Laurence “Smashy Fashy” Fox

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There are reports of ICE activity on the north side of Chicago happening now.

Please share so people in the area can be aware and take precautions.

If you’re in the area please come by our office at 7016 N Clark St for ICE whistles.

We protect each other. Chinga la migra.

When I say I want to read a silly, frivolous book, I don't want that book to be poorly written.

Oh good. My upstairs neighbors are scream-fighting again

I did this recently & when I turned around, a woman was standing behind me BAWLING. I asked her what was wrong and she sobbed “That’s what everyone wants to hear”

People… are super not okay. We need to have so much more patience and care for others and ourselves cause nobody is freaking okay RN.

…when my dog is scared, I do this thing where I lay a hand on her head and tell her “you are so smart, and so pretty, and so good, and so loved and it’s all ok.”

Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

(Also I have to write a note on fridays
to write the list as soon as I come back from the store, or I won’t update it and then it all goes to hell—and by “write a note on Friday” I mean I sharpie it on my arm before bed with a massive sharpie I leave on the nightstand for this sole use)

This is going to sound so stupid, but I’ve been writing down what’s in my fridge and freezer and taping it to the doors. Then when I got to get something, I see a prompt (I use
bright paper) of what I actually have, and can use it from there. Elsewise it doesn’t “exist.”

Recently finished the Wire for the first time, and I have no idea how someone could watch that show and not come out an abolitionist.

Went to my friend’s house and asked for a glass of water. Friend says “oh, the fridge will pour you one” (We don’t have a tap anymore or…?) and so I go over and there’s a little screen and it starts asking me how cold/sparkling/alkaline and and and—

Anyways, so I grabbed and beer and—

A loaf of Vermont sourdough (10% dark rye) with rustic slashes, a seasalt-sprinkled oven dark and glossy crust on a cooling rack

Update: bread has come out of the oven, night night!

It did take pretty much a whole day, but that includes clean up (no dish washer, by hand) and I did laundry, vacuumed, watered my plants, walked the dog, and took a run (and smoked several joints) so like…it’s work but it’s also chill?

-made dog food with some frozen chicken livers I found in my
freezer and packed it (Audrey deserves good food too!)

-pulled out some rhubarb and raspberries frozen from the garden, macerated them, and made a fruit crisp

Sum total $ for like… two weeks worth of food (at least?): ~65$

-slow roasted a whole ass-duck (bought on sale and tucked into the freezer) with Maggi and beer, then carved and sorted meat for wraps and soup/ramen

-took the cooled carcass, pulled out all my scraps (cheese rinds, onion peels, etc) and am currently making a whole pot of duck stock

Sourdough pizza with thinly sliced d’Anjou pear, homemade pesto, kale, mozzarella, and a light dusting of Parmesan

Vermont-style sour dough loaf slowly rising on a cutting board

Today in “working class cooking:”

-made tomato and bean soup with left over simmered beans from the freezer

-made a batch of Vermont sourdough with Carl, my starter; divided in 1/2 made a loaf, and then pizza with roasted pears and homemade pesto stashed from my garden, one crust still in fridge

“We’re making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy.”

And now we’d like to present to you our multi-film gazillion dollar franchise on emotional regulation and feelings.

This is exactly the kind of “leftist” who reposts shit on facebook all day and then wonders why nothing ever changes—the only reason she came to see me was because it let her feel like she was doing something while doing absolutely nothing except punching down/laterally.

Lady was “so involved” and “deeply invested” but needed “an emotional hook” in the six minutes of air time I had (in which I answered 8 questions) but didn’t want to go to the event, attend the public update, or watch it later online.

So I guess she just… wants other people to solve it w/o her?

“The left has … become a few thousand people trying to post their way out of posting.”
👇
Was on the radio talking about an upcoming rally last wk. Lady comes in after specifically to complain that “I needed to give her something to hook her…bc she doesn’t want to go to meetings or read reports.”

The former diplomat Carne Ross observed in September 2015 in The New York Times:[181] For a former diplomat like me, I found it confusing: I kept looking for a hierarchy, the singular leader, or signs of a government line, when, in fact, there was none; there were just groups. There was none of that stifling obedience to the party, or the obsequious deference to the "big man"—a form of government all too evident just across the borders, in Turkey to the north, and the Kurdish regional government of Iraq to the south. The confident assertiveness of young people was striking.

region's administration has also been accused by partisan and non-partisan sources of authoritarianism, media censorship, forced disappearances, support of the Ba'athist regime, Kurdification, and displacement. At the same time, DAANES has also been described by partisan and non-partisan sources as the most democratic system in Syria, with direct open elections, social equality, respecting human rights within the region, as well as defense of minority and religious rights within Syria. DAANES has widespread support for its universal democratic, sustainable, autonomous, pluralist, equal, and feminist policies in dialogues with other parties and organizations.

In March 2017 the "United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria" was unable to find evidence to substantiate claims about ethnic cleansing, stating: Though allegations of "ethnic cleansing" continued to be received during the period under review, the Commission found no evidence to substantiate claims that YPG or SDF forces ever targeted Arab communities on the basis of ethnicity, nor that YPG cantonal authorities systematically sought to change the demographic composition of territories under their control through the commission of violations directed against any particular ethnic group

God its so funny how hard Turkey+the US tried to do a smear campaign accusing Rojava of authoritarianism and ethnic cleansing to justify attacking them

but then the UN/human rights orgs investigated and are like "...this is a bunch of anarchists who are almost neurotically obsessed with equality"

It’s… right in my face? Like directly at eye level? And I can’t tell if this is carelessness, AI photo selection, or a subtle jab at the administration what quietly says “also, blow us?”

The war on Iran is unfolding alongside a wave of mass layoffs in the US. These are not separate crises. They are two sides of the same offensive by the ruling class against the working class.

… they better be serving red wine in chalices and special cookies, is all I’m saying

This is… an exceptionally odd photo choice

Honestly do you ever get confused about which headlines are real and which headlines you wrote? Like how sometimes, as a journalist, you forget you wrote a story until you’re researching a related piece and realize you’re sourcing your own work? Because it’s getting really hard to tell.

I've been wanting more IRL socializing so I browsed the library events and classes. A writing class! That could be good. I go into the description. It's a generative writing group where you learn how to come up with good prompts. OH MY GAWD

It’s Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil, and buddy, I’m all out of Tony Dokoupil

In the world that is, this would make me so much happier.

And man… the first time I went outside and stood under the sun in my bare chest after top surgery? I felt so relieved and so stupid for waiting so long.

But told myself it was fine, that “if the world were different, and I could be seen as myself without transitioning, maybe I wouldn’t do it and just be happy, so I have to work to build THAT world.”

And then one day I realized that it didn’t matter what I would do “if”—all I had is what “is,” and

It was a lot of little things over time… but as I hit my 30s and my body started settling into a more traditionally “female” shape, my sense that “something is wrong, all of the time” got bigger and bigger. I had come out as enby, and I thought about transitioning medically all the time…