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added a new plotter drawing to my shoppy shop today: wares.lifewinning.com/products also am currently in a pretty bad place cash-flow wise so if you have been thinking you'd like some plotter art now's a good time to buy

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: except everything, building rn, burgers, theorists of all persuasions, putrescence, flicker

mozilla and wordpress going full heel turn feels like a real "always has been" moment for the death of the web 2.0 dream

had a real awkward interaction with my neighbor when he asked how Ramsey and I are doing in a totally normal "how's it going neighbor" kind of way and I assumed he meant it in a "because Ramsey's entire immediate family is in Beirut" way, he was nice about it at least

the anthropocene is a very useful concept i just think it's funny how academics lose their minds at "fun new word just dropped"

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Maersk, one of the shipping corporations at the center of the dockworkers strike, has recently spent over $6.5 billion on stock buybacks for its wealthy shareholders.

Don't tell me shipping companies can't afford to share their record profits with their workers.

That being said I love when Mari is in town because in her absence I wonder if I made her up, last night she regaled us with the story of how she was in a tertiary way involved in stopping a recent coup attempt in DRC and that her project making apps for snails is over bc the snails all died

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Last night a friend visiting from out of town casually mentioned some mutual friends had told her they were concerned that I've been isolating and that I'm not okay

And I mean, obviously, but it kind of stinks to learn that everyone can see

Western outlets doing everything possible to avoid saying that #Israel is invading my country #Lebanon. This is nothing less than complicity.

Extremely tense and anxious about what's going down in Lebanon and how much worse it might get

Word on the storm impact from Helene in west North Carolina is that Internet just doesn't exist there. Every fiber path impacted, miles of fiber path gone, access roads to even start damage assessment are no longer there.

Network Engineers are saying days of work to get satellite trailers and basic e911 service restored. Weeks of work for Internet connectivity that even resembles normal.

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: like a piano, instanbul, horrible ruthless love, too crazy and alive, Or worse: Western scientists, the only system, that fragile boundary, at odds with the palace

aw my advisor said I can't lovingly refer to David Harvey as the beloved Marxist grandpa of geography in this cover letter

"My #editors ask what the features are used for. A variety of purposes, I say, thinking carefully — hunting, storage, cooking. I’m leaving information out...

Write one too-specific #article, & #tribal historic preservation officers might find themselves fighting off #NewAge gatherings of non-Natives appropriating #Indigenous #worship. Or worse: Western scientists destroying ancestral remains for anthropological “research.”"
- @ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/indigenous-community-cultural-coverage-journalism

#History #Culture #News #Press

Navajo uranium mine survivors demand action on stalled compensation program https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/092624_reca_rally/navajo-uranium-mine-survivors-demand-action-stalled-compensation-program/
People exposed to radiation from atomic bomb tests and uranium mines rallied at the U.S. Capitol – along with tribal leaders – to demand action on a stalled compensation program.
#Tucson #Arizona

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Horsin' Around

This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.