In case it hasn’t already been obvious, the regime is redefining what a human person is. And they’re attempting to do it on a global scale.

This speech, y’all “Generative A.I., the thing that drives our whole economy right now, is a perfect metaphor for the abject failure of imagination on the part of the powerful.”

So, I’ve talked in church about “my friend the octopus” during my series on gratitude this month. After service yesterday, one of my members hands me a gift bag with “a little thrift store find.” It gets pride of place next to my labyrinth. ❤️

Hi, friends! Can you help me raise some funds for Lancaster Improv Players? Visit my ExtraGive page on Friday, 11/21, and then join us that night for LIP's improv Mini-Fest from 6pm-midnight (I'll be your host for the 7pm hour).

Breaking the algorithm for fun and ... profit? Nope, just fun.

Slipping dogs their meds in some peanut butter is pretty common, but it was just yesterday that I realized there is ABSOLUTELY NO RULE that says I couldn't also do that for myself. And now I'm furious at how much I've missed out on that opportunity.

Sunset starts on Puget Sound. This has been a lovely visit.

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Am trapped. Please send whiskey and Archie comics.

Panda Express: $8 for the Panda Bowl, $30 copay for the therapy.

The 1st UU Berks County contingency was out strong today. An estimated 4000 out on the streets. I saw no fascist counterprotesters, no Trump 2028 flags on oversized pickups trolling up and down the streets. There was a cacophony of solidarity car horns going by instead.

This is amazing! Props to both student papers at IU and Purdue.

Berks County/Reading shows up.

Block ALL the blocks!

We are all Portland Frog

Stand tall!

"He has the heart of a humanitarian." And he keeps it nailed under the floorboards of the Oval Office. Furthermore, the President remains unbothered by its hideous beating. He is NOT screaming out in madness. YOU'RE screaming out in madness.

I am Portland Frog!!

On a similar note, this thread:

Such a brave stance after what his friends Colbert and Kimmel have been through. 🙄 There is absolutely no virtue in centrism in this climate. The "both sides are bad" crowd are not free thinkers, they're intellectual and moral cowards. (1/2)

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This makes too much sense. I am Team Article!

FUCK ICE!

Leave the stupid hot take. Take the cannoli.

“Instead of the medical recommendation you were looking for, there is a man with one weird trick, whom doctors hate! (He is the health and human services secretary!)”

The Muzak in my therapist’s waiting room is playing a smooth jazz piano rendition of “Hi-Ho It’s Off to Work We Go,” and now you have to think about that all day, too.

Photo of the Three Stooges promoting the polio vaccine for kids in 1961. You know your country’s in trouble when Moe, Larry and Curly Joe understand more about public health than the Secretary of HHS.

My alter-ego is at it again.

James Dobson has died. To quote my dear departed Grandma when she heard Nixon had died: “Good.”

[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down

And at 2am, the muse lets me finish a beast of a chapter that's been kicking my ass for weeks.

"Swiftly transition from self-loathing to acceptance at the sight of its dead and unwatered fig plant. Twirl a little parasol and play hard-to-get with the boys at the race track. Rid itself of the feeling that this yoga retreat is a scam."

Applauding All the Best Things open.substack.com/pub/maryannm...

I finished up @chuckwendig.bsky.social 's STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS several weeks back. Had to sit and process for a while. The best horror mines its dread from the human stuff, and everything in the book about adult friendships hit me bone deep. 1/3

If you’d told me a decade ago that the NYT and WaPo would roll over for a Republican president going full fascist while the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal went on the attack — and that Bill Kristol was pressing the attack harder than Nancy Pelosi — well, I’d have had you committed.

Leo: Today you will find yourself lost in a dark, and mysterious forest filled with a great fog giving you an excellent excuse to not have to show up for work today and instead just sort of enjoy the ambience.

Burnout is clinically understood as a combo of 6 factors—work overload, lack of control, insufficient rewards, breakdown in community, absence of fairness, & value conflicts—and only a fraction of it is under your control. Burnout is a systemic problem, so be kind to yourself and hard on the system.

Jack Kirby's prescience working overtime.

Reports are coming in that Antifa are assaulting ICE officers by showing them pictures of fentanyl and referring to their tactical leggings as “mom jeans”

Anyone who thinks LA is full of socialists has never taken a meeting at a studio

ICE has only existed since 2003. A Bush-era creation, it is a militarized federal secret police that has been imbued with the Supreme Court with the unconstitutional power to ignore the fourth amendment. Abolishing it and salting the earth where it grew is the moderate stance.

One side is an unlawfully masked, unbadged secret police rounding and arresting law-abiding essential workers to prop up a fascist regime The other side is citizens resisting an unjust government, just as MLK taught us to do. I am 100% on the side of the American people against ICE. Who's with me?

This might be the absolute greatest reply we have ever received. Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙

Just a little visual inspiration as I round into the home stretch on TRAGODOI.

So damn proud of these kids for their courage. 💥 Hundreds of Milford, MA high schoolers walked out in protest today after ICE detained their classmate Marcelo Gomes Da Silva. Detained on his way to volleyball practice. Illegally. These students aren’t backing down—they’re rising up. #OnYourSide

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