If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before) Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...

If I was gonna give my Nobel peace prize to that fucker I would first smear it with every gross substance I could find and asking if anyone had access to flesh-eating bacteria or MRSA is how I’d get kicked off the neighborhood group chat.

Today’s pen is a simple Shaeffer that I’ve had for maybe 20 years without using. The ink I chose during a recent jetpens extended browse is Diamine’s Monaco Red. The clear plastic body has a little cracking and feels flimsy — it was a cheap pen — but fine for casual desk use.

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Startled the dog with how loudly I guffawed.

There’s one spot left in a collage workshop I’m doing Saturday in Everett, WA. Today I’m preparing little care packages for the attendees and I’m making an extra one in case the spot fills. It will be unlike any other collage workshop you’ve taken, in a good way. Probably.

Your day could also be improved by learning the story of Jim the Orange.

Hey, your day could use a moment to take note of these excellent sheep.

jfc so much fuckery from the terrorist goon squad

Yeah, airlines are still going to compromise service and quality even if passenger weight loss trends are saving them money.

I would also add "limit time on social media and invest time and resources into offline activities like exercise and hobbies you can safely make mistakes learning"

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

I don't like to recommend a lot of Minnesotanisms to the greater world, but this one they have figured out

Pinned this feed with a quickness!

Last night I realized that our entire household, including the cat and the dog, is comprised of middle-aged beings with the associated body aches and supportive joint protocols and I guess it’s cool that we’re all going through it together.

These words from Lisa Bonchek Adams live on my studio wall for a reason. The most important word here is "persevere." “Find a bit of beauty in the world today. Share it. If you can’t find it, create it. Some days this may be hard to do. Persevere.”

For ease of navigation and sharing, I have turned my little list into a website: standwithminnesota.org

Today’s pen is a Parker Vector rollerball in the stained glass pattern. I purchased it in 1993 or 1994 from a university bookstore and it was my pen for recopying the messy versions of engineering homework into something the prof could read.

hi community, i am fundraising for 5 Latino restaurant workers & their families in South Minneapolis who need financial help to be able to stay home from work. this is an effort being coordinated with several community members i trust. Venmo: @allisonannecollage Please write "MPLS" in memo

I love how clear & straightforward & enthusiastic this is, & hope anyone who’s felt daunted by the process or prospect of a process takes a look!

Made an assortment of collaged artist trading cards that I get to send out this week. One of my goals of 2026 is to document and organize the collection of ATCs I have received over the last 5 years from collage artists around the world, but first, gotta send more out to swap.

After a couple of days of flushing old blue ink out of this pen, it has fresh black ink and writes beautifully.

Supplies handed off to Wednesday’s driver and we’re up to $3084 on the GoFundMe. We’re also shipping free whistles and helping make/promote wishlists for organizers in Minneapolis. Message me on signal for more info on any of this: emidly.08

Simultaneously a circus and a surveillance state.

Wait, so was relaxing food production regulations related to meat part of ending the war on protein? The meat lobby has been busy.

Went to sleep last night thinking about the dude who got confrontational with a member of the safety team at yesterday's protest because he didn't like us being reminded to keep the crosswalks clear.

Protested in town with my neighbors instead of in Seattle because I think it’s important for people in our little town to see us lining main street and hear the almost nonstop honking in support.

I made challah yesterday just so I could make this and it was completely totally worth it 5 stars no notes.

Instead of somewhere around 60 browser tabs across multiple windows and 3 profiles, including tabs I've had open for over a year, I created new bookmark folders then finally, FINALLY, closed all but 12. I also ate all of the Mr's Christmas M&Ms. For support.

I have no idea what the dog scrapped off the kitchen floor but every time he exhales he farts a tiny fart like he’s breathing out of both ends.

Would.

Gonna need a whole disguise just to go to the damn grocery store.

Almost forgot about living in DC as an intern with the EPA (doing my very best not to make bad decisions with the hard-partying Capitol Hill interns). Also, I should have changed majors then — USGS was really my jam. Here’s where to generate yours: tenpages.github.io/us-level/us....

I have a big ask to make of a Seattle arts group to help make a Collage-O-Rama thing a reality but first, coffee.

fix your goddamn hearts

Bedtime reading selection: Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung. Audiobook selection for cooking and working in the studio: An Academic Affair by Jodi McAlister.

To break my recently acquired habit of doing puzzles on my phone before bed, I made a reading list in Libby of all the Literary Swag Book Club reads with Kindle versions so I can return to reading in bed instead.

i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

If you can’t stop refreshing the timeline, at least hop on over to this feed as a kindness to yourself.

70+ free printable "How to Report ICE" zines with info on the SALUTE protocol and local hotline numbers for all over the country! Including some in Spanish! There is an info sheet on how to fold and cut the zines and a form to request a zine for your area. drive.google.com/drive/folder...

It's a lot right now so here are some constructive things you can do: Save timestamped posts with facts (see @chrisgeidner.bsky.social) Donate to MN support groups www.ilcm.org Donate to @runforsomething.net Call your reps. Call volume matters. AND THEN GET OFF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR THE DAY

Actually now that I'm once again obsessed with the books I want to read, please reply to this post and tell me some piece of media or art you are super excited to engage with in 2026!

i think american life would improve significantly and quickly if society was more encouraging of people to have Hobbies. the most perfect and serene state of mind that exists is when one is Doing one's Little Things

This morning I pulled out all of the snazzy pens I've collected over the years but don't write with because they are out of ink and I was able to get refills for every single one except the Sanford Redington the Mr bought me when we were dating in the mid-1990s.

I want to start a podcast to jump on the pivot to video but the video is just a cat sleeping or grass swaying in the breeze or goose butts in the air while their heads are underwater munching on plants and instead of a normal podcast it’s just my friends and I exchanging unhinged voice texts.

Well, it has become even more fucking stupid.

Napping Buckaroo photo as a mood boost for the feed.

Napping Buckaroo photo as a mood boost for the feed.

Max encourages you to stretch.

Sharing another recent sunset pic for anyone in search of something to lower their blood pressure this morning