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Editor, artist, etc, bad at being a person on the internet. A lil bit silly. A lil bit goofy.
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One thing I appreciate about sports is that seeing people talk about it makes me feel better about all the other time I waste

From a few angles, my garden looks majestic and untamed. 🌱

Yes! The difference between a report and a story is the perspective the author provides.

it makes sense that I love both CA and NJ because NJ looks like a little backward cut out of NJ (by transitive property, CA looks like a large backward cut out of NJ). two complicated messy ass states that have my heart.

I realize I've probably never had a good lima bean and now I must try one

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

use your library! we buy shit so you don't have to! 🥳

She's alive 🌱Roma tomato after 10 days

When I dream in Spanish, I often pause (in dream) to consider if I used the right grammar. When I used to dream in French or Mandarin, I'd often pause (in dream) to be amazed that I could put together a sentence. I'd struggle to remember the exact words when I woke up.

Hey #booksky #poetry folks who've published chapbooks: would you be open to sharing what the process was like? Had you published individual pieces before publishing/submitting for a chapbook? Signed, poetry-curious

#booksky

Everything is crap, but I did remember to buy some music from Bandcamp on this Bandcamp Friday (cheers to The Tisburys and Bill Fox!).

Nothing has replenished my love for music like #Bandcamp has. I've been introduced to so many sounds, albums, ideas in the past several months and have incorporated albums into my budget again. Spotify flattened music into something to be consumed; Bandcamp celebrates process and creativity. 💛

yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

Some of my favorite colors in my chaos garden this morning. Oxalis usually drives me mad, but when it's not competing with the rest of the plants, I don't mind it. 🌱

Really appreciating this post by @razorfemme.bsky.social about carceral/control based vs compassionate responses to conflict. I'll be coming back to the questions at the end of the post the next time I'm tempted to react rather than respond. substack.com/home/post/p-...

as an editor who works with academics and activists alike, and who lives for a metanarrative: if you can't explain your liberatory framework without references to the ontologies, metabolisms, pedagogies, how do you hope to organize with your neighbors?

A conversation I'm having with myself every day

All I want is library

1. Stop assuming people announce all their activism on social media. 2. Stop demanding people announce all their activism on social media. 3. Stop deriding people for not announcing all their activism on social media. 4. Dunking on people on social media isn't activism and isn't praxis.

on the one hand, love having a sit/stand desk for work because ya girl can't sit still on the other hand, when I'm fidgety at work, wouldnt it be more productive to go outside and play in the garden and run as far away from the desk as I can, until I can't even remember what a computer is or was

This looks like an incredible book!

If anyone is looking to hire a garden hermit, I’m available.

In a town hall with my rep. Someone asked if the Dems have a plan. He said "we're working on it, and we need you to be loud." He discussed town halls in neighboring districts and infrastructure acts in process. He (fondly) called us The Opposition. This guy's listening. You talking to your reps?

One of the major hurdles that social movements face right now is creating space that bring together various currents in mass numbers, creating a strong poll within society that can push back against rising authoritarianism.

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Meanwhile in Peoria, IL

my least thing about sick days is when it turns out to be covid because I wasn't as diligent with a mask as I could have been recently 😞

the only good thing about sick days is catching up on Abbott Elementary

BISAC update season is my favorite season in publishing

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.