"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?" "I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands." After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?" "This, too, is magic."

Woke up with weird bruising on my ankle on Saturday morning, consensus between my boss and I is that my posterior tib tendon ruptured. Which SOUNDS LIKE the kind of thing you would remember doing. Except I don’t.

If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before) Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...

Truly amazing

This crew of comrades offer some of the best training and they are generously offering another on Monday. It is a virtual session and they have asked this to be shared in particular with MN folks if you want to join. Open to others too.

if you don’t live in minneapolis and you’re just watching from afar you need to get familiar with ring theory and stop venting your anger at us, it’s inappropriate and not helpful to have people who do not live here replying to us with negative emotions. stop putting that on us

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

Hey wanna see a cursed sentence? Seriously. You’ll feel parts of you die as you read it.

Napped too close to the sun today, currently lying in the bed I made. Awake.

The Venn diagram of "The declining birthrate is a problem" and "I'm opposed to any social spending to fix it" is pretty much one circle. This is also true of the anti-abortion crowd and social spending.

I highly, highly recommend Gravity for more queer hockey yearning.

Hey all it's your local Hyperfixation Aunt here to help you resurface from Heated Rivalry so you don't get the bends. 1) keep enjoying what you enjoy for as long as it brings you joy! Don't feel like you have to stop just because other people are moving on.

lmao god i hate these fuckin guys so much i hate them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! as baby boy hudson williams said, "fuck ai fuck it dead"

Read what you want, darlings, but it's odd when books that happen to feature sex are treated as radioactive and those about murder are treated as general interest.

This piece is so good! Recommended reading for folks who are jumping into NHL hockey because of Heated Rivalry

Spoils from tonight’s book swap:

I'm as angry about the murder of Renee Nicole Good as the next left-wing emigrant, and we should by all means shout her name. But really, respect the initiative of the AAPF and don't let this instance of extrajudicial execution eclipse the broader phenomenon of police violence against Black women…

Hey chaplain/therapist/lscw/etc friends! I have a two part question. 1) does anyone know of mental health trauma support already being organized by mutual aid/community orgs? 2) would anyone qualified to provide psych first aid/trauma support like to join me in some organizational work?

Just reading up on testicular anatomy and the mechanics of ejaculation, as you do.

The Good Place

I can't stop thinking about this. Specifically, that soldiers try to get sex toys shipped to Bahrain. Which leads to one of two conclusions. No sex shop thought the letter was newsworthy before. Or the DoD decided to make it an issue for the first time with this unhinged letter

Get their ass, Emma. www.wmagazine.com/culture/emma...

I don't mean to get earnest on main but I've watched so many shot for shot breakdowns of this show and a very simple reason in addition to everything Tal laid out is the show took the source material seriously. And so much stuff that takes romance and puts it on screen doesn't

Congress has not formally declared war since 1942, 83 years ago. Look at all the war the US has done in the past 83 years. Very obviously, it long long ago stopped requiring congressional approval for war according to its own constitution.

Me, looking directly at 2026.

[Tegan and Sara voice] 🎶Everything is awful!🎶

Literally had my 15yo crying at the dinner table while doing her social studies homework for this very reason a couple months ago

Hi! Are you doomscrolling? Do you have something fun planned today? Naps and trips to Costco count! If your job does not involve being on social media, I recommend logging off and doing something else. Lots of options, including reading a book, going to a museum and watching the gay hockey show. 🏒

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

matthew did a thread on why, when you call your representatives & senators, you can make life easier for yourself your message does NOT have to be elaborate or detailed or polished

You should leave Substack in 2026, because they platform fascists regularly, but even before that I am *begging* you to stop referring to your writing as "my Substack" because why give them that agency. It's your writing, your posts, your words, on their platform.

Rather than being mad about the US men’s national hockey team roster, I do recommend just paying attention to the actually good American hockey team at the Olympics, the women’s team.

I... Fear this does not bode well

may your New Year bring you health, prosperity, good fortune, and gays

trans people just want to be able to live their lives and cis people are like "due to this we need to do mandatory genital inspections to children playing sports". im sorry but the problem is cis people

The best part about being 45 is you can simulate a hangover just by staying up too late and forgetting to drink water, no alcohol required!

Last year on NYE I made a Lego cat. This year I made a Mojo Jojo.

audiobooks are great and count as reading!! if you don't like visual books or have a schedule that makes them difficult, read an audiobook!

Libraries have SO much more than books these days. And you’re already paying for it with your taxes! Go use it!

She does not lie. You may end up doing more reading than you ever thought possible and mainlining audiobooks like there’s no tomorrow.

I want to print YOU DON'T GET GOOD AT A THING BY NOT DOING IT onto little cards and just hand them out in conversation sometimes

HOLY MOLY. Like a damn cartoon.

It's literally 12,000mg of acetaminophen and a shot. You could overdose 3x and still have some left over. It's liver failure in a bottle!

“many angry posts should have been naps or little packets of crackers” is deep wisdom and you don’t need to reproduce to embrace it!

Finally wrote the damn case study to qualify for my specialist board exam and qualified. Exam in February. Also got a tattoo.