Reconciliation is a dangerous lie because it obfuscates the logics of colonialism so thoroughly that when a genocide of children is live streamed in real time to our phones many of us don't recognize it. my orange tshirt is free Palestine.

Finally cleaned off some shelves to store my embroidery supplies, which are taking over several corners of my living room, and found the Wolfratsen embroidery kits I ordered last winter and thought I accidentally recycled in a fit of spring cleaning, yay!

Okay PHEW this initially freaked me out but I am indeed only prepping small amounts that I refrigerate and use within a couple days

There’s actually something missing here: universities take student protests seriously as security threats and respond to them not as social justice actions, or civil disobedience, but as the work of violent bad actors. This becomes evident in universities’ responses to protests over the last decade.

Social media and virality isn't the big thing that changed. Wealth inequality, and the downstream effects of neoliberal defunding of basically all public goods, is the big change. A few stakeholders now wield so much power that mass protests on-par with decades past are less of a counterweight.

Student mobilization around Gaza was countered by (a) large donor mobilization against the students and (b) targeted congressional hearings. The modern American university system, after decades of defunding higher ed, is MUCH more attuned to the will of Bill Ackman et al than of the student body.

What do people use to archive from Facebook? I’ve tried ArchiveBox and snscrape so far to no success 😞

It's Friday night and you know what that means! That's right, time to embroider little flowers while rewatching The Thing for the hundredth time.

Letter of recommendation: riding around on the back of your friend's bike and then drinking a beer in the late September sun

I which folks could understand that progress necessarily requires different pressure points