Norman Rockwell was an anti-racist, as you can see from this 1962 celebrity questionnaire in Esquire.

Folks, a famous author isn't ever going to contact you out of the blue to offer you literary services. It's always a scam. Also, speaking as an at least semifamous author, you wouldn't want any services we did offer, we're just barely handling our own shit, much less anyone else's.

Rumble is hanging out with hug cat

British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo #ShareGoodNewsToo

Having had to help children through sexual assaults as teenagers, biggest concern they always had was the social aspect of communities ostracizing & attacking & ad-hominem-persecuting them. Largely because small towns sucked, & "boys will be boys" mentality is still RIFE for bougie white teen boys.

Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men

The downside of this afternoon is that my stupid body is failing and despite sitting most of the time it was at a heightened activity level internally and now I’m absolutely destroyed and having to lie down. Too tired to even watch skating, but not quite enough to sleep. #NEISVoid

Got to meet @kristenarnett.bsky.social this afternoon at an event I helped organize at the Pride Center. I hadn’t read her books before but it was interesting to hear her talk & she was lovely to talk to. She also talked me into signing up for @authorsabb.bsky.social lol.

KEVIIIIN!!! Ahhhh I’m so happy for him!! And what a reaction, as expected!! Wish Jason could have ended on the podium, but not terribly surprised at this result honestly. #GPFigure

I enjoy a good Bolero program, and Kevin really just decided to Own That! Very intense and dramatic! Love it! 😍 #GPFigure

Jason doing beautiful as usual, just a few little issues. And maaaybe a podium spot? #GPFIgure

My attempts to watch Skate America tonight when I have time for once have been so cursed. #GPFigure Ted is struggling to fill the delay, poor man.

Well missed most of women’s SP to technical difficulties. Trying again with men. Starting off with a surprising number of costumes made to look bloody. >_> #GPFigure

Ughhhhh whyyyy is there always technical issues with my favs when I try to actually watch them?? #GPFigure

Alright, let’s go Skate America Women SP! And apparently what it’s giving me is a return of Starr Andrews which is such an exciting thing!! #GPFigure

we are around $8K CAd in the red. help us catch up! bit.ly/eSimsRUs #ConnectingGaza

Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.

You were incredible, Alice Wong, and it was a blessing to have collaborated with you on projects, to have read your words and to have heard your voice, as full of life and passion and joy and rage as it was. You made a difference—so much of a difference. Rest always in peace, and always in power.

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#tdih 1969 2nd anti-war Moratorium with 500,000+ in D.C. & demonstrations throughout U.S. & world. Marchers carried signs with names of dead U.S. soldiers & of destroyed Vietnamese towns. Among marchers were Vietnam War veterans. See lessons & more 📷 ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/se...

Seeing Hadestown for the first time tonight with a friend. Halfway through and I’m pretty hooked. I figured I would be with my Greek mythology fixation but the extra layers of jazz age and industrialization and poverty and shit just. Yea. Worth seeing for sure!

Either the light pollution is too bad where u am, or the Northern lights haven’t made it down to Florida yet tonight. With my luck they won’t show up here until like 1am or something.

I have one cat who knows what “get down!” Means and will flinch away and hop down when I snap it at him. I have another (asshole) cat who definitely also knows what it means but instead chooses to hunker down & try to make himself harder to move off of the surface he’s not supposed to be on!

*sigh* Due to some shenanigans with pet fees from my old apt being charged in error & overdrawing my acct $300, I’m in the hole & the turtle’s lamp burned out & I need a new 1 asap, which is another $100. Any help is appreciated. Venmo: venmo.com/u/TheBookewy... PayPal: www.paypal.me/LiaWolff05

Quick photo before I get back to work to remind you all to find love and joy in your life, most especially in these times. It is necessary for survival and is an act of resistance anyone can take. #JoyPosting

LGBTQReads Bookish Holiday Drive The holidays are right around the corner, and we here in the LGBTQReads community know things are particularly tight this season. And so, if you're struggling to afford gifts for a loved one who happens to be a queer lit fan, or you yourself just need a moment of…

I take it all back!!! UTF-8 was a mistake! A miiiiiistaaaaaake!!!!!

Castle Rock v. Gonzales is, no joke, my Roman Empire. Once you learn the full details of this horrific case, you will never again be able to see policing as a force for safety or justice. It will permanently alter your understanding of state violence, gender, and race in this country.

