Eric Daniels
@deebat.bsky.social
Creative professional and storyteller (derogatory)
Pinned
It's amazing to watch as previously normal people, coworkers, catch AI fever and turn into elbow-throwing, break-shit-fix-it-later assholes. It's like half the white collar population was just waiting for an excuse to do awful work and then demand praise for it
September 14, 2026 at 10:51 PM
It's amazing to watch as previously normal people, coworkers, catch AI fever and turn into elbow-throwing, break-shit-fix-it-later assholes. It's like half the white collar population was just waiting for an excuse to do awful work and then demand praise for it
Around noon that day I was on the road in northern MN when a crop-duster plane flew right overhead (airspace was already closed) and my cheeks instinctively tightened
Everyone post your most insane 9/11 local freak out!
Some people were thinking we might be a target because some highschool kids were interviewed about Bush choking on a pretzel so that made us a target
Some people were thinking we might be a target because some highschool kids were interviewed about Bush choking on a pretzel so that made us a target
midwest concerns
September 8, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Around noon that day I was on the road in northern MN when a crop-duster plane flew right overhead (airspace was already closed) and my cheeks instinctively tightened
My noisy little town was so quiet there that I started to wonder if Today Was The Day It Happened
September 8, 2026 at 7:40 PM
My noisy little town was so quiet there that I started to wonder if Today Was The Day It Happened
33 to go; not canned yet
37 months dealing with “AI is the solution to all our problems” before I retire
Not gonna make it
Not gonna make it
September 7, 2026 at 10:15 PM
33 to go; not canned yet
Yes!
University of Vermont Medical Center's health care workers want their employer to join the Milk with Dignity program. buff.ly/CBxTfMN
Vermont Hospital Workers Are Building Solidarity With Farmworkers
University of Vermont Medical Center’s health care workers want their employer to join the Milk with Dignity program.
truthout.org
September 7, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Yes!
Apropos of nothing but here’s a photo I took of an East German watchtower on the Saxony-Anhalt border
September 7, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Apropos of nothing but here’s a photo I took of an East German watchtower on the Saxony-Anhalt border
For some reason I just remembered being in Italy and seeing a guy with a tshirt that said, in enormous letters, “Fuck It, I Love Gym”
Why???
Why???
September 6, 2026 at 12:35 AM
For some reason I just remembered being in Italy and seeing a guy with a tshirt that said, in enormous letters, “Fuck It, I Love Gym”
Why???
Why???
Drawing paychecks from an AI-frothy employer by day
Resisting AI data center development by night
This is not how I expected my career to wind down
Resisting AI data center development by night
This is not how I expected my career to wind down
September 2, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Drawing paychecks from an AI-frothy employer by day
Resisting AI data center development by night
This is not how I expected my career to wind down
Resisting AI data center development by night
This is not how I expected my career to wind down
Today was the day of my company’s annual anonymous employee satisfaction survey and ohhhmygawd it has never felt better to give feedback
September 1, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Today was the day of my company’s annual anonymous employee satisfaction survey and ohhhmygawd it has never felt better to give feedback
It's September 1, which the MSM has reminded me a bazillion times already is the first day of the 11 Days of 9/11.
Can we just skip to 9/12 please?
Can we just skip to 9/12 please?
September 1, 2026 at 5:03 PM
It's September 1, which the MSM has reminded me a bazillion times already is the first day of the 11 Days of 9/11.
Can we just skip to 9/12 please?
Can we just skip to 9/12 please?
Reposted by Eric Daniels
I will forever admire Wendell Berry's insistence on living his values through to their natural conclusions and relentlessly ripping through layers of politeness and habit to hold up for judgment those who do not.
September 1, 2026 at 11:33 AM
I will forever admire Wendell Berry's insistence on living his values through to their natural conclusions and relentlessly ripping through layers of politeness and habit to hold up for judgment those who do not.
post something random or you’ll have a awful September
August 31, 2026 at 11:20 PM
post something random or you’ll have a awful September
Screw you Vermont trees. Not yet
August 29, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Screw you Vermont trees. Not yet
Wow, EU really showing up for Nepal with that staggering €2m donation
August 28, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Wow, EU really showing up for Nepal with that staggering €2m donation
I propose FedEx Field in the east and Oakland Coliseum in the west to house ICE criminals while they await trial and sentencing. Nothing but the worst open-air experience for them.
