Ellis Bergst

trolley problem diagram, with Sisyhpus pushing his boulder as the trolley car, and text that reads: Sisyphus is rolling a boluder towards the Grand Hilbert Hotel. The hotel has an infinite number of rooms, but they are all full, so they may not be able to accomodate him or his boulder. If you choose to divert him, his boulder will destroy the Ship of Theseus. But the ship has had all of its constituent parts replaced, so it may not actually be the same ship. Is Sisyphus happy?

a question for the ages, really.

Congratulations to everyone who spent their finite time on Earth wisely tonight.

Trying to remember if I was involved in this.

Norman Rockwell, Freedom of Speech

Proposing marriage to an Olympic competitor during the Games is self-centered bullshit

I think tech would be a lot better if instead of being "wow okay tech is doing this thing, here is how to integrate it into your life, workplace, home and sex life whether you like it or not", we had an approach of asking ourselves "what do we actually want from technology and how can we build it?"

Really powerful, really illuminating thread. Clear, precise, devastating.

I really can’t watch any of these ice flip videos without thinking about how a white man is being rewarded for accomplishing what a Black woman was punished for doing 30 years ago

Surya Bonaly was an incredible athlete and she was treated like shit for it

No Kings includes Draft Kings

Democracy Dies In Oligarchy

And I would point Your Honor to two declarations in a recent filing, which if Your Honor would permit, I could file in a supplement in this case. The first is a petitioner -- is a affidavit written by my client Oscar. And that was filed at Docket 67, The Advocates for Human Rights, et al., v. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, et al., Case Number 26-cv-749. And Oscar's declaration is important for a few reasons. One, it articulates just his horrific experience throughout this proceeding. And it's easy for us to see court orders not being complied with and the e-mails back and forth on the computer, but his affidavit really just shows what it's like to experience that and in ways that were personally for me just sickening to read as his attorney. That he was without food. He was without clean

clothes. He was subject to physical danger, both through reckless driving of ICE agents transporting him from one location to another, watching people screaming in pain with medical neglect, being exposed to COVID. Just the conditions of his confinement; eating food that he conflated with dog food. That people are just being treated like less than human. And all of this was happening while he had a court order for his release. And while all of this is happening, ICE agents are telling him to self-deport because he's got no chance to get out of there other than self-deport, so he's being deprived of access, and this is all in his affidavit. Myself and his immigration attorney, who's here in the courtroom today, were not able to talk to him. His immigration attorney in particular made diligent efforts to ensure compliance with the court order, and these are e-mails that are in Oscar's case. I think you've seen these. We're trying to get ahold of him. We're trying to get access to him. We're trying to bring him home. And, meanwhile, he is sleeping on the floor, if he gets to sleep at all, and he's being lied to, denied access to phone calls to call his loved ones or his attorneys. I would encourage Your Honor to read this declaration, and I would defer to the Court if you would like me to submit it formally in Oscar's own case. And the second declaration also in The Advocates

There's been lots of attention on 1 particular inexperienced & untrained govt lawyer
But I want to give a shout-out to Kira Kelley,
climatedefenseproject.org/profile/kira...,
who focused on ICE's horrific treatment of an immigrant prisoner -- all occurring *after* the court had ordered him released

Hindsight

Weird how all these shitty people who make the world shitty every time they interact with the rest of us are all over the Epstein files.

Image of a bunch of text between two people. One person is trying to offer support from out of state. The other person sends a garbled message about a dog being adorable and being a good girl and needing time on the couch and a treat. The out-of-state person responds that it’s fucking adorable.

When your out of state friend checks on you and voice to text ignores your heartfelt gratitude and instead focuses on a conversation you are having with your dog when she’s dancing at you.

May you live a life in which you never know how much you’d sell your soul for.

honestly disappearing into the woods like an old witch in a fantasy novel is looking more and more appealing every day

i'm way less scared of civil war ii erupting than i am of absolutely nothing changing as things get worse and worse & the entire media apparatus pivots to pretending that using 5-year olds as bait to try and lure people out of their houses before also arresting the 5-year olds is normal

Frodo: I wish so much unbelievably stupid shit had not happened in my time Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. This is all exceptionally stupid, though

I’ve still never been in an Uber or Lyft. Though my friend who works for Lyft made me download the app, just in case.

I am almost always 10 to 15 years behind the curve.

This is my inaugural DoorDash.

I didn’t know we could DoorDash stuff in the Upper Valley, but my co-worker tells me someone is bringing us lunch.

Slightly diminish a band:

The B♭ee G♭ees

I want more beautiful songs about mythic and beleaguered wildlife & fewer about crappy relationships.

This is so true. I still have the 44 question email from Abby & Anna, who translated "Our Lady of the Open Road" into Chinese. The questions clarified the meaning and feeling behind my phrases "scuzzy too-bright barroom" & "the sweet old-school crunch of my Les Paul played through Marshall tubes."

So, are we in the dot over the “i” in “Jeremy Bearimy” now?

Hey all. Really struggling to find guidance on Covid Vax frequency suggestions? Help?!?

I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

Or public transportation.

America doesn’t have enough Quark. Or RitterSports.

Interesting time to visit Nürnberg.