Forrest Brown
@stickyweather.com
He/Him • Writer • Can’t swim/Can’t dance/Don’t know karate
🐘: @[email protected]
📍 Decatur, GA
Podcast: https://storiesforearth.com
Blog: https://stickyweather.com
🐘: @[email protected]
📍 Decatur, GA
Podcast: https://storiesforearth.com
Blog: https://stickyweather.com
One thing that radicalized me was going to business school and having economics professors — devoted capitalists themselves — tell you capitalism requires someone to be exploited to function, usually a group of people (workers). It is inherently destructive and extractive #capitalism #anticapitalist
December 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
One thing that radicalized me was going to business school and having economics professors — devoted capitalists themselves — tell you capitalism requires someone to be exploited to function, usually a group of people (workers). It is inherently destructive and extractive #capitalism #anticapitalist
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One thing 2025 made clear: Durable progress on climate in the US will require structural reform to our corrupted political systems. Otherwise, steps forward will always be vulnerable to the bloody clawbacks we saw this year. A political strategy that doesn't center system reform is not "pragmatic."
December 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
One thing 2025 made clear: Durable progress on climate in the US will require structural reform to our corrupted political systems. Otherwise, steps forward will always be vulnerable to the bloody clawbacks we saw this year. A political strategy that doesn't center system reform is not "pragmatic."
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I’ve said it and I believe it is true
There is a willful forgetting and suppression of the memory of the hundreds of protests that shook this nation for the past decade and a half. So while Canadians and European laypeople whine “Americans don’t do anything,” the Americans are actively suppressed
There is a willful forgetting and suppression of the memory of the hundreds of protests that shook this nation for the past decade and a half. So while Canadians and European laypeople whine “Americans don’t do anything,” the Americans are actively suppressed
December 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I’ve said it and I believe it is true
There is a willful forgetting and suppression of the memory of the hundreds of protests that shook this nation for the past decade and a half. So while Canadians and European laypeople whine “Americans don’t do anything,” the Americans are actively suppressed
There is a willful forgetting and suppression of the memory of the hundreds of protests that shook this nation for the past decade and a half. So while Canadians and European laypeople whine “Americans don’t do anything,” the Americans are actively suppressed
This is how I’ve been starting to approach my own website, and it’s so much more enjoyable — adds a degree of playfulness and self-expression that was always missing before. I didn’t know it had a name and that other people have been tinkering with it for so long! maggieappleton.com/garden-history
A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web
maggieappleton.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:39 AM
This is how I’ve been starting to approach my own website, and it’s so much more enjoyable — adds a degree of playfulness and self-expression that was always missing before. I didn’t know it had a name and that other people have been tinkering with it for so long! maggieappleton.com/garden-history
I clearly have some kinks to work out though. For some reason apostrophes are rendering weird on Bluesky and Mastodon.
https://stickyweather.com/social/2025/12/25/16714
https://stickyweather.com/social/2025/12/25/16714
December 25, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I clearly have some kinks to work out though. For some reason apostrophes are rendering weird on Bluesky and Mastodon.
https://stickyweather.com/social/2025/12/25/16714
https://stickyweather.com/social/2025/12/25/16714
If you're reading this, that means my new #POSSE workflow works and you're reading something that was originally posted to my personal website and then automatically syndicated to Bluesky and Mastodon. Yay! #IndieWeb
https://stickyweather.com/social/2025/12/25/16171
https://stickyweather.com/social/2025/12/25/16171
December 25, 2025 at 4:30 AM
If you're reading this, that means my new #POSSE workflow works and you're reading something that was originally posted to my personal website and then automatically syndicated to Bluesky and Mastodon. Yay! #IndieWeb
https://stickyweather.com/social/2025/12/25/16171
https://stickyweather.com/social/2025/12/25/16171
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The scene now at Lafayette and Howard, diagonal to the ICE garage which activists remain camped out in front of on both sides of the building.
November 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The scene now at Lafayette and Howard, diagonal to the ICE garage which activists remain camped out in front of on both sides of the building.
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You pull yourself up by your boostraps. Me? I DESERVE free money from the government, and so do my rich friends bsky.app/profile/cwar...
November 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
You pull yourself up by your boostraps. Me? I DESERVE free money from the government, and so do my rich friends bsky.app/profile/cwar...
