Urvi McUrvface
@theurv.com
There are many renewable resources in the world, time is not one of them.
Now: caregiver in Silicon Valley. ✍🏼, EV & Climate Policy. Past: Motiv Power Systems, Powerflex/EDF Renewables, Climate Finance Solutions, 2020 CA D12 DNC Warren delegate, SFWPC 🏳️🌈
Now: caregiver in Silicon Valley. ✍🏼, EV & Climate Policy. Past: Motiv Power Systems, Powerflex/EDF Renewables, Climate Finance Solutions, 2020 CA D12 DNC Warren delegate, SFWPC 🏳️🌈
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Urvi McUrvface
@theurv.com
· Feb 12
In case you’re wondering what’s going on with all these stories… I refer you to yesterday’s drawing of the day:
IT IS A COUP!
IT IS A COUP!
Drawing of the day: celebrities protest ICE at the golden globes, Hamas says it will dissolve once the technocrat leadership committee is appointed, and protests in Iran continue despite the mounting death toll
January 12, 2026 at 6:40 AM
Drawing of the day: celebrities protest ICE at the golden globes, Hamas says it will dissolve once the technocrat leadership committee is appointed, and protests in Iran continue despite the mounting death toll
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I have an earlier version of Office with a perpetual license and they try to shame you into cloud storage by saying without it you won't get autosave (which is true and shit since autosave was a basic feature before 365) BUT it still does auto backups
If you also are sick of Microsoft office trying to push AI and changing subscription prices you can buy a lifetime license on sale for $99 here
bsky.app/profile/simo...
bsky.app/profile/simo...
January 12, 2026 at 4:49 AM
I have an earlier version of Office with a perpetual license and they try to shame you into cloud storage by saying without it you won't get autosave (which is true and shit since autosave was a basic feature before 365) BUT it still does auto backups
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I am not shocked by much that cynical billionaires do, or by the extent of resistance to change that our status quo political leaders show. But look at this. Indescribably bad.
If Europe doesn’t destroy Twitter and salt the earth it’s built on NOW, I will be speechless.
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If Europe doesn’t destroy Twitter and salt the earth it’s built on NOW, I will be speechless.
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Some Grok users, mostly men, began to demand to see bruising on the bodies of the women, and for blood to be added to the images. Requests to show women tied up and gagged were instantly granted.
‘Add blood, forced smile’:
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘Add blood, forced smile’:
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘Add blood, forced smile’: how Grok’s nudification tool went viral
The ‘put her in a bikini’ trend rapidly evolved into hundreds of thousands of requests to strip clothes from photos of women, horrifying those targeted
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2026 at 10:33 PM
I am not shocked by much that cynical billionaires do, or by the extent of resistance to change that our status quo political leaders show. But look at this. Indescribably bad.
If Europe doesn’t destroy Twitter and salt the earth it’s built on NOW, I will be speechless.
1/
If Europe doesn’t destroy Twitter and salt the earth it’s built on NOW, I will be speechless.
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We already knew that Trump had completely reshaped the federal courts, but these stats are incredible. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
January 11, 2026 at 12:17 PM
We already knew that Trump had completely reshaped the federal courts, but these stats are incredible. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
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A warmup round of protest sketching from the regular Saturday "Tesla Takedown" on Van Ness Ave. in San Francisco. There's another thing scheduled on Sunday at the Ferry Building, so my sketchbook and I will see you there!
January 11, 2026 at 9:51 AM
A warmup round of protest sketching from the regular Saturday "Tesla Takedown" on Van Ness Ave. in San Francisco. There's another thing scheduled on Sunday at the Ferry Building, so my sketchbook and I will see you there!
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This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
January 11, 2026 at 4:55 AM
This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
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This reflects only the appropriation levels.
The damage done to processes and personnel within the science agencies is considerable.
The damage done to processes and personnel within the science agencies is considerable.
“Science is doing OK,” [AAAS spokesperson says] “Things are not bad at all, given our expectations.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...
Congress Is Reversing Trump’s Steep Budget Cuts to Science
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2026 at 8:01 AM
This reflects only the appropriation levels.
The damage done to processes and personnel within the science agencies is considerable.
The damage done to processes and personnel within the science agencies is considerable.
