I would once again like to remind everyone that it isn't just okay to share all your little things on here, but absolutely essential, and necessary. Anything and everything that reminds us of our shared humanity, of kindness, creativity, nature's beauty, and so forth.

Hope springs eternal, and mostly from the small, seemingly mundane. Hope needs very little, and that small sparkle in your life that seems utterly insufficient to you will help someone else get back up, and put one foot in front of the other.

Your cat pictures. Thick tree trunks, bloomscrolling, moss, birds, 'I made this', 'I saw this and I thought it was neat', even the really bad dad jokes.

All of this is resistance. Keep doing it! ✊🏻

This is the saddest July 4 in my memory. The United States is plunging into vile right-wing dictatorship, in large part because once-vital institutions -- including Big Journalism -- have chosen to be quislings when courage was needed.

It's not too late to reverse our decline, but it's close.

I've been using em dashes since I picked up the LaTeX manual in 1986 and I'm not going back just because some text extruding software uses them more than most humans.

Also, my grandfather was a printer and I knew from an early age that "em" and "en" were legit scrabble words.

#OldManYellsAtCloud

Feeling overwhelmed, like the worst of us make the rules for the rest of us? Like empathy feels like a curse right now? It just hurts, and you feel helpless?

You are worth fighting for. Sometimes winning doesn't look glamorous, it just looks like not giving up. Care for yourself, for the ones you love, being strong and feeling strong are not the same thing, just don't quit. I love you all, I'm sorry it's hard, but we need each other, community is essential.