Ohhhh I get it now. All those “come and take it” flags & stickers aren’t about guns! It’s “come and take my social security, please & thank you! Whatever you want, I’ll comply!”

The whole auto following fiasco across Meta is feeding the algorithm the more we use the names to discuss how weird it is.

Don’t take their bait.
Don’t feed the trolls.
Don’t feed their algo.
Don’t get played.
Defend your attention & your data.

It’s going to keep getting gross & weird.

The thing about building community during RTO with the office potluck is that no one really wants to work in an office that smells like food all day.

LAX is full of openmouthed coughing rn. Wet coughs from deep in the chest, mouths wide open all around. Mask up, folks!

Creating a new account on a new platform is the digital version of buying a new notebook & declaring that “this is the one!”

Until it’s time to buy a new notebook because this next one, really, will be the one.

“Oh calm down, everyone made it through the last Trump presidency just fine”

The friends & families of 1M who DIED in that (preventable) pandemic didn’t.
Women & girls didn’t.
The still missing kids in cages didn’t.
The…

Wild to me that there are people in the US just going about their day without a library card.

2020: My friends & I sent each other voice memos crying over footage of trucks leaving the factory with the first shots.
2021: got a tip from a nurse friend where to get shots. I cried so hard in relief the nurse asked if I was okay.
2024:USA shrugs. 1M+ people died, nbd.

Whew finishing a semester of grad school hits differently in my late 40s than it did in my early 20s. Less fun, but way more satisfying.

Who likes information literacy, civic engagement in the arts, & good books around here?