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Set by a 19 year old white suprematist who has been arrested. What an unimaginable & terrifying time we are living through.
An arsonist hit a Mississippi synagogue Saturday. Seven Torahs were damaged or destroyed in the fire.
One Torah, from the Holocaust, was in a glass case and wasn't touched.
The same synagogue was bombed by the KKK in 1967.
mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
One Torah, from the Holocaust, was in a glass case and wasn't touched.
The same synagogue was bombed by the KKK in 1967.
mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
Predawn fire reduces parts of Mississippi's largest synagogue to charred ruins - Mississippi Today
A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights...
mississippitoday.org
January 11, 2026 at 5:59 AM
Set by a 19 year old white suprematist who has been arrested. What an unimaginable & terrifying time we are living through.
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I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
January 11, 2026 at 2:44 AM
I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
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As Californians, we should be prepared to receive over a million LGBTQ people moving here, and that is on top of other groups moving here for other reasons, whether it's to get away from racism, to find jobs, etc.
Getting more housing built quickly will be important.
Getting more housing built quickly will be important.
January 10, 2026 at 7:23 PM
As Californians, we should be prepared to receive over a million LGBTQ people moving here, and that is on top of other groups moving here for other reasons, whether it's to get away from racism, to find jobs, etc.
Getting more housing built quickly will be important.
Getting more housing built quickly will be important.
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New research confirms what many of us see: there's a large internal migration of LGBTQ people in the US, especially trans people, to friendlier states & cities.
Since 11/2024, 9% of all trans people have moved to another state, 43% have considered moving.
www.mapresearch.org/2025-norc-su...
Since 11/2024, 9% of all trans people have moved to another state, 43% have considered moving.
www.mapresearch.org/2025-norc-su...
January 10, 2026 at 7:17 PM
New research confirms what many of us see: there's a large internal migration of LGBTQ people in the US, especially trans people, to friendlier states & cities.
Since 11/2024, 9% of all trans people have moved to another state, 43% have considered moving.
www.mapresearch.org/2025-norc-su...
Since 11/2024, 9% of all trans people have moved to another state, 43% have considered moving.
www.mapresearch.org/2025-norc-su...
My video on how SF comes together to make human banners. Brad Newsham and Travis Van Brasch do the heavy lifting but lots of volunteers are involved and hundreds of people participate and work together to make a statement.
January 11, 2026 at 7:59 AM
My video on how SF comes together to make human banners. Brad Newsham and Travis Van Brasch do the heavy lifting but lots of volunteers are involved and hundreds of people participate and work together to make a statement.
Drawing of the Day:
Nationwide protests against ICE and Trump as he has lots of international military stories at once.. and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead died
Nationwide protests against ICE and Trump as he has lots of international military stories at once.. and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead died
January 11, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Drawing of the Day:
Nationwide protests against ICE and Trump as he has lots of international military stories at once.. and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead died
Nationwide protests against ICE and Trump as he has lots of international military stories at once.. and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead died
I was uploading an update to the instagram and it describes the app as “Videos, creators & friends”
Which is so wildly off on what I have enjoyed about the app.
Sharing PHOTOS with friends is the point. I don’t give a shit about video or creators. I still feel like it was best before Zuckerberg
Which is so wildly off on what I have enjoyed about the app.
Sharing PHOTOS with friends is the point. I don’t give a shit about video or creators. I still feel like it was best before Zuckerberg
January 11, 2026 at 6:28 AM
I was uploading an update to the instagram and it describes the app as “Videos, creators & friends”
Which is so wildly off on what I have enjoyed about the app.
Sharing PHOTOS with friends is the point. I don’t give a shit about video or creators. I still feel like it was best before Zuckerberg
Which is so wildly off on what I have enjoyed about the app.
Sharing PHOTOS with friends is the point. I don’t give a shit about video or creators. I still feel like it was best before Zuckerberg
Me seeing this wondering if I’m on sports Bluesky or politics Bluesky …
whatever happens at least it ends soon
January 11, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Me seeing this wondering if I’m on sports Bluesky or politics Bluesky …
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Has anyone seen Jeffries or Schumer at a protest or rally this weekend?
In Minneapolis?
