Erin Kissane

@jessamyn@glammr.us I am thinking about libraries about 96% the time right now Jessamyn 💜💜💜

Too late for this update, but AFL-CIO Minneapolis is endorsing a general strike (or "statewide action") on Jan 23 over ICE/CBP violence. https://minneapolisunions.org/system/files/2026-01/press_release_-_january_16_2026.pdf #uspol

It is roughly 5k words long and some of the densest abstract thinking I've tried to do in years and I started drafting it while still in the last huge year-end push at Unbreaking.org and finished this morning. I am toast. See you in January!

@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com <3 <3

I cannot make a bespoke action plan for your exact situation, but if you feel like what you're doing is pointless, there are options. If you need to yell about how frustrated you feel, I respect that! (Perhaps consider my well-honed spiritual practice of Hollering Into A Tree or the classic urban alternative, Bellowing Down That Storm Drain.) Many of us are working with stark limitations of all kinds. But most people can do *something*, and in my experience, when we do it often helps. #uspol

@beep @vruba Please invite me to all your parties, I am extremely fun.

@jasonsantamaria@typo.social yaaaay

Thanks to the makers, if you see this.

@dymaxion I still feel unequipped to fully and properly reexamine the enlightenment (maybe someday!) but full-throated agree on the second half. I had a section about ACT UP in there, but it's now in my 7k-word scarps (sic) file.

@johnzajac@dice.camp I’m inclined to give people a whole lot of leeway on health stuff, but there’s a still point past which it’s still bad and counterproductive behavior. Most of what I see here (and most of what I mentioned) is people exercising social discipline because someone else drove a car, linked to youtube, posted on another network, expressed excitement about voting, or used an iphone. As someone who grew up in fundamentalist purity culture, I think that stuff is classic purity culture. 🤷🏻

@ted ACCEPTED, ty <3

@onpaperwings @HEX I am a devotee!

@beep 🌬️ I know you know, friend. Thank you for always being such a mensch.

@jessamyn@glammr.us People who can't physically go this week—like me, stuck on the wrong side of a snowy mountain pass several hours away from the nearest one—can definitely be calling. Takes 60 seconds, one issue per call with a clear single request for action!

@urlyman 😬

@cabel I've seen a lot of theater and I have never experienced in my life a more successful mix of heartfelt + showmanship, I was *hollering* ❤️

@blaise@hachyderm.io D reps definitely need to hear from their constituents—they need numbers to back decisions, and they need to hear what matters most to the people they serve. I'm incredibly fortunate to have 2/3 of my reps be some of the best in Congress, but they still need those calls. (And I have to kick the third one a little.)

@ZaneSelvans@social.coop ALAS

@DaveMWilburn I'm so sorry about your dad. And thank you.

@Aaron ty Aaron <3

@jenlowe <3 <3 <3 miss you all

@vivtek iirc the Fernbach/Sloman book refers to several of studies about the tendency to mistake (roughly) externally located knowledge for internal, which may connect to the mixed-source memory scaffolding you're describing.

@elana@babka.social Augh ❤️❤️❤️ I’m truly okay, my skin thickens back up fast! But I’m such a network nerd that whenever I see problems I start thinking about them in network-wide terms.

@r343l I think the impulse to document everything is perhaps more helpful than we broadly acknowledged! I am bookmarking this for reading asap, ty!

@dec23k Ty!

@joriki@infosec.exchange I think for me it’s a question of whether posting is my best lever, or something else. Opsec in service of specific plans is different from…idk, general cowering? But it’ll be a personal call for lots of people, and many can’t choose to be low-visibility.

@s0hw CCing @bonfire @darius @jdp23 @kfitz @UlrikeHahn — this could be a great thing to get out to your networks! I loved Sohyeon's last paper and this is an amazing research team.

@danaloi@newsie.social I just had a whole I Lived in Berkeley in 2002 heart attack there

@jasonsantamaria@typo.social oh no it’s beautiful

@annares@kolektiva.social Let me know if you do and I’ll help however I can, as a…non-playing admirer of RPGs

@annares@kolektiva.social fuck yeah

@acb@mastodon.social Varied tactics will definitely be useful at various moments in this progression.

@crackhappy Thank you! I edited this one with such a smushed brain and it shoooows

@vivtek how do you feel about zotero michael

@vasta <3 <3

@maxfenton I'm so sorry you missed it the full effect! It was legit extraordinary

@crackhappy Indeed. I'm getting to it as I can.

@alberto_cottica Thank you! And that feels right to me, at least—realistic humility about our cognition seems like a first step toward building toward more stable and resilient ways to know things.

@vivtek check yr email