Melissa Fierce

Grace Hopper conference is canceled because Big Tech has traded token hiring for AI tokens. There I said it. Also I made this: tokenstokens.lol

go look at the moon Chicago

Today, in DD/MM/YY form, is 24/10/26, a Pythagorean triple, the last one this century apparently

Is this you?

“the regime is systematically repealing the right to culture” www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

Cue theremin The pilot has asked us all to fasten our seatbelts.

A real stunner this morning

Up since 5, looking at the sky all bundled up with a poofball hat and coat because it’s cold at night. I still have my frownies on (because you know, vanity) Anyway, I stepped outside to get this sunrise shot right as the neighbor kids lined up for the school bus, I waved, they looked confused.

2:22am I woke up, walked outside, laid down on the porch and watched as three shooting stars burned out across the sky. This memo marks the time.

Good morning from here

Oroborus Americana

This is where I am

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The Cat Righting Reflex is the official name of the process cats use to automatically correct themselves mid-fall and land on their feet. It develops between 3 - 9 weeks of age, and is responsible for the greatest wikipedia gif of all time.

My advice to a young graduate student who was asking me about what I saw as a future for the sciences in America today... "If you can survive & find people to help you survive the next 2.5yrs, then we might be positioned for a renaissance in science and science funding... But that's all I've got."

Éclipse totale du chat.

it's funny

One of my cartoons for Monday's Metro

Jasmine Clark will become the first Black woman with a science Ph.D. to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. https://scim.ag/4dDZe6P

It's Wrong Jacket Week in Chicago, we are celebrating the changing seasons by making sure that you are 100% always wearing the wrong jacket no matter what you do

Someday when this is all over, our atoms will lose cohesion and drift apart, and that's ok. They'll combine with other atoms to form new gnarled oaks, fainting goats, and haunted cottages that float through the woods, wreathed in moss & gloom.

Finished filling another tiny morning pages book - an unfamiliar high since I am forever losing them and starting new ones. Behold and celebrate my consistency!

I suddenly remembered that, once upon a time, Church of the Subgenius symbol-fonts existed. So I looked online … and y'all this is peak mid-90s world-wide-web. What a glorious and terrible beauty. Makes me homesick. www.subgenius.com/SUBFONTS/su...

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

mittens are a great option if you want to buy gloves for someone but don't know how many fingers they have

Sitting on my ass until my legs go numb and I can pretend I am being walked home by the dead.

SEIZE JOY FROM THE JAWS OF PAIN. DOES YOUR BODY NEED STRETCHING?

Meanwhile, in the studio.

if you’re not singing a little song about the thing you’re doing while you’re doing it then what is even the point of doing anything

(falling out of a tree) (hitting the ground with a dull thud) (lying there for a bit) (standing with a heavy sigh) (climbing a different tree) (the forest floor is pockmarked with craters from previous failures)

My hold-out set is a house fire.

641A We’re listening…

The alt text on this is amazing 😂

In this house, we believe: - love is love - science is real - squirrels are little demons - all forests are haunted - fried potatoes are good for me - pants are always optional

Last week, my bank manager and I talked about mutual aid networks and learning to garden. Then, along with my bank statements he handed me a zine he’d written. This is the way, I think.

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"No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices." Edward R. Murrow, who died on this day in 1965

Today I replaced the LCD screen of my laptop so efficiently that there are two tiny screws mysteriously leftover after putting it back together. Certainly those screws weren’t important.

Avalokiteśvara waves hello, one hand at a time. hundred hamsas with googly eyes greet the day

What it it like to be made of language? What is it like to be made of noodles?

Sat down with a cup of coffee and thought, - “I’ll just write for the next 15 minutes.” 90 minutes and three thoughtful paragraphs later I wonder if AI was invented to stop this kind of internal time travel so that we forget that the value is not in the minutes saved, but the traveling itself.

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

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