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Off to Sequoia National Forest for a 3 night camping trip!

Superiority/inferiority dynamics are still structuring your interaction with the world by creating a two-tiered system of dominance. Getting free requires us examining that for ourselves.

this encapsulates what all of this administration is about. they aren’t “accidentally” destroying departments. they are intentionally destroying the government so they can become the government. the only issue they have with the system is they don’t profit from it or control it

I am “excited to read my neighborhood grocery store weekend newsletter” years old

*looks at news* I wish America a very “Canadians come down and burn down your White House to get you to behave” again

Hike and Meal Prep

I think about this headline all of the time.

the biggest tell for AI generated text, like how multiple fingers is the giveaway for images, is it being way too fucking cheery and enthusiastic about shit that nobody gives a damn about. NOBODY cares that much about some random fluff story

Part of the reason I wrote this was watching the reactiveness of white folks on this platform and watching non-white folks get policed for their language, thoughts, different approach - is a direct corollary to low emotional bandwidth.

there was a way to do this where they boiled the frog but they were too reckless, impatient and undisciplined and the result is that people will know who to blame IF we do the work of building that consensus

the alternate timeline where the Democratic Party was not fully coopted by the interests of its donors the timeline where the Democratic Party was the party of an affirmative message of the future, not an incoherent defense of a broken status quo the timelines didn't fork in November, but long ago

This mornings hike was shorter than usual, my knee still hurts from falling down the stairs so I just did a quick 2 miles at Skyline Gate Staging Area

1% of humans holding 99% of the economic decision-making units wasn't great for most. "One World War is all it takes" used to be a Welcome Committee axiom, and we've been here over a century now. But we can't break the butterfly from the chrysalis, no matter how it struggles. #MicroSFF

Bezos is not acting out of fear. He is participating in a political project that benefits him. This distinction is important.

Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” (via @charliejane.bsky.social) [capitalfm.com]

More new art?! Ride Sally Ride is our newest SPAAACE poster! This one was conceived of almost entirely by Ashlie, based on her admiration of Dr. Sally Ride, first American woman to go to space. 🐡 #art

"democracy dies in darkness" turned out to be a mission statement huh

Personally, I’ve always seen it as an identity challenge. If you think of this as Lawful/Neutral/Chaotic good and evil. The right gets its identity as “good people” by how much evil gets done. They don’t give a damn about approach. On the left we pull identity from Lawful/Neutral/Chaotic.

“Your decisions reveal your priorities “ - Jeff Van Gundy

Protip: you can open multiple windows to run this kindle file downloading script on multiple pages at once

I’ve been thinking a lot about emotional bandwidth, in particular because I think the next stage of being a country will require a wider swath of people to have a larger bandwidth before being dysregulated.

i miss when video games came with instruction booklets... not only are they neat tutorials for how to play the game but they're often filled with art or trivia that you might not necessarily get in the game itself

Egg prices got you down?

I don't know how to say this beyond standing up to authority is a muscle and some of you have never exercised it

"If you love a flower, don't pick it up. Love is about appreciation, not possession" ~Osho #nature 🌱 #Flowers #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling #FlowerSky #Inspire Summer '24 Hereford, England

I forgot to clarify that I did not need .25lbs of Italian herbs in my Berkeley bowl curbside pickup order, just an oz or 2 Anyway now I’ve got a lot of thyme on my hands.

Whenever folks act like Dem's are powerless and give the 'ol "What are they supposed to do?", I wanna be like - see what AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Chris Murphy, and Bernie are doing - THAT. See what Hakeem Jefferies is doing with Eric Adams? Not that.

Cloak and dagger.

Liftoff for a Great Blue Heron. Bothell, Washington. #birds #herons #photography #naturephotography

White people will continue to "respectfully" their way into authoritarianism. And they are legitimately confused why we don't wanna do the same.