For my newsletter, I wrote about how I was affected by the No Kings protest in my town. (I am no longer thinking about fleeing the country) www.burnsnotice.com/no-kings-cha...

"everyone is mad at me and that's good" is one of the most poisonous inventions of the social media era

Hey all, hate to do this again but I lost my luggage in travel and had to buy a bunch of necessities while I'm away from home. I'm hopeful I will get my things back but I am in desperate need of covering what I spent on my cc and not overdrafting on bills. $300 would keep me from further debt 🧵

When is the point of no return for extending ACA tax credits? They expire 12/31, so that’s a drop dead date. Open enrollment starts November 1. If they’re not extended by then, enrollees may start dropping out. Even if open enrollment is extended, people could be hard to reach.

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Good to get official confirmation — basically everything happening in Chicago right now is being coordinated by Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol Chief who started doing indiscriminate raids even before Biden left office, because he knew he could get away with it.

I wrote a piece about underglaze ^^ I’m testing the bisque painted + twice fired bisque this week Imho crisp lines would need a 2nd bisque firing to avoid dragging while dipping in glaze, the only application technique that wouldn’t drag pigment is spraying. www.kness.fr/en/underglaz...

My column this week. Alabama’s first school dedicated to LGBTQ+ students was a success. Last week, it got a renewal after dropping language related to LGBTQ+ youth. And it’s a sad marker of the ongoing degeneration of our political class into bigotry and grievance.

“Spanish has become a sanctioned indicator of potential criminality in the United States of America. The language of Miguel de Cervantes and Andrés Cantor, the world’s fourth most spoken tongue, has been deemed the sound of bad hombres,” Carlos Lozada writes.

And if you think digital art is bad, don't get me started on print! Even when you work using the correct color profiles, color calibrate your screen, provide printers with pantone or other color samples, etc they will still never print exactly as intended. Let go and be free.

Believe it or not, I have colleagues who think teaching a class about Sport is not “academically meaningful” when stories like this pop up just about every day. There are not enough hours in a 5 credit college course to even scratch the surface of the issues inherent in sporting culture.

Seriously, if the art is strong, some color variation simply doesn't matter that much. The average person will never notice anyway and only you the artist know it didn't match exactly what you intended.

Oh they’re really protecting the pedophiles this is bad

Mike Johnson praised Trump for posting a video of himself dumping poop on "No Kings" rallies, and claimed protesters were trying to "incite violence"

“All my friends murdered and raped, sometimes they hung out at my house. Get over yourself.”

I call it “joyful rigor” when I explain this effort to my students. I don’t believe in or rather, I’m not a “suffering poet.” I’m a writer who enjoys writing. The work works on me and I’m grateful for the opportunity to delve into the process at my own pace and to be changed by it.

Don’t think there’s a better distillation of MAGA than being this upset that your daughter and her husband are the focus of their wedding and not you

Schools in South Carolina recently sent home unvaccinated kids, to stem a growing measles outbreak. Turns out 5 of them were infected and, if they'd been at school, could've unwittingly infected their classmates for days. That kind of precaution is now illegal in Idaho.

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See y'all in 30 minutes for some chatting, and then we're gonna see about making an airship in Dungeon Alchemist. Why? Wrong question. One does not need a reason to need an airship. I have spoken.

Shubh Deepavali! Wishing everyone a very happy Diwali. Across our city, families are lighting diyas and celebrating the triumph of light over darkness and hope over despair. New York shines brighter tonight because of the people who bring their light and traditions home.

Building momentum for a general strike is very hard because everyone thinks they're The One who'll feel the backlash, rather than realizing that the more people involved, the less backlash there can even be. And naysayers sneering "you 1st" fundamentally miss that it's gotta be a bunch of us at once

You fool. Of course the president isn't literally a king who shits on us from an airplane. It's a metaphor meant to show that he can do whatever he wants and he doesn't care what happens to us as a result

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on making public transit accessible: "I think the way that you move around the city, it influences the way in which you see the city. Too often if you're riding around only in a car with tinted windows, the only New Yorker you might see is a reflection of yourself."

We were honored to have Miss Major as a featured guest and speaker at last year’s Gender Liberation March. As always, she reminded us that our survival is sacred and it is our duty to act and fight for the liberation of all people. Rest in Power & Peace Miss Major 🏳️‍⚧️

Like, not everyone will come out that first time, but a Lot will. And then you do another one. You get people used to the idea of being loud and visible (already happening), and then to being peacefully disruptive. You'd give them a permission and buy-in structure. If the organizers are serious.

And what point is that, Speaker? That he wants to shit on Americans?

All of this stuff makes more sense I think if you realize that we have a bunch of losers who are slowly talking themselves into believing in the theology/ideology of slavery www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...

Large parts of the internet stopped working earlier; not great! @lhn.bsky.social explains what happened and why it wasn't exactly a fluke:

Happy Diwali to all those celebrating in NY-14 and beyond! We wish you a Diwali full of joy and peace - may the festival of lights illuminate your life with happiness and prosperity. 🪔

On textual activism, and how we can use it to change our political reality. What possibilities open for us when we start interpreting text differently than we always have? On expanding the toolkit of approaches and how it expands our ideas about what's possible:

Bump. More TTRPG goodies from me soon. Working on a 3d printable Fear Tracker for #Daggerheart 🤘

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is everywhere. But it didn't start that way. There was a time when the mayoral front-runner was polling at 1%, tied literally with "Someone Else." Now he has an 80,000-strong army of volunteers, a killer social strategy, and the internet on his side. The Big Interview:

Prolific streamer Emiru has urged fellow creators to "seriously consider not attending" future TwitchCon events after she was publicly assaulted. https://bit.ly/471asQL

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Oh, one of the three websites where we put the entire internet is down? Maybe we shouldn’t have done that.

What a surreal read. These old guys say they have a "moral obligation" to get back to making money off the booty shorts restaurant. Well put on the shorts then fellas. Nobody wants to work anymore

There were a lot of very sincere signs this weekend about having no king but Jesus, so I’m not sure this is the gotcha he thinks it is.

If you head to our Recalls List and select "Death" as the Hazard in the search filter you will very quickly become aware that there are worse things than jelly donuts: www.cpsc.gov/Recalls

Take it from us -- an organization that closely studies all the horrific ways people can die from common household items -- have the jelly donut.

Elaborating b/c there's a lot of misunderstanding on this. Insurrection Act does nothing except you can then use soldiers as cops. They can enforce laws, but they're the same old laws. It doesn't suspend the Constitution. No martial law, no closing courts, no removing state officials, none of that.

Everyone on prednisone should be told that they may experience serious mental health side effects, which can include mania and psychosis. It's hard to navigate if your doctor doesn't warn you.

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Live, Laugh, Love Weapons Over Freeway

Hey everybody look at this disgusting piece of trash human who wants disabled people to completely exit society and doesn’t understand how community care works. “Don’t expect the world to take care of you” is a depraved way to exist in society.

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Big Ten - the 5-2 of conferences.

Happy Asexual Awareness Week to all my fellow Aces! May you always feel loved, know that you matter and you're not broken! Happy celebrations, friends!