Reminder that not all copaganda is about positive depictions of cops. Shows and movies that depict the courts as fundamentally good or fair, that show defense attorneys as liars or manipulators, that show bad actors being punished by a self correcting righteous system...they're copaganda too.

Was listening to the latest bonus ep of @ifbookspod.bsky.social while driving home about anti-Mamdani media, & apparently I’m real mad about it cause it raised my heart rate quite a lot over normal driving lol. Have to take a break for my own health damn. Dunno how Mike & Peter wade thru this shit

The zine libraries unconference wiki has been updated with a statement from the organizers about someone who attended the event in order to spy on and record it without permission. www.zinelibraries.info/wiki/zluc2025/ This infiltrator is driving an effort to get a zine librarian fired. 📚

I’m tired of being fucking poor while working a middle class job. I busted my ass to get educated very well so I could be comfortable for life. And it was all a fucking lie. I have never once in my adult life lived comfortably not relying on friends and family to cover the lean bits.

Having big feelings about being poor and barely scraping by tonight. I’m tired of scraping by on the kindness of strangers. Buying the condo was supposed to help, but now my overall house bills are higher & I don’t know what to do. Meanwhile everything gets astronomically more expensive every month

My baby Binghe just underwent a protracted coughing hacking fit very similar to Yuan’s but even more drawn out. I really cannot afford to have another cat with asthma. Especially since I’m already treating environmental for Yuan. Why must my babies always be the ones with the worst health??

*sigh* Due to some shenanigans with pet fees from my old apt being charged in error & overdrawing my acct $300, I’m in the hole & the turtle’s lamp burned out & I need a new 1 asap, which is another $100. Any help is appreciated. Venmo: venmo.com/u/TheBookewy... PayPal: www.paypal.me/LiaWolff05

I can’t believe the Shib Sibs are competing again!! I’m so happy for them! And what a gorgeous gala skate!! #GPFigure

Dang, Lukas Britsgi’s gala skate was on FIRE!! #GPFigure!

I feel like more people should skate to Kpop, even just during galas.

Apparently today is the 31st anniversary of the first internet radio broadcast. The pace of technology really is terrifying sometimes. Amazing though.

The world is bleak right now, but there is still a lot of love in it. You just have to look, it might be right in front of you. Find it and hold onto it, it’ll get you through the bad days. 💚🥰 #Cats #CatFamily

Anyway. I hope you’re all voting today. I voted on Friday since I knew I wouldn’t have the opportunity today. All that was on our ballot this year was returning our local utilities to local control from state control. Which is big for us locally. Maybe you have something locally life changing too

I dunno why wanting kids to have food is so controversial and radical. "Kids should eat" isn't a wild outlandish wish. Sigh

One of my special interests is Ancient Egypt, particularly the New Kingdom. Today is the 103rd anniversary of the discovery of probably THE most famous tomb of Egyptian Royalty (maybe second most famous, hard to decide if Giza’s Great Pyramid is more famous). King Tutankhamun.

Fascism really is here at the Federal level. You are living through that if you are in the U.S. It's really actually happening. Figure out how to band with others to help make it through.

Out on patrol. ICE very active on the far North Side including Edgewater and Lincoln Square. Multiple abductions. Vulnerable folks should get off the street if they can. Street vendors should be bought out, landscapers warned. If you’re in Chicago and you’re not ICE watch trained, pls get trained.

Invisible Histories are coming to my town this month! I’m super sad I’m gonna miss it, but if you’re free and in town you should check them out! Sign up for their newsletter to get more info! #archives #FLHistory #QueerHistory

Andrew Cuomo has PERSONAL WEALTH IN THE MILLIONS. Zohran Mamdani is NOT personally a millionaire. Hope this helps.

Ahhhh Mone did so good!! I wanted Isabeau to win gold, but honestly I’m not even mad and I like Mone too. And so happy for her SB!! #GPFigure

Gutmann’s shark fin arm placement on her middle two spins was such a delightful little detail in a really interesting skate. #GPFigure

@amisamileandme.bsky.social I have just learned that YOUR MOON LOOKS DIFFERENT THAN IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE, and logically this should not surprise me so much, but my brain has been forcibly rewired and I cannot get over it.