Let's leave anything that no longer serves us in 2025 and ride into 2026 with less holding us back.

Challenge accepted.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Wholesome content alert!

Achievement unlocked: I have made sugar plums!

When I say that the thing that woke me up in a cold sweat after the election was the idea of RFK Jr as head of HHS, this is exactly why.

Nobody: Me: Secret Garden is a perfect musical

* blinks rapidly *

ICE is refusing to release a US citizen despite extensive documentation of her citizenship. Presented with her birth certificate, they called it a fake and transferred her from Maryland to Louisiana. www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

I do not want your AI slop I do not want it in my mop I do not want it in my house I do not want it in my mouse I do not like brain-rotting AI spam I do not want it, Sam Alt-man

O, horrible, O, horrible, most horrible!

He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.

My God. people.com/rob-reiner-w...

Sometimes if I don't make a vegan roast for Thanksgiving, I get sad that I didn't have a vegan roast. So, today, I'm making this one for the first time. It seems like perfect prep for temps to absolutely plummet tonight into tomorrow. www.theppk.com/2025/10/sund...

It's days like today that I'm glad I follow @ethankocak.com because I hadn't realized it, but I really did need a whole bundle of baby snakes in my feed today. Missing the days when one of my jobs was "hold baby snakes so they get used to being handled" when I worked at the museum.

What I'm wearing to the Bluesky Christmas party:

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Ummm. The Raleigh Convention Center was on fire tonight. Literally. www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...

I've got a break in the cooking and now I don't know what to do with myself. It's too early to make the last dish on my list. If I make it now, it won't be warm when folks arrive. I've got like an hour and a half to do random things and then it's back to cooking!

I did an epic amount of chopping today to make tomorrow's cooking easier. But I'm in my mid 40s so now everything hurts. Thanking PastMaya for buying this heating low back massage pillow. Clutch move.

In my last scholarship presentations of the day, the class was chatty pre-presentation & we were talking about Thanksgiving & so I polled them on if they were team Pumpkin Pie or team Sweet Potato pie. Shockingly, this class in NC was mostly team Pumpkin. Who has failed them? Team Sweet Potato 4EVA!

Real "A House with Good Bones" by @tkingfisher.com vibes on our Sunday walk. This wasn't even a third of the vultures on that part of the Riverwalk.

Annual pre-Thanksgiving post: If you are having vegetarians or vegans to your Thanksgiving celebration and have no idea where to start to make sure they can eat, hit me up. I have SO many fantastic, low difficulty, vegan/veggie friendly recipes I can point you to.

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

Pretty sure hundreds of people just here on Bluesky warned that the rush to mass-hire unvetted ICE agents was going to result in things like this. And if it means the police and ICE become enemies, that would be awesome.

It's food raiser time again! Follow Greg for more info, but in a nutshell it's an entirely volunteer effort to get food sent home over the winter break for kids on free & reduced lunch in Durham, NC. You can donate (do it!) and/or volunteer to help pack bags for the kids (join me!).

UNC-Chapel Hill's chancellor says the university will not sign on to a higher education compact from the Trump administration. www.wunc.org/education/20...

I feel more like this with every passing year. We need a party that is committed to preserving, protecting & improving life. We don’t need people intent on endlessly negotiating how much humanity we deserve or if we deserve any at all. We don’t need a society built around manufactured scarcity.

So, listen, call Schumer’s office no matter where you live, no matter if you’re registered to vote. Leave a voicemail that says if Senate Dems cave without an ACA premiums fix, you will never vote for or donate to another Senate Democrat as long as he is Leader

Literally every dem should be shouting from the rooftops that republicans are giving Americans two choices: die from starvation or from a lack of affordable healthcare.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I made my favorite Persian rice dish again today and it's just so so tasty and so much easier than I thought it would be. I wish I'd learned how simple it was sooner!

I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.

sorry but mamdani and cuomo should have worn blue and yellow hats, respectively

Most folks commenting on this are focusing on Thanksgiving travel. But I think if this happens it will also impact package delivery because a lot of that moves across the country by plane. So this is a one-two whammy for Thanksgiving & Christmas.

There's nothing "moderate" about surrendering in exchange for "strong assurances" from congressional Republicans. That's just stupid political malpractice. Republicans are losing this fight, and Dems should hold the line!

That's quite the gut punch. Teen Vogue has consistently been one of the savviest, most unapologetic source of political news out there. No. I'm not kidding. They came out swinging in 2016 and didn't look back.

their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts

This just in: it appears that much of the first chapters of the beloved speculative fiction novel “Do Not Create the Torment Nexus” is lifted verbatim from Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby.

This whole thread. “Oh no, someone might eat food!” Good. That’s good. “They might buy something they like.” Cool. “They might get a treat!” Also cool.

I am come with broom before to sweep the dust behind the door. If we shadows have offended Think but this and all is mended. That you have but sumber'd here While these visions did appear And this weak and idle theme No more yielding but a dream.

My grandfather who was a WWII vet had breast cancer. So did his younger brother. This is an insane policy decision based on bigotry and ignorance.

Random NC PSA: If your driver's license expires in the next few months & you checked a while back to see if you could renew online & you couldn't, it's worth checking again now. If you got a new picture for your Real ID since your last license renewal, they pass a rule allowing you to renew online.

Early voting sites close on Saturday, Nov. 1, at 3 pm! Not registered to vote? This is your final chance to take advantage of same-day registration (ONLY offered during Early Voting!). Find your county’s Early Voting locations at youcanvote.org/earlyvoting. #NCVotes

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

So the one unleashing criminals onto American streets is, in fact, ICE.

Breaking: North Carolina GOP legislature passes new gerrymandered congressional map giving Rs nearly 80% of seats in state where Trump got 51%. Specifically targets Black Democrat Don Davis. NC GOP stooping to new lows to undermine will of voters & appease Trump www.motherjones.com/politics/202...