I was starting to formulate a question about how you cook, ravioli and why toasting is involved, but then I got distracted by the adorableness of that beautiful face.

Fischer loves to poop on flowers! Today the wind made him so happy he rolled around after it blew in his face.

Well, this is nice. Lots of people leave jewels for the fae , but no one really thinks about their organizational needs. I bet this gift is going to be appreciated.

That’s a good list of questions.

WTF is wrong with you?

It was so delicious and crunchy, he tells me. He carried it home, holding the thigh in his teeth while the spine flopped along in the wind.

People, you have to get faster at recognizing AI if we’re going to survive this.

I think I have the world‘s happiest dog right now. He didn’t even have to hunt this himself, it just appeared on the path in front of us.

The one thing everyone gets wrong about feminism People love to declare the death of the women’s movement, pointing to the ‘failure’ of #MeToo or the Epstein files, but don’t give up the fight just yet, writes Rebecca Solnit

Feminism: don't put flowers on her grave just yet. (Not my title but definitely my essay.) Nicely timed to remind us all that Harvey Weinstein is not at the Oscars (and never will be again). On how change works and what it takes to actually perceive change.

wearing their Scandi minimalist outfits comprised of no more than two of the five acceptable colours, but now and then a queer no more than two of the five acceptable colours, but now and then a queer teenager passed me so I knew I wasn’t alone.

Today I went into town to get supplies: ammonia (for fermenting plant dye), wool wash, 3 balls of black yarn for an art project, and from the second hand shop I got 3 used frames that I will fill with freeform crochet, 2 hanks of yarn, and a really nice basket. Felt like an alien amidst the locals

Once again, I am fulfilling my purpose on this earth by giving my dog a really good life. Today on our walk, he rolled in TWO dead things and picked a fight with a swan.

All of this has coincided with the expansion of hours of daylight. Even though we aren’t at the equinox yet, it’s still noticeable that the light is increasing drastically, week by week, and so it makes sense that the birds would get going on laying the foundations for having babies.

There are magpies building an apartment complex right outside my balcony, so I noticed the sudden uptick in activity, just a week or so ago, and I also noticed the blue tits making new calls, frequently and loudly. I assume these are territorial calls.

And I found that each time I learn a set of things and some related patterns, I start to observe novel things, and then build complexity into that pattern. For instance, this year I have noticed for the first time that the birds start their nesting behavior in February.

And I found that I quickly learn things that I remembered and observed patterns that appeared to be repeating. This is precisely what my human brain has evolved to be very good at, so it’s no real surprise that this has happened.

It’s amazing how much you start to notice when you just start paying attention to something. I’ve been casually, and without a lot of active study from any guides or experts, paying attention to the natural world just in my neighborhood over the last few years.

I’m gonna stop telling people I’m unemployed and start telling them that I’m feral.

Why are people still listening to this man? He is failing at basic reading comprehension if he’s characterizing Greta “listen to the scientists“ Thunberg as anti-science. So why do ppl think his opinion on larger issues is any more informed?

You know a Canadian willing to cross the border ??

I sometimes watch UK rural detective shows purely for their Very Nice Sweaters.

When I was being driven around the Cities in lightly falling, fluffy snow, the whole scene was rendered in real-life grayscale. I had a shameful, selfish thought: This is the opposite of a color lead. My editor sent me all the way out here for this? I thought of all the useless video I had taken, and then of the terabytes more of data on a thousand other phones. All the interactions that didn’t escalate, or even turn out to be ICE action. All those videos are evidence of the terror, too—evidence of the wearying watchfulness that an occupation wrests from people. How occupations colonize memory as much as space. The shots of ICE agents leaving a scene, of storefronts that aren’t blasted through, of apartments whose doors remain whole—all of that is abundant but unaccessible proof of what can be accomplished without leadership, just community and will.

My report from Minneapolis, about the things you'll never see. newrepublic.com/article/2057...

Leona. Pernilla.

To my ever-growing trove of generally inapplicable knowledge, we can add “knows where to buy a scythe.”

Hanged, people, it’s hanged. Whether or not any of them are hung is immaterial.

Today I heard the term “cosypunk” and I gotta say I think it’s an excellent description of the esthetic I’ve been cultivating.

Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping. Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.

The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

“Playing Dress-up.” It’s a super fun activity, and more adults should do it!