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/
From a 2021 twitter thread
Summer reminder, since many are heading out into the national parks and federal lands:
Be VERY careful with anything that looks like a sprinkler head or trash in the ground – it could easily be an M44 cyanide device. It can kill humans and dogs.
Our tax dollars pay for this poison.

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.
This is an almost or entirely shelf stable recipe that makes a hearty soup. Being shelf-stable, it’s a good one to keep in case of sudden snow or storm days, or when the paycheck just won’t stretch.
It takes opening some cans and making sure nothing scorches.
Originally a twitter thread
In my day job, one of the signs of progress and health is the ability to look at a situation as it is, without either catastrophizing OR denial. So yes, sometimes the goal of the next set of therapy is to come to terms with a terminal diagnosis or the end of a relationship.
I have eleven questions for you.
I don’t need the answers, you do.