We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

Our annual Library Design Showcase highlights some of the most impressive new and renovated library buildings of the year. https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/09/02/2025-library-design-showcase/

"You'll get more conservative as you get older" Me:

yes. tasting fabrics is one of the easiest ways to test fiber composition. natural fabrics, such as wool, cotton, and linen, breakdown in the digestive tract. synthetics such as polyester will not. so to test fiber composition, eat the garment. if fibers appear in your poop, it was synthetic.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Re-reading Hocus Pocus, which is set during a climate catastrophe in an America that has been stripped for parts and features a racist LLM that can only imagine a good future for you if you are white. Vonnegut wrote this in 1990

This kind of logic of AI stans always gets me--like, "You can't put the genie back in the bottle, you can't just shut it down!" Yes you can. You can simply unplug the servers from the wall, I do it every day.

Freelancing writers, this is gold: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Emma Goldman — born #onthisday in 1869 — was a radical critic of capitalism, the state, patriarchy and colonialism during the fertile political years of the late 19th and early 20th century. More on her life and “anarchism without adjectives” here: publicdomainreview.org/essay/e... #otd

Everything Is Overwhelming

okay I laughed out loud

By me:

my number one restaurant pet peeve is when a menu calls something cajun but then it has tomatoes in it. i like tomatoes! i don't mind tomatoes in the dish! just don't call it cajun!

This ties into my constant complaints about people obsessing over plot, plot twists and spoilers vs any other aspect of movies. If people are obsessed with melodramatic happenings and not the beauty of prose, there are media literacy issues at play that go deeper than understanding a metaphor

Mike Johnson and Co. are likely giddy at the prospect of triggering the Rapture… WHICH IS NOT A LEGITIMATE READING OF SCRIPTURE AND IS JUST SPARKLING NIHILISM COATED IN ANTI-SEMITISM, WHY IN THE NAME OF DOLLY PARTON’S SAINTED WIG ARE WE LETTING THESE PEOPLE ANYWHERE NEAR THE LEVERS OF GOVERNMENT?!

If I post these now, maybe l remember to do a longer thread on disability and crafting next week 🪡🧵

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results. t.co/JXeTALBPds

First up, this week's post about queer joy at the bra store by @rebeccamott.fit. "The problem had never been my body or my queerness. The problem had always been that the support I needed had never been available to me." theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/queer-joy-...

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For our free post this month, we have @tinavasquez.bsky.social's on the ground report about the first 55+ LGBTQ cohousing community in the country and the unique hurdles LGBTQ elders suffer: theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/take-care-...

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

Happy Juneteenth! @freeblackgirl.bsky.social‬'s meditation on Ryan Coogler's Sinners and its devotion to Black intimacies is something you NEED to read today:

You can book a virtual bra fitting here! beacons.ai/rebeccamott We'll talk about past issues you've had, what your ideal bra would do, and any other issues or concerns you have. I'll then send you a list of 5-10 bras I think would be best for you, with specific size and fit recommendations.

Me and @zachrabiroff.com have discovered that a gay, disabled, pill-popping Yale Drama grad likely ghostwrote many of Stan Lee's most famous comics Marvel Comics and Disney don't want you to know about Ron Whyte New from @flaminghydra.com below "Face it tiger ... you just hit the jackpot!"

My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king

I told you guys

I had so much fun writing this piece and am so thankful to @theflytrapmedia.com for giving it life!!

Pollinator is such a chill ass job. I hope I’m a pollinator in my next life

Alsooo we loved @rebeccamott.fit's writing so much we made these stickers for #Pride: theflytrapmedia-shop.fourthwall.com/products/que...

Happy Flytrap Tuesday! Today we have a freelancer piece by @rebeccamott.fit on the queer joys of being a bra fitter in Atlanta. Get ready for some wholesome gay reading time: theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/queer-joy-...

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No kings except Kings (NBC, 2009)

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Cute how they keep inventing new names to help women not realise they’re autistic

aaaaah radiolab for kids/terrestrials just did an episode about these lil guys, like specifically graceland cemetery coyotes! radiolab.org/podcast/the-...

yesterday morning we heard our 7th yell "i did it!!! i've been trying to learn and i finally did it!" and my wife went to the living room and asked what he learned and he said "ARMPIT FARTS!" and farted his armpit at her

This moment when some dude whipped out a bagpipe and accompanied a "the people united will never be defeated" chant

A robin made a nest in one of my plant pots right outside my studio. The baby birds are hatching today.

HAPPY MOTHERFUCKIN' PRIDE! For our free post this month, we have @tinavasquez.bsky.social's on the ground report about North Carolina’s Village Hearth, the first LGBTQ cohousing community in the nation for people 55 and over. theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/take-care-...

And as I always harp on when this comes up— not just cervical cancer! HPV causes penile cancer, anal cancer, head and neck cancers. It is important for people of every gender to get the vaccine, and in the US you can get it up to age 45

Gotta love an 86-year-old woman with the heart of a poster

jonathan swift would like a word