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...

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

Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island.

Banning a booke ys extinguishing a beacon. Banning a booke ys silencinge a thousand voyces speakinge yn the heart. Banning a booke ys refusinge to looke at the stars. Banning a booke ys damming a streame of feelinge and invitinge flood. Banning a booke ys making a violent litel shryne to ignorance.

this is the best answer

More to come but I will say this: the liberal institutional infrastructure of mobility is gone. People are mad. Women are people. No one is speaking to that anger. Midterms soon come. But that’s just the start. Here lies the girlboss. First to die but not the last. Good riddance.

this is like the 5th round of "now everyone can make their own apps!" in my lifetime people really do like exchanging money for goods and services

I will share a selection of work that I have made available through Teen Librarian that others have found helpful over the years. Feel free to free to use them - everything on the site is free to take, use & modify! 📚📜

cyclists can just never make a left turn

This data centers is 40,000+acres that’s 50 Central Parks It will use 2X more energy than all of Utah All from natural gas It uses massive amounts of water In a desert So much for global warming But sure-I cant have a gas stove or use normal lightbulbs and am supposed to take shorter showers

Road Safety Experts Confident Asking Kids To Be Perfect So Adult Drivers Can Be Dangerous Is The Right Approach

Recently, for *obvious reasons*, I've been thinking about what it means when anxiety and sadness are caused not by individual predispositions, but by the state of the world itself. This led me to early 19th-c. France and the notion of "mal du siècle" (sickness of the century) aeon.co/essays/young...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026.... If they want graduations to be more “celebratory” then maybe end the genocide. That’s cause for celebration. #FreePalestine.

Jfc. This is why history and lit classes are still important. Folks need more empathy and to remember the horrors of the American past to not repeat them or to stop them from continuing.

Bleep blorp! 🛸

jayrooter

every day i see another NA beer to try. i came across this Deschutes-Patagonia brand collaboration, so i brought some home. it’s tasty! the grain bill includes rye and intermediate wheatgrass, trademarked as Kernza.

“hey i didn’t know you have a siouxsie shirt.” “it’s my friend’s.” it’s warping my brain a little to see the coolness from my teenage years reappropriated.

Phoebe Bridgers randomly appearing in various UFO affiliated locations in the US like a blonde depressed alien. Fantastic

“If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper.” Counterfeits undermine trust.

Every time I open Bluesky,

This is not government this is punishment

it’s a nice feeling to have a grilled cheese sandwich and some tomato soup ready for your teenager who just came in from the rain

“Is it reasonable that kids, with exhausted &dying hearts, are pleading for help to rent a room for £300 just to survive the rats and mice gnawing at their bodies in the tent, while their mother suffers from heart disease &their father is severely wounded?” 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 chuffed.org/project/lobnah

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Absolutely. I might have chosen to not have kids. If I had known and had made an informed decision to have children, I would have had a clue about what was going on with one of them and been able to seek help for them before it became a devastating loss

“When the enemy is making a false movement we must take good care not to interrupt him.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

i think i deserved to know all along—and well before i discovered it at age 40—that mental illness (bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder) decorates my entire family tree: grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles, first cousins.

since there’s wasian discourse for this aanhpi month I’ll just put this here

there is this incorrigibly naive person inside me who never fails to feel affronted every time a bike ride in the rain turns out to be the opposite of “cleansing”

Hoo boy Got to chatting w/ my boss from the lingerie shop re: AI. She's an elder Gen X Trumper obsessed w/TikTok for health advice/political news, & when I mentioned AI she said "It's gonna be the downfall of our world. You can't trust anything you see online now." When y'all have lost HER...

This one's for my Illinois folks. I'm thrilled to be in conversation with R.F. Kuang next week as part of Illinois Libraries Present. You can sign up for the free virtual conversation through your local library. It'll be a NERDY talk about publishing, genre, satire, and more.

NEW: Seattle might declare a civil emergency to help LGBTQ (mostly trans) people fleeing red states, so I looked for a Texas angle. An organizer told me that Texas is #1 among trans people looking to relocate: "The baseline hostility to their existence is unbearable." www.chron.com/culture/arti...

This is what I've been talking about for years. Ai isn't coming for us writers, directors, or our cast; it's coming for our crews. Right now Ai is entirely investor subsidized. Whether or not this slop tsunami overtakes Hollywood really comes down to whether or not the cost of tokens comes down.

I have a bold and original new idea: Democrats should move to the right. Please put it in the newspaper.