Note from my notebook (2017).

"A culture is no better than its woods." - WH Auden

There are interdimensional portals all over the British countryside. You just have to look.

Things I thought were real because of Star Trek: Free health care! Ha-ha. JK. I never thought that. My parents complained about the cost every time.

I can't have been the only one thinking this #StrangeNewWorlds @openpike.bsky.social #Terrarium #Moretegas!

Instead of telling a disabled person what they should or shouldn’t be able to do… ask them how you could help them accomplish what they need. Listen to their struggles. Approach the situation with compassion. Offer genuine support. That’s the best way to be an ally.

Good news! After last week's hearing, which 100+ people attended, the picture book "A Map for Falasteen" by Maysa Odeh and illustrated by Aliaa Betawi remains on the Watertown library's suggested summer reading list! Thanks to @wbur.org for reporting on this story: www.wbur.org/news/2025/08...

Two things: 1. Large language models like ChatGPT are statistically likely word generators; they don't have "expertise" in anything. 2. I have seen a team of PhD level experts fail to assemble a dresser from IKEA.

From Project Endo on X: 1 min. Real talk. Real change. Tell us what you’ve lived — & how Below the Belt shaped your view. "Beyond the Belt: A Patient-Centered Study on Endometriosis and Impact" survey here: forms.gle/hvgLRR27o5Vpyb…#Endometriosisi#BelowTheBeltl#PatientVoicece

THIS IS HUGE. A federal judge just ruled that severe period pain caused by endometriosis can qualify as a disability under the ADA. www.wfmynews2.com/article/news...

I thought "Wicked tie-in crocs" was going to be the thing that wrecked me from this image but then I looked more closely at the bottom right corner

I have strung this series out for yeeears because I didn't want it to end. I began around 2012. It feels so much more final when both the author and the reader have passed on. I'm starting the final book. Raise a glass to L.A. Meyer and K. Kellgren, for bringing Jacky Faber to life. #BloodyJack

Disabled people aren’t stealing your tax dollars We aren’t the reason for rising costs & inflation Most people would be shocked by what we’re expected to live on We’re a scapegoat It’s the billionaires who are doing the real fiscal damage When you blame us, you’re giving them what they want

Healthcare in these United States.

For… no reason, here’s that time Superman (Jon Kent) stood with protesters to stop the illegal deportation of refugees in Superman: Son of Kal-El #3. Art by John Timms.

Oh, the shade!

A pysanka is a Polish-Ukrainian #Easter egg, decorated with traditional folk designs using a wax-resist method #WomensArt

Whales in the sky! 🐋✨ From the beach to the clouds at the 38th International Kite Festival in Berck-sur-Mer, France. Absolutely surreal!

You know, when we all decided where to live after college, we Gen Xers were considering climate, not the politics of the state we were choosing. And now here we are. Two friends of mine are literally moving to Canada. Because they can. But most of us are stuck with our choices.

This *used* to be satire.

Thanks to my friend Harriet for pointing out that the women went to Christ's tomb and saw he was not there, the angels showed up to describe what happened, & the women then told the apostles, who dismissed them. A Biblical account of women not being believed.

Hi l, okay, take a breather, here are some daffodils from my front yard

Aslan is on the move! In this house, Easter is about freedom from tyrants.

This is a beautiful story about virtual #HandsOff rallies for those who couldn’t attend in person. Every single person, no matter their background or ability, can play a part in defeating authoritarianism and reclaiming our democracy.

Its funny in a dark way that this was written in the 60s, and if they did this today, then a lot of right-wing freaks would absolutely lose their minds.

#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so

.....AGAIN. 🙄😡

I don’t know who needs to hear this but menstrual bleeding for 20+ days is not “normal” or “fine” no matter how old the patient is or how recently they reached menarche.

Hear me out…🌺

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Why on earth is the ice cream truck playing an ice-cream-truck version of Love Story by Henry Mancini??? It took half an hour but I found it! It's not Schindler's List, or The Godfather, or Doctor Zhivago.... I'm very proud of myself for finding it. But WHY??? youtu.be/XFVaBgKhSxY?...

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Get ready to have fewer books published every year - and the ones we get are more likely to be from big (white) authors who are guaranteed to sell.

When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king, the palace becomes a circus. -Turkish proverb

Here, have some antifa music from 1980. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q49B...

Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.

The Society for Military History is now archiving historical materials related to military history that are disappearing from federal or state websites. We are open to submissions, anonymously or otherwise. Please see www.smh-hq.org/archivedreso... and note there the submission links.

Uh....just a thought..... Most books are printed in China. Take that and run with it.

Here. You need this.

Repost with a favorite book from childhood.

I am so tired and angry and angry about how tired I am and tired of feeling angry

This is literally how the Holocaust started, and honestly I'm tired of saying so

Do you remember when I told you that your institutional repository was on a list for a future purge? And to save copies of everything in multiple places? It's time you prioritized that. Now.

Let's goooooo

Do you think if every librarian sent a copy of Fahrenheit 451 to the Oval Office, he would get the message? Probably not.

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Why is it Santa Claus and not San Claus? He's a man. How did I live in California for 18 years and never think of this?

Oh, you don't like it? Well then we'll take it down, sir. Absolutely, sir. If that's what you want, sir. {coughnotreplacingitcough] So now instead of just the people in the Capitol seeing it, the entire country will see the news coverage of it. I love my state. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...