Notices by Jessica :propride: 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 ✡️ (jewishreader@sfba.social)

@kingrat That is the first third, for darn sure. I almost didn't make it past that. But the rest I found fairly redemptive, as someone who also very deliberately does not call herself a leftist. I use 'progressive.'

A rare crosspost from my Bluesky account!

Here's a leftist who really, truly gets it. If you have been deeply frustrated by leftist-liberal infighting, this is long but will warm your heart.

https://newrepublic.com/article/195300/democratic-tea-party-bernie-aoc-failed-succeed

@kingrat Good to know

Earthquake?

There are still seats available to see Susie Eddie Izzard's one-person Hamlet at ACT today and tomorrow, and if you are a fan of Izzard I suggest you go. I did not think she was going to be able to pull it off in the show's first few minutes but it really becomes quite a performance. #sfba #sf #theater

A Leechblock time limit just saved me from getting into it with someone I otherwise respect who was saying what I regard as truly silly political stuff. I cannot recommend Leechblock enough.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leechblock-ng/

Edited because I originally detailed what that stuff was, which to my mind belongs behind a CW.

@skinnylatte I think Urban Alchemy is really problematic, but this is also from a journal published by the Manhattan Institute so should be taken with a huge grain of salt.

My dear techie friends: I have been trying unsuccessfully to find my #Kindle files on my #Mac running Sequoia so I can de-DRM them, and..I cannot. I know the library is hidden. Believe me I have tried every file path the internet has given me. Help? Thank you! #books #ebooks

CW: USPol.

Relevant to my post about how to help, here is an article about the various ways Chicago is attempting to beat back the fascists who are on the way. If you do not read/subscribe to Bolts, I cannot recommend it more highly.

https://boltsmag.org/chicago-immigrant-rights-groups-prepare-sanctuary-policies/

@Bronwyn Oh man! That sounds so difficult!

@kingrat Yes.

@skinnylatte @secretasianman I was unaware of this and it makes me never want to shop there again, which is unfortunate because they're the only place that carries certain stuff.

HOW did I not have the term 'neoliberal' filtered what is wrong with me.

Evergreen:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03085147.2015.1013356

[An abstract from a paper about the complete incoherence of the word's usage, with the sentence "In addition, the paper also explores the one-sided, morally laden usage of the term by non-economists to describe economic phenomena"]

Today I have:

*Forgotten to take an important medication
*Spilled yogurt on myself
*Placed a carton of open chai concentrate in a cabinet instead of in the fridge

Worse than any of this, I just confused Sisko with Janeway when commenting on a post about DS9.

What this demonstrates, yet again, is that capitalism does not function in the absence of regulation.

@kingrat Right?!!! Or tons of the Mission, actually.

For non-San Franciscians, West Portal is a neighborhood in the southwestern part of the city that feels a little like a small-town mainstreet in New Jersey in the '50s. It is almost always quite busy.