Day job snapshots.

check yo self before you dox yo self

after a quick review of my timeline i feel the need to point to the sign

The wild thing is that this isn’t even a hot take, my friends who live here full time are often the first to admit that this place is whack.

Every couple of years I have to come to LA just so I can continue to justify my smug superiority that the Bay Area is, for all its insanity, objectively better by every measure.

The world is a hellscape but I have been, once again, forklift certified.

About a million dollars worth of Haas CNC machines.

More high end 3D printers than I have ever seen in one lab.

If I’m being sent to a class at an industrial training center then I think I should at least be able to get to touch some machines. As a treat.

a close up of a dog with a blue collar and tag ALT: a close up of a dog with a blue collar and tag

Currently in Alabama for a work training, which happens to coincide with one of the nations largest weapons and defense contractor conferences. Interesting time to be overhearing “work talk” from the spooks at the bar next to me.

Welcome to the “weird outliers working in transportation” side of the room full of tech folks at parties. :)

It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school.

They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.

Do not cite the Deep Cringe to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.

(Cleaning out a filing cabinet that I have not opened since college)

When they defeat ICE, Minnesota will have 34,000 trained volunteers to observe the police

AOC: That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

Is there a need for more people with printers to start making whistles? Would love to help.

If you have any funds to spare and want to help Minneapolis right now, getting dash cams to observers is crucially important and especially after today

ICE just executed someone in cold blood in Minneapolis. The agency is frantically trying to spin it but the videos are already out there. Murderous fascist pigs.

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people

really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

it is outright murder. talking about it on here means bracing for the inevitable "they do this all the time," which is true!, but probably not a useful comment, as the point is not to engender dialogue & analysis, but to join together in outrage at state violence

Turns out a therapist deciding to not charge you for a session hits real different than say, a bartender comping you a round 🫠

“If you die before me, promise me you’ll die in a less annoying way than this,” is a thing that I had to say to my husband today. How’s your 2026 starting?

Would you mind taking the post down? I’m already getting more interest than I anticipated and it’s stressing me out.

Never will be a problem.

I’m facilitating the rehoming of two sweet cats who belonged to a friend who recently passed unexpectedly. They deserve a stable place to land. 2-3 year old bonded pair, one male one female. Please send me a DM if you have the interest and ability to care for these sweet voids. Located in Oakland.

Yeah. I think I’m gonna give dry January a go and see if it sticks. Feeling similarly.

Spending the last week of the year alternating between staring into the void and trying to dodge the last few punches that 2025 is trying to throw my way.

🖤

Sedentary liberals have a messianic faith in the power of information alone. But what matters is how we act on in response.

The fact that Trump is an authoritarian—and that he has participated in violence against young women—will have little impact unless we set a precedent for acting on that fact.

Jimmy Cliff Recording The Harder They Come In Studio Session YouTube video by Perry Henzell

Damn. RIP Jimmy Cliff

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Braving Berkeley Bowl on Thanksgiving week after a hard therapy session because I am, if nothing else, a consummate masochist.

Wild Oyster Project The Wild Oyster Project works to bring native oysters back to San Francisco Bay through restoration, community engagement, and thoughtful urban planning.

And if you truly can’t stomach oysters, be they raw grilled or fried, at least chuck a couple bucks at folks using them to mitigate climate change effects, like the people at Wild Oyster Project wildoysters.org

“But oysters are gross!” They aren’t. Oysters used to be the food of working class folks until they were overfished to extinction in the SF and Seattle bays. I think part of the reason people turn their nose up at them is because they eventually became classy, and it’s easy to eschew luxury foods.