I used to track mine so I could pre-program DO NOT ENGAGE warnings on my calendar for the couple days before.

OMG!!!!

Let's just go straight into everything being oak & hunter green.

SKIP COUNTRY BLUE/MAUVE (wood AND glass/brass varieties)

Orgs with budgets really need to invest in facilitation training for staff, rather than just pushing people into the deep end without a sense of how to do the work. Because everyone has a shittier time when folks do not get some advice and instruction.

Back when I was covering various movements in 2011-2014, I was mostly using smart devices to tweet things in real time from the ground, while also taking a few photos here and there and writing about it later. While the visuals I tweeted weren't good, they were still a record of what happened.

Chicago area, from Wichita. You?

Just blocked my first two accounts. Not sure I'm made for these wide open streets.

btw: RockChalk!

I'm not deleting until it's dead, dead, dead.

There's just no other place that's been around for over a decade where you can (or could) log on, see an emerging situation in the news and find global or national opinions easily, and tell at a glance whether their opinion was of significant value (even if it challenged your own.)

Yup. But we know that people have already been falsely arrested w/facial recognition software. I don't know if the innocents will be harmed as much as the guilty will get off, but I think it will happen.

NGL I've wanted to.

I remember being on duty to "report" for a few organizing groups, in this way. I'd be on site, tweeting, or even at home w/a contact texting me real-time and I'd tweet so others could quickly act & sometimes change direction, avoid interference, etc.

I found a photo similar to this in the early 2000s and printed it out for the cover of a mix CD I made for a friend.

Another way to look at that - trying to not just be 100% depressed - is: Wow. Look at what the world accomplished. Look at what we were able to do with a single website. It's really incredible.