The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?

Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.

Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

If you want to help us purchase new tents for our unhoused neighbors, you can make a tax-deductible donation to our group, the South Bay Mutual Aid & Care Club (via our fiscal sponsor). SBMACC is one of the the longest continuously operating mutual aid groups in the South Bay area of Los Angeles.

I know these are very different contexts and issues, but I can't help contrast this with Biden's palling around with Trump. Sometimes, the world is more important than being polite.

Thank god for the funny people:

First post: I write and make art about trees. I am curious about what I can learn from their multi-temporal and relational lives. You can see some of my work at www.sarahbirdstudio.com
I am finishing my dissertation “Strategies for Arboreal-Human Flourishing in Troubling Times” at UC Santa Cruz.