Brian Dusablon | Duce | Drifter Life
@drifterlife.com
Curious explorer. (He/Him | MSW, CPACC). I love: rugby, libraries, nature, learning, music.
Working toward a future of peace, access, inclusion, & collective liberation.
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Working toward a future of peace, access, inclusion, & collective liberation.
https://ethicalmethods.com
https://drifterlife.com
#PositiveImbalance ☮️❤️
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Your Dreams Matter
Don't ever, ever stop dreaming. This world can beat us down. Mean people can try to silence us, bully us, manipulate us into believing our dreams don't matter. But they do.
www.drifterlife.com
Don't ever, ever stop dreaming. This world can beat us down. Mean people can try to silence us, bully us, manipulate us into believing our dreams don't matter. But they do.
www.drifterlife.com/your-dreams-...
www.drifterlife.com/your-dreams-...
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Read this as an American woman and then go break something.
December 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Read this as an American woman and then go break something.
“Everybody on our list will receive the Morton Christmas Card…
And while we love everyone who receives our card, those who subscribe and support our family’s essential end-of-year work will get even more of our love.”
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/why...
And while we love everyone who receives our card, those who subscribe and support our family’s essential end-of-year work will get even more of our love.”
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/why...
Why We’re Paywalling Our Family Christmas Card
Season’s Greetings from the Mortons!
We know many of you look forward to opening your mailbox each December to receive the Morton annual Christmas ...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 9, 2025 at 4:49 AM
“Everybody on our list will receive the Morton Christmas Card…
And while we love everyone who receives our card, those who subscribe and support our family’s essential end-of-year work will get even more of our love.”
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/why...
And while we love everyone who receives our card, those who subscribe and support our family’s essential end-of-year work will get even more of our love.”
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/why...
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When I finally get annoyed enough to do the 2nd edition of Conversational Design, there's going to be a section titled "Don't be a lazy fuckhead"
Here's the free PDF of the 1st ed. Lots I wish I'd written differently, but even more I want everyone to read.
www.mulebooks.com/conversation...
Here's the free PDF of the 1st ed. Lots I wish I'd written differently, but even more I want everyone to read.
www.mulebooks.com/conversation...
Conversational Design — MULE BOOKS
The interaction design book that explains why chatbots tend to suck
www.mulebooks.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
When I finally get annoyed enough to do the 2nd edition of Conversational Design, there's going to be a section titled "Don't be a lazy fuckhead"
Here's the free PDF of the 1st ed. Lots I wish I'd written differently, but even more I want everyone to read.
www.mulebooks.com/conversation...
Here's the free PDF of the 1st ed. Lots I wish I'd written differently, but even more I want everyone to read.
www.mulebooks.com/conversation...
“There is no plaque to mark that Bloody Island existed because Americans are not supposed to remember that statesmen acted like gang members and got away with it.”
– @sarahkendzior.bsky.social in “The Last American Road Trip
– @sarahkendzior.bsky.social in “The Last American Road Trip
December 4, 2025 at 7:40 AM
“There is no plaque to mark that Bloody Island existed because Americans are not supposed to remember that statesmen acted like gang members and got away with it.”
– @sarahkendzior.bsky.social in “The Last American Road Trip
– @sarahkendzior.bsky.social in “The Last American Road Trip
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Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
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Thoughts and Prayers is an HBO documentary about “the impact of the $3 billion active shooter preparedness industry on schools and communities across America”. It’s completely sickening that we choose to live this way in America. [kottke.org]
Thoughts and Prayers
This is the trailer for an HBO documentary called Thoughts and Prayers about “the impact of the $3 billion active shooter preparedness industry on schools and communities across America”.
It’s tough to watch, as is th
kottke.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Thoughts and Prayers is an HBO documentary about “the impact of the $3 billion active shooter preparedness industry on schools and communities across America”. It’s completely sickening that we choose to live this way in America. [kottke.org]
“But ‘the violence of the show is not in what’s happening onstage,’ Bianchi told me when we spoke over Zoom this summer. ‘The violence is in the text; it’s in what is not happening onstage.’”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/t...
To Explore Violence Against Women, She Drugs Herself Onstage
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
“But ‘the violence of the show is not in what’s happening onstage,’ Bianchi told me when we spoke over Zoom this summer. ‘The violence is in the text; it’s in what is not happening onstage.’”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/t...
“I think of this now as the difference between living in a house you built that requires some effort to visit and going into a town square where there are not particularly rigorous laws about whether or not someone can punch you in the face.”
www.elizabethspiers.com/requiem-for-...
www.elizabethspiers.com/requiem-for-...
Requiem for Early Blogging
As part of Talking Points Memo's 25th anniversary, I wrote an essay on early blogging, and what I miss about it. Here it is, in its entirety:
Whether I like it or not, the first line of my obituary w...
www.elizabethspiers.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“I think of this now as the difference between living in a house you built that requires some effort to visit and going into a town square where there are not particularly rigorous laws about whether or not someone can punch you in the face.”
www.elizabethspiers.com/requiem-for-...
www.elizabethspiers.com/requiem-for-...
Gold.
I will always treasure this essay by my friend Kirsten Giebutowski, "Things I Have Written in Cover Letters," up at @mcsweeneys.net
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/thi...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/thi...
Things I Have Written in Cover Letters
I am intrigued, variously
“Though I have not taught online before, I find the prospect of online teaching intriguing.”
“I now seek work within an e...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Gold.
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Two views of Orion from last Saturday morning.
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Two views of Orion from last Saturday morning.
They all need a copy of Murderland by Caroline Fraser. We’ve seen this story before.
🚨NEWS: Exxon is now petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to grant corporations a new First Amendment right to avoid disclosing how much toxic pollution they are spewing and how much they are incinerating the atmosphere that supports all life on the planet.
