Birthday book for the “Deities on Earth” themed milestone year: I did NOT have “Akwaeke Emezi shortens Leviathan to Levi” on my gift book bingo card for this year, shame on me.

Mother’s Day breakfast on the deck, blessedly alone and quiet in the sun, with a new book: heaven. (@amalelmohtar.com is an always-read author for me, and absolutely supported that choice by adding footnotes to the preface for almost no other reason than to share a laugh with the reader)

My neighbors on the other side of the duplex just asked me if we got a new TV remote because something was interfering with their television, as if buttons were being pressed when they were not pressing any buttons.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but there is absolutely nothing stopping you from referring to the act of filling your birdfeeders as “recharging the cat TV”

Our father, who art a tantrum, Ares be thy name…

Its primary Election Day here in NC, did y’all vote early or plan to vote today? Anyone else watching @nidaallam.bsky.social with champagne ready to go??

For right-wingers who want to preserve any sort of public career in a post-Trump reality without being constantly haunted by their past disgrace, "Renee Good's murder is a bridge too far for me" is one of the easiest off-ramps in the world. I think we should take note of who declines to use it.

"Well, he's a dictator whose people don't actually want him in charge" is an interesting precedent for this guy to set

I found Luna starting off the new year right by being ✨extremely sneaky✨ and watching the bird feeder.

Ending 2025 on this short story collection by @notsosuper.pub that my dear book friend picked up for me earlier this year 💖

Oooh I’m a traveling cleric, tasked with collecting the stories of every place I visit and returning them to the archive at the abbey.

When I say this book is terrible, I mean it as a compliment and using the definition “inspiring terror, sinister.” Begging everyone to read it and get back to me.

I need the whole country to recognize that saying we are not in a constitutional crisis because Donald Trump has not openly defied a court order is like saying a man who throws things at you, threatens you, controls and belittles you, isn’t abusive because he hasn’t hit you. The “yet” is implied.

I used (maybe coined?) a phrase to describe a frustrating coworker that comes to mind when I read the news these days: incompetence feels like innovation to people who don’t understand the work.

Tbh you all should have gleened how this country feels about disabled people from the fact that anytime yall are nice to one of us it goes viral. Like that’s extra ordinary behavior.

fantasizing about a world where an opposition congress responds to trump’s attempts to usurp legislative power by defunding the entire white house staff

100% and I need everyone to understand right now that there is only one solution: people need to start getting their asses kicked in public again

Some of y’all just saw Wicked for the first time and didn’t pick up that Glinda is not the hero because doing nothing never saves you

I cannot emphasize enough how we are in an era where everyone is to be treated like disabled people have always been treated.

Watching the ableds realize they are afraid of treatment the disabled have known as reality and tried to warn them about is WILD.

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A three-judge panel for the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote that the "defendants do not cite any authority in support of their administrative stay request or identify any harm related to a specific funding action or actions that they will face without their requested administrative stay."

Today, Tituba is often portrayed as the sole non-white individual embroiled in the Salem witch trials. However, several other enslaved women and men were unfortunately drawn into the conflict as the panic wore on. Check out our blog to learn about two such individuals, Candy and Mary Black.

This quote from "Raybearer" by Jordan Ifueko hits pretty hard these days - "Monsters were nothing. The true terrors were people like me—the ones who saw suffering, who heard the screams of a hundred generations echoing for miles around them—and still did nothing." #BookSky 🩵📚

The country is a dumpster fire but I’m starting my #BlackAuthors for #BlackHistoryMonth reading so there’s that I guess.

Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

Your job is not to change yourself or become invisible in your otherness. Your job is create a bubble of safety around yourself that grows and stabilizes until it can merge with other bubbles. Your sphere of influence is small, but you can influence the fuck out of it.

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

American two-party politics in the last 20 years makes a lot more sense if you have the context of understanding emotional abusers and enablers and not a lot of sense without that.

It's like firing over 100 FAA employees, firing the head of the TSA has consequences. It's like "deregulation" and dismantling our government is directly causing the deaths of Americans. He is killing Americans: millions of us will die as a direct result of the chaos he is creating.

Republicans: fuck the climate accords and lets drill in all our wilderness and also landfills over recycling plus dirty energy production is cool. Also republicans: if you take mifepristone and then pee it’s poisoning the groundwater. #TheMathAintMathing

Conservatives in 2014 under Obama: PRESIDENTIAL POWER IS LIMITED, YOU CAN'T DO THAT Conservatives in 2025 under Trump: ACTUALLY YES, THE PRESIDENT CAN REWRITE THE CONSTITUTION

Thoroughly deceased. 💀

Swiped from IG because it’s a whole moment.

It should prob be remembered that “birthright citizenship” was the product of the abolitionist mvt, which understood that no person of color would be safe from deportation or bondage if their citizenship could be questioned or taken away

imagine being such a fucking dumbass that your apologists could straight faced claim you just don’t know how to wave properly and that’s why it looked like a nazi salute and everyone just nods like wouldn’t that embarrass anyone with a single molecule of self awareness?

Nobody writes internal monologue and vaguely threatening clocks like @pdjeliclark.bsky.social and you can’t change my mind. #DeadCatTailAssassins #AreJustTheTailsDead

Going forward, many people are going to tell you that you are required to respect them or listen to them or agree with them or be nice to them because some politician or intellectual or billionaire said so, and I am here to preemptively remind you that you are still free to tell them to fuck off. 😘

Implicit in a lot of anti-vaccination and anti-public health narratives like those of RFK Jr is a deep disgust/fear of disability; but also an unspoken hope that unchecked disease will "cull" the population of "weaker/less fit" people. I really just can't see past a lot of that.

Serious question: what amount of the book is the line between “read” and “DNF”? Like would you stop at 90% and count that you’d read the book or is it DNF until you’ve read every word?

Queer culture is having a cache of special stickers that you occasionally find and pass a few onto a dear friend who puts them in their own cache of special stickers and no I will not elaborate

From @imanibarbarin.bsky.social: “If you think disability is some sort of moral test, you’re doing the work of ableism for everybody else - for the system itself.”

😔😔

So I follow @xiranjayzhao.bsky.social because my teen loves them and I want to keep up with the news but somehow missed the new book dropping on XMAS EVE like that’s enough time to buy and wrap it basically pray for me

one of the things we are going to regret most about the last decade is not making cryptocurrency flat illegal. i think you should think hard about what it means to have much of the president's inner circle heavily invested in an asset class which depends on the collapse of the American economy.

Again, not #Caturday, but 'tis the season, so... #EmiBoz

TIL that in 1843 the artist George Catlin accompanied 14 Báxoje (Iowa) on a tour of Britain, and they were so horrified by the poverty they saw everywhere that when some clerics asked to talk to them about sending missionairies among the Báxoje their leader Neumonya really let them have it.