Explaining Internet and pop culture things to my chronically-offline brother is one of my favorite pastimes.

"O Ye, All Ye That Walk in Willowwood” 🎨 Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1903, detail)

New cryptid

Being a homebody who hates lettuce has never been more helpful than in Michigan this past week.

I genuinely do not understand people who don't find their ADHD disabling. I hate living with this.

Comrades with wildfire smoke: Really do wear respiratory protection, that shit isn't just bad in the moment, it has serious long-term health implications and not just for your lungs! If you don't have an air purifier really do try to get one, if possible, and REMEMBER TO CLEAN AND CHANGE FILTERS.

making a playlist for a book you're writing counts as writing

I did a tonne of research so you don't have to. I talk about masking, air filtration, and air quality rating systems, & I give concrete suggestions to help you keep yourself and your loved ones safe. If you don't have this information yet, it's time to get educated. Wildfires don't respect borders.

I am often reminded that several people who have read Let This Radicalize don't know that we created a number of FREE resources (including a workbook) that can be used along with the book. You can find those here: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...

france, come on, you can't lose on BASTILLE DAY

1 like = 1 completely dull, mundane fact about me

oh norway 😞

Bread update.

anticipatory grief, you devil! get out of my brain!

We’re close to the end of our fundraiser and still haven’t met our goal — we need ~$4k in four days. Frankly: I’ve used… a lot of personal funds to keep us afloat over the years between Kickstarters. I now have a child who’ll need daycare. I won’t have enough left over to bridge khōréō’s gaps.

I am finally going to make bread again today. It has been, like, five months since my last loaf.

*stares into distance* what if I started playing viola again

Welp. Looks like my former company has nixed their entire UX team a little over a year after they let me go. 100% because of AI. This shit sucks.

🚨BREAKING🚨 More than 600 workers at Hachette Book Group just voted overwhelmingly to unionize, creating the largest union in trade publishing history! newsguild.org/hachette-boo...

Everything Trump touches dies.

Happy Independence Day

Commendable resilience by the boys. Going to suck not having Balogun next game 😔

THAT WAS THE LONGEST TEN MINUTES OF MY LIFE.

I'M GONNA CRY

Well, this fucking sucks.

✨ what's made me happy: working on a Secret writing project, vacations with family & friends, my cat, & taking care of myself ✨ favorite book or story: The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali ✨ looking forward to: more work on Secret project, daycations to the lake, and more things I'm forgetting

BREAKING: Pride Month Extended Indefinitely

Trans folks please take it from a bitch with an anxiety disorder: you don't have to be doomscrolling today. You don't have to bear witness to this nightmare. It isn't your duty or something you are bound to do. It's happened. You can take care of yourself today, it's okay. You probably need it.

If you doomscroll, you may end up having dreams about literal Doom.

ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through August 21st! ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽

prepare to have your daughter accused of being a boy and face demands that her gentials be inspected if the dad on the other team thinks that she fouled his special snowflake too hard

Okay....but now the number of paperback sales needed is one O.O

It's amazing how much more time and energy I have for taking care of myself when I am no longer spending it all on trying to please / take care of other people to my own detriment.

My apartment complex grows lillies right outside our buildings' front doors, and I am so scared of tracking their pollen inside where my cat could ingest it 😭 Is it bonkers to talk to them to see if they'd consider removing them?

I was really hoping Iran would make it into the 32, so I am very sad about the Algeria/Austria result, but that was objectively a crazy fun ending.

Taking that goal away was cruel 😔

An adoring babby.

who is ready for some lesbian book recs for pride? 🧵

The fleeting excitement of a USA goal followed by the immediate disappointment of the opponent scoring is truly a great metaphor for the American experience.

Sourdough babble: I almost killed my starter 😔 I got really out the habit of feeding (and have not baked any bread since February) and then neglected to feed my starter at all for, like, 3 weeks. Tried to feed it again. No action. Despair set in. Fed it again. Still nothing. More despair.

Putting sunscreen on my face is always so funny because I have so much redness and sunscreen is so cool-toned, I end up downright purple.

The Republican president of the Utah State Senate lost his 2026 primary because of his support for "AI" Data Centers. UTAH. Democrats, i really really really need you to get this message and get it right now.

- one month to release - free shipping from @bookshop.org - 25% off at @barnesandnoble.com - 10 print copies up for grabs on Goodreads - simply too much to advertise, yo ho ho and a bottle of Pepto Bismol (you can still ask me questions if you want though) www.elizmanderson.com/the-lord-of-...

HEY CHICAGO! The city wants to sell your parking meter company to the same private-equity firm that owns Omni Air International, the worst of the worst of ICE's charter airlines. The city council's finance committee is meeting about it TOMORROW. 1/

Nimue: Nim Nimothy Nimbabwe Nimbo/Nimbo the Bimbo Nimboni Nimbers/Shiver Me Nimbers Nimrod Other non-name related nicknames: Buddy Kit-Kat Ki-Ki Meow-Meow

"Be beige, not rainbow" is the outcome of librarians saying libraries should be neutral. We cannot and are not neutral, and we gotta stop insisting that we are. At this point, it is part of the book ban playbook.

That goal was NUTS.

Important note: you can still get the HPV vaccine even into your 40s. You can also get it even if you have had HPV before because there are multiple strains and while it can't help you clear out HPV you already have, it can help prevent infection from other strains you don't have yet.

1/ Happy Juneteenth! How a Texas emancipation commemoration spread across the US is an amazing story. But Juneteenth wasn’t the first Black Freedom Day in America—or the only one of its day. So, let’s talk about em’. Pictured: Martha Yates Jones and Pinkie V Yates, Houston Juneteenth, 1908 | HPL

“Action is a practice of hope,” writes @prisonculture.bsky.social. Her letter to young organizers is a clear-eyed invitation to begin again every day, even in despair.