This started as a thread in response to something at Bluesky (which I usually like, but which is, like the entire internet in 2024, frequently poisoned with too much binary thinking) and I decided I wanted it here. Comments are off.
So, I deleted a bunch of replies to a high profile account because I’m not someone’s punching bag when they’re getting dugeony about a profession they profoundly do not understand.
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.
From a Twitter thread from 2020. Everything old is new again.
Bloc for everyone! 🧵
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.
A rescued thread from Twitter, originally posted in March, 2022
An interesting observation from a session today: Cruelty evolves from fear, because if one cannot name a fear, all unknowns become a threat. And selfishness evolves from anxiety, because anxiety’s universalized unnamed fears limit the ability to use theory of mind skills.
I blended this after looking at several commercial mixes that weren’t giving me what I needed, or were using massively excessive packaging, or both, or were using ingredients I cannot tolerate. No stevia for me, please, I’m allergic to ragweeds and stevia is cross reactive.
(There was a twitter thread, this was my response. The anonymized post that started it.)
Yeah, no, to this whole tweet about Tylenol, CBD and ibuprofen. This is a lot of bad information packed into 280 characters.
I have eleven questions for you.
I don’t need the answers, you do.
Expansion on a twitter thread.
Let’s talk about cardiac cells.
You know we can grow them in a Petri dish? When they’re alone, they just twitch. But if they’re touching? They start beating together. It’s What They Do.
Hearts are simple.
They’re just muscle pumps.
It’s why we can yank & reinstall if we have parts.
