Every time I hear someone say organic is a scam...has the USDA devalued the label and do some states rip farmers off for certification? Absolutely. But organic farms aren't exposing anyone, let alone children, to literal poison on a regular basis.

Made pumpkin pecan mesquite bread. Hell yeah. @billhookunion.beanyear.com

Sneaked a peek at my ex's insta last night just for funsies and he MOVED which means if I visit New York again I can hang out in my favorite old neighborhood and not worry about seeing him!!! I CAN TAKE MY HUSBAND TO FEI LONG!!!

Business is booming in the Guys Who Make Dumb Shit industry

Being a child is thinking Roger Rabbit is fun cartoons/a little nightmare fuel. Being a teen is thinking it's all dirty sex jokes. Being an adult is knowing it's all these things but also an allegory for redlining in minority neighborhoods.

From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte

bring back the f that is an s

Job 3:14 God chuckled. "Oh, you mean the Chaos Emeralds?"

No longer having to say "this isn't who we are" is proving to be a huge time saver

For groundbreaking synthetic music pioneer Wendy Carlos' birthday, enjoy her in her home studio with cats and friends

Today while I was power washing the plastic crates we harvest crops into I thought about microplastics.

These assholes are trashing the extremely real concepts of food as medicine and psychedelic therapy.

Multiple outlets up here have reported that, instead of a few hundred actual refugees from Syria, Somalia, etc., Maine will only be receiving 50 white Afrikaners next year. We are not pleased. The affectionate term "new Mainers" will not apply.

A shame it's being tested like this, but a forceful reminder that restoring nature, preserving clean, thriving ecosystems is also ensuring we have something to fall back on during tough times: grist.org/indigenous/t...

I'm sure my position isn't popular, but I do think we're going to have to get to a point where we discuss how this kind of fragility was *fostered by* the development-globalization-industrial complex. "Development" is a form of imperialism that really took off after WW2. That's a long time...

Very cool to have this whole fucky insurance bullshit going down at the age of 40, when I need to actually start getting all my bits monitored regularly to make sure they do not betray me. Will my husband's job offer a better insurance option that also allows me to keep my doctor? Who knows!

I heard the signature-seeking tables of transphobes funded by out of state TPUSA creeps persist after the election up here and I look forward to fighting some

You could've fooled me

Anna Bullying Italy, Reggio Emilia, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1769-1944

Cops also claim to be acutely overdosing on fentanyl they may or may not have brushed up against so

they’re going to make the entire 2026 midterms about trans kids in bathrooms and they are going to get absolutely dunked to hell protect trans kids: it’s the right thing to do and you’re going to win

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

The Beast That Walks

Well well well. Looks like someone finally ran out of orphan hearts

It's annoying when people fixate on the 2026 Maine Senate race and tomorrow's NYC mayoral election. Except for me, a Mainer who spent ten years in New York. I can do that.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

HEADS UP: The Criterion Channel currently has a second stream running with 24 hours of Godzilla films!

In addition to the fact that Cuomo is a creep, he devised a system to keep Republicans in control of the NYS legislature for years. He constantly fucked over New York City as governor, even though we are 45% of the state’s population, because he was so preoccupied with upstate conservatives.

What's so impressive about a diamond except the mining

Made kind of a southwestern cottage pie with anchos and roasted Anaheims because I made toooooo much mashed potato the other day. Later this week I will make stuffed shells with "pierogi" filling. Spare a thought for my ailing executive function on that one.

when you do a story like thia abt china, ppl say, thats TERRIBLE, workers should be treated better, but when i told ppl that i never had to pee at work when i was a cook working in avg 104 degree kitchens, ppl would say yeah well, thats part of the job, drink mor water

Meditating this morning, as I learn weaving on a small loom, on what it is about the slow, laborious, and expensive qualities of many crafts people embrace that feels anti-capitalist and human at its core. Weaving a scarf for a friend, maybe not on its own revolutionary, but also, not NOT, either.

Can't wait to watch a horror movie on my favorite free streaming platform, the main page of Wikipedia!!! The full 94 minute original Nosferatu is on up right now. Last halloween it had Night of the Living Dead!

Oh just fyi, tonight marks the *start* of spooky season, which runs until at least Twelfth Night.

period appropriate like it has a little trash can?

This is why I lived there for a decade. I figured I could travel the world, or live in NYC.

Don't forget to listen to this Halloween classic today

I wouldn't say I ENJOY political survey polls but I sure like calling out mischaracterizations and half truths and giving them pointers on which things their candidate should lean into, even if he's not my guy. Fair is fair!

I warned Indigenous people last year about this: "AI" slop is destroying Indigenous knowledge transmission over the Internet because people won't know what's reliable info, our distinct cultures being further sloppified, this slop is regurgitated as "fact", kinda like OG anthropology / archaeology

What, to you, is the difference between mutual aid and unpaid labor? How about food sovereignty and subsistence farming?

Don't get too excited, Maine's troll of a former governor "moved to Florida" yet keeps popping up every electoral cycle

I'm probably getting annoying to my friends because any time someone complains about ICE I point out that there is something they can do. They can volunteer with a community watch group and help protect their neighbors. If you're a white person and a citizen it's a pretty easy way to fight fascism.

Back in the 90s everyone in the house shared one telephone that was attached to the wall. You could rent VHS tapes from a shop and if you didn't return them in time the worms would get you. You could smoke in restaurants and if you didn't smoke the worms would get you.

Instead of directing states to issue partial SNAP payments to cover the gap, the feds told them to shut the system off. Starting Nov. 1, SNAP EBT cards won’t reload and after Oct. 31, any unused benefits will be frozen. Please make sure those who rely on them know.

Steak Nuggets, Divorce, Steak Nuggets

a lot of ppl worried about geoengineering, but the fact of the matter is we've been geoengineering the atmosphere with fossil fuels for decades, and I'm pretty sure that turned out fine, noting that I haven't checked yet

If you can make it to Rush Hospital in Aurora, IL, an ICE patroller got pulled out of her car, assaulted and pepper sprayed by agents. She's in the hospital and nobody except ICE is allowed to see her. There's a call to assemble and demand ICE leave the hospital, and let her husband in to see her.

if you turn away every time you feel discomfort, your world will contract and contract and contract until you are incapable of connecting to others or imagining other ways of existing in the world

Iowa and Ireland have more in common than the letter I, now

If you have the means to donate to a food pantry, please give cash. Food pantries often have existing partnerships that help every dollar go farther - let them help you make the biggest possible impact. As for the fact that there are a QUARTER MILLION people going hungry in the middle of IOWA....