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Published June 15, 2020 by

Fun with Police Logs!

This was originally a Twitter thread, posted on Sunday, June 14. 

Did you know that your local police probably has a publicly accessible blotter or call log?

Yes, you can see exactly what your police do with your tax money.

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Published May 12, 2019 by

Cardiac Cells and How Communities Can Learn to Beat Again.

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Published July 18, 2018 by

Rien’s Rebellion: Foundation Specs

Rien’s world exists because of a vague idea I once had. When Mt Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, it only destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum. But Mt Vesuvius has the potential to be a much worse eruption, then and now. It’s 150 miles/242km from Pompeii to Rome. Ash fell from Mount St Helens over 7 states. What if, instead of destroying two cities, Vesuvius destroyed Rome as an empire? What if Vesuvius went worst case scenario – a Mt Tambora or a Yellowstone caldera? When Yellowstone goes, there’s a good chance that Salt Lake City, Boise and Spokane will cease to exist, and Seattle, Denver and Portland may not be far behind. It’s 500 miles/800km from Denver to Yellowstone. 

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Published July 10, 2018 by

UTS: Team #FeedBabies, or how the Religious Right weaponizes Facebook to make you feel bad about Similac and working, while also exploiting SAH parents and every impoverished parent on the planet in the name of Breast is Best (for whom?) With a side of misogyny and corporate malfeasance.

This was originally a Twitter thread, but with the death of Twitter and its slow zombification into an Ayn Rand Hellscape, the thread no longer exists. I wrote it in July of 2018 (and have lightly edited it for clarity in 2024).

Usually when people write connections like that, we’re talking conspiracy theories. But nope, this is just corporate evil and exploitation in the name of profit.

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Published March 20, 2018 by

UTS: A Case Study of the Insecurity and Anxiety that underlies gun ownership/collecting

This started as a twitter thread in March of 2018. It remains a case study of all of the failures underlying gun harm.

After his family died, he threatened to kill himself. So the police took his guns.

⬆️ Washington Post article that inspired this. Read it first. 

Let’s start with career: a police officer. He seems like he was as pro-social as a cop can be, but two aspects of personality are drawn to law enforcement: a need for control, and authoritarian thinking. These two traits tend to lead to dysfunctional behavior.

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