New chapter just dropped in the intermittently updated 250k slow burn fic of our cats becoming friends
As Adam Carlson wrote on Twitter a couple of days ago, even a small number of people putting in a little bit of time to canvass or phonebank could shape this election dramatically when it comes down the margins.
PSA for anyone getting inundated: you can email support@ngpvan.com and ask them to put your email address on their blocklist. This will mass-block emails from any candidate, PAC, etc. that uses NGP VAN… many, not all, but you should see a big reduction within 24-48 hours.
I'm coordinating my county Democratic Party's poll greeter operation. We're a red county in a red state, trying to move the needle. We have a strong slate of candidates this year, with a Dem running for every office for the first time in two decades. Going to try to record our experiences here.
Many people don’t seem to understand how decentralized the terrorism of a second Trump term will be. That’s the big idea behind Project 2025. It doesn’t matter if Trump can’t directly oversee something. He has tens of thousands of little fascists who will be operating autonomously to remake society.
Mine would be a coffee shop open through late afternoon and in the evening. And I would call it… Cafternoon.
The other cool thing about Bluesky’s effective block functionality and shared blocklists: even if assholes do establish a beachhead here, it’s very easy for the rest of us to block them and ignore them forever, which assholes tend to find both infuriating and boring.
Hello to any X refugees! Please share this message if you're following me already, so others can do the same please. I promise to do the same for other people I know from Twitter. Also: the new block policy is the end of X: it's basically going to be Gab, Gettr, and Truth Social from here.