 comments