What was your childhood emotional support book that you read over and over again? Mine: Island of the Blue Dolphins. I can’t tell you how many times I SOBBED through parts of that book.

I am so mad that the answer to X hurts is often NOT skipping a workout—and that doing a workout sometimes fixes the problem. BIG MAD.

✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻 Remember this lesson, kittens.

My son is autistic, largely nonverbal. He reads a lot, is smitten with all things Lego. He excels in school. He finds his ways to communicate. There’s nothing wrong with autism. The rhetoric drives me mad. It’s on us to make the world easier for neurodiverse folks, not to push them to conform.

"I've long given up on the necessity of clocks - the rising light, deepening shadows & shapeshifting phases of the moon all serve well enough for my purposes now." ~Kambriel 🍂 Presenting WITCH'S WILLOW, my newest piece published in The Cottage Witch @enchantedlivingmag.bsky.social! #Mabon #Witchsky

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Well, HELLO pretty thing in my inbox. #NoContextForYou

It’s Monday. Again. Somehow.

We are bringing this back to boost those books and creators in the margins! Calling all BIPOC and Latine writers! Queer writers! www.frightgirlsummer.com Get in touch if interested! @sonorataylor.bsky.social and I are working on adding to the website.

Sinclair, by the way, has a handy contact form on their website if you want to talk to them directly: sbgi.net/contact-us/

You can also write the Nexstar/Sinclair affiliate directly, and/or the companies themselves if you want extra credit. Many have contact forms/info on their pages. Here's a script that should work either for an individual channel, or the company generally:

Once you know what your local Nexstar or Sinclair channel is, watch until you hit an ad break. Jot down who is advertising. Then contact the companies that are advertising, tell them you're boycotting, and feel free to use the attached script, and make changes if you like (in the alt text as well).

Been talking to people quite a bit about how it's easy to understand "cancel Disney+!" but harder to understand the initial and bigger problem is with Nexstar and Sinclair, so lemme make it easier. Find your local Nexstar channel Find your local Sinclair channel

I’m not sure it’s fix me, but screaming like Eponine might help?

Thread!!!

The hardest poem to write has to be a rhyming poem for a small child. I cannot tell you how many drafts I went through.

Big heart and even bigger laughs. Critics are raving about One Big Happy Family!  See it in theaters October 3. Support indie film and lock in your tickets early: onebighhappyfamilymovie.com #OneBigHappyFamily #OneBigHappyFamilyMovie #AMC #AMCTheatres #MovieTok #FilmTok #Family #Comedy #momcom

I am utterly obsessed with this small hippo. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMRSB1XE/

These jabronis are like a Twilight Zone punchline come to life. (Derogatory)

novavax news! for americans

Trying to pick a horror movie to watch today. Y'all liked longlegs, right? I immediately rejected TAROT based on the premise. I don't want to spend the entire movie yelling at it.

Restless, so naturally contemplating hair changes. Nicole Kidman a la Jilly Owens? Maybe. It would involve getting bangs again. But.

Fall has slipped in, at least temporarily. **clutches coffee**

I need a deep tissue massage and pastries, and for Pedro Pascal to bring me flowers. **taps foot**

NEW: Hours before a new entry ban is supposed to go into effect, the federal government officially acknowledges for the first time that the restrictions do NOT apply to people who currently have H-1B visas. Link: www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

Oh no there are Halloween themed careBears. I want them.

Everything is messed up and enraging, but I am making SOUP.

Strange brew coffee and a bit of quiet.

You all want to see the terrible comics we bought at the con today? I sent my hubby over to buy some comics to read, and he said ‘what would you like,’ and I said, get weird comics! So he got these! I cannot WAIT to read them! Tell me you aren’t jealous!

Hey! If you’re on the east coast, you’re already at the bar. If you’re on the west coast, you’re on your way to the bar. If you’re not drinking, good on you, but now’s the time I ask for money because Citizens United turbofucked our country’s political campaigns and I gotta do it.

This is GHOULISH and reprehensible. Good grief.

I am feeling hella cranky tonight, and I’m not sure there’s a specific reason beyond the everything. **starts to build a blanket fort**

Current or former! Had one cig? Congrats, you’re a former smoker!

Occasionally, I wonder if I might not be better off fucking off into the woods and selling foot photos on the internet.

The ACIP vote was tied 6-6 for requiring everyone to get a prescription for the COVID19 vaccine. The chair broke the tie by voting NO. Prescriptions will NOT be required.

It’s easy to lose sight of the good folks are doing, amid the chaos. I know that there are things I don’t post about. I know that it can all feel gutting and overwhelming, because assholes. But so many good folks are putting in the work. It just doesn’t make it into a post. Remember that.

Psssst, did you miss the cover? I am obsessed.

This.

Someone is definitely *trying* me, and I definitely have had enough coffee to remove my earrings. **cracks knuckles** let's go.

Whenever I share photos with friends, I am dragging them joy and letting them in. Small snapshots in the moment. Always an invitation, an open door. “Here, I thought of you.”

Look up.

Today I’m putting on my sparkliest eyeshadow. If you are an eyeshadow person, I suggest you do the same.

Reposting with Alt Text because this is important and everyond should have access.

The Oversight Committee is launching an investigation into ABC, Sinclair, and the FCC. We will not be intimidated and we will defend the First Amendment.

CAT BREAK

Oh god, why. Her journalistic standards are nonexistent. Gross. Gross. Gross.

*extreme 90s voice* You've got mail!

CALI!!!