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When you remember the anti-vax movement
I first reblogged this in January, and here my ass is in March 2020 self-quarantined at home.
Ur right and u should say it
Reading this in 2021
Reading in 2026
Y'all, we as a community have got to get better at dodgeball if we’re gonna keep tempting fate like that.
the kids aren’t cooked, you just need to hang out with them in the woods.
I mean you meet these young people trapped in their classrooms or nuclear families in paved over neighborhoods, you are going to see them at the lowest points of forced routine, atomization, gutted autonomy, academic stress, you are going to see them at their worst. you’re going to see addictive behavior. bad social skills. lashing out. uncreativity. laziness and distraction. they do look totally cooked.
you need to take them into the woods
I do outdoor education work, and within minutes of any elementary to middle schooler getting free permission to mess around with their friends in a clearing, they’re curious and driven again. they’re asking each other questions and yeeting pinecones at trees (science) and using their bodies. sometimes for evil. as is developmentally right. they want to know the names of birds! they want to teach someone pokemon! they want to build stuff and kick stuff and tackle each other and you into the snow!
they’re basically fucking institutionalized for 90% of their lives but their spirits are alive. you need to take them into the woods you need to treat them like animals with powerful inner lives and they’ll show you they are.
and you, if you feel like you’re relating too much, remember that you can also take YOURSELF to the woods
Take yourself and others to the woods!!
Holllyyyy crap the new paid leave law in MN is AMAZING.
I was happy it was there but not frankly paying much attention because I am self employed. So, like, I figured it wouldn't apply to me.
NOT SO! For $300 a YEAR I can buy in to the scheme that will give me 66% of my average weekly income if I get hurt, or if I have to take care of someone. Like for Pookie's top surgery. Or if one of the many aging boomers in my life need help. (People with actual employers have this all paid for by their employer. Like it's mandatory. But I am my employer, so I get to choose. And I am choosing to pay in because this is amazing.)
BUT WAIT!
It can also be for taking care of people I'm not related to, as long as I'm not charging them for care. A law that supports found family! Amazing! Anybody can take care of anybody they care about enough to do this for!!!
It also covers bonding time for new adoptions, bonding time for non-carrying parents, and, not helpful for me but amazing. you can also use it to safely get out of a domestic violence situation!
They did a good job on this one.
Voting does matter.
BASED ON MY AVERAGE WEEKLY INCOME IN MY HIGHEST PAID MONTH????? NOT THE ANNUAL AVERAGE????? WHAT GLORIOUS MAD SORCERY IS THIS?
Holy crap do you know how much I worry about what happens if I can't work for a while? Pookie works to, more than me actually, but largely for our health insurance. We can't come close to covering the bills on just one income.
PS that $300 a year is based on MY income. It's LESS if you make less!
And! And! People who make less than $700 a week get a higher % of their average income! They get 90% instead of 66%. Whereas richer people get 50%, with a cap on how much.
This is so reasonable!
Minnesotans who are self-employed or don't have benefits through their employer, you can learn more here! Non-Minnesotans, you can also check out this neato program if you think you might like to try and get your electeds to do it too. God, I wish this had been available when my mom was dying. I would have gotten to spend so much more time with her.
Gladiatrix 'Cestus'
Inspired by the only cestus found near Hadrian's Wall, I add her a little spice of Pictish background. And this primal princess is so ready to smash some Roman faces.
Get rid of your fucking Ring cameras holy shit. That was one of the most chilling ads I’ve ever seen
😰😰😰😰😰
For anyone confused about why this "sweet ad" is actually evil:
ring is passing the surveillance they collect to ice
ring is using these ID features to search for/identify people that ice wants to deport/kidnap/disappear, & using it to spy on Americans in general.
This ad is the company's gross & sneaky attempt to appeal to humans' kindness [ I'll be helping people find their pets!" ]
They are trying to trick more people into buying this tool that will be used as surveillance on people living in the USA
AND~!!!
also probably trying to trick people into turning on features/settings that will make it easier for them to pass information to ice and other hostile governmental authorities
The weird thing with billionaires hoarding all the money to the point were it feels like there's not enough left for anyone else is that they're on the verge of breaking the system.
And when I say system I don't mean the economy or whatever, I mean the system of money being accepted tokens of a value concept.
Them holding all the money is like as if they want to play football with us but they're taking the ball, and locking the gates to the pitch, and hoping that we'll keep playing football with them. It's reaching a point where we can't help but realise that we're not actually even playing football, we're just standing on the outside of a small, locked pitch, with the food and everything on our side, while they sit locked inside with the ball. They'll say we can play football with them for three seconds and in exchange we must bring them more food than they could ever eat food. But like, why would we bother with the and their game that no one else is allowed play?