NEW: Evidence filed in a Colorado case reveals how ICE officers are arresting people without a warrant, which is illegal unless ICE determines the person is a flight risk.
A man was dragged from his car after ICE showed him a warrant for someone else and refused to check his ID to see his identity.
A man was dragged from his car after ICE showed him a warrant for someone else and refused to check his ID to see his identity.
August 28, 2026 at 2:44 PM
I propose FedEx Field in the east and Oakland Coliseum in the west to house ICE criminals while they await trial and sentencing. Nothing but the worst open-air experience for them.
I’ve had two eye surgeries this summer and as a result have been reduced to a homebound complaining bag of goo. Now that I’m starting to feel better, I’m getting ready to rip shit up this fall. I need action ideas.
August 28, 2026 at 2:09 PM
I’ve had two eye surgeries this summer and as a result have been reduced to a homebound complaining bag of goo. Now that I’m starting to feel better, I’m getting ready to rip shit up this fall. I need action ideas.
There are days when the depth of the rot is so apparent that it feels impossible to imagine us ever getting out of it
August 28, 2026 at 12:21 AM
There are days when the depth of the rot is so apparent that it feels impossible to imagine us ever getting out of it
I believe having 60 people each do a reply-all to an email is the pinnacle of community
August 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM
I believe having 60 people each do a reply-all to an email is the pinnacle of community
On any given day, you can jack off with your lawnmowers, weedwhackers, edgers, leafblowers, chainsaws, logging trucks, coal rollers, snowblowers, and snowplows, but sure, *I* am the asshole when I flip you the double bird for ruining the quiet
August 13, 2026 at 12:55 PM
On any given day, you can jack off with your lawnmowers, weedwhackers, edgers, leafblowers, chainsaws, logging trucks, coal rollers, snowblowers, and snowplows, but sure, *I* am the asshole when I flip you the double bird for ruining the quiet
It really hurts to read this. Don’t Look Up came out in my most active climate resistance (as in, do stuff that can get you arrested) period. It was exciting to see a motion picture about climate change… but now it feels like the efforts we all expended were for naught.
Sorry for the doomerism.
Sorry for the doomerism.
I can’t watch it anymore.
When we made it there was still a window for urgent action at scale.
Now the window is “brace yourself.”
*I remember doing media for it and meeting elected officials in the U.S. and UK and being stunned how little clue or care about climate they had. It was scary.
When we made it there was still a window for urgent action at scale.
Now the window is “brace yourself.”
*I remember doing media for it and meeting elected officials in the U.S. and UK and being stunned how little clue or care about climate they had. It was scary.
July 24, 2026 at 4:52 PM
It really hurts to read this. Don’t Look Up came out in my most active climate resistance (as in, do stuff that can get you arrested) period. It was exciting to see a motion picture about climate change… but now it feels like the efforts we all expended were for naught.
Sorry for the doomerism.
Sorry for the doomerism.
Contemplating diving into the AI battle at work. Is it worth fighting the bros who are destroying my four decades of experience in technical content development? Or should I skulk in a dark corner until the pink slip inevitably comes?
July 21, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Contemplating diving into the AI battle at work. Is it worth fighting the bros who are destroying my four decades of experience in technical content development? Or should I skulk in a dark corner until the pink slip inevitably comes?
Is it possible that Vermont is finally going to have a July 10 without flooding?
July 10, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Is it possible that Vermont is finally going to have a July 10 without flooding?
They shut down main street for a July 4 parade here in my small Vermont town.
Until the parade kicks in, there’s no traffic noise - no big trucks, no revving motorcycles.
For an hour a year, it’s bliss.
Until the parade kicks in, there’s no traffic noise - no big trucks, no revving motorcycles.
For an hour a year, it’s bliss.
July 4, 2026 at 12:50 PM
They shut down main street for a July 4 parade here in my small Vermont town.
Until the parade kicks in, there’s no traffic noise - no big trucks, no revving motorcycles.
For an hour a year, it’s bliss.
Until the parade kicks in, there’s no traffic noise - no big trucks, no revving motorcycles.
For an hour a year, it’s bliss.
Where is the Louvre when we need it so badly
June 30, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Where is the Louvre when we need it so badly