Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house

Congress’s shutdown deal eliminated key food safety rules, blocking agencies from enforcing measures to prevent contamination and trace outbreaks. This rollback has coincided with a surge in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.

Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators

My annual autumnal experience in the mountains is “There’s a house up there?!”

Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵

It's Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands Scream[ing] Day!

v good thread to show to your cis people who don’t understand the kafkaesque web of insane bureaucratic nonsense that british trans people have been trapped in for decades

"Our transgender, intersex, and nonbinary beloveds offer a singular gift. They invite us to witness our broken world through the knowledge that, when we lead in truth and love, nothing is beyond transformation."

another manifestation of this is when you criticize the right and somebody tsk tsks "they say the same thing about the left," like, yeah, somebody is lying, are you interested in who? because the answer is easily discoverable

Hmm…There’s a time travel Vatican heist movie somewhere in here…🤔

It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.

"You can't un-invent AI!" We can't un-invent asbestos either. That doesn't mean we have to use it.

Only a couple days left to snatch up the "Trans People Take on the World" bundle on Itchio. This bundle ends Nov. 15th. Support trans authors / representation and get yourself 32 books for only $35? Sounds like a win-win to me! 🌈📚 itch.io/b/3352/trans...

Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.

Hammajang Luck is up for a Goodreads Choice Award in the science fiction category!!! if you enjoyed my heist lesbians, you can vote in the first round here mahalo nui loa!!!

Every year I divide my family gift wish list into “books” and “things that aren’t books,” and the “books” list is usually longer

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

Massive deployment of renewables are reducing emissions in China. Carbon emissions in China have been flat or falling for 18 months now from a peak in early 2024. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

What an absolutely beautiful morning

Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Share yours if you want. (Here's the opening of “Many Drops Make a Stream”)

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I feel like "this man keeps fighting for y'all not to have food" could win some folks a LOT of campaigns, and yet.....

Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.

Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.

This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

It is 8th Nov in a European city widely thought to have terrible weather at about 51 degrees North. Xmas markets open in 3 weeks. It is nearly 16C outside & nearly 22C inside. I have multiple windows open to create a through-draft. I am wearing shorts & a t-shirt. This is not fucking normal.

The federal government is putting its full weight behind purging Black people from public life and the press and opposition party is silent as it does so.

After hundreds of hours of reading and research, my 2025 Starter Guide to transfeminine literature is finally live! No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️‍⚧️📚 #transbooks The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.

Said resistance was often a bit more emphatic than chucking some bread at a fed, too.

800+ flights cancelled today because Elon took a chainsaw to the federal government and Trump won’t pay the remaining airport personnel. Elon’s on his way to becoming a trillionaire. Trump’s net worth has more than doubled inside a year. Glad everything worked out for them. How about you?

Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.

OpenAI is well aware of how its products stoke manic, suicidal, psychotic, and other forms of unhealthy behavior, but company leadership insists publicly that the problem with the tech is that it isn’t reaching *enough* people. Bulldozing the vulnerable is corporate strategy

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

I prefer wandering outside, but I often find that much cozier than being inside! Fresh air and trees soothe me. So in the spirit of “technically a quest but it feels cozy,” I’ll say Kimberly Lemming’s That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon (since it was indie first). #AMoRaR

Very notably, people are working full-time at Walmart, and still qualifying for SNAP. Walmart gives their employees a class on applying for benefits. And then those employees spend their SNAP *at Walmart*. That's the con, right there.

Today I’d like to celebrate my mom, who has been tirelessly volunteering for the Dems for years in my small, red hometown. She’s been pouring hours a day into the local election where she thought, at best, we could win one alderman seat (of five). We won three.

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

I have a note to myself in the Droplet Book 2 manuscript reminding me to research the sensory experience of every single animal she turns into.

Every single recipe my husband and I have ever tried from Budget Bytes has been a winner. I highly recommend just browsing their vast archive and picking out whatever looks good.

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

After repeatedly requesting permission and following all the official guidelines, Catholic bishop, priests, sisters and lay people were refused permission to distribute Communion to migrants in ICE detention center, on All Saints Day. A religious freedom issue: www.ncronline.org/news/ice-aga...

their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts

It’s wild how casually we say “42 million people are on SNAP” like that’s just a normal statistic. That’s 12% of the entire country—in the richest nation on earth—relying on government help just to eat. That shouldn’t be a data point we shrug off. That’s a national emergency.

The USDA is the fail safe for SNAP. They have a contingency fund to ensure it’s covered in the event of a shutdown. They’re refusing. Grocery stores stepped up to try and help by offering discounts to any SNAP recipients and the USDA told them they had to stop. Starvation as a policy choice.

Some people waited in line up for 14 hours to receive a food box from a church giveaway. 500 people volunteered to help and they still ran out of food. Remember for every one person a food bank feeds, SNAP feeds 9. By turning off food assistance the regime is starving Americans.

Recently my brother in law explained what gerrymandering was to a coworker and they didn’t believe him because if that were really happening there would be riots in the street

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween