Feeling stressed? Badly draw a horse and then watch your badly drawn horse run with other badly drawn horses 💜

These are amazing—highly recommended, especially if you love LA.

The SAVE act — another GOP effort to convert election lies into policy — would disenfranchise millions of voters. Congress is likely to vote on it this week. Sherrilyn’s article explains the urgency. And here’s more context from the Bipartisan Policy Center: bipartisanpolicy.org/article/five...

The new Harriet Powers USPS postage stamps are so moving. Featuring details from formerly enslaved Powers’s “Pictorial Quilt” of 1898, I’m so glad these stamps will bring her work & life story to more people, especially when so much Black history is being erased from the public realm right now 💌

Cheering for Francesca Lollibrigida’s speed skating gold medal today—35 year old mom now owns an Olympic record!

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Jessie Diggins, Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist, from the Twin Cities: “I want to make sure you know who I’m racing for…”

Some people will be tempted to think that having the state dictate faculty teaching loads we can repair trust in institutions and avoid authoritarianism when in actuality having the state dictate faculty teaching is part of an authoritarian program.

“Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.” "Okay I get that," Meg whispered back, "but I've been angry for over a decade straight and my arteries are basically solid carbon fiber at this point. Do I ever get a freakin' break?"

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Cato has now put out a statement in my name responding to Donald Trump's latest "The Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over.’ We should take over the voting, the voting in at least many — 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.” Online at: www.cato.org/news-release...

Thank you, Victor. I spent a few weeks on this. As usual, it’s always a negotiation with length. So a few other bon mots: 1. The admin has issued DOJ guidance to challenge state laws that would regulate AI www.wired.com/story/ai-sup...

It's #NationalHedgehogDay in the UK, so please enjoy this photo of Brian May and mascot Grace in a 2021 campaign to raise awareness for threatened hedgehogs May is a longtime advocate for hedgehog conservation and hosts a wildlife rescue facility on his property www.bbc.com/news/article...

Requiring citizens to present documents such as passports or birth certificates every time they register to vote, including when they re-register after moving, could prevent millions of eligible Americans from voting. bit.ly/40ysFRc

The Grammys seems kinda fixated on bulk transport this year?

"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

Contrast this with Shirley Jackson: “The actual act of taking pen to paper…occurred on snatched time, in common spaces. Jackson’s children recall her writing in the middle of baking, perched on a kitchen stool or wedged at a folding table in the dining room.” Which takes the greater discipline?

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

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I don't think it matters whether or not Alex Pretti had a gun www.theverge.com/policy/86745...

This gyre wide as fuck

Anyway what’s amazing is that it’s a vampire movie but the real monster is the inescapable labyrinth of the Jim Crow economy. www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Embroidered front and back covers of a 1791 edition of Robinson Crusoe — featured in our essay "Pens and Needles", on the Victorian revival of embroidered book covers: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/pens-and-needles-reviving-book-embroidery-in-victorian-england

And we’re live! #MusherSky #Sleddogs #MusherLife youtu.be/BgXg3qppWSg?...

Back on my tapestry loom, picking up a UFO that’s been waiting patiently during . . . all of this #weaving #handmade

This is the Bigfoot read I didn't know I needed from @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social

If you are only now learning about THE WESTING GAME, written by Ellen Raskin in 1979 & winner of a Newbery Medal, find it and read it NOW. It's the best puzzle mystery novel ever, and is illustrated and typeset by Raskin herself (who started as an illustrator and book cover designer)

I’m up to the 3rd ep of Culinary Class Wars season 1 and I’m hooked.

It’s here! Thanks, @quincemountain.bsky.social #UglyDogs

Important, granular reporting on the underground world of abortion care in the US - by Sabrina Das, an obstetrician, gynecologist & abortion surgeon in London, and a fellow at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health in New York. Tidbits in the next posts. newlinesmag.com/reportage/in...

The everyday courage of normal people is breathtaking

World's bonkers, here's an emotional support woodcut carving in progress. This extremely normal horse is a study from a 16th century book of wonders and prodigies. As you can see, AI is completely unnecessary for adding limbs to horses. #art #woodcut

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

Three chain drops today=new chain + narrow-wide chain ring for my Surly happening next week. Bike life is more fun without unscheduled stops!

Once again, sneaking up on my favorite kind of winter, watching sports Norwegians are good at. Winter Olympics + Iditarod? Oh baby, I can hardly wait.

The discovery that the continents are in continuous motion is fairly recent—dating back only to the late 1960s — and one woman was responsible for decoding what it meant for California and much of the West Coast. buff.ly/2vAwspH

Remember that time Flame stayed at Otter Run for a few months and dressed up in all kinds of outfits? She swore the most comfy and stylish was the OG otter in harness shirt. You too could look and feel as great as Flame did… www.customink.com/fundraising/...

I take no leave of you, 2025. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

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Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

I wish 2025 had felt more like this:

They have been smart, creative, leaderless, and transparent. And they aren’t targeting any one politician or party. They aim to change the entire system.

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

I wrote this introduction. A complicated text about a simple concept in a complex moment rep.club/products/roc...

It’s live! If you’re inclined, help the sled poodles get back on the trail and get some sweet merch at the same time www.customink.com/fundraising/...

What it's like to meet an orca www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/27/o...

Moon, who I now think of as the black cat of Stonehenge. Putting this here as the original post was deleted: www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...

Carol of the Bells in # Kyiv subway. Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine. Thankful to everyone who stands with us!