Day two of training for my three day hike in September. The gym sucks so hard but I’d rather do little things now to make the three days less sucky come time to be in the woods by myself.

Game prepping at the gym

Flashback post.

This is essential stuff.For those of us who are not gonna be organizers in the traditional sense.There are many strategies listed here that are ways to build communities that are robust, connected, & capable of protection/action that are also sources of pleasure & joy(undersung political resources).

How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.

I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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Get to know me- in no order of importance

•Books
•Science Fiction
•Fantasy
•Dragon Age
•Mass Effect
•Dungeons and Dragons
•Vaesen
•Heathenry / Asatru
•Paganism
•Hiking
•Non-Binary / they!them
•Theatre
•Star Trek
•Star Wars
•Sue the T-Rex
•Krav Maga
•ADHD
•Baldur’s Gate 3
•Writing
•Queer
•Camping

It’s 6:40am at LAX. In line at the convenience store, an older man was having trouble with his credit card and jokingly asked me “can I have your credit card?”

I laughed and said “I’m black. Give me YOUR credit card. Reparations.” The black lady working the register burst out laughing.

Him: 😮😳🤔😩🤣

A lot of the positions people like RFK jr. take (anti-vax, anti-pasteurization etc.) get described as “controversial.”

They’re not. There is no controversy. This is long-settled science. The correct term is “stupid.”

The backstory to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein puts unrealistic expectations on how much work you can accomplish in a vacation house.

nude beaches are out, nude libraries are in

I took a psych class on the history of mass violence and genocide in college - all fascism and mass violence and nationalism starts this way. We are here. Same place as Germany post WW1 in the run up to the mustache man.

Industrial Workers of the World. Everyone is a worker. Cute animals as workers - illustrations. Blacksmith Fox Stitches the tailor Grocer Cat Mommy Farmer Alfalfa. • Well, almost everyone Illustrations of class traitors - Police and Landlords.

The IWW be right.

We don’t get many chances to dress up but we look so schmancy.

Drank a boot of beer in Colorado after my sister’s wedding back in September.

Took four years for this cat to decide I was worth sitting on me. He’s definitely his mother’s cat - I am just human who is acceptable.

Shield I made for Halloween at work