Working through the backlog

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On the work side, I've been shooting photos, building out documentation for running hybrid meetings to better support in-person and online organizing, and, of course, working through the rest of my side quest backlog. Right now, I'm wrapping up an email project and slowly pushing along some Ghost site migrations.

Speaking of surprises, one of them I found when migrating a site to Ghost was this tiny issue with alt-text images having a hard limit on the length of characters you can save. Not a huge deal, but it's something to think about if you're tasked with content parity during a site migration. I'm also trying to put together a list of platform fees across Substack, Patreon, and other services to compare what an alternative looks like and the trade-offs to consider.

But even with the work that keeps me busy, I know you can't post your way out of fascism. 404 Media's take on this deluge of news is worth the read.

...the point of this deluge is not to persuade, but to overwhelm and paralyze our capacity to act. More recently, researchers have found that the viral outrage disseminated on social media in response to these ridiculous claims actually reduces the effectiveness of collective action. The result is a media environment that keeps us in a state of debilitating fear and anger, endlessly reacting to our oppressors instead of organizing against them.

If 404 Media has been working to cover what corporate media would probably call political uncertainty at the national level, what do we have at the local level?

I'm based in San Francisco, and I turn to the following people and organizations to better understand what's going on.

I still review the billionaire-owned blogs to see how the narrative is being shaped there, but there's no need to share those links here. Please let me know if I missed an outlet or group I should follow.

I'll end with a roundup of posts where my work has been featured in 2025 so far: