Thank you for having me @notalegalrecord.net, I can’t wait to come to the Winchester Library!

Like, yes - I’ve only been yelled at about this my whole life. I totally want to be yelled at about it some more for… “clout”. 🙄

this sucks dude its so fucking hard to find things that are not products

Also, to me allyship is something you do, not a title you wear

👇🏻👇🏻

THIS

My son's world in gaza is vanishing into darkness. Every second we wait, his light fades a little more. We have one final chance to save his sight, but we can't do it alone. Please, don't let him go blind. Be the miracle he's praying for. Verified by : molly shah chuffed.org/project/1624...

and anyway, the very idea that someone who talks critically about adoption is a “clout chaser” is hilarious. If you’re “clout chasing,” why adopt a stance that leads 75% to go “wtf are you even talking about” and 20% to go “so you want babies to die in dumpsters & queer people not to be parents”

i actually started doing it back when some of the adoption convos on here were a little nastier so APs couldn't come in and create tons of pointless drama

The thing with "don't complain about drivers; complain about the lack of alternatives!" is that I do complain about the lack of alternatives lots & drivers ignore me, dismiss me, reject any inconvenience or public spending, & consistently throw non-drivers under the bus (when it eventually arrives.)

Kailee and I are planning to do a book talk about THE MINIMALIST at my library later this year! These advance copies are a generous gift to the adoptee community. 🥚

This is why I say those statements are just a form of projection fired off by the terminally insecure against people who are only guilty of expressing authenticity. The kind of person that values “clout” enough to make that accusation is the kind of person that desires it regardless of authenticity.

Wisdom:

limiting engagement on this app is not about “clout chasing,” it’s about enjoying your life. It’s about not dealing with assholes who like to throw around bullshit accusations like “you’re a clout chaser”

god dammit

another one who pissed on his legacy on the way out bc he couldn’t help going insane about trans people

"Adoption is beautiful," they said

a bumper sticker that made me feel something

I...do not want motorists launching their cars over my head?

Memorial Day weekend weather looks disappointing, so I’m taking Friday off to ride about 40% of the Mass Central Rail Trail and back. It looks to be a perfect day for a wool jersey.

Oops sorry did I ruin your corporate Bsky rollout

I see @playboy.com has arrived. Fuck them

a bumper sticker that made me feel something

No child is “saved” by a system that protects adults and agencies while ignoring the rights of the child. Placing a child into a different family doesn't justify erasing their identity, and adoption can't be considered ethical care when a child’s humanity and rights are disregarded in the process.🥚

Dear lord there's no way I'm doing that. The world is better off not ever having to read my edgelord Twitter garbage again.

🥚

Hammam is a nurse from Gaza, volunteering without any financial compensation. he supports his poor family who have lost everything and are still displaced, struggling to provide food & water. they desperately need your donations, even small ones. Verified : Molly shah✅ chuffed.org/project/1580...

how impressed should i be that these are made with *real* Oreo cookie crumbs

Hopi prophecies sung near the end of the film: If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster. Near the Day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky. A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky… "Koyaanisqatsi" score Philip Glass 😔🎼🎹🎶

Safe spaces are fucking disgusting and won't exist under Esoteric Maoism

at lunchtime i head into the woods to make discoveries. today i discovered that almost all my toxic dispositions are traceable more or less directly to fear of abandonment.

me: let’s go ride our bikes together 15yo: uh, no thanks me: i want to check out an old prison camp. it’s in atlas obscura 15yo: atlas obscura. … i’m in

Every week or so I think about the fact that the cops/government shot a white man, Alex Pretti, in cold blood and nothing has happened to his murderers. The murderers still have their jobs and the unarmed white man is a cautionary tale for white people to not challenge the white supremacist state.

Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Archaea, and Bacteria (Every queer thing beyond your imagination is out there. Also pretty sure Archaea brought us tantric sex.)

I wouldn't normally encourage people to have kids, but I did find it very handy to have one nearby, when I discovered a medium to large sized house spider in my kitchen cupboard, and could order him to remove it.

here we go again

I had a calling card because the dorm hall phones only accepted calling cards and collect calls. Born before cell phones... BORN BEFORE TOUCH TONE (in my state)

Pick a Bond from photos you already have in your phone.

i do a lot of daydreaming about moving out to western Mass once my kids graduate from high school. The daydreaming intensified last month, when my oldest kid decided to attend UMass. And today was a spectacular spring day in Turner’s Falls. I’m pining for the sleepy west of the wooded East.

I was making collect calls in college

Still my best Homeric joke

I would argue that the racism in this country is absolutely unique due to chattel slavery and Jim Crow.

logging another NA beer. there was Budweiser Zero at the memorial. it tastes like Bud.

i’m in western Massachusetts for a memorial service for my stepson’s father. I saw a man with a white beard who evoked the thought “he looks like an old hippie.” when shook his hand i saw embroidered on his baseball cap “OLD HIPPIE.”

Going to do the ultra Boomer thing on a Facebook post saying ChatGPT does not have my permission to access my bank records, copy and paste to friends if you agree

The Internet is disappearing before our very eyes and it’s why we should all support that absolutely critical work of @archive.org

We were on the way out the door and almost tripped over a box of things from our food wishlist! Thank you so much! Boosting needs list too bc it reminded me Doc wanted me to take some things I put on there. We're headed to a market to get some fresh food, any funds help! linktr.ee/wylder TY!! 💜

WOW OKAY bsky.app/profile/stil...

Agreed: bsky.app/profile/mala...

hot take: mixed asian people are asian. happy aanhpi heritage month!