The backlash against AI and data centers has been entirely predictable, when the promise of AI thus far has been "We're going to steal your work, eliminate your ability to make a living and make art and you can't do anything to stop it."
Just caught wind that we lost Fritz Daily. 💔
A fighter, a Butte diehard, and a stone-cold legend. Also the subject of one of my all-time favorite episodes of @foles74.bsky.social's ButteCast. buttecast.com/2023/01/27/p...
Thanks always for reading, my friend. 🙏
My amended version of Dostoyevsky’s koan and other things I’m taking with me to keep standing without delusion in this world of wounds. www.jacquelinetbrennan.com/2025/12/26/d...
Is there such a thing as non-violence? This sprawling essay is my answer.
Take a little trip, take a little trip, take a little trip with me, first to the lodgepole forests of my youth, then to one of the more life-affirming books I've recently read. www.thefriendshipcenter.org/post/the-del...
In a single mistyped first name, our sitting Secretary of Agriculture has been transformed from a politician to a jazz legend. 😂
Beyond ready for the pendulum to swing back to an era where MT’s federal elected officials understand that one of the ultimate signs of credibility and status is being from Butte and having headframes in the background of your photos. Rest easy, Pat.
Anti-mass-tourism protestors be out here speaking my love language.
Westerly winds did such a beautiful job getting smoke from Canadian fires out of the valley today, but now Gates of the Mountains is ripping. ⚖️ 💀
White evening primrose in the Gardiner Basin joined by pronghorn, a road-crossing bullsnake, and the ever-present threat of any cow elk’s ambush if I unknowingly encroach on the site of a discreetly cached newborn.
I’m more than ready for the “launch them and leave them out there” phase of this space-wanker/colonizer circlejerk.
Pasqueflowers starting to poke their heads out in the hills, auguring the rainbow of seasonal blooms to come and guaranteeing that a snowy squall will arrive in 2-3 weeks to cover all of them.
How can we make sure the word "shituation" gets used in every news story about down-on-their-luck mountain towns going forward? What a worthy and descriptive portmanteau with endless applications for my hometown and beyond.
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a bunch of government goons from ICE/HSI showed up to an elementary school in DC this morning and tried to detain a staff member in the parking lot but the person's colleagues intervened and stopped it and let that be a reminder to all of us that we can do that
Absolutely nobody is asking, but I’m really proud of my impromptu speaking skills about the significance of the 1892 Homestead Strike with total strangers at airports, even after I’ve had a few beers.
RIP to Blackfeet Lady Baller Legend Malia Kipp
Starting another year of my terrestrial allotment, my wish is that you, like me, may be surprised by your ability to remember. www.jacquelinetbrennan.com/2024/12/19/r...
An absolute BARNBURNER of a real-life horror story. I'm convinced you'll feel the sucker-punch when you read about the phenobarbital dose no matter where you're reading, or when. Wow.
I feel like this new Dead Pioneers song is destined to be adored in Montana on the strength of the Lily Gladstone line alone. youtu.be/ToVZHzw720I?...
The most spectacular mail of the literary variety I’ve received all year. 🤘🦬
It's a revealing window into class and regionalism how extremism in the American West has been written off for decades as a local problem, just a place where the wackos collect. Really it's been a training ground and fertile soil for these ideologies to grow, expand and take over.
Thrilled to see Costco now peddling pizza from these curbside ovens camouflaged as upright pianos that have seen better days.
View of Big Belts from saddle of Mount Ascension with heavy fog in the valleys
Some wicked inversion yesterday in Upper Missouri River country. Black ice still down in town while melting frost and snow dripped from trees in the inversion zone. You could smell the change on the way up before you even felt the temperature jump.
