C. McGuinn Freeman
@cmf406.bsky.social
She/Her. PhD. Author of Place Last Seen. Published in Montana Quarterly, Big Sky Journal, Dark Mountain, Best American Food Writing, Terrain. Newsletter: Getting Dirty: Material Entanglements in the Anthropocene (https://getting-dirty-anthropocene.com/)
Just planted seeds under fleece. In Montana. In February. Everything's fine. Just fine.
I also called the guy who painted part of my house to see if he can do the rest. In February. When temps are in the 50s and 60s during the day.
Totally fine.
I also called the guy who painted part of my house to see if he can do the rest. In February. When temps are in the 50s and 60s during the day.
Totally fine.
February 5, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Just planted seeds under fleece. In Montana. In February. Everything's fine. Just fine.
I also called the guy who painted part of my house to see if he can do the rest. In February. When temps are in the 50s and 60s during the day.
Totally fine.
I also called the guy who painted part of my house to see if he can do the rest. In February. When temps are in the 50s and 60s during the day.
Totally fine.
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Thinking about ecosystem collapse as a metaphor for what’s being done to cultural criticism. You wipe out enough individual parts, eventually the whole thing turns into a wasteland
February 4, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Thinking about ecosystem collapse as a metaphor for what’s being done to cultural criticism. You wipe out enough individual parts, eventually the whole thing turns into a wasteland
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I started to type "beyond the pale." And maybe I shoulda: www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bey...
Beyond The Pale - Meaning & Origin Of The Phrase
What's the meaning and origin of the phrase 'Beyond the pale'?
www.phrases.org.uk
February 4, 2026 at 9:55 PM
I started to type "beyond the pale." And maybe I shoulda: www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bey...
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Love this girl.
Kristen Stewart’s Bold Plan to Bring a Beloved Los Angeles Theater Back to Life
How the actor-director is restoring the historic Highland Theatre as a community-centered home for adventurous cinema in LA
www.architecturaldigest.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Love this girl.
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We just had a federal agent pull a gun on a random pickup truck while directing traffic during an illegal traffic stop while a separate federal agent was aggressively intimidating a legal observer, so ICE can just fully GTFO ASAP please.
So what, they’re going to be 23.3% less brutal now?? Bitch please.
February 4, 2026 at 7:48 PM
We just had a federal agent pull a gun on a random pickup truck while directing traffic during an illegal traffic stop while a separate federal agent was aggressively intimidating a legal observer, so ICE can just fully GTFO ASAP please.
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I am begging you all to host your newsletters somewhere, anywhere that isn't s*bstack
February 4, 2026 at 7:04 PM
I am begging you all to host your newsletters somewhere, anywhere that isn't s*bstack
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I have a headache but someone needs to write about how this ties into the enshittification of books, and how the project all along has been to undermine literature and free thought (dangerous to the regime!) in favor of high-volume self-published chat GPT-composed amazon slop.
February 4, 2026 at 3:34 PM
I have a headache but someone needs to write about how this ties into the enshittification of books, and how the project all along has been to undermine literature and free thought (dangerous to the regime!) in favor of high-volume self-published chat GPT-composed amazon slop.
Movie version of "H is for Hawk" reviving all my deeply mixed feelings about the ethics of sacrificing a wild bird's life to assuage a human's grief.
February 4, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Movie version of "H is for Hawk" reviving all my deeply mixed feelings about the ethics of sacrificing a wild bird's life to assuage a human's grief.
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This whole thread but especially this.
And this is why any visible thing you are doing is more useful than the thing itself. People can see you, and know solidly how many of us there are.
And this is why any visible thing you are doing is more useful than the thing itself. People can see you, and know solidly how many of us there are.
Fascism wants you to believe that you are alone. That you are isolated. That the feelings you have are yours and nobody else has them because everybody is too afraid to speak.
But love is stronger than fascism. Community is stronger than fascism.
But love is stronger than fascism. Community is stronger than fascism.
February 4, 2026 at 2:57 AM
This whole thread but especially this.
And this is why any visible thing you are doing is more useful than the thing itself. People can see you, and know solidly how many of us there are.
And this is why any visible thing you are doing is more useful than the thing itself. People can see you, and know solidly how many of us there are.
Or? Hear me out? We could just tax your rich fuckers and pay to strengthen the commonwealth.
Dr Oz: "If we could get the average American to start working a year earlier, right out of high school, or a year later -- not retire -- or work better during their lifetime because they're healthy, it would generate about $3 trillion to the US economy. That would more than remove the debt."
February 4, 2026 at 3:07 AM
Or? Hear me out? We could just tax your rich fuckers and pay to strengthen the commonwealth.
Himself: "Derrick White's false teeth are really NOT agreeing with the refs right now."
February 4, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Himself: "Derrick White's false teeth are really NOT agreeing with the refs right now."
#UglyDogs? Didn't we have some spreadsheet wizards for IGiveARod?
Fun volunteer project for a nerd!
Who wants to go through StandWithMinnesota and add every existing listing on the website with a visible amount of fundraising and put it in a spreadsheet and add it up?
