Tootfinder

Sascha Riley is willing to testify against Pedophile perpetrators including
Donald J. Trump,
Andy Biggs,
Jim Jordan,
Lindsey Graham
and Clarence Thomas
https://lisevoldeng.substack.com/p/dont-worry-boys-are-hard-to-find?tr…

"Don't worry. Boys are hard to find." Part 1 o2
Trump/Epstein and Associated Criminal Enterprises: Victim Interviews: SR

Any sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness is indistinguishable from revolutionary dual power. This essay is a bit of a transition between the theory I've written earlier, and more concrete plans.
Even though I only touched on my life on the commune, it was hard not to write more. These are such weird spaces, with so much invisible opportunity. But they're also just so unique and special. For all the stress and uncertainty of making sure you stayed on Lorean's (the head priestess), there were also those long summer nights with the whole community (except the old lady) gathered around a fire, talking and drinking. There was almost a child-like play to the whole time.
There were so Fridays I'd come home with a couple of gallons of beer from the real world, folks would bring things from the garden, someone would grill a steak, everyone who didn't cook would clean up, and we'd just hang out and have fun. So many evenings I'd go over to Miles place with a guitar, or with his guitar, and we'd pass it around over a few beers, talking about philosophy, Star Wars, or some book or other. It's hard not to write about the strange magic of that space.
My partner and I bonded over similar experiences, mine on a weird little religious commune in California and theirs as a temporary worker at Omega Institute. Both had exploitation, people on weird power trips, frustrating dynamics, but also a strange magic and freedom. Both were sort of fantasy worlds, but places that let us see through this one, let us imagine something that something else is possible behind the veil.
There are many such veils.
Perhaps it's fitting that this is more meandering, as a good wander can help the transition between lots of hard thinking and lots of hard working.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/evaluating-options
Editing feedback (especially typos, spelling, grammar) is always welcome, as are questions and even wider structural advice. I've been adding the handles of folks who provide feedback to the intro in a "thank you" section. If you do help and wouldn't like to be added, please let me know.

An awful lot of Mastodon rhetoric sounds at first glance like persuasive rhetoric, but if you think about it, you realize there's no argument being presented, only affiliation. "I'm one of the good ones, believing the right things.”
... and it's real hard to tell a genuinely radical version of that from someone dealing propaganda to fragment a group. "Real members of [group] believe [extreme version of thing]" is actually a tactic to _break_ that group.

Just a few days left of my NYTimes sub which I will not be renewing, so here's a gift article about people's relationship with Pynchon, with a bit from @… in it:

Lisa Simpson and Other Fans of Thomas Pynchon on the Writer’s Most Memorable Scenes
With the famously private novelist enjoying a (private) moment in the sun, we reached out to die-hard fans who’ve tuned in to the zaniness all along.

What does the hiring of Robert Saleh mean for Titans, Cam Ward? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47590385/tennessee-titans-hire-robert-saleh-affect-cam-ward

Investigation: as US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick promotes AI, including pressuring US allies, his companies and sons are cashing in on the AI projects (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/us/poli<…

Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy
Howard Lutnick is helping push data center projects. His family companies are profiting from them.

"If any other group arrived into a neighborhood carrying long guns, deploying chemical weapons, violently engaging and then taking people away with no warrants nor apparent legal reason, we would dispatch SWAT, as SWAT has the training to defuse and deescalate such situations."
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Local Law Enforcement's Challenge: Uphold the Law, Even Against the Feds
in the absence of action, civilians will fill the void I do want to write something not so serious, maybe even funny, here soon. But today, I think the police have to do a very hard and necessary thing: defend Americans against their federal government. If any other group arrived

Vanity Fair is reviewing its ties to Olivia Nuzzi, hired in September, after being "taken by surprise" by an essay that raised new questions about her ethics (Ginia Bellafante/New York Times)

Vanity Fair Is Reviewing Its Ties to Olivia Nuzzi
The magazine, which recently hired the journalist, said it had been “taken by surprise” by new claims in an essay by her former fiancé, Ryan Lizza.

This interview with Philipp Ball hones in on the most interesting point of his book How Life Works.
Biological beings are not a kind of machine. Cells would not work if they were made out of tightly coupled cogs like in a mechanical living robot thing. Life on the molecular level is extremely fuzzy and things have multiple purposes all at once. I find that super hard to understand and yet infinitely interesting.
Beings are neither code nor machine but its own thing.