If your website is still http only, no https...

... are you okay? Do you need help doing archival work? this isn't shade, we just saw the long tail of the web forced offline with the move to https everywhere.

Are you holding on to an http only site for someone who's passed? DM me and I'll help you save a copy some place more durable than a personal or academic server sitting on someone's desk or in a closet. Let's save the remnants of the old web before they go offline entirely.

While researching a thing I'm writing, I found this 2019 psych study on how debt relief improves cognitive function for poor people by 1/4 of a standard deviation. That is a LOT.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1810901116
"Reducing debt improves psychological functioning and changes decision-making in the poor" is the title of the study, in case that link requires a login.

Kinda extra proud of #SomervilleMA city councilor Willie Burnley Jr trying to get us municipal relief on medical debts. #MApoli #Somerpoli

Accidentally discovering a new animal species as a

– paleontologist: 🥳

– biologist: 😁

– scuba diver: 🤨

– astronaut: 😨

– surgeon: 😱

HEY! ANTIFA!
HEY! COMMUNISTS!
HEY! SOCIALISTS!
HEY! RADICALS!

let's celebrate these electoral wins that look small to some of y'all, if not completely antithetical to your definition of radicalism.

why?

HARM REDUCTION IS POLITICAL WARFARE.

because it is a BFD for us, the targets of racist, misogynist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic harm.

self-care —from the privacy of health care to the public sphere of voting— is an act of political warfare

so celebrate today's #electionday wins