Massive Attack, Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground YouTube video by Massive Attack

The new Massive Attack x Tom Waits track and video are worth a listen and watch.

Doing great! I was looking forward as much to this morning as catching up on The Pitt later. :)

I love that every city has added a new mischief to the anti-ICE work:
LA started the noise outside hotels
Portland started the inflatables
Chicago started the whistles
Minneapolis started not warning them about the weather lol
If ICE comes to your city it’s your duty to out-scamp the last 🫡

Let me tell you, nothing puts a halt to a doom spiral quicker than a cat crawling onto your lap.

You ever find yourself in a good mood during the fall of civilization and feel a little guilty about feeling good?

Is that the vestigial Catholicism talking again, or is that a universal experience?

Pre-orders are up, and we will be placing an order with the printing company soon. If you want a calendar, best to pre-order because we will not order many extras. 🩵
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The deeper I get into the Womanly Arts, AKA sewing and knitting, the more I realize that misogyny has been a long con in every way. Both disciplines involve tons of math, precision work, mechanical parts, and gear. All things women are told they cannot do, yet have invisibly done for centuries 🤡

A raccoon and possum yell on the cover of a zine. the title is "everything sucks" and the racoon and possum yell "let's do something!" and between them it says "a zine by sarahmackattack"

ALRIGHT! Version 1 of the fall zine is ready for ya.

For your reading enjoyment, Everything Sucks!

Full Zine (for digital reading) here: drive.google.com/file/d/1cYXF...

Print-and-fold version coming soon, I need to test print it first and can't do that right now lol

I called this part a while back: “But many clients don’t appreciate the work that goes into revamping a poorly written AI article, she said, noting that companies often offer less pay for these gigs based on the assumption that they’re less demanding.”

New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download!

California (by county/area)
Chicago
Colorado
DC Metro Area (DMV)
Massachusetts
North Carolina Triangle Area
NYC
Philly
Pittsburgh
Portland, OR
St. Louis Metro Area
Washington State

Please share!
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@sadbhyl.bsky.social and I transferred to Sting.

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To be fair, I spent a lot of time watching the pigeons outside the TD on 15th while waiting to sort some banking stuff. I could watch them for hours, honestly.

Woke up and immediately asked Siri “what size is an American pigeon?” First response, football (soccer) pitch in meters. I blame the night guard. Second try, got the size in centimeters and max size of around 19 inches. And 12 pounds. My Siri is set to British.

Dreamed that no matter which way I tried, I couldn’t Google what a pigeon was, let alone the size of an American pigeon. Mom needed a mock up for a feeder. Also John and Sherlock were involved. And I kept waking up in the dream to try it in another one. It was impossible.

My current project.

So cool. How long have you been doing it? I started maybe two months ago.

Hold up, you’re doing cross stitch too!

I would like Trump to meet Gritty

We would all enjoy this

Especially Gritty

Just VERY confidently told the crew at my local Starbucks to have a great Friday. Reader, today is very much NOT Friday. :/

Fucking appeasement, folks. It’s never the answer. Yet, again and again governments cave. Corporations cave. You know they will, but you hope for better. That someone in “power” will have a goddamned spine. Not today. Sigh.

I know there are bigger issues, but since when did the OED and Word start preferring -ize over -ise for British English? My job involves adhering to regional English spelling preferences. Me and my writing colleagues are feeling very Mandela Effect affected.

We’ll always have Words with Friends and my hope of winning a couple times a year.

If you’re thinking, well maybe I should use this tool to save time wading through this morass of words. Don’t. It’ll just make it worse. Then again, some folks out there just don’t care.

Today in genius analogies: using AI (aka Co-pilot) to sum up a long portion of text is on par with taking the Hastings Cutoff on the Oregon Trail. But without ending in cannibalism. Maybe. Brought to you by a fellow anti-AI writing colleague giving it a go and having immediate regrets.

It's not doomscrolling, it's just moisturizing with fear-sweat

Uncertain ones are the best. There one is bold as brass, and all you can do is look at it and go ???! Also only eight? Good life.

this thread just moved something in my soul

Parody still has some grounding in reality. :/

Doing a little bit of everything. Some reading, cat snuggles, video game, movie, homemade pizza, and more TBD. I’m going to call it joy snacks because that’s how we survive dark days.