This has been on my mind all evening. The Senate vote does not end the shutdown, but it DOES force the House into session to do THEIR vote... which means that waiting reps can be seated, which means that needed vote is seated.

I've been saying this since the mayoral primaries but I dearly need Lander to do One Specific Thing.

Dragging* Ash to Chess with me and can’t wait for the rapid-fire moments of recognition as they hear songs I sing constantly around the apartment in their natural habitat. *they are delighted to go with me

I find myself breaking out into the Herbert Hoover song from Annie a lot lately. No reason, I’m sure.

On the one hand, I’m upset I’m about to miss one of my oldest friend’s wedding because of political BS. On the OTHER hand, the person getting married is my One Republican Friend*, so it kinda serves him right. *He’s like a brother, he did an aliyah at my Bat Mitzvah, we’re baffled, too.

It's really cool that some of the original sit-inners were present for the unveiling of this memorial. www.oklahoman.com/picture-gall...

This isn't the point at ALL of this, but this is the first time I've realized VA has both a Prince and a King William county. Why. Why did we do that one, guys. (But great work voting, VA!)

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

What Mike said. I used to work for Feeding America. Another bonus to donating money is they can buy things they can’t have donated, like milk.

🕯️Manifesting 🕯️

Re-reading the Protector of the Small quartet because it’s the kind of comfort read I need right now and there are so many moments that have made me tear up in a way they never would have before, or moments that hit with more force because of what they are.

Come work with me!

 We've opened the search for a full time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Game Arts at Pratt Institute. 

A good match would be an artist, game developer, or educator with an active creative practice in indie games, game studies and theory, playful coding, or art games.

”My grade was evil like Gossip Girl, yours was evil like Glee. The stuff that was wrong with yours could better be passed off as quirky but it was still evil, but I’m amazed nobody died in mine.” Ash, ROASTING our high school experiences.

But I don’t WANT my area of study from my history degree to be relevant. It is in fact the last thing I want! (I focused on how geopolitics led to the development of nuclear weapons, the evolution of the nuclear taboo, and the cultural memory of the Manhattan Project and the Atomic Age.)

There is no whiplash like going from more than a week in the middle of nowhere western NY to NYC.

Reminds me of this classic from a few years back:

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

I need the clip of the Blue Jays player taking an Ohtani pitch right to the wrist and spinning with the hit like a cartoon character oh my GOD.

My dad just moved back to the VERY small town he’s from. We went to the next (still small) town over for lunch. To put the smallness of this town/community into perspective: Of the six people in the restaurant, four greeted him by name and I think I was related to two of them.

why does it smell like liquid latex in the terrifyingly large buc-ee’s parking lot

Gavv is a beautiful tv series

Tabletop is about power fantasies which is why tonight we foisted enough gold on a burnt out grad student that she could get a better apartment and maybe have the mental space to write for herself again. No one look at me, @runesael.bsky.social that was SO LOUD.

I STILL have the phone number memorized for a landline that hasn’t been in use for almost two decades.

I’m so glad to see this because I had to go to the other site whenever I wanted to watch it which is… not infrequent.

this baseball game is up to HOW many innings???

… my dad got his vasectomy done by a urologist named Richard Chopp. This. This would happen to my dad.

I just found a D20 Modern character sheet from a high school campaign and what a mess of a system, I feel disoriented just looking at it.

My perfect angel baby cat hopped onto the bed, put her paws on me, and PUKED ON MY LEG. I love her so much. This is a new low for her and she’s perfect.

... what do you MEAN a location of the bbq place we used to drive almost an hour to back when we lived in Texas opened up FIVE MINUTES FROM MY CHILDHOOD HOME.

5) Jewish day schools that inexplicably only go from K-8th grade. (Great theater programs.)

How to: 🔘 Understand reports on trans youth health care 🔘 Report on EOs targeting trans Americans 🔘 Report on polls about trans issues From TON and @transjournalists.org, here’s a free collection of resources for all journalists. 🧪 www.theopennotebook.com/resources-fo...

My aunt just insulted my media literacy and told me I was falling for propaganda because I texted her "Hey, checking in, it's never a good thing to be in one of this admin's targeted places." (Portland.) That's all my text said, and apparently that's enough for her to get to insult me. Fun!

So you want to support living marginalized banned authors but your local banned books week displays and events are full of famous dead people? Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help! A thread!

Do you want a real and tangible way to help folks with legal aid needs here in RVA? Do you want to get a bunch of games while you do it? These folks have put together a massive bundle of games, money goes to Central VA Legal Aid Society & the Legal Aid Justice Center.

Targeted acts of violence against Jews cannot be excused with a “they’re a Zionist/go to a Zionist synagogue/were at a Zionist event/spoke to a Zionist once,” ESPECIALLY because gentiles *do not understand* what Zionism means *to diaspora Jews*, even those who do not agree with or espouse Zionism.

I am so sorry to hear the news. Jane Goodall has passed away, October 1, 2025. She just spoke in Taipei in June: "Young people are the future...we've been stealing their future for a very long time..So we've got to spend time with them and help them understand [that there] is a way forward."

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Government shutdowns make people INCREDIBLY vulnerable. It means workers going without pay and vital services being suspended. And with this admin, it will likely be used as an excuse for more layoffs. Please look out for and help those most directly affected by this shutdown.

Trans healthcare is not at stake in the government shutdown fight. Don't let Trump and the GOP fool you.

PinkNews is a clickbait mess and if you’re going to share sensationalizing, fearmongering stuff that mainly cites a Reddit post you probably… should not. It is ALWAYS a good time to loudly, politically, support trans people. You can do that without the fearmongering clickbait.

If you're a high school teacher (or librarian!) in the continental US and you want a copy of FOR THE REST OF US, a YA holiday anthology edited by @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com, email me through my website (Katherine Locke Books dot com)! I have ~12 copies that I'd love to get into classrooms.

This is a really great read on how we've tipped from being open about experience writing fanfic (good! fanfic is great and gets unfairly stigmatized!) to a flood of books that are just fantic/someone else's IP with the serial numbers filed off.

I'm being so real right now, learn how to engage in media as art and not a reflection of your own real life morals. consume things that make you uncomfortable and understand why it makes you uncomfortable. Don't just base yours and others morals standings on the media you consume.

and really, I do not believe that everyone needs to "get weirder now," or that everyone needs to "make more nsfw," etc. what I do believe, however, is that everyone should look to those already making that work and sit in dialogue with them. support their work, substantiate their humanity.

thirty thousand poundssssss OF BANANAAAAS (Or generally folk rock, with intermissions of entire Broadway soundtracks)

CDC's vaccine advisors recommend that people decide with their doctor on whether or not they should get the COVID vaccine. If your mind is melted from what that and all the vaccine news means, we've got the votes explained @sciam.bsky.social.

My favorite detail about Kingdom Hearts is that 100 Acre Woods is too powerfully pure and full of light to have any Heartless in it, fully stop. It's just silly and poignant times with Pooh and crew. The Tom Bombadil of Kingdom Hearts worlds.

Taking a handful of commissions like this one. I enjoy the style. 35 USD base, 45 for more complicated concepts. First come, first serve. PayPal only. :)

it is the season of injected pumpkin flavored things directly into my bloodstream 🎃🎃 { #frog #pumpkin #autumn #psl }