The rich are on the verge of breaking the social agreement that is money so badly that, if they do it juuuust right, it will make them both the emperor and the boy who says that he has no cloths.
Dude I haven't a fucking clue what to tag this with never mind what audience it's for. I'm not even sure it's coherent
I've scheduled this to reblog one year after I posted it a 1.20am on a Thursday. Not sure why. I'm very tired
“That’s so unfair. If these were issues Democrats truly cared about, then we’d fight the Republicans tooth and nail on them. We’d even have the guts to risk the lucrative relationships we’ve formed with powerful corporations, defense contractors, and billionaire donors. But for something like an eviction moratorium, Medicare for all, or a fracking ban? No fucking way.” Reached for comment, the hundreds of handsomely paid former Congress members now working as lobbyists and sitting on corporate boards were happy to acknowledge their utter cowardice.
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I DIDNT KNOW WHAT THIS WOULD BE SO I CLICKED PLAY AND MY MOM IS RIGHT NEXT TO ME AND MY COMPUTER IS ON FULL VOLUME I HATE EVERYONE
for whenever I fuck up
If I ever say “fuck this shit” it’s to this tune. Just. For your mental voice of me.
Ok the US Attorney General says that she will remove ICE if MN drops all our sanctuary laws, complies with ICE, hands over all our SNAP, Medicaid and voter rolls. They demand control over our voter registration so they can "ensure free and fair elections".
They want to control our elections.
I am dead serious people call your representatives. Get volunteering. Get protesting. Get LOUD.
They released a letter full of straight up lies. Spread the truth. MAKE NOISE.
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How interesting. How very interesting. They rejected my Blaze of this post.
Well, y'all. Make of this what you will, eh?
Then I guess we'll just have to Blaze it the old fashioned way, eh?
Boosting signal. AGAIN.
Here's something from Margaret Killjoy. Not cropped to annoy those of you that loved cropped screengrabs. Also not cropped because I have better things to do and found all of this on Facebook, where someone other industrious soul copied it from Bluesky. If you haven't listened to Margaret Killjoy's podcast, Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff, I recommend it.
Text of Margaret Killjoy’s full newsletter post (not exactly alt text of these, but these are pulled from it) under the cut:
“When you study social movements and uprisings, there’s a pretty clear seasonal pattern you can find: people get into the streets and rowdy in the summer, and things cool off when the air cools off. This certainly was true in 2020, and it’s something you’ll see again and again reading history..
Yet there I was, driving to Minneapolis in January.
Before I decided to come up to cover the anti-ICE resistance up there, I reached out to a friend who lived there. “It’s going to be really, really cold this week. Will people still show up?”
“Minnesotans will be there,” they told me. “ICE will be miserable.”
Because, as another friend put it to me: “ICE made a classic Nazi mistake: they invaded a winter people in winter.”
The people of Minnesota have never been afraid of ice, and these days, they’re proving that they’re not afraid of ICE either.
I’m a little afraid of both, if I’m being honest. But you do what you can.
“You do what you can” might be the attitude that got me interested in visiting Minneapolis in the first place.
I had a conversation a week or two ago with a friend who lives up here. They’d been going out to guard apartment buildings from ICE, just standing outside the door to say “no, you can’t come in here.” They’d been sitting outside hotels known to house ICE agents and writing down license plates.
This friend of mine, they’re not a person I’ve ever seen put a label to their political ideology, or known them to be much of any kind of activist. They’re just a young queer introvert. I asked what has them doing this work—which isn’t exactly safe, as the news of the past few weeks has made clear. They told me that they had always told themselves that they would be someone who steps up if it’s necessary.
This friend of mine, they’re brave. But they’re not exceptional. Minneapolis is an entire city full of people standing up to a literally murderous regime.
That’s what I came up here to see.
I’m a professional optimist, in a weird way. I’ve always been fascinated by the ways that people come together in crisis to take care of one another. And people here have come together.
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It’s a two day drive from where I live to Minneapolis, or it should be. It’s January, though, and the midwest winter doesn’t fuck around. On Monday, there was snow. On Wednesday? Snow. So I had to do the thirteen hour drive on Tuesday.
I’d thought about getting a head start, the night before, and I’m glad I didn’t—there was a 37-car pileup in Indiana, during whiteout conditions with ice across the freeway. I didn’t see it on the news, though, because there was a hundred car pileup in Michigan the same night. During one hour of my drive, I passed 32 cars and trucks abandoned in the ditch.
