The revolution did not arrive with speeches, pamphlets, or a carefully moderated Zoom call about optics.
This is an amazing read about resistance.
So many amazing lines in this piece, but one that stands out:
"We proved that you can bring a trillion-dollar security apparatus to its knees with one well-aimed rubber cock."
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation
you *must* read the Battle of the Dildo at the Minneapolis Graduate Hotel (where ICE is lodging):
"The revolution did not arrive with speeches, pamphlets, or a carefully moderated Zoom call about optics. It arrived in a cardboard box full of clearance-bin dildos, under purple neon light." 🤣
one of the most beautiful things I've ever read
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation
This is an amazing read about resistance.
So many amazing lines in this piece, but one that stands out:
"We proved that you can bring a trillion-dollar security apparatus to its knees with one well-aimed rubber cock."
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation
you *must* read the Battle of the Dildo at the Minneapolis Graduate Hotel (where ICE is lodging):
"The revolution did not arrive with speeches, pamphlets, or a carefully moderated Zoom call about optics. It arrived in a cardboard box full of clearance-bin dildos, under purple neon light." 🤣
one of the most beautiful things I've ever read
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation
This is one of those sentences where at no point will you expect the next word in the sentence.
“There is a special kind of rage that comes from realizing your car is gone while you are holding a box of dildos and trying to overthrow a federal agency before midnight. This is not covered in any mindfulness app.”
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation
This is the hilarious essay (and effective middle finger gesture) that this American moment requested
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation
This is the hilarious essay (and effective middle finger gesture) that this American moment requested
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation
you *must* read the Battle of the Dildo at the Minneapolis Graduate Hotel (where ICE is lodging):
"The revolution did not arrive with speeches, pamphlets, or a carefully moderated Zoom call about optics. It arrived in a cardboard box full of clearance-bin dildos, under purple neon light." 🤣
one of the most beautiful things I've ever read
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation
> "The first dildo flew through the air like a rubber prophecy and skidded to a stop directly at the boots of a state trooper.
> They gassed us. They launched pepper balls. They turned a dildo joke into a war crime speedrun."
Pulitzer Prize performing prose, honestly.
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation
To anyone wanting to reproduce this kind of action but without a source for bulk dildos: silicone casting is easy and fun and you can easily make molds from a single original and parallelize production.
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation
The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.
This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months. We look from abroad and wonder where the hope is. Read this. Now.
This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months. We look from abroad and wonder where the hope is. Read this. Now.
This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months. We look from abroad and wonder where the hope is. Read this. Now.
This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months. We look from abroad and wonder where the hope is. Read this. Now.
This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months. We look from abroad and wonder where the hope is. Read this. Now.
This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months. We look from abroad and wonder where the hope is. Read this. Now.
This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months. We look from abroad and wonder where the hope is. Read this. Now.
This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months. We look from abroad and wonder where the hope is. Read this. Now.
Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/the-neighbors-defending-minnesota-from-ice/685769/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8L893jn-xkg4gA0ahaD_Ltw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p20#a260127p20
"Green Bean had told me the same thing—that agents had come to her house, followed her when she left, and then blocked her vehicle and screamed at her to “stop fucking following us. This is your last warning.” Green Bean was able to laugh while retelling this. “I just stared at them until they left,” she said."
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
Why We Speak - Anil Dash https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/26/why-we-speak/
I wrote a little bit about tech workers speaking up about the current moment — both how we work to shift the Overton window so more feel comfortable to do so, and what the power can be when we do: https://anildash.com/2026/01/26/why-we-speak/
I wrote a little bit about tech workers speaking up about the current moment — both how we work to shift the Overton window so more feel comfortable to do so, and what the power can be when we do: https://anildash.com/2026/01/26/why-we-speak/
I wrote a little bit about tech workers speaking up about the current moment — both how we work to shift the Overton window so more feel comfortable to do so, and what the power can be when we do: https://anildash.com/2026/01/26/why-we-speak/
I wrote a little bit about tech workers speaking up about the current moment — both how we work to shift the Overton window so more feel comfortable to do so, and what the power can be when we do: https://anildash.com/2026/01/26/why-we-speak/
I wrote a little bit about tech workers speaking up about the current moment — both how we work to shift the Overton window so more feel comfortable to do so, and what the power can be when we do: https://anildash.com/2026/01/26/why-we-speak/
I wrote a little bit about tech workers speaking up about the current moment — both how we work to shift the Overton window so more feel comfortable to do so, and what the power can be when we do: https://anildash.com/2026/01/26/why-we-speak/
I wrote a little bit about tech workers speaking up about the current moment — both how we work to shift the Overton window so more feel comfortable to do so, and what the power can be when we do: https://anildash.com/2026/01/26/why-we-speak/
It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
"If even the security services are gagged when they tell the government what it doesn’t want to hear, perhaps our communication style,or our modes of protest...are not, as we keep being told, the problem"
It's not a "comms" problem; it's a morality&power problem.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/27/uk-government-report-ecosystem-collapse-foi-national-security
UK government tried to hide its own report that ecosystem collapse is a serious national security threat. The report was eventually released under an FoI request but seems to have had the most dire conclusions deleted before release.
