Published inA Side of My Own·PinnedWhat Are Broken People Worth?Falling Apart on a Burning Planet — Mental illness is linked to time and distraction. Time passing too fast, or too slow, all in bad ways. Time disconnected from the world, distracted by an interior landscape. It’s about time lost, time left, time that can be productive, time that is unproductive, the slow passing of painful time…Mental Illness12 min readMental Illness12 min read
Dec 23, 2022The Sunken Placeand Aaron (This is a story about suicide, please be warned and don’t do forward if that’s not right for you right now. If you are in that place, please know life can get better. If you’re in crisis, please dial 112 in Europe or 988 in the USA. …11 min read11 min read
Published inNo Neutral Ground Ground in a Burning World·Oct 26, 2021Why San Francisco’s London Breed Handled the Pandemic Better Than Your MayorMayor Breed made some of the best decisions to stop Covid-19 from impacting the city of San Francisco. At the same time New York was making decisions that would cast it into a hell of refrigerator trucks full of bodies and mass graves, Breed shut down the city and closed…Covid-195 min readCovid-195 min read
Published inNo Neutral Ground Ground in a Burning World·Oct 13, 2021The Easiest Climate Wins in the WorldWhen we look at how much we use planetary resources, most of the uses are inelastic. It’s hard to stop commuting to work or give up seeing family and friends. It can be dangerous not to heat and cool our houses. These are damn hard problems. …7 min read7 min read
Published inSurviving Covid-19·Sep 15, 2021Don’t Worry About Mu. Don’t Worry About Boosters. Worry About This.Covid news never stops coming, and it won’t stop coming until people stop getting Covid. Current talk is about boosters to deal with falling antibody levels in the vaccinated, and Mu. …Covid-197 min readCovid-197 min read
Published inGEN·Sep 7, 2021Stop Talking About Carbon Emissions During Climate DisastersIt doesn’t help anyone. — Politicians focusing on emissions during climate disasters are playing a deadly con game, whether they know it or not. Last year, when California’s fire season was destroying homes and lives again, Governor Gavin Newsom responded by banning the sale of all new gas-powered cars by 2035. This year, when parts…Climate Change6 min readClimate Change6 min read
Published inA Side of My Own·Aug 29, 2021The Afghanistan War: An Extremely Cold TakeThis isn’t really about Afghanistan, it’s about us. Because the crazy things we do are always about America, all of our ridiculous wars are about us. When I saw the Twin Towers fall on the TV in the early morning of 9/11 in Portland, OR, I had a single thought: …Afghanistan3 min readAfghanistan3 min read
Published inA Side of My Own·Aug 26, 2021What Became of Me After Twitter?I was locked out of Twitter for over a year. Partly this was my own stubbornness — when my account was frozen for hate speech, I had to give Twitter a phone number in addition to a working email, but that was in violation of their own terms of service…Twitter5 min readTwitter5 min read
Published inSurviving Covid-19·Aug 17, 2021Beating the Delta Variant (Or Losing The World to It)(Complete With Childish Drawings of Covid-19 Viruses) — It’s been a rough summer dealing with the Delta variant of Covid-19. The virus is spreading fast, kids are being hospitalized at higher rates than ever, and after everything we’ve been through, Delta just seems like a crowbar to the kneecaps. With a leaked CDC slide deck (which probably shouldn’t…Covid-1910 min readCovid-1910 min read
Published inA Side of My Own·Jul 21, 2021Let’s Keep The Masks ForeverNo wait hear me out — Masks have been contentious and strange for the whole pandemic, but they’ve also been secretly wonderful. Not all masks, not ill-fitting masks without good filtration, not worn-out surgical masks which spent their lives as chin straps, not bulky and uncomfortable N95s, they weren’t great. …Masks5 min readMasks5 min read
