Still unemployed & so exhausted trying to figure out a) how to convince a stranger I really do posses skills that I’ve proven I have for years b) which of those methods are working and which are failing in a job market that either ghosts you or sends you a form email thanking you for trying but no dice c) whether being trans, disabled, politically outspoken and a former union staffer is what’s knocking me out of the running and not anything particularly flawed about my pitch/application process

RE: https://astral.camp/@endeavorance/116813494567799061

I said, like a liar.

the thing about practicing your video editing is if you pick a song that Haunts You, you are then listening to it over and over and over again

In today's Stuff Keeps Happening, we look at the absurd sentencing handed down to 8 of the Prairieland 19, among other things.

8 people, 450 years, 0 fatalities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOBuRi7s5gk

#news #stuffkeepshappening #fuckice

if you've decided to quit all social media and go participate in "real life", are you taking any time to check on your disabled comrades ever again or are you expecting them to all quit and come out and play outside with you? because otherwise, you're just abandoning them.

if my pharmacy doesn’t call me today I’m gonna climb into bed and refuse to move for the foreseeable future

my braaaaain is on fiiiiiiiiiire

"My goal is to recall my past lives
and be free in each. My strength is being scattered
and rooted at the same time. My weakness is entertaining
a party of every kind of consequence.
My kink is a copless land where no one hoards anything."

A belated (for email deliverability reasons) Solstice picture, poem and song to you and yours.

https://homemadejam.org/mix/summersolstice-2026.html

me when even I don’t know what the fuck I just said

when I finally get to watch Leviticus it’s over for you fools

Judge blocks use of federal database to check citizenship, saying it could wrongly purge voters
https://apnews.com/article/trump-elections-noncitizens-voting-save-lawsuit-a9612cfffa40c938e67b99f265c9e817?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-AssociatedPress

fun fact: hogs love peanuts

i’ve decided 11 hours of work/job applications entitles me to at least 4 hours of mindless drawing

it’s time to give karate dracula hands and I’m scared

Book banning, censorship, the suspension of global majority culture workers’ accounts on social media - these all make it harder for us to share truth. AI is positioned as a helper, a source for reliable information, but it is trained on an information landscape built on oppression and silence. When we start relying on it en masse to shape our ideas of the past, our perception of the present and our imaginings of the future - we bury our lineages another mile deeper. (3/3)

“Capitalism robs us of our time, exhausting our bodies and minds … the gutting of public education was geared toward the prevention of an ‘educated proletariat’ … The ruling class is going to great lengths to obstruct the journey of discovering those lessons.”

The more exhausted we are, the more likely we are to lean on AI technologies for help understanding the world. These AI models are often trained on knowledge bases completely devoid of movement histories. (2/3)

AI is merely the latest manifestation of the dominant corporations and governments doing everything in their power to eliminate the historical knowledge of their atrocities and the communities who rebelled against them. I’m currently reading Let This Radicalize you by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba. I’m also working on a zine about my experience with long-term unemployment and the ubiquity of AI. (1/3)

I’m so delighted by the tiny oat milk

I think you matter, fyi

“You will always struggle with not feeling productive until you accept that your own joy can be something you produce.” - Hank Green