Who wants to go through StandWithMinnesota and add every existing listing on the website with a visible amount of fundraising and put it in a spreadsheet and add it up?
February 4, 2026 at 2:24 AM
#UglyDogs? Didn't we have some spreadsheet wizards for IGiveARod?
FYI to my lady friends of a menopausal age -- increased sound and light sensitivity can be a symptom, especially if you're neuroatypical.
Which does not change the fact that In These TImes loud noises are required, and we need to woman up.
Which does not change the fact that In These TImes loud noises are required, and we need to woman up.
The argument I keep encountering talks for/over people with noise sensitivities and trauma, insisting that they need to be defended from the big bad whistles. (I also am very sensitive to noise! People fighting to protect their communities are not responsible for managing it.)
February 3, 2026 at 11:56 PM
FYI to my lady friends of a menopausal age -- increased sound and light sensitivity can be a symptom, especially if you're neuroatypical.
Which does not change the fact that In These TImes loud noises are required, and we need to woman up.
Which does not change the fact that In These TImes loud noises are required, and we need to woman up.
Made baked firm tofu for the first time in YEARS and it's quite delicious for lunch on some rice, with some stir fried cabbage.
February 3, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Made baked firm tofu for the first time in YEARS and it's quite delicious for lunch on some rice, with some stir fried cabbage.
Small victories. Harriet the cat (my avatar) let me shave the matty bits off underneath her chin, and even purred about it.
But then she was DONE.
But then she was DONE.
February 3, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Small victories. Harriet the cat (my avatar) let me shave the matty bits off underneath her chin, and even purred about it.
But then she was DONE.
But then she was DONE.
As a 3 foot tall 10 year old, got put on a 17 hand green hunter (by the woman my dad left us for). Thoroughly run away with in a field adjacent to a highway. Planned to jump off if it took the fence toward the cars, made it around the field, bailed as horse took the paved drive back to the barn.
What’s the worst *short-lived* scare you’ve ever had? Where you were genuinely freaking out but then it was all ok within minutes?
I had a literal moth get trapped inside my ear for about 40 seconds. I was screaming. Then it was out.
I had a literal moth get trapped inside my ear for about 40 seconds. I was screaming. Then it was out.
February 3, 2026 at 7:59 PM
As a 3 foot tall 10 year old, got put on a 17 hand green hunter (by the woman my dad left us for). Thoroughly run away with in a field adjacent to a highway. Planned to jump off if it took the fence toward the cars, made it around the field, bailed as horse took the paved drive back to the barn.
AI is bad unless it's used like this: youtu.be/hS0wFiWpU4U?...
Greenland Defense Front - The Hungry Giant (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by demonflyingfox
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February 3, 2026 at 7:26 PM
AI is bad unless it's used like this: youtu.be/hS0wFiWpU4U?...
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This is a great example of what Marx called "the vampire thirst for the living blood of labour."
Dr Oz: "If we could get the average American to start working a year earlier, right out of high school, or a year later -- not retire -- or work better during their lifetime because they're healthy, it would generate about $3 trillion to the US economy. That would more than remove the debt."
February 3, 2026 at 5:46 PM
This is a great example of what Marx called "the vampire thirst for the living blood of labour."
Gentrification of Montana continues unabated. We used to call Big Sky/YC a sacrifice zone, but they're leaving the perimeter and infecting the rest of us: www.elle.com/fashion/shop...
I Just Got Back From Big Sky—These Are the Winter Trends Ultra-Chic Women Are Wearing
This is Alpine style done right.
www.elle.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Gentrification of Montana continues unabated. We used to call Big Sky/YC a sacrifice zone, but they're leaving the perimeter and infecting the rest of us: www.elle.com/fashion/shop...
I bitch about tourists all the time, but the incredibly cheerful dude with NY plates who had stopped his Harley next to my car at the trailhead, and was talking in Arabic on his phone, and who wanted to pet my dog? He made my day. I hope he has a great trip.
February 3, 2026 at 4:54 AM
I bitch about tourists all the time, but the incredibly cheerful dude with NY plates who had stopped his Harley next to my car at the trailhead, and was talking in Arabic on his phone, and who wanted to pet my dog? He made my day. I hope he has a great trip.
(1) Long 🧵 Time.
Today we learned that paleontologist Jack Horner (the same guy who helped give us "Jurassic Park") is in the Epstein Files. As a paleontologist, I feel compelled to say something because this touches my field and I want to make my stance clear on this...
Today we learned that paleontologist Jack Horner (the same guy who helped give us "Jurassic Park") is in the Epstein Files. As a paleontologist, I feel compelled to say something because this touches my field and I want to make my stance clear on this...
February 3, 2026 at 1:55 AM
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People have been shouting for years that no one should be a billionaire, that wealth on that level is personally poison and societally catastrophic, and now we have millions of terribly written emails demonstrating in the clearest terms that every one of those shouts was impossibly correct.
February 3, 2026 at 1:52 AM
People have been shouting for years that no one should be a billionaire, that wealth on that level is personally poison and societally catastrophic, and now we have millions of terribly written emails demonstrating in the clearest terms that every one of those shouts was impossibly correct.