One conclusion: “ecosystem degradation is occurring across all regions. Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse (irreversible loss of function beyond repair).” it also says that “food production is the most significant cause of terrestrial biodiversity loss”
While there is a sense that Trumpism is a more urgent problem and The Environment must wait, Monbiot points out that fossil fuel, meat, and livestock producers have been funding right wing politics to block environmental protection measures so if we depower those businesses we get a 2 for 1 win.
In short, rather than protecting the environment being a trade-off with prosperity as it is framed by the neoliberals, a healthy and diverse environment goes hand in hand with prosperity.
‘But what was cut from the report is, according to The Times, even graver, including a warning that the shrinkage of glaciers in the Himalayas, causing declining river flow, would “almost certainly escalate tensions” between China, India and Pakistan, leading to the possibility of nuclear war.’
George Monbiot
This week's column is about something that's arguably more important than anything in the news, crucial as some of the other issues are.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UK government didn't want ...
This week's column is about something that's arguably more important than anything in the news, crucial as some of the other issues are.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UK government didn't want ...
UK government tried to hide its own report that ecosystem collapse is a serious national security threat. The report was eventually released under an FoI request but seems to have had the most dire conclusions deleted before release.
One conclusion: “ecosystem degradation is occurring across all regions. Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse (irreversible loss of function beyond repair).” it also says that “food production is the most significant cause of terrestrial biodiversity loss”
While there is a sense that Trumpism is a more urgent problem and The Environment must wait, Monbiot points out that fossil fuel, meat, and livestock producers have been funding right wing politics to block environmental protection measures so if we depower those businesses we get a 2 for 1 win.
In short, rather than protecting the environment being a trade-off with prosperity as it is framed by the neoliberals, a healthy and diverse environment goes hand in hand with prosperity.
UK government tried to hide its own report that ecosystem collapse is a serious national security threat. The report was eventually released under an FoI request but seems to have had the most dire conclusions deleted before release.
One conclusion: “ecosystem degradation is occurring across all regions. Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse (irreversible loss of function beyond repair).” it also says that “food production is the most significant cause of terrestrial biodiversity loss”
While there is a sense that Trumpism is a more urgent problem and The Environment must wait, Monbiot points out that fossil fuel, meat, and livestock producers have been funding right wing politics to block environmental protection measures so if we depower those businesses we get a 2 for 1 win.
In short, rather than protecting the environment being a trade-off with prosperity as it is framed by the neoliberals, a healthy and diverse environment goes hand in hand with prosperity.
"If even the security services are gagged when they tell the government what it doesn’t want to hear, perhaps our communication style,or our modes of protest...are not, as we keep being told, the problem"
It's not a "comms" problem; it's a morality&power problem.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/27/uk-government-report-ecosystem-collapse-foi-national-security
Interesting to see that the UK's National Security Committee (sat by the MI5, MI6 and GCHQ) compiled a giant report on the nat sec risks of biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse. It was supposed to be released last year but was held back for alteration as considered "too negative" and doomer for the UK public. But even the 'abridged' version will be sobering reading for many.
An emotionally charged Monbiot piece on it today:
By Devine Lu Linvega
Isn't just wonderful that clothes come with their sources? If you slice the different parts off with a seamripper, lay them all down, trace them on new fabric, cut them out, and stitch them back together, you can effectively clone and fork garments. I realize that this is probably real obvious to most people, but it only dawned on me recently.
