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Mastodon: @[email protected] Ex-Iowian now in SE Michigan. Working in IT for the non-profit sector. Views are my own and sometimes they change.
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Reading: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/02/18/aint-that-america/

Reading: https://www.umnews.org/en/news/usaid-freeze-strikes-africa-university?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1U_MDMQihcsqklhjG0p79L3ARHpKdG2agVBc-ikmN7DB8qE2hpX4FMqoM_aem_wYm4D9iAyY1ztNU_S7NdRg #UMC #USAID #USPolitics

The music mural on the corner of Princes Avenue & Clumber. Featuring Mick Ronson, The Housemartins / Beautiful South, Fine Young Cannibals, Everything but the Girl and many more. All have Hull connections. See #alt-text #alttext #hull #yorkshire #travel #art #streetart #mural #music #photography

Reading: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/spines-for-senators-is-now-pitchforks-for-the-people

Bird Cam 2-4-2025

Humidifier Review xkcd.com/3044

Of Interest – Jan 2025 Cory Doctorow - "It's Pretty Easy to Cut $2 trillion from the Federal Budget..." If Musk wanted to run DOGE as a force for waste-elimination, he wouldn't be attacking the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS (whose budget accounts for 0.012% of federal spending). He…

There is SO much I miss about not living in Iowa City anymore…

The Humber Bridge from the west walkway at the Hessle end. With the sun trying to burn through the clouds. See #alt-text #alttext for full description. #hull #yorkshire #travel #architecture #photography #humberbridge

one thing i’m stuck on is this idea that “masculine” energy means license to act like a chud in public, as opposed to more traditional notions of public masculinity, such as those that put a premium on the performance of integrity, honesty, honor and generosity.

Reading: https://www.christiancentury.org/features/new-bonhoeffer-movie-isn-t-just-bad-it-s-dangerous?

#SilentSunday

Agreed, morning vibes. 💤

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive