Havi Brooks
@havi.bsky.social
friend of several road runners, hiding out in the desert
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You will never run out of reasons to continue masking. A grocery store hasn’t seen my whole face since before 2020 because as a former theatrical lighting tech and near-sighted person with an astigmatism, I’ve almost always have my sunglasses on indoors.
(5/11) Walmart, Whole Foods, and Kohls are switching to electronic shelf labels that can display dynamic prices. Kroger deployed them with Microsoft AI—a setup a 2024 Senate inquiry warned could enable “surge pricing” via facial recognition. (Kroger claims it will only lower prices.)
February 16, 2026 at 4:48 AM
You will never run out of reasons to continue masking. A grocery store hasn’t seen my whole face since before 2020 because as a former theatrical lighting tech and near-sighted person with an astigmatism, I’ve almost always have my sunglasses on indoors.
wrote about Desperately Seeking Shift (in a variety of sizes), and what I am learning and re-learning about anger, and how I am staying laser-focused on boundaries, fortification, small shifts, large shifts, any change in mood or atmosphere that helps
fluentself.com/blog/persona...
fluentself.com/blog/persona...
Desperately Seeking Shift (Small, Medium, Large)
So here we are. I am investigating everything that contributes to good/useful/fun shift, and learning about the sizes shift might come in, and when I want a big shift and when I want a tiny shift or m...
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February 16, 2026 at 11:57 PM
wrote about Desperately Seeking Shift (in a variety of sizes), and what I am learning and re-learning about anger, and how I am staying laser-focused on boundaries, fortification, small shifts, large shifts, any change in mood or atmosphere that helps
fluentself.com/blog/persona...
fluentself.com/blog/persona...
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This is a fantastic graphic on the post-viral impact of COVID published in Cell. When people think of long COVID, they likely think of the last image.
Many don't know the virus can worsen pre-existing conditions & causes new ones (e.g. autoimmune disease, stroke)
www.cell.com/action/showP...
Many don't know the virus can worsen pre-existing conditions & causes new ones (e.g. autoimmune disease, stroke)
www.cell.com/action/showP...
February 5, 2026 at 2:40 PM
This is a fantastic graphic on the post-viral impact of COVID published in Cell. When people think of long COVID, they likely think of the last image.
Many don't know the virus can worsen pre-existing conditions & causes new ones (e.g. autoimmune disease, stroke)
www.cell.com/action/showP...
Many don't know the virus can worsen pre-existing conditions & causes new ones (e.g. autoimmune disease, stroke)
www.cell.com/action/showP...
This is AMAZING (and the writing on the badass huge snow monster’s chest says Third Russian Winter)
Yiddish cartoonists really knew how to draw their Nazis (getting ravaged by huge snow monsters)
From Der Tag, November 23, 1943
Rube Goldberg!
Rube Goldberg!
February 5, 2026 at 3:46 PM
This is AMAZING (and the writing on the badass huge snow monster’s chest says Third Russian Winter)
Wrote about the ongoing practices of FORTIFICATION (in many possible forms) in the face of the hard and scary things, and also as a theme for right now
fluentself.com/blog/persona...
fluentself.com/blog/persona...
108 Days of Fortification & Fortifications
Fortification like a fortress, like a buffer zone, like good boundaries and self-preservation, and coming back into your powers.
Fortification like nutrients and well-nourished.
Fortification like a...
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February 3, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Wrote about the ongoing practices of FORTIFICATION (in many possible forms) in the face of the hard and scary things, and also as a theme for right now
fluentself.com/blog/persona...
fluentself.com/blog/persona...
if you need a temporary break from the ongoing horrors, the Blast Zone episode on One Battle After Another is such good company, listened to this and made a massive batch of corn green chile salsa, to accompany chile verde, and it helped
🧬 EPISODE 169 - ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER 🧬
We’re wrapping up our 2025 retrospective with the likely front runner for best picture: Paul Thomas Anderson’s ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
We’re wrapping up our 2025 retrospective with the likely front runner for best picture: Paul Thomas Anderson’s ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
January 31, 2026 at 8:04 PM
if you need a temporary break from the ongoing horrors, the Blast Zone episode on One Battle After Another is such good company, listened to this and made a massive batch of corn green chile salsa, to accompany chile verde, and it helped
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All in all I'd have to say I don't enjoy being ruled by semi-literate perverts with infinite money
January 31, 2026 at 7:04 PM
All in all I'd have to say I don't enjoy being ruled by semi-literate perverts with infinite money
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I lived in Maine for 8 horrific years. There it s no way this ends well for ICE and DHS. None.
