Head Full of Bees

Once again, I am fulfilling my purpose on this earth by giving my dog a really good life. Today on our walk, he rolled in TWO dead things and picked a fight with a swan.

All of this has coincided with the expansion of hours of daylight. Even though we aren’t at the equinox yet, it’s still noticeable that the light is increasing drastically, week by week, and so it makes sense that the birds would get going on laying the foundations for having babies.

There are magpies building an apartment complex right outside my balcony, so I noticed the sudden uptick in activity, just a week or so ago, and I also noticed the blue tits making new calls, frequently and loudly. I assume these are territorial calls.

And I found that each time I learn a set of things and some related patterns, I start to observe novel things, and then build complexity into that pattern. For instance, this year I have noticed for the first time that the birds start their nesting behavior in February.

And I found that I quickly learn things that I remembered and observed patterns that appeared to be repeating. This is precisely what my human brain has evolved to be very good at, so it’s no real surprise that this has happened.

It’s amazing how much you start to notice when you just start paying attention to something. I’ve been casually, and without a lot of active study from any guides or experts, paying attention to the natural world just in my neighborhood over the last few years.

I’m gonna stop telling people I’m unemployed and start telling them that I’m feral.

Why are people still listening to this man? He is failing at basic reading comprehension if he’s characterizing Greta “listen to the scientists“ Thunberg as anti-science. So why do ppl think his opinion on larger issues is any more informed?

You know a Canadian willing to cross the border ??

I sometimes watch UK rural detective shows purely for their Very Nice Sweaters.

When I was being driven around the Cities in lightly falling, fluffy snow, the whole scene was rendered in real-life grayscale. I had a shameful, selfish thought: This is the opposite of a color lead. My editor sent me all the way out here for this? I thought of all the useless video I had taken, and then of the terabytes more of data on a thousand other phones. All the interactions that didn’t escalate, or even turn out to be ICE action. All those videos are evidence of the terror, too—evidence of the wearying watchfulness that an occupation wrests from people. How occupations colonize memory as much as space. The shots of ICE agents leaving a scene, of storefronts that aren’t blasted through, of apartments whose doors remain whole—all of that is abundant but unaccessible proof of what can be accomplished without leadership, just community and will.

My report from Minneapolis, about the things you'll never see. newrepublic.com/article/2057...

Leona. Pernilla.

To my ever-growing trove of generally inapplicable knowledge, we can add “knows where to buy a scythe.”

Hanged, people, it’s hanged. Whether or not any of them are hung is immaterial.

Today I heard the term “cosypunk” and I gotta say I think it’s an excellent description of the esthetic I’ve been cultivating.

Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping. Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.

The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

“Playing Dress-up.” It’s a super fun activity, and more adults should do it!

Oh no, what if the thugs suddenly lacked an external structure and leadership?!! Dude, they’d just go back to swearing at 12 year olds on COD servers.

I gave up on a Chabon novel a few pages in when the first woman to appear on the scene did so with a dick in her mouth. I’m done with reading Special Boy fantasies. Just done.

What a nauseating, boot-licking angle to take.

Every data centre is a U.S. military base - CCPA Understanding how the United States uses its tech companies to serve empire

Det kanadensiska samtalet om digital suveränitet är i full fart. Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives skeivdr under rubriken "Every data centre is a U.S military base".

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

I envy you. My eldest can’t stand wool, hates it, and my youngest wants to look as plain as possible at all times. Neither ever wants a handknit. But here’s my dog in a beautiful new sweater:

Do you know about the knitwear designer Alice Starmore and what a bitch she is?

Duty? Like, does she think Art School administers some kind of Hippocratic oath before they give out the official black wool beret?

In hindsight, yes, but I was also taken in by these videos at first because they do a good job of keeping your focus on the action, which you care about, and off the background, which you don’t. And They’re emotionally satisfying, so you’re not inclined to think about it too deeply.

These vids are AI.

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

From October 2025: “I might invoke Edward R. Murrow, but they remember him. They don’t have any goodwill toward you. They don’t know who you are at all. And they are not going to defend you when you screw up.”

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Not to mention how much learning from some materials depends on preserving their physicality. You can’t digitize the under layers of a palimpsest. You can’t digitize the dna of an animal hide, or the exact twist angle of a textile scrap.

So apparently Sweden is experiencing the darkest December since 1934. But today the sun came out! A bit! It was glorious.

So the thing in school where the teacher wrapped up a discussion of art/lit with “maybe the REAL purpose is to make you THINK”? Yeah that was a convo-ending bit of BS that stems from the teacher not really having a grip on the semiotics or context. It’s ok if art has a conclusive & clear meaning.