The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major

Happy Columbo’s Day

It's almost that time of year again in the Northeast... Time to put together some warm kits: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - it's a great family activity and you can get others involved too. Last year, I adapted the activity to focus on public libraries but they can be donated anywhere.

I just made a pinto bean, kielbasa, and “clean out the fridge of veggies” soup in the crock pot yesterday

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

It was suggested by a few people that instead of Kpop Demon Hunters, ska punk needed it's own heroes. I feel like this trio fits the bill for Ska Punk Demon Hunters (just don't tell Mephiskapheles). #kpopdemonhunters #skapunk #ska #punk #skapunkdemonhunters 👻💀😈

At the first Friends Meeting of Washington (DC) Pride Month worship this year, a weeping Friend shared, “This meeting makes me a better person. Your queerness makes me a better person.” As trans & queer people face renewed enmity, a safe & welcoming spiritual center is imperative to their survival.

I really do think that Taylor saw Sabrina Carpenter and Chapell Roan, realized people like songs that talk about sex in an explicit but light-hearted way, and then made the biggest series of miscalculations anyone has ever made

I don’t post zine stuff here as often as I should. Disco 3000 issue 4: Indie Sleaze Huntington, will be released Friday Oct. 10!

RIP electric kettle 2018-2025 Well done thou good and faithful servant 😐

I’m doing a cool thing with my cool homies, PM me if you want to give a physical donation

Scorpions: "HERE I AM, ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE." *Hurricane shows up on stage with a ukulele* "FUCK. We talked about this, dude."

Got my performance review.

Sometimes cool things happen in Huntington

Mark Zuckerber AS Chris Martin AS Tommy Wiseau IN… the Room 2

Share your favorite black and white movie.

OK off-topic, but I don’t think enough people realize how profound Glen Campbell’s song (written by the great Jimmy Webb) “Wichita Lineman” really is.

Dear trans folks: please publish your personal stories in zines. Let us help you do it

Dudes rock

Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day to all who celebrate youtu.be/Oh2ywFsKfBM?...

A pirate goes to the ship’s surgeon to have spots on his arm checked. The surgeon says, "They're benign". The pirate replies, "No, no doc. There be 11. I counted them before I came here." Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day.

This makes me think it's a great time for someone to start up an alt weekly in a metro area. It's clearly working for The Onion, why not try it (again) with regional news, art, and events?

Do I have any mutuals who are Canadian ministers? Got a question.

Olive Garden’s neverending pasta bowl (threatening)

Good morning to the helpers- and specifically to folks who put caring for their community ahead of their own needs. You are part of your community. Let your community extend you the care you show others. Accept help.

It's Baby Safety Month.

If you are a white person who subscribes to the Washington Post, your solidarity should not be expressed in "feeling badly" but in cancelling your subscription today if you have one. Otherwise no one wants to hear anything from you.

Do you think unbending Clippy until he was a long piece of metal would be painful for him. Or do you think it would cause him to feel a great sense of relief

I do find it funny that the only bit of the "inappropriate hymn" quoted in the article is a direct bible quote.

Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours

Check on your folks who’ve experienced DV and relationship abuse. Seeing gaslighting on a macro level and the “good guys” fall over themselves to reward and compliment and make excuses for abusers is hella triggering and familiar right now.

This is a hell of a time in US history for me to decide to get sober

Fancy Feast invites us to imagine a sumptuous banquet for a cat. Meow Mix invites us to imagine a happy cat meowing with joy. 9 Lives invites us to imagine that although a cat may die in the eating of the food, he has 8 more chances

oh no they yelled at him in a restaurant? that sort of vile attack has only happened to everyone who has ever worked in a restaurant

its kinda neat that at any given time there's like 5 different dudes travelin the country pretending to be mark twain

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This tickled me.

Today is Jury Rights Day, when we commemorate the case of William Penn in 1670 which laid the foundation for the right that jurors have still today to conscientiously acquit someone by jury nullification.

An $8 coffee isn’t your coffee shop’s fault. It’s beans, labor, rent, paper goods, utilities. Global coffee prices are near a 50-year high. Tariffs & policy drive costs up and when cheaper inventory runs out, prices will climb again. PSA Don’t blame the barista, blame the ballot box.

I reckon there’s a reason the angels say “Fear not…”

Empathy is under attack. Meanwhile, the Department of Defense may become the Department of War and ICE arrested nearly 500 workers at an EV factory in Georgia. Losing empathy makes it easier to destroy lives, families, communities. This is a really, really bad thing. We can’t lose empathy.

Anyway! Share and support the creatives and creativity you want to see. Make the effort to pass an article along after clicking through to read it. Tell an outlet you always come back for [person's] work. Read a great piece after the hype's died down? Tell your friends about it. Send a website £5.

Sesame Street will be putting a huge collection of episodes on YouTube starting in January 2026 This is a fantastic way to educate children It’s a form of resistance. Shows like Sesame Street teach love, tolerance, acceptance & more. These lessons are crucial for the long fight ahead.

Bruce Springsteen is releasing the Electric Nebraska album to fortify his Omaha stronghold in the event that Sufjan Stevens restarts his fifty states project. You want Nebraska, you've got to go through The Boss to get it.

Dogs are getting vaccinated less and rabies rates are rising, in part because 37% of Americans think vaccines will give their dogs... pawtism. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Great news! The Baltimore Museum of Art is taking “Amy Sherald: American Sublime,” which was originally scheduled to take place at the National Portrait Gallery. artbma.org/exhibition/a...

You know, I used to believe this. I used to be (privately) annoyed by the dreamers and the artists who insisted on spending time imagining and sketching and writing about possible futures when we had SO MUCH TO FIX in the now. It took time to realize: that vision is the compass of movement.

people complaining about how "woke" has taken over the film industry, meanwhile bugs bunny has been kissing men since 1940

We're at the stage that if you have a better idea of what people need to do, then you have to do it. And maybe it starts with a couple of people and grows. YOU really have to do it.