Corporations Say It’s Their First Amendment Right To Hide
Corporations are asking the Supreme Court to help them dismantle a groundbreaking California transparency law requiring emissions disclosure.
www.levernews.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
They all need a copy of Murderland by Caroline Fraser. We’ve seen this story before.
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/girl...
“The Gilgit-Baltistan Girls Football League is a bastion of independence and autonomy amid a traditionally conservative environment.”
“The Gilgit-Baltistan Girls Football League is a bastion of independence and autonomy amid a traditionally conservative environment.”
'Girls Move Mountains' Is a Bold Portrait of the Women Playing Soccer in Remote Pakistan
"Girls Move Mountains" is a striking film is by Anna Huix that documents the lives of Indigenous soccer players.
www.thisiscolossal.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/girl...
“The Gilgit-Baltistan Girls Football League is a bastion of independence and autonomy amid a traditionally conservative environment.”
“The Gilgit-Baltistan Girls Football League is a bastion of independence and autonomy amid a traditionally conservative environment.”
Whenever distress or displeasure arises in your mind, remind yourself, "This is only my interpretation, not reality itself." Then ask whether it falls within or outside your sphere of power. And, if it is beyond your power to control, let it go.
– The Manual
– The Manual
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Whenever distress or displeasure arises in your mind, remind yourself, "This is only my interpretation, not reality itself." Then ask whether it falls within or outside your sphere of power. And, if it is beyond your power to control, let it go.
– The Manual
– The Manual
“Do not be fooled by how things first appear. With time and greater perspective, you can regain inner peace.”
– Epictetus
– Epictetus
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
“Do not be fooled by how things first appear. With time and greater perspective, you can regain inner peace.”
– Epictetus
– Epictetus
NextDraft: Extra, Extra
“Yes, the government that has threatened political opponents with hanging and scolded reporters, "Quiet, Piggy!" is now calling for more civility this holiday season.”
www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
“Yes, the government that has threatened political opponents with hanging and scolded reporters, "Quiet, Piggy!" is now calling for more civility this holiday season.”
www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
With record Thanksgiving air travel looming, the government launches a new 'civility campaign' to curb an alarming spike in unruly passenger behavior
The number of annual incidents involving out-of-control passengers has doubled since 2019.
www.yahoo.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
NextDraft: Extra, Extra
“Yes, the government that has threatened political opponents with hanging and scolded reporters, "Quiet, Piggy!" is now calling for more civility this holiday season.”
www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
“Yes, the government that has threatened political opponents with hanging and scolded reporters, "Quiet, Piggy!" is now calling for more civility this holiday season.”
www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
“A technofascist hell had taken its place: a world where Johnny Cash is replaced with AI; a world where walks in nature are replaced with virtual reality facsimiles.”
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-empty-...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-empty-...
The Empty Stage
Johnny Cash, loss, and redemption
sarahkendzior.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
“A technofascist hell had taken its place: a world where Johnny Cash is replaced with AI; a world where walks in nature are replaced with virtual reality facsimiles.”
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-empty-...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-empty-...
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🤮
Meanwhile, people suffer.
“The top 0.1 percent of American households saw their wealth grow by 90 percent, to a collective $23.3 trillion, from the fourth quarter of 2017, when President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, to the second quarter of 2025…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/r...
Meanwhile, people suffer.
“The top 0.1 percent of American households saw their wealth grow by 90 percent, to a collective $23.3 trillion, from the fourth quarter of 2017, when President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, to the second quarter of 2025…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/r...
A Yacht for Your Yacht
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
🤮
Meanwhile, people suffer.
“The top 0.1 percent of American households saw their wealth grow by 90 percent, to a collective $23.3 trillion, from the fourth quarter of 2017, when President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, to the second quarter of 2025…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/r...
Meanwhile, people suffer.
“The top 0.1 percent of American households saw their wealth grow by 90 percent, to a collective $23.3 trillion, from the fourth quarter of 2017, when President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, to the second quarter of 2025…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/r...
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I highly recommend getting one for work so your bosses don’t have to ask your opinion.
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I highly recommend getting one for work so your bosses don’t have to ask your opinion.
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Prince loved to remind people that he wrote this song while looking in the mirror:
You're so good, baby there ain't nobody better
So you should never, ever go by the letter
You're so cool, everything you do is success
Make the rules — then break them all 'cause you are the best
You're so good, baby there ain't nobody better
So you should never, ever go by the letter
You're so cool, everything you do is success
Make the rules — then break them all 'cause you are the best
Prince & The New Power Generation's "Cream" from 'Diamonds and Pearls' hit #1 on the US singles chart 34 years ago on November 9, 1991 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/PrinceDmndsP...
November 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Prince loved to remind people that he wrote this song while looking in the mirror:
You're so good, baby there ain't nobody better
So you should never, ever go by the letter
You're so cool, everything you do is success
Make the rules — then break them all 'cause you are the best
You're so good, baby there ain't nobody better
So you should never, ever go by the letter
You're so cool, everything you do is success
Make the rules — then break them all 'cause you are the best
Mushrooms Playing Music. “The attached sensors measure bio-electrical fluctuations in the mushroom. The fluctuations are converted into signals that control the robotic arms.” [kottke.org]
Mushrooms Playing Music
Bionic and the Wires connects sensors to plants and fungi to help them play music.
The attached sensors measure bio-electrical fluctuations in the mushroom. The fluctuations are converted into signals that control the
kottke.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Prediction: This pic will go down in history, like the photo of napalmed Vietnamese children, as an encapsulation of the horrors of this presidency.
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Prediction: This pic will go down in history, like the photo of napalmed Vietnamese children, as an encapsulation of the horrors of this presidency.