Today I found “treehouse echoes” on Apple Music. Normally, I’d be excited to find new music, but with the current state of things, I was worried it was AI-generated. To my relief, I learned it was created by Andrew Gialanella. 😮💨
After moving from a collectivist society to a more individualistic one a few years ago, I find myself navigating this balance all the time.
(Also, I hope you’ve been well, Charlie. Missing seeing/hearing from you!)
Watching the Artemis II mission and listening to Moon by RRAREBEAR in the background feels appropo right now. 🌕🎶✨
"Systems of oppression, inequality, and inequity are by design. Therefore, they can be redesigned."
—Antionette Carroll (June 24, 2020)
With ICE now being deployed to U.S. airports during TSA staffing shortages, many travelers are facing added fear, confusion, and risk. Airport security should not become a gateway for unchecked immigration enforcement.
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It was in the low 20s (20-23°C) yesterday, sunny and super windy. 🌞🍂🌬️
Today, it’s in the negatives (-5°C), snowy and still windy. 🌨️🥶🌬️
The wind has been so strong lately that the howling can be heard clearly indoors, and it feels eerie and unsettling, like I’m in a horror film.
#TIL Hostile architecture, also commonly referred to as exclusionary design, describes attempts to restrict a person’s ability to use a public space. It aims to fight perceived social disorder rather than maximise the utility of public spaces. It’s also tied to systemic racism. #DarkPattern
But when it’s happening, the response changes:
“Why wasn’t this said sooner? This could’ve been prevented.”
“Yeah, I get it.”
“You’re right.”
People love to say timing is everything, but the irony is that by the time it finally “makes sense,” someone has already been hurt and the damage is done.
There’s a particular kind of loneliness that comes from seeing things long before they happen. Speaking of it early, and the response is usually dismissal and disbelief:
“You’re overthinking it.”
“You’re getting ahead of yourself.”
“You’re making something small into something bigger than it is.”
This Women’s History Month, I want to acknowledge two truths: Many of my past experiences with women were painful and horrible: gossip, bullying, abuse, betrayal, jealousy, and plagiarism. And I will always be grateful to the women I’ve never met who risked their lives and fought for my rights.
A bill encouraging racial profiling in policing and daily life is headed to the Governor. SB 76 also requires local government to comply with ICE operations and prohibits any "sanctuary policies." Take action now and urge Governor Braun to veto SB 76.
"Caring for myself, is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare."
—Audre Lorde
I'm not interested in any form of spirituality telling women to soften without telling systems to change.
Sending compassion to every complex trauma survivor who remains in a freeze state due to the news, the world, the inundation with constant triggering information that your mind and body is trying to navigate. Do what you have to do to respect that response.
“The only good orange monarch is a butterfly.”
“Our wounds, whatever they are, are made more powerful by the silence around them. The naming of what has hurt us, how we have hurt others, and how those hurts still linger is the very undoing of the cloak that keeps the pain unseen and unaddressed. And this—the naming, the unveiling, the unsettling—as painful as it is, is central to how we heal.” (an excerpt, on page 10, from the book “Holy Hurt” by Hillary L. McBride, 2025) Photo taken by yours truly, Casey Lam (MadeByCasey.com)
"...We are now experiencing the coming to the surface of a triple prong sickness that has been lurking within our body politic from its very beginning. That is the sickness of racism, excessive materialism and militarism."
—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1967)
"[AI] must never be used as a substitute for human critical thinking, expertise and evaluation."
@elsevierconnect.bsky.social
I continue to grieve all the art that was never made because of the chronic pain I have to live with, while the ones responsible face none of the consequences.
"Making spaces safer and more accessible for marginalised communities means spaces are safer and more accessible for all of us."
—Lazarus Letcher
“It is time we stop associating strength with the ability to smile through the tears and suffer in silence.”
—Sherrie Campbell
It's hard to be a sensitive person when there's so much going on, so much noise, so much to take in. I sometimes hear sensitivity framed as a bad thing, "I wish I wasn't so sensitive".
This is sad.
I wish there was more quiet space to make sense of things. I wish sensitive souls were valued more.
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I'm reminded about the importance of belonging.
And maybe there’s belonging in a place or community- being free to be your true self, rather than having to 'fit in'.
Maybe also there’s belonging *within yourself*- being open to all aspects of yourself rather than silencing ‘unacceptable’ parts...
@sarahseeandersen.bsky.social
Yes! That’s why we need a supportive ecosystem that enables these changes to happen. 🙌 Change doesn’t happen in isolation.
It’s episode 6 of season 5: No Phones. 9:19.
It’s been a really disorienting and upsetting start to the week. Pushing myself to “move forward” feels like a betrayal when so much of what’s happening is clearly not okay.
Framing terms like “environmental justice,” “diversity, equity, inclusion” as “wasteful… destructive ideologies” is an outright lie (disinformation) and deliberate censorship. It strips people of the language they need to understand harm, repair it, and protect and treat one another with care.