Ah yes, Mainers: a people never known for their stubbornness and insistence on doing things the hard, right way. I'm sure these strong-arm tactics will have their intended effect on a state with the motto of, last I checked, "Well that's your problem right there" said in a cutting Downeast accent.
ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
January 27, 2026 at 2:04 PM
I lived in Maine for 8 horrific years. There it s no way this ends well for ICE and DHS. None.
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Clocking in for a day on the weeping line.
January 27, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Clocking in for a day on the weeping line.
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“One of the things that I don’t think is getting talked enough about outside of Minnesota,” she said after a pause, “is how much this feels like ethnic cleansing. People are so afraid to go out and participate in public life regardless of their citizenship status. This isn’t about immigration.”
So much love for @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social
“Everything We Do Matters.” Minneapolis’s Moon Palace Books is a Hub For Anti-ICE Resistance
Angela Schwesnedl from Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis picked up my phone call on Saturday almost two hours to the minute after Alex Pretti was murdered in the street by ICE officers. “If you have…
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January 27, 2026 at 3:37 PM
“One of the things that I don’t think is getting talked enough about outside of Minnesota,” she said after a pause, “is how much this feels like ethnic cleansing. People are so afraid to go out and participate in public life regardless of their citizenship status. This isn’t about immigration.”
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I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.
January 27, 2026 at 3:06 PM
I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.
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It's a snowstorm, the news is bad, please tell me what you are reading
(I'm going to finish Alia Hanna Habib's TAKE IT FROM ME which is an *essential* guide to writing nonfiction proposals and what it takes to publish a good NF book)
(I'm going to finish Alia Hanna Habib's TAKE IT FROM ME which is an *essential* guide to writing nonfiction proposals and what it takes to publish a good NF book)
January 25, 2026 at 3:31 PM
It's a snowstorm, the news is bad, please tell me what you are reading
(I'm going to finish Alia Hanna Habib's TAKE IT FROM ME which is an *essential* guide to writing nonfiction proposals and what it takes to publish a good NF book)
(I'm going to finish Alia Hanna Habib's TAKE IT FROM ME which is an *essential* guide to writing nonfiction proposals and what it takes to publish a good NF book)
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If you’re immunocompetent (i.e. not immune suppressed), one thing you can do to fight fascism is to make sure you’re immune to measles - that way you won’t spread it to anyone else
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Are You Immune To Measles? | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland
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January 24, 2026 at 12:30 AM
If you’re immunocompetent (i.e. not immune suppressed), one thing you can do to fight fascism is to make sure you’re immune to measles - that way you won’t spread it to anyone else
www.patreon.com/posts/123491...
www.patreon.com/posts/123491...
I read the entire internet while trauma-processing, and (shocking update) it did not help, so I went back to a practice that does help me, naming the Known Knowns.
And then documented it.
You are welcome to try it! Or read about it, or save for later…
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And then documented it.
You are welcome to try it! Or read about it, or save for later…
fluentself.com/blog/persona...
What are the Known Knowns
Sometimes something that worked in the past isn’t working now, and you need to switch it out or upgrade. That’s okay. That can also be neutral information to file away with the Internal Scientists.
fluentself.com
January 24, 2026 at 12:38 AM
I read the entire internet while trauma-processing, and (shocking update) it did not help, so I went back to a practice that does help me, naming the Known Knowns.
And then documented it.
You are welcome to try it! Or read about it, or save for later…
fluentself.com/blog/persona...
And then documented it.
You are welcome to try it! Or read about it, or save for later…
fluentself.com/blog/persona...
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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
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I feel ya, medieval rabbit.
January 19, 2026 at 12:59 PM
I feel ya, medieval rabbit.
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you gotta admit, pretty funny for an American to say that you shouldn't get to own some land just because some boats landed there.