So, that’s what I’ve been up to, most nights my laptop is stowed away to make room for the sewing machine on the nav table. It all began when the store that made the patrol cap that Rek and I wear stopped carrying it. The seams of the old worn-out cap were cut, new 14oz canvas was bought and the cap was cloned, twice! I enjoyed the process so much, I made a new messenger backpack, fixed ripped panels on my winter jacket, sown tartan wool arm warmers and some other things. At one point, I realized that I was wearing six items of clothing I had made or mended.
Isn't just wonderful that clothes come with their sources? If you slice the different parts off with a seamripper, lay them all down, trace them on new fabric, cut them out, and stitch them back together, you can effectively clone and fork garments. I realize that this is probably real obvious to most people, but it only dawned on me recently.
So, that’s what I’ve been up to, most nights my laptop is stowed away to make room for the sewing machine on the nav table. It all began when the store that made the patrol cap that Rek and I wear stopped carrying it. The seams of the old worn-out cap were cut, new 14oz canvas was bought and the cap was cloned, twice! I enjoyed the process so much, I made a new messenger backpack, fixed ripped panels on my winter jacket, sown tartan wool arm warmers and some other things. At one point, I realized that I was wearing six items of clothing I had made or mended.
Isn't just wonderful that clothes come with their sources? If you slice the different parts off with a seamripper, lay them all down, trace them on new fabric, cut them out, and stitch them back together, you can effectively clone and fork garments. I realize that this is probably real obvious to most people, but it only dawned on me recently.
So, that’s what I’ve been up to, most nights my laptop is stowed away to make room for the sewing machine on the nav table. It all began when the store that made the patrol cap that Rek and I wear stopped carrying it. The seams of the old worn-out cap were cut, new 14oz canvas was bought and the cap was cloned, twice! I enjoyed the process so much, I made a new messenger backpack, fixed ripped panels on my winter jacket, sown tartan wool arm warmers and some other things. At one point, I realized that I was wearing six items of clothing I had made or mended.
Isn't just wonderful that clothes come with their sources? If you slice the different parts off with a seamripper, lay them all down, trace them on new fabric, cut them out, and stitch them back together, you can effectively clone and fork garments. I realize that this is probably real obvious to most people, but it only dawned on me recently.
So, that’s what I’ve been up to, most nights my laptop is stowed away to make room for the sewing machine on the nav table. It all began when the store that made the patrol cap that Rek and I wear stopped carrying it. The seams of the old worn-out cap were cut, new 14oz canvas was bought and the cap was cloned, twice! I enjoyed the process so much, I made a new messenger backpack, fixed ripped panels on my winter jacket, sown tartan wool arm warmers and some other things. At one point, I realized that I was wearing six items of clothing I had made or mended.
Isn't just wonderful that clothes come with their sources? If you slice the different parts off with a seamripper, lay them all down, trace them on new fabric, cut them out, and stitch them back together, you can effectively clone and fork garments. I realize that this is probably real obvious to most people, but it only dawned on me recently.
So, that’s what I’ve been up to, most nights my laptop is stowed away to make room for the sewing machine on the nav table. It all began when the store that made the patrol cap that Rek and I wear stopped carrying it. The seams of the old worn-out cap were cut, new 14oz canvas was bought and the cap was cloned, twice! I enjoyed the process so much, I made a new messenger backpack, fixed ripped panels on my winter jacket, sown tartan wool arm warmers and some other things. At one point, I realized that I was wearing six items of clothing I had made or mended.
Isn't just wonderful that clothes come with their sources? If you slice the different parts off with a seamripper, lay them all down, trace them on new fabric, cut them out, and stitch them back together, you can effectively clone and fork garments. I realize that this is probably real obvious to most people, but it only dawned on me recently.
So, that’s what I’ve been up to, most nights my laptop is stowed away to make room for the sewing machine on the nav table. It all began when the store that made the patrol cap that Rek and I wear stopped carrying it. The seams of the old worn-out cap were cut, new 14oz canvas was bought and the cap was cloned, twice! I enjoyed the process so much, I made a new messenger backpack, fixed ripped panels on my winter jacket, sown tartan wool arm warmers and some other things. At one point, I realized that I was wearing six items of clothing I had made or mended.
Isn't just wonderful that clothes come with their sources? If you slice the different parts off with a seamripper, lay them all down, trace them on new fabric, cut them out, and stitch them back together, you can effectively clone and fork garments. I realize that this is probably real obvious to most people, but it only dawned on me recently.
