Did I ever tell you about the time I fell out of a hot air balloon? If you're in Amsterdam, you can hear the whole story this Friday at the Tell Amsterdam storytelling night at #BoomChicago
Brian Fitzgerald
Unapologetic believer in PeaceLove&Understanding. Digital rabble rouser. Story teller. Code Monkey. Director, Dancing Fox. US Expat in Amsterdam. Sustainable staker: brianfitzgerald.eth
I've said it before and I'll say it again: the comments section of the NYT's Connections Puzzle may be the last vestige of my hope for America. ❤️🦋 #Connections @NewYorkTimes
I saw something extraordinary on stage recently, and it changed me.
https://story4change.substack.com/p/when-death-is-your-improv-partner
An Activist, a person with diabetes, and a comedian walk into a bar...
Beth Strachan and I do a podcast about How Dancing Fox teamed up with diaTribe to shift cultural narratives around diabetes with sketch comedy and stand up 🥸
#spoonfuloflaughter
I love this so much: Relax… it's only the climate crisis
Oilwell is a wellness app to help you embrace climate chaos.
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I recently played a conspiracy-spouting rooster hawking quack cures for bird flu at #BoomChicago. 💥🐓💉
People, I swear: comedy is an undervalued 🐴 Trojan Horse of truth 🐴, improv is an activist's best skill set, and there was a time it saved my ass:
It's for days like these that I added an "Explain" link to my HomeAssistant daily #XKCD #HACS widget.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1224:_Council_of_300
Pretty good diagnosis of the need to recognize that politics sits downstream from culture: "A generation of 70-year-olds who called for the departure of an 81-year-old fail to understand how anyone under 60 gets information about the world."
Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish woman on a student visa, was grabbed near XKCD author Randall Munroe's home by 6 masked plainclothes agents and sent to detention in Louisiana. Her apparent crime: she signed an article protesting Tuft University's handling of protests over Gaza.
A community that didn't have a basketball team because of high rates of asthma, how they stopped what would have been the world's largest trash incinerator, and why you've never heard that story.
For second year in a row, Iceland won't kill whales this season. Meanwhile, the whale watching industry thrives. Andrew Davies hatched the idea of a reverse boycott in 2004: a pledge to visit Iceland if whaling stopped. Sometimes campaigns take decades.
Great use of House Media: Johnny Cashew's email footer. When you hit the banner, you go to this teaser to their (if we do say so ourselves) rather wonderfully written Impact Report:
Empathy isn't weakness, Elon. The expansion of empathy in ever widening circles to people beyond the borders of ourselves, our family, our tribe, our race, our nation, and our species is the core measure of humanity's progress.
Hey Siri, fail to impress me. Honestly, I was looking forward to Siri getting new intelligence features, but I'm so much happier with the ChatGPT integration I built into my HomeAssistant.
Does anyone else read the comments for the NYT's Connections puzzle? I love the puzzle, but I ADORE the comments. It's such an oasis of positive idle chit chat and encouragement and collaborative creativity. It's a perfect little desert island in a toxic digital sea. #Connections
Iris Maerten and I at the International Fundraising Congress, according to ChatGPT.
OK, the new ChatGPT image generator wouldn't let me portray Vladimir Putin in a negative light, but as long as we agreed to call him Blad Vutin, this is fine...
War plans on Signal? I worked at Greenpeace for 35 years and Operational Security was better there than in the Trump administration. Competence and merit my ass.
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