this is an elaboration of a Bluesky thread I wrote off the cuff in April, 2025. I’m incorporating comments I made into the text.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-food-safety-inspections-plans/
This started as a thread in response to something at Bluesky (which I usually like, but which is, like the entire internet in 2024, frequently poisoned with too much binary thinking) and I decided I wanted it here. Comments are off.
So, I deleted a bunch of replies to a high profile account because I’m not someone's punching bag when they’re getting dugeony about a profession they profoundly do not understand.
Originally a Twitter thread from 2020.
We do not live in Gotham.
Nor do we live in Metropolis.
Those are fictional.
So is Batman.
And Batman is not a hero.
From a Twitter thread from 2020. Everything old is new again.
Bloc for everyone! 🧵
Or how I misspent my late teens & 20s.
Caveat: I learned bloc tactics from East Coast and West Coast activists, who learned from European environmental and anti-racist activists. And I learned a long time ago, as these things go.
BLOC EVOLVES.
(There was a twitter thread, this was my response. The anonymized post that started it.)

Yeah, no, to this whole tweet about Tylenol, CBD and ibuprofen. This is a lot of bad information packed into 280 characters.
A twitter thread, simultaneously posted here.
No, we’re not going to the 17th century for women. This fuckery on abortion is only possible in the 21st century.