So, that’s what I’ve been up to, most nights my laptop is stowed away to make room for the sewing machine on the nav table. It all began when the store that made the patrol cap that Rek and I wear stopped carrying it. The seams of the old worn-out cap were cut, new 14oz canvas was bought and the cap was cloned, twice! I enjoyed the process so much, I made a new messenger backpack, fixed ripped panels on my winter jacket, sown tartan wool arm warmers and some other things. At one point, I realized that I was wearing six items of clothing I had made or mended.
Isn't just wonderful that clothes come with their sources? If you slice the different parts off with a seamripper, lay them all down, trace them on new fabric, cut them out, and stitch them back together, you can effectively clone and fork garments. I realize that this is probably real obvious to most people, but it only dawned on me recently.
So, that’s what I’ve been up to, most nights my laptop is stowed away to make room for the sewing machine on the nav table. It all began when the store that made the patrol cap that Rek and I wear stopped carrying it. The seams of the old worn-out cap were cut, new 14oz canvas was bought and the cap was cloned, twice! I enjoyed the process so much, I made a new messenger backpack, fixed ripped panels on my winter jacket, sown tartan wool arm warmers and some other things. At one point, I realized that I was wearing six items of clothing I had made or mended.
Isn't just wonderful that clothes come with their sources? If you slice the different parts off with a seamripper, lay them all down, trace them on new fabric, cut them out, and stitch them back together, you can effectively clone and fork garments. I realize that this is probably real obvious to most people, but it only dawned on me recently.
So, that’s what I’ve been up to, most nights my laptop is stowed away to make room for the sewing machine on the nav table. It all began when the store that made the patrol cap that Rek and I wear stopped carrying it. The seams of the old worn-out cap were cut, new 14oz canvas was bought and the cap was cloned, twice! I enjoyed the process so much, I made a new messenger backpack, fixed ripped panels on my winter jacket, sown tartan wool arm warmers and some other things. At one point, I realized that I was wearing six items of clothing I had made or mended.
The 2025/26 State of Mozilla is an invitation: choose your future.
ouch. https://stateof.mozilla.org is a fever dream: AI videos, generally movement everywhere, a fake capcha making me type "FUTURE", an incoherent mix of vaguely "alternative" graphic design styles (neo brutalism, (fake)dithering, ascii-art) combined with AI videos.
“zzt how dare you accuse Mozilla employees of suffering from incredibly obvious LLM psychosis”
please “enjoy” the State of Mozilla, one of the least hinged things I’ve seen released with apparent pride by an established corporation: https://stateof.mozilla.org/
note the 2001-style not-Flash intro. the fake captcha. the timecube-esque prattle about AI threatening humanity. “DO NOT ACCEPT DEFAULT SETTINGS”. the ASCII art cop finger in the footer of the main page. all of it. what in fuck is this.
“zzt how dare you accuse Mozilla employees of suffering from very obvious LLM psychosis”
please “enjoy” the State of Mozilla, one of the least hinged things I’ve seen released with pride by an established corporation: https://stateof.mozilla.org/ (epilepsy warning)
note the 2001-style not-Flash intro. the fake captcha. the timecube-esque prattle about AI threatening humanity. “DO NOT ACCEPT DEFAULT SETTINGS”. the ASCII art cop finger in the footer of the main page. all of it. what in fuck is this.
#Mozilla has published what I can only call as an exercise of violence disguised as a website. What. The fuck. Is this. There is NO ONE at the wheel here. All of this is fucking unserious, ridiculous and in some parts, plain gaslighting. I am sorry, but I'm moving out. What the fuck is this, a brainrot manifesto? Fuck GenAI seriously
“zzt how dare you accuse Mozilla employees of suffering from very obvious LLM psychosis”
please “enjoy” the State of Mozilla, one of the least hinged things I’ve seen released with pride by an established corporation: https://stateof.mozilla.org/ (epilepsy warning)
note the 2001-style not-Flash intro. the fake captcha. the timecube-esque prattle about AI threatening humanity. “DO NOT ACCEPT DEFAULT SETTINGS”. the ASCII art cop finger in the footer of the main page. all of it. what in fuck is this.
