I am not particularly pro-military but I do know that the reason why the military “went woke” is because diversity makes organizations stronger, not weaker

At the risk of sounding flippant about Current Times (which I assure you I do not “lol”) I’m here to say! After a long day doing your little best to stem the rising tide if fascism, what better to try & soothe your soul to regroup tomorrow than a lovely book that believes in the best of us.

Today in the garden.

bring me more eric adams jokes! MORE! PETER SHAMSHIRI WHERE ARE YOU

This article from ASAN's Executive Director Colin Killick talks about how policies and misinformation from the Trump administration hurt and ignore autistic people. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

“We’re cracking open a couple of Cold Wars with the boys.” - @aneelin.bsky.social

Sometimes I'm afraid to reread my older published writing, but you know what? This holds the fuck up. Happy Bisexuality Day from me in 2017. www.autostraddle.com/young-adult-...

Breaking news out of East Central Illinois

If you get offered a job you’re not sure about accepting, and you have some time to think it over, take a day (or half a day, whatever you have) to imagine you’ve accepted it, and then take a day to imagine you haven’t accepted it, and see which feels better.

love boarding in zone 6 for a flight, wriggling my leprous face tentacles and frightening the children and elderly with my sublime horrible poverty. “no carry-on for me! my master beelzebub shall provision me!!” i wail at the fainting ladies

If you are a member of the Orr class and you do not have a current and accurate passport I cannot recommend strongly enough that you look into how to get a same-day passport appointment as soon as possible the door may be closing very soon, and we can’t know if or when it will reopen

I’m a healthcare worker, and I support this message.

"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?" Unashamed to say this made me cry.

I’m in that era of child-parent relationship where *I’m* the one to most reliably say, “Okay, take a deep breath,” and I won’t deny that I’m mad with the power.

Just checking my itinerary for tomorrow.

this is your annual reminder to please take off your hetero-imitative frogskin and dance to a lesbian/gay spirit

When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.

Chicago forever

if you're not nominating your contributors for the @genrepunkmag.bsky.social awards, wyd?

I really, REALLY wish people would internalize the absolute stranglehold voter suppression and gerrymandering have over many red states with high BIPOC populations (who reliably vote blue) before consistently writing off these entire states and saying shit like “they deserved it”.

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

Please god learn the difference between "This isn't good" and "This isn't for me, or something I enjoy"

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

I think if Britain colonised your country of origin you should get free BBC iplayer.

it's that time of the year again except this year I'm looking for couples' costumes that fit the bill!

In We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, Samatha Irby talks about standing upright and eating handfuls of shredded cheese, and the fact of maybe having to give that up if she moves in with her partner, and for me that would definitely be watching the same Trixie & Katya clip compendiums over and over.

Well, at least James Dobson died today

editor: you get those photos of the scarecrow and tin man? photographer: sure did, boss, real fuckin' psychosexual, just like you asked

Let’s keep encouraging Gavin Newsom to go after the republicans. Maybe it’ll give the homeless a reprieve from his attention.

I have a lot of people in my life who I love, but right this second the person I’d go to war for is the man who jogs down my street every evening, like clockwork, shouting, “Woo!!!” and “You got this!”

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

Got prescribed a course of beta blockers for a physical health issue and now I feel like those kids who find out they have ADHD by doing Adderall recreationally in college. Only difference: I already knew I had anxiety and its incidental treatment has made me *less* efficient.

"Don't be your child's first bully" is pretty good advice.

If you regularly read the news and try to discuss it with another person you will sound more insane than a raving street preacher. Waving a big REPENT sign mumbling something about the bureau of labor statistics

This is the greatest single piece of pop star merch I have ever seen shop.demilovato.com/products/get...

Louis Tomlinson, invasive fans, and how we can let a song be a song again. newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/the-...

I’ve had three separate service providers visit my house in the past two days and yet again I have had the opportunity to see it through their eyes and, yes, it is a Very Gay Home 🥰🌈

no, I said I wanted a tradewife. like a union electrician

One way to understand your own condition is to write something and spend a long time revising it. In revising you teach yourself. You find your own information buried in your body. It is still alive until you are not. —Fanny Howe, RIP

gently: it's fine if you don't love explicit sex scenes in fiction but it would be cool if you could talk about it without sounding indistinguishable from moms for liberty

If you’re the kind of person who easily forgets what you’ve accomplished, you need a practice for reminding yourself. Count the years, the finished projects, the progress, the praise, count it all up and use it as evidence against the ever present criticism in your head that you’re not doing enough.

Literally the only problem with dating your writing partner and creative collaborator of nine years is that you lose Professional Reference privileges.

a point I make over and over re: climate change is that there’s no point at which it’s time to throw up your hands and give up, because each tenth of a degree you can prevent is worth it 2C is better than 2.1C is better than 2.2C and so on and so forth

Corned beef and cabbage 👎🏻

the thing that kills me about “people in red states deserve to suffer” is we live in a red country under that definition and none of these people think that they themselves deserve suffering just because they live here

started our "squares" with a lawnmowing piece, & now we're ending with another! today from Timothy C Goodwin: "You mow over a snake just like your father did back when you were very young sitting at the picnic table holding his beer and being USELESS..." https://www.havehashad.com/0bacg

Needed this reminder today.

BREAKING: A Jackson County judge ruled that Missouri's abortion restrictions cannot be enforced under Amendment 3. Planned Parenthood said its Kansas City clinic will resume services on Monday. (@missouriindependent.com) https://loom.ly/GgqrjQs

I don't want to say I am able to "handle" the ongoing deluge of bad things, but I have had a lot of trauma therapy, and let me tell you, shoving your finger in a wound and just digging around in there to remind yourself the wound exists doesn't really help anybody most of the time.

I literally do not care if straight bars are doing Jell-O shots and doing Pride gimmicks today, I cannot imagine being annoyed by the fact that Chadley is fine with the homosexuals and needs to signal it to Harrison and Kelsey H. enjoy your Jell-O shots, you beautiful, drunk allies