We coulda respectability politics-ed ourselves outta this one if it weren’t for those meddling kids
Oregon’s governor *could* have acted on this months ago with majority public support but is still “weighing options” so it’s back-to-school and no one can get shots—but she popped up to veto a desperately needed rural COW PREGNANCY TEST waiver with bipartisan support. The lack of seriousness. RE:
the level of official trolling here… https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke&cid=bafkreih7vcin65sg7zvvmwujjq3z5hnydbe35i4j6czkwrijoswisvvywi
~ broke my website ~ again ~ cha cha cha ~
Unbreaking is taking a week of downtime and I am taking it as a week of not looking at screens unless they are at least six feet away and have rad videogames on them✌️
horrorcackling RE:
Feels like—maybe not a turning point so much as a waymarker in the widening gyre. We’ll miss a lot of the internet we had, when it’s gone. RE: View quoted note →
I believe we need to be able to understand what is happening to us. That's the sole reason for my work on knowledge ecosystems over the years, including Covid Tracking Project. A lot of things *can* be known, even in this political blender. We deserve real knowledge, not close-enough flyby guessing.
We made you a rigorously cited timeline of major moves, cases, changes, and other wildass developments in the immigration system since January 20. This is one of the most complicated things I've ever worked on, but we think it needs to be done. The thread breaks down the kinds of things we found. RE:
I have been mainlining Christoper Priest novels and it’s been like hitting myself in the brain with a hammer shaped exactly like my brain. We’re going to call it adaptive.