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From a 2021 twitter thread

Summer reminder, since many are heading out into the national parks and federal lands:

Be VERY careful with anything that looks like a sprinkler head or trash in the ground – it could easily be an M44 cyanide device. It can kill humans and dogs.
Our tax dollars pay for this poison.

A mechanical poison bomb used on federal public lands for canid control
An M44 device in the ground. It looks like a pink marshmallow on top of a sprinkler head.

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From a Twitter thread from 2020. Everything old is new again. 

Bloc for everyone! đź§µ
Or how I misspent my late teens & 20s.
Caveat: I learned bloc tactics from East Coast and West Coast activists, who learned from European environmental and anti-racist activists. And I learned a long time ago, as these things go.

BLOC EVOLVES.

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This is an almost or entirely shelf stable recipe that makes a hearty soup. Being shelf-stable, it’s a good one to keep in case of sudden snow or storm days, or when the paycheck just won’t stretch. 

It takes opening some cans and making sure nothing scorches. 

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Originally a twitter thread

In my day job, one of the signs of progress and health is the ability to look at a situation as it is, without either catastrophizing OR denial. So yes, sometimes the goal of the next set of therapy is to come to terms with a terminal diagnosis or the end of a relationship.

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Originally a Twitter thread, posted on March 25, 2020 (minor edits for clarity)

It’s no secret that I orbit Ursula LeGuin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”. I read it first when I was 11 or 12. It started my relationship with ethics, utilitarianism, pro-social responsibility, …everything. I love it & hate it. (It’s short.)

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