Up and slowly coming out the other side of COVID after several days in bed 😞 Willow the Pug missed me 🥰 What’d I miss?

I don’t think I’ve ever loved anything as much as ICE loves violently attacking women.

Thinking that all the distractions from the Epstein Files are just the level below the fact that the Epstein Files are the bigger distraction from our fundamental problems with this administration and their Project 2025 goals. FFS I don’t even know where to look anymore 🤦🏻‍♀️

I wrote a fun little piece for the What’s in my NOW? newsletter that included 3 physical items, 2 digital items, and 1 invisible item 📝 Check it out, will you? 💙 What’s included in your NOW?

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There are plenty of books at your local libraries and bookstores to read and learn about autism that do not focus on Tylenol. Best of all, more and more books are being written and illustrated. More and are being published! 📚 😊 Here are a few:

Wishing everyone a great Fall.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but please don't take medical advice from adjudicated rapists and bear eating brain worm infested gross ass dudes. *Always consult your own doctor or medical team. Thank you for your attention to this matter! -M

Dear America: BOYCOTTING WORKS!!!!!!

Just in case you’re wondering, COVID is most definitely still a thing. Stay safe and hydrated out there.

Gentle reminder from this sweet old (18!) girl, on this lovely Caturday, who is actively wondering why *she is not on my lap 🤣 Happy Weekending!

THANK YOU COLIN Colin Kaepernick is funding an independent autopsy for Trey Reed, a 21-year-old student found hanging from a tree at Delta State University, after police initially told his family he died in his dorm. The move aims to ensure transparency and accountability. (nypost.com)

Same.

Psst, psst, come here, I've got something to tell you. Antifa, which is an abbreviation for anti-fascism, is an ideology that advocates for democracy, equality & social justice. Nobody is funding the 'Antifa Organization' because it doesn't exist. Thank you for your attention to this matter! -M

The silence is truly deafening. If you haven’t read Parable of the Sower yet, I highly suggest you pick it up and study up. The other side of all this is even more terrifying than we can imagine, but Octavia Butler knew.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

I’ve started replying to this seemingly simple question with: “Up and not crying!” After a split second of processing, our humanity is brought to the top of the conversation w/ a chuckle. After the chuckle they will typically answer the same question with an honest answer. Humanity > numbness

Bummer.

we all know human stories are probably HAUNTING 😩 #booksky #bookmeme #ghost

His name was Trey Reed. The police are saying there’s nothing fishy about a Black man hanging from a tree on campus, must be suicide. I call bullshit. His name was Trey Reed and he deserved a full, happy life.

How does one get motivated when it’s a Tuesday that feels like a Monday and all you want to do is ignore it all like it’s a Holiday? Asking for a friend. Hashtag: Gaza Genocide is official RIP Robert Redford Fuck Zuck Release the Epstein files My pup feels the same And also: Go Luigi Mangione!

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

BREAKING: UN inquiry finds Israel’s war on Gaza to be genocide aje.io/2h84g2

This is all so unhinged and terrifying. What a wild timeline to be living through.

“So far, many Americans have not yet felt the shock waves of Kennedy’s changes to public health, Shah said. For most people, “you don’t actually see the consequences of it until there’s an emergency”, Shah said. “And it’s way too late at that point.” 🤦🏻‍♀️ Are we winning yet? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Hi, hey, hello! New here? Thanks for showing up! A few things to know ⬇️ I curate my feed carefully. No Follow for Follow without vetting. I post about: * Books * Blogging * Cats * DEI * Dissent * Farming * Genealogy * Justice * Music * Nature * Politics * Whatever else moves me Cool? Cool!

“The world has been hard to witness for a long time now, hasn’t it? I know you know what I mean, I won’t list the horrors and atrocities, but I want to acknowledge that it all is a lot… And I want to say out loud that it’s OK to not be OK with whatever is on your mind & heart right now…” #ontheblog

Genuinely curious about how many people are still on META platforms? I am only on Insta, have scaled back in my creation & consumption of content there & know I need to just pop off entirely but…I feel like that’s self-isolating since that’s where all my past peeps are. Anyone else feel this?

One of my favorite folk stories is A Spoon For Every Bite, as told by Joe Hayes, in which a lovely “poor” couple outwits the richest man in the land who is so driven by his “status” he has forgotten common sense and drives himself insane in competition. Sounds familiar, no?

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

I know people are pretending it’s not or like it makes you weak or something, but kindness is punk as fuck.

Are you singing it yet? youtu.be/Z0GFRcFm-aY

💙📚 Currently Reading 📚💙 📖 THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT 🎧 The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden Whose words are helping you escape reality these days?

Even stone gives way when roots persist.

We must end the scourge of gun violence in America. We also need to have honest conversations about the ways internet platforms profit from fear, hatred, and division. Both are vital to the future of this country.

…but, do I still have to pay my bills?

Give me all.the.pockets. “All the things that might go in pockets – money, keys, notes – symbolised things that weren't meant to concern women, like property, power and privacy.”

Just finished (and loved) @meggardiner.bsky.social ‘s Bright Light City in The End of the World as We Know It. I’d almost forgotten how terrifying and profound The Stand universe is since I first read it ~35 years ago. 📚💙

The library is for everyone 💙📚

look up

On the blog this weekend: Catch ups and autumn chat, recent reads and written words, new beginnings and an anniversary. ☕️🍁 💙📚 🎬💍

Do not give up. The path may be uncertain, but the destination is very clear. Evolution is undefeated.

If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula 🧛

…Garden beds are flipped from summer beans to fall greens. Sunflowers turn their weary heads from the sun to the earth as they exhale their final breaths. Bright yellows shift to mellow and pollen-filled centers become bird food. Rest is almost upon us all… Autumn is right around the bend.

RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.

I believe there is a direct correlation between how many cups of tea I have each morning and how salty I can be during the day. Less tea = less patience. More tea = more chill. I’ve had two strong and slow cups this morning so it should be a very.good.day. Stay tuned.

Good morning. Hope something good happens to you today. Hope you have time create. Turn up the music and do the thing.

Two berry crisps in two days? Yes, please! What else is one to do during Berry Season?! 😋