Good to see you too! Hope you’re alright despite *gestures broadly to the south*

Thank you B! I’m excited for his first summer 🥰

Just turned 10 months! He’s the best little friend bsky.app/profile/hypa...

thank you friend! i hope as few kiddos as possible are harmed before people re-learn these lessons 💔

and newborn screening! i remember we talked about that a zillion years ago

A screenshot of a tweet by Angus Johnston, @studentactivism, which reads: Having a smallpox vaccine scar is like walking around with the moon landing and the Sistine Chapel on your upper arm. Dated 8:47 PM · Feb 2, 2015

It's been over 11 years since this tweet of @angus.bsky.social's and I've thought about it often since Douglas's arrival

Another miracle, he petted the spicy cat 🐈 today without grabbing her (much, anyway, lol 🥹❤️)

I have been pretty offline due to ongoing postpartum health Stuff but just popping up to say how grateful I am to live in a time when croup is a minor scary instead of a terrifying and frequently deadly thing. Vaccines and dexamethasone are miracles.

There’s an off the shelf one called Dex I really like fwiw!

I had so much nostalgia about the seasons in my time in San Francisco and now that I’m back in Ottawa I feel pretty silly about that lmao

Also it’s snowing today again 🤪

Which one?

Using this opportunity to talk about my really cool clock again

@indirect.io pleased to have introduced the cube rule to another person today 🙏

cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox

No more rock stars: how to stop abuse in tech communities Content note for discussion of abuse and sexual violence. In the last couple of weeks, three respected members of the computer security and privacy tech communities have come forward under their ow…

This is an absolutely fascinating article, coauthored by @hypatia.bsky.social, about how predatory behavior and fraud / financial impropriety often go hand in hand. It’s long, but well worth a read. hypatia.ca/2016/06/21/n...

Thank you for the kind words 🙏

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When the bar is in hell

I don’t regret to inform you that in between discussing AI sales forecasting models, the sales guys at my hotel bar are talking about how brave the people in Minneapolis are.

@mmasnick.bsky.social has it 100% correct

Ken Burns Announces New 10-Part ‘Mr. Biscuits’ Documentary After Adopting Cat WALPOLE, NH—Revealing that the series would force Americans to rethink everything they thought they knew about the “cute little fuzzball,” filmmaker Ken Burns announced Friday the release of Mr. Biscu...

Finally some good news.

I wanted to just share one story about a kid who spent a lot of time in the neighborhood where Renee Nicole Good died today. Prince got married at Park United Methodist just down the street from 34th & Plymouth; he went to high school at Central High a few blocks in the other direction over on 35th.

Policing and the English Language The poisonous contradictions of coptalk

here’s me in @newrepublic.com back in ‘20 on coptalk, “resisting arrest,” the standard of “reasonable fear,” police impunity, painfully blatant lies, and more of what we’re seeing, again, right now newrepublic.com/article/1568...

Same

The reason for the season

Truly a remarkable combination of Takes

Among the most cursed skeets ever

the stadium stopped selling alcohol seven innings ago. everyone at this game is sober now

Fake means something he doesn’t like 🫠

Wasn’t me! Super curious who it was!