I’ll be striking tomorrow and not going to work. I wish I had a union job to where we could all strike together. But I am being honest and clear with my boss why I’ll be out sick tomorrow. #IceOut
A poster taped to a telephone pole in Atlanta reads: STATE-WIDE RALLY & MARCH STAND WITH MINNESOTA ICE OUT! GEORGIA, SHUT IT DOWN! WALK OUT OF SCHOOL, NO WORK, NO SHOPPING FRI JAN 30 5 PM - 3360 BUFORD HWY NE
Spread the word!!! Tomorrow — no work, no school, no shopping. #atlanta #iceout
Let’s make this a nationwide thing. I won’t be working or shopping on Friday, January 23rd.
Obviously doesn’t get rid of the other ethical problems with AI, but it’s maybe more of a harm reduction approach than just total abstention?
If you have a complicated relationship with generative AI as I do then maybe it will make you feel a little better about using it if you run the compute locally on your device instead of a power-hungry data center? I started using Apollo AI and it’s great. Backlink: stickyweather.com/notes/2026/0...
A photo of a Jean-Paul Sartre quote in The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon that reads: “How come he can't see his own savagery as a colonist in the savagery of these oppressed peasants who have absorbed it through every pore and for which they can find no cure? The answer is simple: this arrogant individual, whose power of authority and fear of losing it has gone to his head, has difficulty remembering he was once a man; he thinks he is a whip or a gun; he is convinced that the domestication of the ‘inferior races’ is obtained by governing their reflexes. He disregards the human memory, the indelible reminders; and then, above all, there is this that perhaps he never knew: we only become what we are by radically negating deep down what others have done to us.”
A photo of a Jean-Paul Sartre quote from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon that reads: “Read Fanon: you will see that in a time of helplessness, murderous rampage is the collective unconscious of the colonized.”
Reading Jean-Paul Sartre’s preface to The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon and he really had some banger lines. #anticolonialism #imperialism #frantzfanon #sartre
“… you need look only at the last 25 years of American political life to see that this country is unwilling, and thus unable, to hold its political elites responsible for anything, from illegal wars to fraud and other forms of venal wrongdoing.” 🎯 Backlink: stickyweather.com/notes/2026/0...
One of the greatest things in the world is a banana and peanut butter cup concrete from Andy’s. A comparable Blizzard from Dairy Queen is also acceptable.
Alright, sorry to be so annoying about this everyone, but I think I have minimum posting and syndication finally configured for my POSSE stack! Now posts to my social media will first appear on my website and be syndicated across social media!
Okay, one more try. I think I might have fixed the weird HTML issue? Here’s another random picture for testing purposes. Backlink: stickyweather.com/notes/2026/0...
I made the switch to Proton a year or two ago and I’ve never looked back! Have you heard of Ecosia? I’ve been using Ecosia for forever but I mainly switch between that and StartPage for search now. ecosia.org
<p>Alright, here’s testing out my new and (hopefully) improved POSSE stack! (Random picture for testing purposes)</p> Backlink: stickyweather.com/notes/2026/0...
Screenshot of a post from Amy Westervelt on Bluesky, cross-posted to the Fediverse via Bridgy, sharing a timeline of actions around oil in Venezuela leading up to the Trump administration’s kidnapping of Maduro.
It’s definitely not about oil 🙂↔️ Repost from @amywestervelt.bsky.social (screenshot taken from Mastodon) #Venezuela #Trump #Oil #Maduro
If you care about stopping US imperialism, you should consider ditching as much US-based tech as possible. This post from @parismarx@mastodon.online provides a lot of helpful alternatives and makes it easier to switch: disconnect.blog/getting-off-... #Imperialism #NoWar #BigTech
Soup dumplings* jfc autocorrect will be the death of me
Dinner last night. Soup rumblings with buckwheat soba noodles in a creamy sauce of soy sauce, Chinese black vinegar, toasted sesame oil, water, peanut powder and sriracha topped with chopped roasted peanuts and green onion. #food #cooking
if i was running a political party and every time my opponents held power they started illegal wars for oil and crashed the economy i would simply say that repeatedly
A photo of a circle divided into four quadrants representing spring, summer, fall, and winter. Each quadrant contains a list of fruit, vegetables, herbs, and others that are available in that season.
My messy prototype for making it easier to visualize what produce is in season. Trying to cook and eat more seasonal ingredients this year! I made this based on data from the UGA Cooperative Extension. #cooking #zone8a #sustainability #winterproduce
This is why it’s essentially illegal to be homeless in America. Not because someone wrote a law that says, “Being homeless is illegal,” but because the conditions created by capitalism essentially make it a baked-in legal precedent.
You reach a certain level of poverty that is, for all intents and purposes, illegal under the kind of state we have in the West that protects the interests of corporations over everyday people.
In other words, capitalism maintains the fallout from the consequences of its exploitation by making criminals of its biggest victims, i.e., the poor.
It might have been @naomiaklein.bsky.social who said something like this first (sorry, my memory escapes me), but capitalism functions by ignoring the externalities and criminalizing the side effects.
Screenshot of a quote tweet by the Hampton Institute @HamptonThink on X that quoted a @socialiststeve6 tweet reading, “After 20 years teaching in a Northern Virginia jail, I’ve come to the conclusion that most people incarcerated are there because they are poor.” The Hampton Institute added this comment: “Capitalism creates generational poverty. Generational poverty breeds desperation. Desperation leads to self-destruction, crime, child abuse, etc. “Capitalism creates prisons, nonprofit industrial complex, big pharm, etc to profit from the desperation. It's a never-ending cycle.”
One thing that radicalized me was going to business school and having economics professors — devoted capitalists themselves — tell you capitalism requires someone to be exploited to function, usually a group of people (workers). It is inherently destructive and extractive #capitalism #anticapitalist
One thing 2025 made clear: Durable progress on climate in the US will require structural reform to our corrupted political systems. Otherwise, steps forward will always be vulnerable to the bloody clawbacks we saw this year. A political strategy that doesn't center system reform is not "pragmatic."
I’ve said it and I believe it is true
There is a willful forgetting and suppression of the memory of the hundreds of protests that shook this nation for the past decade and a half. So while Canadians and European laypeople whine “Americans don’t do anything,” the Americans are actively suppressed
Ah good tip! I was wondering why it doesn’t seem to recognize URLs and hashtags. I’ll try that.
This is how I’ve been starting to approach my own website, and it’s so much more enjoyable — adds a degree of playfulness and self-expression that was always missing before. I didn’t know it had a name and that other people have been tinkering with it for so long! maggieappleton.com/garden-history
I used to, but I turned it off because this should solve the same problem! Lots of more work to be done on it, but it’s a starts. I’ll document how I did it and then share the docs when I’m done!
I clearly have some kinks to work out though. For some reason apostrophes are rendering weird on Bluesky and Mastodon.
https://stickyweather.com/social/2025/12/25/16714
