Haha, the show was fun! And no, there was not enough room 😉. You wonder, "How do they take this book and make it an hour long" and at times, the show looks right at you, and wonders the same thing out loud. It's very self-aware, which is part of what made it very fun.
I feel this. Our 2yo has been getting out of bed and into our bed every night for months now and Friday night I moved him back into his bed like 5 times. So we were wiped the next day. Which only made it harder to be "present" as it were. By the end of tonight we were still crashing out from the night before and these two kids were just full on gremlins. It's hard when they seem to suddenly have unlimited energy and you have none.
Yeah this dude seems really cool.
The worst thing about winter is being stuck in the house. I have to come up with more ways to split these kids up after lunch. K1 seems to only be interested in antagonizing K2, or, K2 is full blown chaos mode because he refuses to nap on the weekends and only wants to yell and wrestle K1.
Yesterday I made dinner and these two where being gremlins all afternoon. I decided to bring K1 up with me and had her help me with dinner. She smashed and cut garlic, cut butter, helped oil and season brussel sprouts, and laid out biscuits on a pain for me. It was really nice.
Today I had another opportunity but didn't commit to it. She has this 3 string kid guitar that she really wants to play. K2 however is in this "THAT'S MINE" phase, especially about things he likes and the guitar is one of them. We stayed up for a little while but not long enough...
Maybe I need to bust out DnD again.
We saw Chica Chica Boom Boom the musical at a local theater today, that was a nice little outing. It was only an hour but it was good fun. The kids enjoyed it. Who knew you could turn a book that takes like a minute to read into a who hour, and with music?
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Fear, the Revolution killer: Rapid Response OpSec and Security Theater | SquidTips
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See I think the people who think MAHA is cool, think that shit is cool too. Maybe I'm wrong.
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'Operation Dildo Blitz' Anti-ICE Protest in Minneapolis Ends With 50+ Arrests
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cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/26088
Demonstrators hurled insults and sex toys at federal agents outside a Minneapolis government building on Saturday to protest the Trump administration's deadly Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdown on undocumented immigrants and their supporters, with state and local police arresting more than 50 people.
Dubbed "Operation Dildo Blitz," the protest outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building saw demonstrators place sex toys in a chain link fence while others handed out rubber phalluses to protesters who threw them at passing federal and local law enforcement vehicles.
Demonstrators shouted "Eat a dick!" and "Fuck ICE!" as they pelted the vehicles with dildos.
Activist Russell Ellis, who posted video of the demonstration on Instagram, said the protesters "showed real balls."
"Dildos coming your way! Dildos! Dildos!" Ellis barked as the toys rained down on vehicles, landing with rubbery thwunks. "It's raining dicks!"
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Anti-ICE activist William Kelly—who was arrested last month after taking part in a protest inside a St. Paul church—said at Saturday's demonstration: "The community here at Whipple today is, you know, doing the right thing and handing out the dicks. People are able to do whatever they want with the dicks, it's their choice."
One protester told VisuNews that they were attending the demonstration "because ICE likes to bend over for Daddy Trump."
Asked what inspired her to show up with a literal "bag of dicks," another protester said she was motivated by last month's fatal shooting of legal observer Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. The protest marked one month since Good's killing.
"The number one thing that you need to do right now is build community," the woman said. "You need to talk to your neighbors. You need to start organizing. The local police are not going to help you. They are not your friend... so we rely upon each other."
Later in the afternoon, police declared the protest an unlawful assembly before rushing in to arrest 54 demonstrators.
Far-right influencer and pardoned January 6, 2021 insurrectionist Jake Lang—who was arrested the previous day and charged with vandalizing an anti-ICE sculpture—crashed Saturday's demonstration. Limitless Media reported that Lang and others arrived in a U-Haul truck carrying a wooden cross and firing pepper balls and chemical agents at anti-ICE protesters before leaving the scene.
Hundreds of people also showed up for an Indigenous-led Saturday gathering in Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis to remember Good and Alex Pretti, who was also shot dead by federal immigration enforcers last month in the Minnesota city.
