My toddler's idea of fun is looking through the chicken catalogue and telling me his grandmother is adding Cream Legbars to her flock.

Would you like to see a big fella eat his lunch?

Strongly encourage right-wingers to commit dumb crimes like this in extremely hostile jurisdictions and film themselves doing so

In "introvert doing her best to make human connections in her neighborhood" news, two acquaintances waved me down so we could exchange a few words on our walk to daycare today! So that's nice!

Get yer pots www.roseschmits.com

I loved the last summer Olympics, had a blast watching, but I am not feeling the delight and anticipation within me for this winter Olympics :( hopefully some obscure ice sports will get me more inspired. Also ice skating.

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days: saintheron.com

There have two digital accessibility near-misses at my job recently and they both happened because of AI and I want to bite anyone who suggests relying on AI for something this important.

My dad is visiting my uncle and apparently they watched The Lobster, because now I've gotten two separate texts from them wanting to discuss The Lobster.

The ICE surge in Minnesota has meant dogs losing homes. If you can foster Murphy, get in touch at the email listed.

Ate a fancy tasting menu for our anniversary, and the best part is they had to change up the dessert because they ran out of ingredients, so I got to spend the rest of the night making Mr S crack up by whisper-yelling "WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE STRAWBERRIES, CHEF!"

Little old ladies with walkers going down to the Home Depot to protest because you shall welcome the stranger and also fuck ICE.

We’re obsessed with this Tylosaurus from the Saint-Vrain Zoological Park, South of Paris, that opened in the mid-1970s and closed in 1999. The site has remained in an abandoned state, and it seems that this and various other prehistoric statues are still there!

Okay I get word meanings change over time but the sheer density here is excellent. Also til there's a flower called London pride!

A small but deeply meaningful local project - digitising issues of 90s Scottish trans magazine The Tartan Skirt so all of us can access them. It's a really modest fundraising target with a significant outcome, please share or contribute if you can!

I've read three fiction books so far this year and I'm pretty happy, 2025 was not a good year for fiction for me. Plus they were all excellent. The books:

Good morning all! My shop update is live! Visit www.eclecticclay.com to take home some eels - anxious or joyful - or be the first to own a Gummy Werm Dessert Garden!

Five classes I took in undergrad: -From Existentialism to Cyberpunk - The Historical Imagination - Ecology of Coral Reefs - Metaphysics - Bioinformatics

#dollsky The Black Doll Symposium is back on March 13 & 14! It's virtual and completely free, all you have to do is register and they'll send you a zoom link. blackdollsymposium.eventbrite.com

I have a phone back but in the five days I was phone-less I read two books and knew true peace, became a better person, etc.

I love my husband. His family is also very kind to me and help a lot with my son. But also we have breakfast with them almost every weekend and if there's a special event at their house (birthday, etc.) my husband is like "whelp we still gotta get breakfast, I guess we're going two days in a row!" 😭

Spent the day making some hats. Used an Addi knitting machine. Finished 4 red and 2 blue. Need to add some details tomorrow. I’ll be handing them out at a protest Saturday.

Have social anxiety and hate being on the phone? 5 Calls lets you look up your reps, click on the issues, provides contact AND a script that you can just read if you don't know exactly how to frame what you want to say. Feel too stilted for you? You can still read the script and reword. 5calls.org

My new phone isn't getting here until tomorrow this is serious I just saw someone in the mom group that's charging $50 for a "Galentine's Mom Social" and I can't text my neighborhood friend about it so I will probably die

BREAKING: The Senate just blocked a bill that would have renewed ICE's budget without real, enforceable changes. This is a direct result of hundreds of thousands of people across the nation demanding that our Senators vote no.

The idea that success belongs to the toughest people with the fiercest attitude is the same nonsense that animates Hegseth’s DoD. Success belongs to the people who have the best sandwich-distribution system.

Belatedly catching up on Pluribus. Would a giant hivemind made up of every human currently living truly have nothing new to read? I think they'd have a lot to read. Manuscripts lost in museum archives? Books of print in the 1930s? How much stuff do we think has not been read by a living human.

Generative AI has really revealed to me how much of my thinking is process-driven? I need to get my hands dirty on a little piece of the puzzle to have ideas for the bigger piece of the puzzle. Doing a dumb little piece of code by hand is how I figure out how to improve the bigger structure.

I did not get a foldable phone this time around (toddler, expensive), but those little gimmicky dorks are the only thing in modern tech that make me happy every time I see them, so I will look forward to getting one for my next phone in 3-5 years time.

Asshole behavior: constantly hitting "Also send to # channel" on slack when you're arguing with someone on the thread and the other person is not hitting "Also send to # channel" ...But also kind of funny. When I agree with your argument.

Dream blunt rotation #dollsky

okay I'm actually really struggling to pick a phone. Android people: what phone do you have and do you like it.

I need to get a new phone and was daydreaming about getting a Mudita Kompakt until I remembered that I do unfortunately need apps to live my life.

Mermaid/human archaeologist Archaeologist: "by plundering from this shipwreck you are breaking several laws, this is technically a graveyard, also more importantly, you are fucking with my research."

My dad was active on various menswear forums in the 2000s. When I was a teen we met up with a complete stranger (to us) for dinner in Sicily and my dad was like "he's just [name]. From the forum." Weirdest experience of my life but recently I've been itching to ask if he knows the menswear guy.

Check out this gorgeous quilt top hanging in Lakes Makerie (Mpls fabric store)

It's our once-a-year-it-gets-cold-enough fire Husband made us turn down the thermostat so we'd really deserve it though.

a lot of good people fall for these types of accounts. Report/block/mute & help save our collective Boomer aunts from getting scammed.

The rest of the world should absolutely boycott the World Cup and boycott the Olympics. At minimum.

It's cold, people are hungry, and the federal government has tried attacking SNAP benefits as part of their occupation of MN. Food banks are incredibly efficient in getting food to those in need. Direct donations are the best way to support, so here's that link again: www.2harvest.org

How can you help Minnesotans right now? Call your goddamn Dem Senator and tell them you will never vote for them again if they do not shut the government down over this. If you have a republican, call them and call them fucking cowards.

My toddler has the most rational fears (he talks about monsters, but usually in a playful "spooky" way) and I'm not sure how to respond ... I don't want to lie & say that cars can't crash into you or that our pipes could never burst! So instead I talk about low likelihoods and safety plans?

Okay luckily that car hyper fixation I had for a week that ended when I got my period was temporary... But I am still subscribed to weirdcar Bluesky and tbh cute cars improve my feed.

My poor toddler is always worried the pipes will burst (Daniel Tiger episode) and now he's hearing the adults around him talk about winter storms and pipes bursting...

Across frameworks devised from vintage potholder looms, Pam Connolly weaves tender snapshots of her family. www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/01/pam-...

if you don’t think you can campaign on abolishing this agency and prosecuting the people involved - if you don’t think you’re able to make that case using this video and other like it - get the fuck out of politics

Drawing on Thursday, so make sure you share and like by tomorrow!!

Toddler: how do you become a doctor? Mr Sparrow: you know how you go to school now? Toddler: yes Mr S: okay just keep doing that for 30 years and maybe you'll be a doctor. Someone is ready to wrap up fellowship 💀