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I'd vote for anyone who ran on a platform of making billionaires into millionaires through tax legislation.
November 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I'd vote for anyone who ran on a platform of making billionaires into millionaires through tax legislation.
Sharing some more thoughts on #NSPM7 today and how it pits the term #antifascist against dissent. The label is being deployed not to confront real #fascism, but to silence critics of Trump’s fascist regime. 🧵
November 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Sharing some more thoughts on #NSPM7 today and how it pits the term #antifascist against dissent. The label is being deployed not to confront real #fascism, but to silence critics of Trump’s fascist regime. 🧵
I just got back from spending a long weekend in New York City, and one thing that really struck me about my time there was how many different ideas I came up with walking around. And that got me thinking about a book I read in 2019 or 2020 about walking and neuroscience.
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I just got back from spending a long weekend in New York City, and one thing that really struck me about my time there was how many different ideas I came up with walking around. And that got me thinking about a book I read in 2019 or 2020 about walking and neuroscience.
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I just got back from spending a long weekend in New York City, and one thing that really struck me about my time there was how many different ideas I came up with walking around. And that got me thinking about a book I read in 2019 or 2020 about walking and neuroscience.
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LGA looks like a parking lot.
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
LGA looks like a parking lot.
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The Amazing World Of Tomorrow
November 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The Amazing World Of Tomorrow
NSPM-7 — the new “Countering Domestic Terrorism” security directive from the Trump administration — prominently includes anti-capitalist beliefs among the ideas it’s concerned about.
Let that sink in: the U.S. government now officially associates being anti-capitalist with domestic terrorism.
Let that sink in: the U.S. government now officially associates being anti-capitalist with domestic terrorism.
November 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
NSPM-7 — the new “Countering Domestic Terrorism” security directive from the Trump administration — prominently includes anti-capitalist beliefs among the ideas it’s concerned about.
Let that sink in: the U.S. government now officially associates being anti-capitalist with domestic terrorism.
Let that sink in: the U.S. government now officially associates being anti-capitalist with domestic terrorism.
Godspeed to everyone else braving an airport in the US today 🫡
November 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Godspeed to everyone else braving an airport in the US today 🫡
If I ever become president, the second executive order I’ll sign after signing one to defund ICE and use the money to build housing for all homeless people — build public restrooms lol
November 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
If I ever become president, the second executive order I’ll sign after signing one to defund ICE and use the money to build housing for all homeless people — build public restrooms lol
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Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
I’m kind of scared to get a tattoo of some cool looking old symbol or something in the fear that it might wind up as a tech company logo one day
November 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I’m kind of scared to get a tattoo of some cool looking old symbol or something in the fear that it might wind up as a tech company logo one day
It’s been a while since I posted on my blog (or here), but I recently revisited the last thing I published there and have been reflecting on it. Here’s the link to the full post if you want to read it, but this is the gist. 🧵
Reject Specialization, Embrace Generalization
I am working to unlearn the harmful habits our specialist culture instills in us.
stickyweather.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
It’s been a while since I posted on my blog (or here), but I recently revisited the last thing I published there and have been reflecting on it. Here’s the link to the full post if you want to read it, but this is the gist. 🧵
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I need a button that opts me out of all AI unless I ask for something. No more fake artist mash-ups or fake movie trailers on YouTube. No more fake animal videos on Facebook. No more every software shoving AI into everything I try to do. I would pay good money for this.
/curmudgeonly rant
/curmudgeonly rant
October 28, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I need a button that opts me out of all AI unless I ask for something. No more fake artist mash-ups or fake movie trailers on YouTube. No more fake animal videos on Facebook. No more every software shoving AI into everything I try to do. I would pay good money for this.
/curmudgeonly rant
/curmudgeonly rant
Me, living on a diet of black coffee, weed, and Oreos for the past two weeks with no exercise while every day gets shorter: “I wonder why I feel bad?”
October 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Me, living on a diet of black coffee, weed, and Oreos for the past two weeks with no exercise while every day gets shorter: “I wonder why I feel bad?”
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Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped
October 21, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped
I watched part of the Emoji Movie with my nephew over the weekend and can I just say that it is a crime against the human spirit
October 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I watched part of the Emoji Movie with my nephew over the weekend and can I just say that it is a crime against the human spirit