As usual, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social pulls it all together brilliantly: www.meditationsinanemergency.com/pod-save-pat...

The Irish language radio station I listen to online made a point today to play U2’s “In the Name of Love” and Stevie Wonder’s “Happy Birthday” written in honor of MLK. It’s not January, but I’d much rather celebrate him than another person whose birthday it actually is. Also, happy pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Boosting this for friends and neighbors who may feel frustrated and un-heard by their doctors.

I can’t be the only nerdy Catholic who thinks of Swedish Fish as Easter candy.

Getting ready for No Kings tomorrow. Making signs and listening to a list of protest music I’ve been adding to regularly since 2016. Studies say if 3.5% of the population is in the street it leads to regime change. That’s about 12 million. Let’s do it! Who’s with me? #nokings

This is a great idea, especially today. I’m turning off the news stream and knitting something! 🧶 How about you?

The joys of living in a “select city.” By Sunday afternoon I will have seen all the nominated shorts.

Yes! It’s a real banger. I got to see Les Arts Florissants perform _Poppea_ live. It was one of the best things I’ve ever seen.

Go draw a horse! Make some art, see art that other humans have made. See all your horses running together!

If you want listen to Glass and Schubert on their joint-birthday, WKCR at Columbia University is playing 24-hours of both composers today. Stream here: www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/

Happy birthday Phillip Glass and Franz Schubert! The awesome WKCR at Columbia University is playing 24 hours of both composers today. Stream here: www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/

A great source of joy in dark times! ❤️

One of @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social‘s best! She quotes W.H. Auden on Tolkien: "Evil, that is, has every advantage but one – it is inferior in imagination. Good can imagine the possibility of becoming evil … but Evil, defiantly chosen, can no longer imagine anything but itself.”

The triumph of the AV guy! An amazing documentary about the propaganda Putin forces Russian schools to teach, made possible by a rebel AV man. It’s on the short list for an Oscar! youtu.be/9150MCMSrgc?...

Now is the time on Bluesky when we block

Renee Nicole Good, 37, was murdered four fifths of a mile from where George Perry Floyd, Jr., 46, was murdered in May of 2020.

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social is on fire: “Trump is an incoherent nihilistic narcissist whose attention flickers like a guttering candle. …[H]e is also, in his decline, increasingly retreating to his happy place, which is being a hotelier of sorts, redecorating while Rome burns.”

An excellent summary of Venezuelan political history and its weird self-fulfilling prophecies.

This 6 week crash course on Bad Bunny and his music is the best thing I’ve seen on the Internet in a while. Digging in shortly. 🎶

A terrific, clear explanation about how the attack on Venezuela fits (or does not) into the current understanding of international law from @ichotiner.bsky.social and @oonahathaway.bsky.social The Brazen Illegality of Trump’s Venezuela Operation www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Thank you Mr Mayor! Now, where the hell is Congress?

Here are two very easy ways to contact your elected representatives. If don’t like the phone use @resist.bot or use @5calls.org to call. If you call after hours you won’t reach a person and can leave a voicemail. Do give your ZIP code so they know you are a constituent. Go blowup some inboxes!

Yes, yes we are. Currently composing engaged messages to my elected representatives.

I just realized, this is like President Bartlett’s “big block of cheese day.” Time to go watch West Wing again. Thank you Mr Mayor!

Crafters using their Weapons of Mass Construction for good!

Mince pies! Recipe adapted from 1896 Boston Cooking School Cookbook. Yes, there is meat in them! #bakingsky

Got let out of jury duty early so I popped over to SoHo for some Xmas shopping. I found a European-style cafe for lunch. A croque Madame and a glass of wine was just what I needed. Great coffee too. They have glühwein and at dinner there’s raclette! Good prices too! cafeselectnyc.com/index.html

Brooklyn jury duty food discovery #2 Yohevet Coffee Shop on Jay St. a Kosher cafe that has Ethiopian Spiced coffee. Sort of like chai but with coffee and no milk (unless you add it later). Very tasty and warming on this frigid day. www.yohevetcoffee.com

One of the benefits of Jury Duty at the NY State Supreme Court in Brooklyn is the proximity to some of the best croissants in the city at L’appartement 4F on Montague St. 🥐

If you’re wondering whether or not we’re living in a new Gilded Age, read this piece on the Airport Lounge Wars: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Reason 6487 I live in NYC: not only does the butcher have suet for my mincemeat, he’s chopping it by hand so I don’t have to. 🥧🥧

The pumpkin pie is done! The crust is 1/2 lard and 1/2 butter and the filling is made with sour cream, and a little bourbon. #bakingsky

Great stuff from the inimitable Rebecca Traister. “Reports of patriarchy’s death have always been greatly exaggerated. But so, too, have reports of feminism’s.”

Drat! I guessed wrong. The label-free sweater I picked up at the thrift store for $5 turned out to be acrylic. On the other hand, I also got a (labeled) 100% Cashmere wrap for $5!

Thank you @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for focusing on the light in the darkness. The resistant is real! I really needed to read this today after @schumer.senate.gov and his cronies sold us out last night. Keep fighting!

Just got back from voting. 🗳️ Go Zohran! Let’s make history!

TIL that the Canadian national anthem is Mozart: youtu.be/aY3Kg1CENUA?...

A great thread laying out all of the skulls, Nazi and otherwise.

Really interesting (and sadly not surprising), the way women and men in the workplace are portrayed on the internet doesn’t match reality. And then training AI on internet content compounds the problem.

If these actually get made, any that I receive as change will be promptly donated to Planned Parenthood, the NAACP, The Trans Law Center, and other suitable causes.

Exactly the luscious, engaging long form stuff I love from @newyorker.com Adding Bologna to the must visit list!

A Dutch comedian on Disney bending the knee to Trump and what “new” Disney movies and shows might look like.

A thread about how the US is ceding green energy development to China and others. If we keep this up, we’ll end up a backward and polluted country.

If you are in need of some musical distraction in the form of folk songs you can’t go wrong with this thread!

Something beautiful for the fiber arts community.

A very cool video on the physics of knitting! #knitsky 🧶 youtu.be/iTLvD6-X8WQ?...

Here’s a good idea. If they can twist the rules to further their aims, so can we. In case you’re not familiar, members of Congress cannot be sued for defamation when speaking from the floor.

I bought some new lipstick. I tested it, but at home it seemed a lot redder than I usually wear. Then I remembered that both suffragettes and women in the résistance wore red lipstick to assert their causes (the later because Mr. H hated it). So that’s decided, this is now my protest lipstick!

As a person who buys women’s wear I can say that all sizes are a lie. I now carry a tape measure while shopping. I started doing it for thrifting, but then realized it’s just as useful for new clothes. If the measurements don’t work for my body then I don’t have to waste my time trying it on.