Can I Trust This?

I’ve heard it before. “You can live here as long as you want.” Usually comes when someone realizes how useful to them I am. “Help take care of so and so” “Till death do us part” “Help to buy this land” “Help maintain this place, develop it” It’s from people I once respected and gaveContinueContinue reading “Can I Trust This?”

Get Them While You Can

Climate change, regime change, and preventable illness. I can’t tell you how many times a day I hear around this area that scientists and Doctors are fake and out to harm people. As someone who has a degree in the sciences it’s rather insulting and also false. Why would we spend our whole lives tryingContinueContinue reading “Get Them While You Can”

Possible Bomb Cyclone on the Horizon

Sometime during my middle of the night insomnia, I got bored enough to go look at the models and the patterns for the coming week. Here in the PNW, I say keep an eye out for a mid week (starting possibly on Tuesday) bomb cyclone and atmospheric river. The low pressure system is looking fairlyContinueContinue reading “Possible Bomb Cyclone on the Horizon”

Bounties on Citizens in Texas

It’s starting. In one city, the local government will pay you $10,000 to turn in your trans neighbor. Just for having to pee. Just for wanting to safely use a bathroom without being attacked and raped. A friend who adopted two trans kids because their families threw them away because their brains were wired toContinueContinue reading “Bounties on Citizens in Texas”

Cheap Milk and Silent Screams (read my response below this powerful poem)

by Heide Brandes they’re dancing in the streets tonightcelebrating someone else’s painlike hyenas drunk on blood and fearwhile the milk goes sour in their refrigerators the television blares about savings at the megamartand nobody remembers how to grow their own freedom anymorethey revel like gloating goats, shittingand prancing on expensive things like rights, equality andContinueContinue reading “Cheap Milk and Silent Screams (read my response below this powerful poem)”

Welcome to 1.5

1.5 is the magical number climate scientists agree was a number to avoid. It wasn’t officially expected to happen until 2040. But I know it would be quicker. Ever since Al Gore attempted to bring up the issue of climate change, there was a very concerted effort by just about everyone to “scale back” theContinueContinue reading “Welcome to 1.5”