I'm so tempted. Someone grab these!

This is how I've felt for a while. It's this weird thing where I am feeling better about the long range outlook for this country but increasingly stressed about figuring out how to get us all there in one piece.

Fashion designer Jeremy Scott delivers commencement speech to Kansas City Art Institute graduates. Wait for it…

actually I remember that a lot of us felt very, very alarmed by the choice of the word “homeland” and all its sinister implications

Today in unhinged things parenting makes you say: "Please stop making mouth noises at me from under the bathroom door."

Definitely startled @mikeheadley.bsky.social when I suggested making a tea from my Slutty Little Fruit Basket collection by @fridaytea.com 😂.

Heh. Finally shared a piece of core childhood media with my spouse 😂. He didn't run away screaming, but he definitely had wtf-face going for parts of it, especially when they'd come back together as ensemble.

Oooh tough one - tie between ancient standing stones and storm wracked sea.

What an excellent metaphor.

This is a cat checkpoint. Relinquish your most recent cat picture from your phone.

He reads the silly post He reads the scoldy post He reads the jokey post And the pedantic post He reads the posts that remind him of the bad site He reads the posts that remind him of the worst site Don’t screenshot that, troll behavior

Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.

Same 😅

As another “worst English major ever.” the point of the English degree has always been to better understand why my sci-fi and romantasy and epic fantasy does what it does for me. I’m of the heretical position that the English major should enhance our appreciation, not transform us into snobs.

I made this for my own water bottle so I see it whenever I go to take a drink, and decided to make a bunch bc ... well. Someone else will need to see it.

Oh y'all fancy and got the name brand stuff, huh? 🤣

We don't need to eat *all* of the rich. We just start with a hundred or so, and I'm betting the rest will fall into line.

Five is such a fun age. Just got called "bruh" for the first time by my kid. And in an earlier conversation, she compared cotton candy to polyester batting 🤣.

If you think Bluesky sucks, you are not using it correctly. I have curated my feed to be full of DeliciousWeirdos™️ and KingShitposters™️ which means endless nerdiness (complimentary), bangers, and really insightful threads. Sorry you aren't having fun you aren't playing right. Try harder!

this is an actual Bluesky Rule: if you have ever so much as exchanged a single like, you are required to hold up the book in the shop and say "hey my friend wrote this"

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My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com

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"none of us can cancel everything but everyone can cancel something" is the heart of this. Sometimes it feels like folks on here are more interested in yelling at each other over the ways we're all struggling to navigate this system instead of figuring out what parts we can do.

I love the fidget toys I've bought from here!

The fertility rate going down is good because it means fewer teens are having kids, people are thinking hard about how many kids they can actually afford, and fewer women who don't want kids aren't being forced to have them.

Girls will be like "I needed this" and it's literally just listening to t.A.T.u. and working on a jigsaw puzzle. It me. I am girls.

Just a reminder that this is the month to START GETTING READY!!! We will be opening the donation form in June! If you need ideas for what sorts of things we're looking for, we have a very basic list up on our site now! www.romancingthevote.com Please feel free to ask any questions!

Ooh. Don't mind an excuse for a new cast-on...

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I love deep-dive threads like this!

I’d add words of wisdom from my stepmother—“A hobby is something you spend money on. If you make money on it, it’s a job and you’ll eventually need a new hobby.”

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

truly monstrous to be cutting funding to Imagination Library.

Game night was canceled due to stormy weather, so we had a movie night instead. Amelie stands up as well as I remember - absolutely quirky, charming storytelling. Will probably re-listen to the soundtrack now too.

Y'all I ❤️ U. You don't actually need a "hydration drink" every day. Even if you are a gym-rat/runner like myself. You don't. Super hot, humid days? 10+ miles? Then yes. But most of you aren't doing that, are you? I would like to introduce you to: Water.

This is excellent information that should be shared widely.

Instead of asking chatgpt, why not ask a librarian? You'll get real answers and they won't tell you to kill yourself.

Went to the bookstore to pick up one book on its release day, found a second eagerly awaited one from my TBR. I feel like this sums up my reading range very well 😂. Cute contemporary romance and unsettling feminist horror.

Aaah as if my anticipation couldn't be higher.

The cover reveal for my new book, THE WISDOM OF EMPERORS, is live on @kickstarter.com today. It's inspired by ancient history, particularly the story of Hadrian and Antinous. Footnotes, fantasy Romans, and fictional academia! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ale...

One of the reasons she's a favorite author 😂.

got a much needed long laugh from this

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

Hi all, its your friendly neighborhood retired therapist here to remind you that the horrors persist and so do we! Have you: -had a glass of water or something liquid that is not caffeinated recently? -used any calming or grounding techniques you like? -eaten a food? If not, do that now. 💜

Oh this is stunning. A bit outside budget at the moment, but maybe you need an opal shiny?

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The two truths: 1) There is nothing wrong with porn, let people safely make it, let people safely enjoy it. 2) If you let people define porn as bad, authoritarians will ALWAYS expand the definition until their hands are around your neck.

Today I learned I'm husband.

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