I wasn’t too worried, myself. The weather was clear and most of the streets were plowed and salted. I’m a bit of a prepper, and my 4WD truck has good tires, chains if I need them, and plenty of winter gear.
Minneapolis is cold in the winter, and it’s particularly cold this winter, and it’s particularly cold this week. I have winter clothes—I live rurally in the mountains, after all—but it’s one thing to have what you need to work outside in 10 degrees and another to have what you need to stand around for hours in -20. I’m fully expecting that Friday, the day of the upcoming general strike, will be (with windchill) the coldest temperatures I’ve experienced in my life.
So I drove for thirteen hours, and picked up my colleague at the airport, and made it to where we’re staying. We talked about audio recorders and gas masks, we talked about the narratives we had in our heads about what was happening, we talked about what we’d like to learn and see.
We have a lot of big questions, and one of them is just: what’s the scale of the crisis here? It gets described like the place is a war zone, but a lot of US cities have been described as war zones in the past few years and it’s rarely been true. Just how present was ICE, and the resistance to it?
First thing in the morning, a line of cars drove down the residential street we’re on, honking their horns. It was, as we guessed and later had confirmed for us, ICE watchers tailing an ICE vehicle, laying on the horns to keep the federal occupation from operating in secrecy.
I couldn’t lace up my new fancy insulated boots fast enough, and by the time I got outside, they’d passed us.
But yes, the city is under occupation.
We picked where to stay based on wanting to not quite be in the thick of it, but it turns out all of the city, as well as St. Paul and the suburbs, are the thick of it. We didn’t have to drive more than three blocks before we ran across a crowd of people guarding a childcare facility. Imagine needing to guard a childcare facility.
Half the street corners in the city seem to have people on watch for ICE, ready to call in suspicious vehicles to the decentralized networks that monitor the movements of kidnappers around the city.
It’s ICE that moves in secrecy around Minneapolis, while the rebellion wears reflective vests and puffy coats.
I spent yesterday talking to organizers, but the first thing a friend told me was that, unlike most social movements, there’s not “the guy” to talk to. There just isn’t a central leader, nor some central cadre. There is no vanguard leading the resistance.
The resistance to ICE in Minneapolis is strong, generalized, and sustained. It’s also entirely decentralized and leaderless (or “leaderful” if you’d like). There are roles. There is organizing—there’s so much organizing. There are so many organizers, from so many communities and identities.
This, of course, makes my heart happy.
It’s also, I’m certain, frustrating as hell for the Federal occupation of the city. They want to pick off a few people and bring them up on charges. That might still happen, but it will be a farce of a trial. If there’s a conspiracy, it’s the entire city conspiring to be free.
In the US, most of us are used to seeing protest movements as a sort of internal rebellion. Against the local police, against the capitalist infrastructure. What’s happening here is fundamentally different. This is a rebellion against what amounts to foreign occupation. If I were to guess, I would say this is the reason that the weather isn’t keeping people out of the streets. Sure, people here own a lot more snow gear than the average American, and are more used to driving on unplowed roads, but I think more than anything else it’s that this situation is simply intolerable. People are more willing to risk more.
Because their fucking families are being kidnapped. Their neighbors are being kidnapped. Kids at their schools are being kidnapped. They themselves are being kidnapped.
Yesterday, while we were driving around, we saw teachers walking with students out of the schools. When I got home to read the news, I learned why.
We don’t yet know how many people have died in ICE detention, because they sure as shit aren’t telling us. We don’t know how many people have died upon deportation, but no one flees without a reason, and people who are in the US seeking asylum are doing so because returning to their home country is often a death sentence.
So killing one of the ICE watchers didn’t stop people from watching ICE.
There is too much on the line.
While we were talking with people outside the daycare, a Somali family put samosas in our hands. We tried not to take them: “we’re just journalists,” we told them. This was not an acceptable excuse to not take the samosas. Which were, honestly, the best I’ve ever eaten.
We talked with a 76 year old woman about what brought her out. Her father had fought fascists in Italy and France, and she knew he would be proud of her. These were her neighbors, she explained. I was a bit chilly, even in my new winter clothes, while talking to her. She wasn’t even wearing a hat.
An audio engineer I knew tangentially from the metal scene was there—just a nice small world moment—and he was supposed to be recording a reasonably important band that day, but his kid was in the local school system and there was no way in hell people would come for anyone’s kids, in his neighborhood.
People were aware of the gravity of the situation, both locally and nationally. They knew that frustrating ICE anywhere was essential to stop them everywhere. They would serve as a bulwark, if necessary.
And their numbers had surged after one of them had been shot to death.
I talked with a bunch of organizers yesterday—well, really, everyone was an organizer—and I asked them extensively about what kind of reporting they’d like to see, about what they’d like the world to know about their efforts.
One thing that came up, that stuck with me, is that while they’re glad the media is reporting about all the terrible things ICE is doing, they want more people to know how beautiful the resistance is. I can’t paint a rosy picture of what’s happening here, because it’s not rosy. It’s not idyllic. But it’s inspiring.
I’ve been involved in protest movements for 24 years now (maybe it’s cheesy, but I picked a specific protest as my starting point) and I’ve never seen a population so united, and it’s not even close. The entire city, it seems like, is rising up against the kidnappers.
I have more to say, but the sun is up and I’m only here a few more days, so I’ll say more later.
Of course, my actual journalistic goal is to put together some podcast episodes, but I figured I’d write these posts to collect my thoughts along the way.”
Margaret Killjoy Jan. 22, 2026
and the source article: X
or: a report from my first day in Minneapolis
inspiring, and offers hope that this authoritarian regime will fail
“Being a family member in the back story of a Liam O'brien character is the deadliest occupation in the united states, just ahead of Commercial Crab Fishing and professional chainsaw juggling on ice.”
“The twin’ mother was a Laura choice, and Hal’s family was doing just fine until Brennan started the campaign.”
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I'm sorry, professor, I consider publishing your course a day late, having a mandatory live zoom meeting during business hours to stay enrolled for an asynchronous class, and requiring students to use a $60 ***pdf*** that you wrote as their textbook to be exceptionally unprofessional and since I've still got 14 days to get a refund I'm totally not paying $150 to take your class.
Also, for all the newbie professors out there: a syllabus is not just a greeting and a list of assignments. If you haven't given your students AT LEAST your office hours, your late work policy, and your preferred method of being contacted, then you have not given your students a syllabus it's just sparkling announcements.
But really. Sir. SIR. You teach Speech 100. This is one of the most basic classes with like, 20 of the most widely available accepted textbooks and you want me to pay sixty dollars for a pdf of a book that you rewrite every semester so that there are no previous editions?
Buddy this is interpersonal communication, not introductory rhetoric. Why is one of your *four* total assignments about Socrates?
Maybe it's the fact that I've taken Spch 100 interpersonal communication three times already, maybe it's the fact that I grew up with somebody who taught Spch 100 interpersonal communication from 1981 to 2018, but buddy what the fuck are you doing?
"Some of our lectures will only be available for 24 hours so it is up to you to stay on top of it."
Friend, you are teaching an asynchronous online 100-level class at a community college during a pandemic. Get off your high horse, a third of your students are probably parents. There is no reason whatsoever to limit access to course materials to 24 hours unless you are doing it to be a controlling asshole.
Also YOU published your class a day and a half late! You don't get to publish your class late with an incomplete syllabus and tell students to "stay on top of it." Especially not since that means that people have two fewer days to buy your PDF textbook and only one full day to prepare for your mandatory 1pm on a Tuesday zoom meeting!
Why do you require me to have access to a printer for an online class? Oh yeah it's because you expect me to print out and draw on sections of your $60 ebook.
SIR. No thank you.
Kids, new students: this is a level of bullshit and disorganization from a professor that you do not have to put up with. This is a neatly ordered series of red flags that say "this professor is going to be absolutely unbearable."
Also *any* humanities class where your whole grade is 4 assignments should get serious side-eye. You should be able to pass most 100 level humanities classes by just turning in weekly assignments. 4 assignments means that by the time you figure out how the professor grades you're probably close to halfway through the class. Look for classes that require weekly participation as a major chunk of the grade because that way, even if you fuck up a project in a major way, just showing up can save your ass.
Me the first time I was in college: this isn't fair, but I guess these are the hoops I gotta jump through.
Me now: absolutely not. I am too old, too experienced, and my ass is too fat to fit through that hoop. Kid, you are an ADJUNCT, what the hell do you think you're doing?
One of the stated goals of the first assignment isn't "assess understanding of the subject" or "introduce basic concepts" it is "prove access to course materials, such as the textbook."
Friend. You are supposed to have global learning outcomes for your students. If your goal is "teach students how to pass MY" class and not "teach students the basics of interpersonal communication" you are a bad teacher.
Okay everyone get out your bingo cards because the professor just managed to get his class halfway updated and here's what I've found:
"This Class Is Not A Safe Space"
"Discussion question: If you are MALE say four things that you think females normally say. If you are FEMALE say four things that you think males normally say."
