If you had to take care of humans, it was better to take care of small soft ones who were nice to you and thought you were great because you kept preventing them from being murdered.

This thread is glorious

If you rebooted RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK today with the same temporal margins, it’d be set in the 1980s. Neo-Nazi punks would have their faces melted by the opening of a forbidden arcade cabinet at the KB Toys at your local mall. Indiana Jones would wear a Hawaiian shirt and Chuck Taylor sneakers.

Autumn Leaf 2 Watercolour, approximately 75 × 127 mm. A fiery bit of visual comfort now that winter is abruptly come.

If every library had one copy of any of my books, I'd be so financially successful. Request my books at your local library today!! I'm serious! Read my books for free at your library.

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Smithsonian Folklife just released an oral history interviewing guide for people who want to interview family members, neighbours, and friends about the history, culture, and tradition they bear. Here's hoping this sort of conversation finds its way around your Thanksgiving table. #folklore

Caring reminder: update your emergency contact information. Make sure friends and/or family know who to contact should something go wrong. I know this can be hard for those estranged from bio family. Try to put contingencies in place. Print out numbers, carry in your wallet. Please.

At 10 over 75? Non-zero chance his 'trial' is a note read aloud next to a burn pit. You know the joke that in some extreme circumstances you 'stop being biology and start being physics'? There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history. It is not a good place to be.

hey guys i made a seasonal meme

Not saying I would be caught by sirensong but I would definitely crash my ship straight into a rock if I heard this

Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation laist.com/news/arts-an...

Trans folks: you are whole and holy and wholesome and worthy and valid and valuable, as much as any other human being, and more magical than most. Your job tonight is to take care of yourselves and each other and find reasons and ways to keep on living.

A relentless desire to keep dreaming

I am unsurprised that @buzzgrambo.bsky.social is a Navy veteran. Annoying the shit out of people is a long standing enlisted Navy tradition and we get real good at it. Fair winds, Chief, and I hope you manage to get a nap in.

I think a lot about how much society pressures us to forgive people who don't think they actually need forgiveness

Folks who have been in my classes or rituals on any subject, I am working on getting better at teaching and presenting, would you be up for giving me some feedback on what worked and what didn't? The feedback form is here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Wholesome

Today is the midpoint of Scarleteen’s $40,000 fund drive to cover the health care costs of the staff and volunteers providing advice, tips, and tools for young people worldwide. 128 people have donated over $8,000 to support our work. Join them today! www.classy.org/campaign/scarl...

authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now

Woke up this morning to a very industrious spider outside the window with raindrops captured in her web. It feels like a beautiful reminder from @alchemy_of_the_sole, it's nice to know you are busy out there somewhere.

In memory of Alice Wong, the 10 Principles of Disability Justice. May she rest in power sinsinvalid.org/10-principle...

It feels appropriate that Lindsay and Alice joined the Ancestors in close proximity. Thank you for showing me that it could be beautiful too. May their memories be a blessing

OK- here we go. Sorry for the delay, I was not prepared for the exertion required in the thrill-a-minute adventure that is… CACAO FERMENTATION. Yes, this will actually take 5 days. After that two days of drying. I’m not making this up. Nothing happens. Really. You’ll see. Anyway, off we go!

There are still a few tickets left at the early bird rate, after 11/19 it goes up. We would love to see you there

Nerd appreciation moment. Markus Klek is reenacting prehistoric mountaineering by following the footsteps of the Ötze the Iceman. palaeotechnik.eu/de/oetzitour I have learned so much about history from re-enactment, this is really exciting

A thing I said in my message to Peters that I often repeat: I'm holding any cave of his against the entire Michigan senate delegation, so don't think that retiring means this would be consequence free

One theme that’s starting to come up in mainstream Dem talking points is how multiple systems are irreparably broken and we have to stop focusing on temporary or stopgap solutions and actually rebuild from scratch, and this fills me with hope.

Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets. no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

Find people who adore your special interest info- sharing

Do I need to do the thread here about the Vikings and people with disabilities? Do I need to tell the tale of Ivar the Boneless? Or the seer in the ship burial at Oseberg? Is that what needs to happen?

Republicans running anti-trans hatefests lost and Zohran Mamdani is a hugely vocal supporter of trans and other LGBTQ rights. That is MASSIVELY important to look at and run on. Roll around in all this & soak it in. This is the good shit, & it should be celebrated. And then it should be Built on.

I've been in ritual since last week for a beloved friend. Lindsay, it has been an honor, privilege, and joy to be your friend. From now to forever. You have helped me to dream of an even more magical, artful life. May her memory be a blessing for evermore. www.wrightfamily.com/obituary/lin...

Here is what is coming up for November 2025. Links to tickets are available at: www.HGWyndell.com/links

I think the worst thing white feminists are OBSESSED with is with in current feminism is “reviving second wave feminism”. LITERALLY WHY?! There are thousands of feminist writers who deserve reappraisals but it always the same three stale done to death radfems. At least do first wave or something!

GdT also wrote this:

We're there now. Republicans are killing SNAP. The Democratic Party should be out in every community GIVING PEOPLE FOOD.

We must absolutely destroy the idea embedded within US ethos that only those who work deserve to have their needs met and an overall comfortable existence. (An idea that is only superficially and contingently believed due to the large number of people who work for horribly low wages)

“Authoritarians always target art first. They do so, because art and history are enemies of the myths a regime needs to survive." From my new TIME piece on Donald Trump’s campaign to defund the arts and rewrite our history. The stakes could not be higher.

My heart has been full and heavy the last while. Grief is loud and it feels like I ran into a tree, as the poem says. It also feels like my sight is adjusting to the dark, and I think I might actually be able to find it beautiful.

Bringing this here, because I keep seeing this happening around me xtramagazine.com/love-sex/why...

"If you can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel, make some light where you are. Bring some kindness, some care, or some protection to the people around you." organizingmythoughts.org/we-have-to-m...

This thread is really useful for folks looking to present at conventions and events. Frequently, I do multiple events when I travel so that I can actually afford to do things. Read the contracts they give you thoroughly. Make sure you know what the expectations are.

This January one of my dear friends and fellow practitioners and I will be hosting an in-person gathering for building spiritual practice. Gather, Glean, & Grow: Vanic Wisdom for Meaningful Connections Tickets are available here: runewalker.com/gather-glean... #InclusiveHeathenry #WitchSky #Vanir

A net loss

A key to the Bastille fortress/prison

I love teaching creative writing in Maryland because every three or four years I have a student who swears that once they met… something (someone?)… living in the woods, and they usually asked them if they wanted to make a trade, a bargain if you will

If you or someone you know is affected by the government shutdown and needs assistance with getting food, medicine or other essentials, here's a resource. Just put in your zip code and you will get a list of nearby food pantries and orgs that can help. Please share widely! 🥰 findhelp.org