as an older dem voter, i would like to say from the depths of my heart, young candidates, please BULLDOZE THESE ESTABLISHMENT DUSTY OLD MONOLITHS, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, JUST DO IT LEMME PUT ON A REFLECTIVE VEST AND STOP CROSS TRAFFIC FOR YOU

New from me: I wrote about how increasingly Israel's most important American allies are not Jews but evangelical Christians. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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As an editor, I bounce up and down in my chair when a writer delivers a killer opening line. Folks, I banged my head on the goddamn ceiling here.

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There's a lot of ladybug sex here. Also a lot about gardening and creating a wonderful space in a yard.

Seattle! STG emailed me back and said they've put their ad program with KOMO/Sinclair on hold. 1. You can still go to that show! Yay! 2. THIS FUCKING WORKS.

hello i wrote this essay about that time i had a terrifying amount of mulch delivered to my house.

just cancelled. walking away from all the things, taking my wallet with me.

hey, i wrote this thing about my garden for the how i learned project created by @blaiseallysen.bsky.social.

i have stuff to do today which is good coz my brain is like WTF IS EVEN HAPPENING IN AMERICA. it all seems REALLY REALLY STUPID RIGHT NOW. some days i kinda top out, you know?

would like to ms. attiah tell her tell her story on kimmel.

you don't have to go back to disney, who could have said NO, WE ARE NOT DOING THAT. you could just keep cancelling stuff (like target, amazon, wapo, nyt...) until it's clear that among other things, fascism is bad business.

first rejection for my book proposal came today: You have an interesting story to tell and there’s a lot to like about your approach...I didn’t come away fully convinced this was something I could represent successfully for you. NEXT.🫤

Look at this snoozy pupper. He's so content.

I know a lot is happening but I can't stop thinking about this fucking jacket. "Going to a Jewish thing, gonna wear the Jewish coat." Could someone write the 1600 word essay on this? Would read.

the internet is trying HARD to sell me weight loss drugs and i find this deeply annoying. i really *hate* the wellness industrial complex.

i recently watched a documentary about how the nazis systematically exterminated folks who didn't conform with their idea of physical and mental ability, who they decided would not be 'productive contributors' and this whole autism thing, i am just saying NAZIS ARE BAD WHEN DID WE FORGET?

weekly queries are out, it feels stupidly optimistic to pitch a book in this era, but hey, here we are, hoping for better times and that human stories matter.

I cancelled: Amazon Prime NYT WaPo Target Xfinity (not political, they just suck) Disney + affiliates I'm not quite at utilities and insurance only, but pretty damn close. Oh, I still have a Costco membership.

Step 1 was cancel your streaming services/park visits/cruises/etc. Step 2 is contact Sinclair advertisers.

what if the rapture happened but no one did the assignment so everyone's still here? it's just, like that one flight attendant who walked the aisle with a crying baby or the guy who helped with the flat tire that time, or some neighbor who gave all their cherries to the food bank, and that's it?

oh how i laughed.

Happy Rosh Hashanah y'all.

New Year's blessings, everyone. Let's Tikkun the fuck out of this Olam, shall we?

i, too, hate my enemies, but i'm not the head of a western nation. also, i'm tired of asking for follow up questions in search of specificity. who, exactly, are the enemies he refers to? why are we letting these statements slide? i always want them to name the fucking thing. make them name it.

i was in the hammock for a bit on this lovely september afternoon and i got ... stung by a bee? bitten by a spider? something took a chomp out of me and it hurts like hell. i'm not allergic, thank god, but OUCH.

intermittent reminder that i REALLY want to hear your story about that time you got canned. i'm on your side.

seattle pals, reddit has the goods on who is running ads on KOMO, our local sinclair affiliate. www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/co...

the disney reinstatement was not going to be enough, yo. where's the list of sinclair advertisers, please?

One very wealthy white man got his job back today (along with his 200 staff and production team) because of organizing, boycotts, and collective pushback. When will we see that same energy for the 320k+ Black women who were pushed out of the labor market?

who else is like WHAT ELSE CAN I CANCEL? i got rid of prime, don't shop target, what else what else?

This is M, the Aussie I'm walking because I can't find a damn job. On the plus side, walking dogs is great.

bsky tribe, i am here to remind you that jesus jones' banger, right here, right now, works great for rosh hashanah, you can absolutely sing LAZMAN HAZEH THERE IS NO OTHER PLACE I WANT BE LAZMAN HAZEH WATCHING THE WORLD WAKE UP FROM HISTORY. I MEAN. G'wan. Try it. Shanah tova, y'all. Turn it up.

I am loathe to give Disney Adults credit for anything, but I will because many of them went ahead and pressed unsubscribe when the going got tough. Can't say the same for Harry Potter Adults.

yeah, i have some follow up questions on this kimmel reinstatement, please. like, where's our apology? who is getting fired? and where's the statement on free speech and its bedrock neccessity as a value? i'll wait.

It is incredibly depressing how many Christians are so damn ignorant that the don't know that "Jews killed Jesus" isn't just a lie, it's a lie that's gotten millions of Jews killed. It is never, ever acceptable to say. Whatever you need to do to reconcile that within yourself is your problem.

lost count of the number of jobs i've applied for. in the meantime i have one tiny freelance gig and i'm walking dogs. it's a weird situation. many years in tech, very good at my work, and i'm walking dogs. fwiw, i like walking dogs, it's great.

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

my pal @andiamo.bsky.social turned me onto this some time back and it's a great way to look at the current moment -- and look back and where you've been. i've started this year, but looking back at last year was good too, full of generally good vibes after *many* years of personal struggles.

this is great and all but what action is this tied to? did they cancel their ABC/Disney/ESPN etc projects? i like a good petition as much as the next person who can type their name, but what's the action here?

ouch

katie wilson for mayor doorbeller on my porch yesterday and i was like SIGN ME UP FOR ALL THE THINGS, JUST GIVE ME THE CLIPBOARD, WHAT IS OUR MAYOR EVEN DOING? guy was a little overwhelmed but confessed he hoped the rest of his day would go so well, he was just getting started.

someone plz remix this with the aerosmith riff thank you

Reading this thing about how that one guy isn't a 'kapo' -- he's worse because he has priviledge and choice and he *chooses* to be the way he is.

“You can do it out of spite”

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

it is the weeked so i have gone for a long bike ride, seen a st. bernard in a pink rain coat, and bought a donut.

Wore this to the punk rock flea market today and got handed a FCK NZIS sticker and a NO AI button by gorgeous weirdos who thought I was cool. 😍