Rest in peace Renee Good. Thank you for supporting our immigrant neighbors. You’ll always be our hero. 🕊️ 💜
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— Jason Chavez (@jchavezmpls.bsky.social) February 7, 2026 at 11:56 AM“This is a generational burden that we carry, and we're seeing that burden again today,” said Gaby Strong, vice president of the NDN Collective, who called Good “the example of what it means to be a good relative, to be a good neighbor, to stand up for people beside you.”
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Hey I think this is now resolved. You were not the intended target of a ban. Figured I would leave a comment if anyone else saw this and was wondering.
I'm not sure it even qualifies as a game, but I've been having fun tinkering with The Farmer Was Replaced.
I'm currently tackling mazes. The urge to dredge up some existing solution is powerful. However, I've resisted thus far and have managed to write something that walks the maze and only gets stuck sometimes. I have some ideas why.
After that it's sorting!
... And tonight, standing omenusly at the end of a dimly lit meeting table, it's Paul F. Thompkins! They're all here in the...
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In S1E1 of The New Batman Adventures (the series that continues The Batman Animated Series) Poison Ivy declares Christmas to be a annual "Botanical Genocide". It is like Lenin says:
"During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it."
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cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/24494
January 2026 saw some of the most significant developments in the recent history of the American class struggle. The ICE murder of Renee Good set off an explosive anti-ICE movement, culminating in a de facto political general strike. The subsequent murder of Alex Pretti threatened to spread the movement nationally, forcing Trump to back off, at least temporarily. What conclusions can we draw from this experience?
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cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/24519
Pop star Billie Eilish has spoken out at the Grammys against Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unit. The militia have been running wild across Minnesota. They’ve been terrorising families, stealing children such as Liam Ramos, and killing Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti in cold blood.
At the Grammys Eilish said:
Billie Eilish says "f*ck ice" during her #Grammys acceptance speech: "Nobody is illegal on stolen land. We need to keep fighting and speaking up. Our voices do matter." pic.twitter.com/Sz1um3afYJ
— Variety (@Variety) February 2, 2026
‘No one is illegal on stolen land’
As we’ve previously reported, the government is rushing through poorly-vetted recruits to get as many ICE agents on the street as possible. Some of these recruits are sexually harassing one another; others are off their heads on drugs. And as one insider said:
This isn’t the department of baking cookies. This is the Department of Homeland Security, where you can be deported from the country.
And we’re now employing people who are not equipped to tie their own shoelaces.
This whole thing is a complete disaster from beginning to end.
Speaking at the Grammys, Eilish said in the video above:
No one is illegal on stolen land.
And yeah, it’s just really hard to know what to say and what to do right now. And I just, I feel really hopeful in this room, and I feel like we just need to keep fighting and speaking up and protesting and our voices really do matter and the people matter.
And fuck ICE.
Eilish isn’t the only pop start to have spoken out against ICE and the Trump regime. As we reported, this is what Sabrina Carpenter said in response to ICE using one of her songs in a promotional video:
this video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.
— Sabrina Carpenter (@SabrinaAnnLynn) December 2, 2025
‘Fuck ICE’
Elilish and Carpenter join the likes of celebrities such as Kehlani and Bad Bunny who both spoke out against ICE during the Grammys:
Bad Bunny condemns ICE during his #GRAMMYs speech for Best Música Urbana Album:
“Before I say thanks to god, I’m going to say, ICE out. We’re not savages, we’re not animals, we are humans and we are Americans.” pic.twitter.com/lS9cZV5t5x
— Pop Base (@PopBase) February 2, 2026
This high-profile protest has helped to shine a global spotlight on the actions of ICE, but the question remains: will this ‘ICE out’ movement in the music industry be enough to force change to federal policy?
Featured image via Chad Davies (Wikimedia)
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That's awesome. I wish I was up to radical shit when I was in high-school. I guess it's kind of blessing and a curse, right? You hope your kids never need to do radical shit, but that they could rise to it if the times call for it. Big props to that friend with that MAGA father, for a high school kid, that can take some real guts. Let your kids know this comrade is proud of them too!