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre confirmed he received this message from Trump:
![NEW: President Trump letter to Jonas Gahr Store links Nobel Prize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jmte4w4x7ukciit6lci6ziau/bafkreihiddkacymmesu2re4n4nmlra6p5u5zepo3donk3p7zqs3l6xi654@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 1:27 PM
you gotta admit, pretty funny for an American to say that you shouldn't get to own some land just because some boats landed there.
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The lovely folks at Anishinaabe-owned Heart Berry made an ICE OUT shirt, from which 100% of the profits will go to the Immigrant Defense Network, a statewide coalition of many orgs. www.heartberry.com/search?q=ICE...
Search: 3 results found for "ICE OUT"
Native Designed Wool Blankets, Apparel, Gifts, and Accessories. We bring together Ojibwe stories with our traditional designs for Every Body. We build a community of makers through cultural art classe...
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January 16, 2026 at 1:49 AM
The lovely folks at Anishinaabe-owned Heart Berry made an ICE OUT shirt, from which 100% of the profits will go to the Immigrant Defense Network, a statewide coalition of many orgs. www.heartberry.com/search?q=ICE...
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just saw an ad for Walgreens that was like “Because you don’t stop for a sick day. And neither do we.” and uh. yeah that’s the whole fuckin problem bud
January 17, 2026 at 3:27 AM
just saw an ad for Walgreens that was like “Because you don’t stop for a sick day. And neither do we.” and uh. yeah that’s the whole fuckin problem bud
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Hope everyone is getting by 💜
January 15, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Hope everyone is getting by 💜
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firm believer that 75% of posts should not be big important thoughts. countrymen lend me your housekeeping tasks, your handicrafts, your sandwich posts
January 14, 2026 at 2:57 AM
firm believer that 75% of posts should not be big important thoughts. countrymen lend me your housekeeping tasks, your handicrafts, your sandwich posts
Wrote about coping in scary times and approach and a loving attentiveness to transitions
Also about aging, about making new mistakes, repeating a bunch of the old ones, applying some loving attentiveness to that too
fluentself.com/blog/persona...
Also about aging, about making new mistakes, repeating a bunch of the old ones, applying some loving attentiveness to that too
fluentself.com/blog/persona...
Loving transitions / loving the transitions
I have been thinking a lot lately about the art of transitions, about drawing inward, about attentiveness to these practices as a cure of sorts, or at least a medicinal calming salve for these scary t...
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January 14, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Wrote about coping in scary times and approach and a loving attentiveness to transitions
Also about aging, about making new mistakes, repeating a bunch of the old ones, applying some loving attentiveness to that too
fluentself.com/blog/persona...
Also about aging, about making new mistakes, repeating a bunch of the old ones, applying some loving attentiveness to that too
fluentself.com/blog/persona...
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This.
Joy is important. Living is important. You can and should do both, because our brains and emotions need time to recharge.
It's also a way to build community, something they'd rather we not have.
Joy is important. Living is important. You can and should do both, because our brains and emotions need time to recharge.
It's also a way to build community, something they'd rather we not have.
I'm gonna say this with all the kindness in my heart: you aren't going to survive if you don't let your life have room for other things.
This is not a short term fight where we can just go 24/7 and then it will be over. We've got YEARS ahead of us. Take a break. Hydrate. Go bake something. Breathe.
This is not a short term fight where we can just go 24/7 and then it will be over. We've got YEARS ahead of us. Take a break. Hydrate. Go bake something. Breathe.
January 14, 2026 at 6:52 PM
This.
Joy is important. Living is important. You can and should do both, because our brains and emotions need time to recharge.
It's also a way to build community, something they'd rather we not have.
Joy is important. Living is important. You can and should do both, because our brains and emotions need time to recharge.
It's also a way to build community, something they'd rather we not have.
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The levels of grift in the hate-your-body economy continue to reach for new levels of creative destruction with the onset of GLP-1s. I’m watching them spin up a “loose skin” panic in real time.
I’m not sure America can exist without the idea that bodies must be punished.
I’m not sure America can exist without the idea that bodies must be punished.
January 6, 2026 at 5:05 PM
The levels of grift in the hate-your-body economy continue to reach for new levels of creative destruction with the onset of GLP-1s. I’m watching them spin up a “loose skin” panic in real time.
I’m not sure America can exist without the idea that bodies must be punished.
I’m not sure America can exist without the idea that bodies must be punished.