Prager U vid is one of three total resources on the topic of climate
Chris Rock "How to keep from getting your ass kicked by the police" video as part of the "conflict resolution" unit
Democratic-Capitalism-Exceeds-Socialism-in-Economic-Efficiency-as-Well-as-in-Morality-by-Ayaan-Hirsi-Ali.pdf (Paper by the Hoover Institution)
This uncredited image:
The Unfortunate Fallout of Campus Postmodernism - Scientific American.pdf
A video on the "proven" techniques of how to spot a lie from the author who owns this webpage (time to update your security certs, Pamela):
And just for shits and giggles, the first assignment is due one month into the semester so you'll have no idea what his grading style is until well past the add/drop date and that assignment is the only one that requires the $60 pdf textbook that he wrote. This is HIS description of that assignment:
Purpose – To check that the student has completed initial tasks; included, but not limited to: 1. Having access to the textbook. 2. Demonstrating that the student has interacted with the text. 3. Reading and understanding the text.
Buddy.
No.
Are you fucking kidding me?
Also the midterm and final were scheduled for a one-hour slot on weekdays in spite of, again, being an asynchronous course.
So I've already dropped it (good riddance) but I probably WILL contact the dean and say "hey so I signed up for this asynchronous course because I am a returning student with a full-time job and your professor decided on his own that he was going to schedule 1pm zoom times and 1pm exams for all his async students, which is probably going to cause problems for other students who are enrolled because I'd guess that at least some of them have classes that are SCHEDULED for T/TH 1pm class meetings oh and also just FYI your boy was 28 hours late on publishing his class and didn't get his syllabus up until 34 hours after he was supposed to so I'm not really sure his time management skills are up to teaching async classes and ADDITIONALLY he noted that he would only make the lecture materials available for 24 hours and then did not list when those lectures were scheduled in his syllabus so it would be very easy for busy students to miss lectures because he didn't schedule them but also won't be leaving the materials available. So. You know. Someone should probably check on that."
His score on ratemyprofessor is 1.8 and even the two people who gave him a 4 say "I failed the final because he hadn't taught us any of that information or put any of those fields of study on his final exam study guide."
Also, new students, you must learn the proper way to complain to the dean.
Every department has That One Fucking Asshole who everyone wants to see gone but students tend to complain about personalities or "why is my speech teacher assigning an economic ethics paper published by a conservative think-tank funded by the Waltons" and that is not how it's done. The administration may agree that he's an asshole, but "he's an asshole" isn't a good enough reason not to renew someone's contract and go through the time and effort to bring in a new hire.
So you get them on bureaucratic shit. "Published his course late," "did not provide office hours," "did not provide a way to communicate and did not respond to calls, emails, or canvas messages," "set required meeting times for asynchronous courses" - THIS is the shit that the administration can pin a professor to the wall on because it isn't student said vs. Professor said.
Like, look, you are important and your feelings and thoughts matter, but the administration knows there will always be someone who is offended about something innocuous who doesn't know how school works and they're not going to write up a professor because of how a student thinks the class should be run. But they WILL write up and add observations for a professor who doesn't run a classroom the way that the school policy says a class should be run.
It's getting to be school time again, and some of you will have garbage professors.
You're paying for this, do not accept this kind of behavior. Read and re-read the last part from @ms-demeanor because complaining effectively is key to stopping this bullshit.
If you are stuck with a professor that is administering thier class well but being hostile, belittling students, not making reasonable accommodations or otherwise being a jackass, write down specific incidents (what was said to who where and when, if possible, take screenshots or make recordings of class), and look up your school's nondiscrimination policies, classroom safety standards and inclusivity goals. It's way more effective to say "on September 3rd professor last name said "(fucking nonsense here)" to student Y, which is a clear violation of classroom safety rule (Cite specific rule) and stated inclusivity goal "(goal here)" and I want to know what administrative actions I can expect to see while you handle this." Than it is to say "hey prof lastname's been really mean/a bigot in class"
The admin almost certainly wants to fire this asshole too. Give them the legal ammo they need.
Shared before, without Gallus’s addition. Time to share again!
FAFO IN MINNEAPOLIS
this asshole had the entire city scared he was going to lead some kind of klan march and rampage through an immigrant neighborhood. he showed up yesterday with about 5 people and "marched" less than one city block before counter protestors super-soakered his ass in 10⁰ weather, pushed him back to his hotel, and ran him out of town. so so so proud of my city
