Hubby is supposed to be brainstorming gift ideas for the kids but instead he's looking up auto door openers FOR CHICKEN COOPS with... I am not kidding... facial recognition for your chicken to make sure you don't let in the WRONG CHICKEN. What a life.

North Carolina, y'all getting up to some good trouble, keep going.

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

AI hands every exec in every company the ability to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs and they make the wrong choice every.single.time. It's the end stage of a culture that promotes the wrong people to power.

If you're not aware of the awesomeness that is Penzey's spices, I'm here to tell you that they make great stocking stuffers for adult-type folks, especially ones who love to cook (or just, you know, eat). This year, I got some of their cute trial bags as a special treat.

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In the last day, two examples of AI enshittifying/making extra work: 1 - AI sending email requests for info I'd already sent an audiobook producer (for the second time) 2 - my adult kiddo's prof is using AI to create nonsensical quizzes and study guides instead of teaching. Don't use AI🔨

excellent articlel by @timothysnyder.bsky.social "For them, America is a limitless passive resource." I think a lot of the analogy of the abusive husband breaking dishes he expects his abused wife to clean up. And how anti-capitalist forces (families, care workers, women mostly) are constantly repairing the damage done by capitalism. One enables the other because... 1/n

The Grift Bubble

A Political Theory of American Collapse

support the arts, small businesses, local restaurants, bookstore, libraries, artists, writers, musicians... you want to see in the world I bought a pound of coffee today from a local coffeeshop instead of Starbucks. These things matter.

the question is relentlessly "should this man be allowed to do crimes, for he is a Great Man or a Rich Man or a Powerful Man, whatever shall we do without him" and not "what lives has he destroyed, what has he robbed the world of" or even "who are we, if we give money/power/status to monsters"

I am so ready for the patriarchy to crumble under the weight of its own idiocy and gross abuse. This whole Epstein thing feels like a Me Too moment because it's not just Trump or Epstein or a handful of gross pedo dudes, it's thousands of people... 1/n