A Texas school district has banned HOW LONG TIL BLACK FUTURE MONTH, along with over 1500 other books. Mine was kicked bc it's labeled for adults, which is true. But so are every one of my books, which are available in most schools. That's the only one with "Black" in the title, tho.
Petition to rename Fort Bragg, CA after Billy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...
BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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The guns gotta go. Not the first time I've felt that way. Probably not the last. In deo speramus.
Today, YouTube decided to break my ability to change playback speed. I am a paying premium customer. The arrogance.
ESPN is out here playing ads for Ice. I knew they weren't good, but I didn't know they were this not good.
Four days of hiking in the Sierras with the dogs. A wonderful time. I wish the rest of my timeline could be so pure and joyful.
Is there a word for working around incompetent people in order to work with competent people? One of our vendors, with a three letter acronym starting with A, ending with S, and a W in the middle, has some really useful people if you can just talk to them.
Shout out to the "security" researcher (scammer) who emailed everyone they could find at my company, insisting we needed to change a DNS record from the current value to... exactly the same value.
Depressing day in US politics. Enjoy some dogs enjoying themselves on the beach.
Reshare to scare the data bros and popularism acolytes
Today in Nature Is Amazing: at low tide this beach might have 20-30 ft of sand. At high tide it is vast and pure joy for dogs. And for us.
Hey @tef.bsky.social, I have a role that might interest you. I lead engineering at a small, product-focused startup (lettuce.co). We help businesses-of-one run their business, especially the tax/accounting part. We're backend heavy, remote-only, and amenable to fractional work. Happy to share more.
For Harvey (older dog)'s birthday, we had a lovely walk and swim at Spring Ranch. They were captivated by the seals.
Caught low tide at Jug Handle beach. Had it to ourselves, twice the size as usual. The dogs frolicked.
A beautiful walk to Ledges swimming hole in the Mendocino Woodlands.
An alumni mailing list (ultimate frisbee if you are curious) has started discussing what the university should do in response to the current fascist regime. One person: stick to sports Everyone else: nuanced discussion Huzzah