“zzt how dare you accuse Mozilla employees of suffering from very obvious LLM psychosis”
please “enjoy” the State of Mozilla, one of the least hinged things I’ve seen released with pride by an established corporation: https://stateof.mozilla.org/ (epilepsy warning)
note the 2001-style not-Flash intro. the fake captcha. the timecube-esque prattle about AI threatening humanity. “DO NOT ACCEPT DEFAULT SETTINGS”. the ASCII art cop finger in the footer of the main page. all of it. what in fuck is this.
“zzt how dare you accuse Mozilla employees of suffering from very obvious LLM psychosis”
please “enjoy” the State of Mozilla, one of the least hinged things I’ve seen released with pride by an established corporation: https://stateof.mozilla.org/ (epilepsy warning)
note the 2001-style not-Flash intro. the fake captcha. the timecube-esque prattle about AI threatening humanity. “DO NOT ACCEPT DEFAULT SETTINGS”. the ASCII art cop finger in the footer of the main page. all of it. what in fuck is this.
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
"Books as signifiers, the paradox of tolerance, and Nazi bars"
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/paradox-of-tolerance/
On how books work as social signals.
And a cursed book.
Books as signifiers, the paradox of tolerance, and Nazi bars: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/paradox-of-tolerance/
> The only reason why people would argue that you have to debate them if you find their declared favoured books distasteful is when they want to cross your boundaries and force something on you. It’s abuser logic. It’s also nonsense logic.
Books as signifiers, the paradox of tolerance, and Nazi bars: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/paradox-of-tolerance/
"Books as signifiers, the paradox of tolerance, and Nazi bars"
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/paradox-of-tolerance/
On how books work as social signals.
And a cursed book.
> The only reason why people would argue that you have to debate them if you find their declared favoured books distasteful is when they want to cross your boundaries and force something on you. It’s abuser logic. It’s also nonsense logic.
Books as signifiers, the paradox of tolerance, and Nazi bars: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/paradox-of-tolerance/
Books as signifiers, the paradox of tolerance, and Nazi bars: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/paradox-of-tolerance/
“No matter what Manu intended, what he made was a public argument for tolerating Nazism and allowing Nazi rhetoric into our public discourse”
“That’s crossing a line”
Books as signifiers, the paradox of tolerance, and Nazi bars
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/paradox-of-tolerance/
Maker of web things, blogger, podcaster, and pizzaiolo. Cat dad and human dad.
Actionable goals are needed to guide the world towards what needs to happen most quickly: shifting economies to clean energy sources. Actionable goals are needed to guide the world towards what needs to happen most quickly: shifting economies to clean energy sources.
As the world quickly approaches 1.5C, researchers have a call in Nature to rethink the utility of temperature targets – and to potentially replace them with more actionable and precise targets around clean energy:
As we breach 1.5 °C, we must r...
As we breach 1.5 °C, we must replace temperature limits with clean-energy targets
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00246-z
#ClimateDiary
As we breach 1.5 °C, we must replace temperature limits with clean-energy targets
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00246-z
#ClimateDiary
As the world quickly approaches 1.5C, researchers have a call in Nature to rethink the utility of temperature targets – and to potentially replace them with more actionable and precise targets around clean energy:
As we breach 1.5 °C, we must r...
As the world quickly approaches 1.5C, researchers have a call in Nature to rethink the utility of temperature targets – and to potentially replace them with more actionable and precise targets around clean energy: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00246-z
"We argue that the main focus of climate action in 2026 and beyond should be on accelerating the clean-energy revolution. And the rate at which clean energy displaces fossil fuels in the global economy should become the key measure of climate progress."
I have mixed feelings about this.
As we breach 1.5 °C, we must r...
As the world quickly approaches 1.5C, researchers have a call in Nature to rethink the utility of temperature targets – and to potentially replace them with more actionable and precise targets around clean energy: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00246-z
As the world quickly approaches 1.5C, researchers have a call in Nature to rethink the utility of temperature targets – and to potentially replace them with more actionable and precise targets around clean energy: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00246-z
"We argue that the main focus of climate action in 2026 and beyond should be on accelerating the clean-energy revolution. And the rate at which clean energy displaces fossil fuels in the global economy should become the key measure of climate progress."
I have mixed feelings about this.
As we breach 1.5 °C, we must r...
As the world quickly approaches 1.5C, researchers have a call in Nature to rethink the utility of temperature targets – and to potentially replace them with more actionable and precise targets around clean energy: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00246-z
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