At a #IceOutForGood @indivisible.org rally?
The minimum requirement for democratic leaders right now is to be out in the streets with the people who are under attack.
In Minneapolis?
At a #IceOutForGood @indivisible.org rally?
The minimum requirement for democratic leaders right now is to be out in the streets with the people who are under attack.
January 11, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Has anyone seen Jeffries or Schumer at a protest or rally this weekend?
In Minneapolis?
At a #IceOutForGood @indivisible.org rally?
The minimum requirement for democratic leaders right now is to be out in the streets with the people who are under attack.
In Minneapolis?
At a #IceOutForGood @indivisible.org rally?
The minimum requirement for democratic leaders right now is to be out in the streets with the people who are under attack.
Ilya is gonna see this and come to the cottage
Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.
January 11, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Ilya is gonna see this and come to the cottage
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When NIMBYs say that California is full and their cities can’t accommodate more housing, they are saying that queer people trying to get out of red states are on their own.
New research confirms what many of us see: there's a large internal migration of LGBTQ people in the US, especially trans people, to friendlier states & cities.
Since 11/2024, 9% of all trans people have moved to another state, 43% have considered moving.
www.mapresearch.org/2025-norc-su...
Since 11/2024, 9% of all trans people have moved to another state, 43% have considered moving.
www.mapresearch.org/2025-norc-su...
January 11, 2026 at 12:36 AM
When NIMBYs say that California is full and their cities can’t accommodate more housing, they are saying that queer people trying to get out of red states are on their own.
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Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.
January 10, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.
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I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 10, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
This. Instead of being a bully using your hand to hit you and saying “stop hitting yourself” it’s taking your taxes and using them to hire guys who will shoot you, kidnap your neighbors, steal children’s lunch, and say “it’s dangerous because the left is really escalating the rhetoric”
The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
January 11, 2026 at 12:20 AM
This. Instead of being a bully using your hand to hit you and saying “stop hitting yourself” it’s taking your taxes and using them to hire guys who will shoot you, kidnap your neighbors, steal children’s lunch, and say “it’s dangerous because the left is really escalating the rhetoric”
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Several hundred people form a human banner spelling out “IT WAS MURDER — ICE OUT!!” at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach during a protest Saturday in response to the recent fatal shooting in Minneapolis of Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent.
📸: Erik Castro/Special to The Chronicle
📸: Erik Castro/Special to The Chronicle
January 10, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Several hundred people form a human banner spelling out “IT WAS MURDER — ICE OUT!!” at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach during a protest Saturday in response to the recent fatal shooting in Minneapolis of Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent.
📸: Erik Castro/Special to The Chronicle
📸: Erik Castro/Special to The Chronicle
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“IT WAS MURDER”
Several hundred people have formed a human banner at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach today (Sat Jan 10, 2026)
👏👏
(📸 Erik Castro)
Several hundred people have formed a human banner at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach today (Sat Jan 10, 2026)
👏👏
(📸 Erik Castro)
January 10, 2026 at 8:57 PM
“IT WAS MURDER”
Several hundred people have formed a human banner at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach today (Sat Jan 10, 2026)
👏👏
(📸 Erik Castro)
Several hundred people have formed a human banner at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach today (Sat Jan 10, 2026)
👏👏
(📸 Erik Castro)
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we are going to win
but first I am going to cry
but first I am going to cry
Overheard in the crowd, a mother explaining to her young child who is holding a cymbal: "Do you remember? This is the same road we marched on for George Floyd. Another man who was killed."
January 10, 2026 at 9:20 PM
we are going to win
but first I am going to cry
but first I am going to cry
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I’m begging Democratic leaders to understand that outlining and forcefully articulating their vision for accountability now is an electoral strategy.
"The Democrats’ plan: TBD. There has been a lot of rhetoric, but ... the caucus is largely shying away from using its leverage in the appropriations process and threatening another government shutdown."
“We’ll figure out the accountability mechanisms at the appropriate time" - Hakeem Jeffries
“We’ll figure out the accountability mechanisms at the appropriate time" - Hakeem Jeffries
January 10, 2026 at 5:30 PM
I’m begging Democratic leaders to understand that outlining and forcefully articulating their vision for accountability now is an electoral strategy.