As the people who insist otherwise try to burn the country, it's important to affirm that immigrants, from everywhere, are awesome, and America is better the more immigrants we have. You have to be just empty and vapid and unimaginably small to reject that.

And for women, it's ESPECIALLY important to strength train after 30. I really didn't get this messaging until I was into my late 20s and it is LIFE CHANGING. And it's a lot easier to stay independent as you get older if you have good muscle mass, mobility, balance, etc.

The state goons are powerless before the awesome might of someone in an inflatable frog costume, and you seriously expect me to believe the situation is hopeless?

Calypso does not like the doppelgänger pillow, for she is (and always will be) the superior Halloween decoration in the house

Reading Rainbow emphasis is encouraging kids to read. The focus is not on teaching them to read. The mission is reading should be fun! We are all readers, worthy of literacy. LeVar Burton said “but you don’t have to take my word for it” because he wanted us to look to the books. That’s the beauty 💚

Sending this to my mother - who is pushing 70 - on her birthday as a reminder that being awesome and antifascist keeps you young and pretty ✨💅(in case it wasn't obvious: this dusty man looks way more busted than my gorgeous mother)

The fact that an agent literally said "fuck them kids" is just icing on the unconstitutional cake. They enjoy being able to play badass while they terrorize neighborhoods.

No more streaming. I want my music on an iPod again. I miss my baby blue iPod mini 😭

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years. Pinochet was ousted with a referendum. And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists. Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

Audre told us.

No new pictures, where are you at mentally?

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

*reads news* *finished curry chicken* *opens fortune cookie* Keep it 😫

U-M folks, heads up

Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy’s to the title The Secret Life of Tom Clancy’s Bees

Helios says all books are banned until further notice* *when he gets enough pets and exorbitant amounts of kibble

My rage is incandescent today

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

It's important to note here that we're not just talking about faculty & university staff. 100s of U.S. colleges are in towns or small cities where they form the major industry & lifeblood of the community. Loss of students -> loss of rent $, restaurant $, bars, bookstores, gaming stores...

No cheating, post the last pic of your pet, please!

There are no job losses in Ba Sing Se

It’s always fun to hear your economist husband say “hey, you wanna see the scary graphs?” on jobs day 🥴

There is always cause for celebration when a cat lays on his side

We need to amplify the good news, the stories where communities come together, where ordinary people learn to fight back, where politicians and judges do what is right. If this ship can be saved, it will be up to all of us to not give up the fight.

Never thought I’d see the day I get sunburnt worse than my pale-ass vampire husband but that’s what I get for forgetting my sunscreen ONE TIME 😭

today's a great day to make sure "require alt text before posting" is enabled in your settings and to continue to make bluesky more accessible and inclusive bsky.app/settings/acc...

The women around terrible men aren’t secretly heroes of the revolution. They are collaborators.

Omg wait til they find out that millennials, gen x, and even BOOMERS do this, too! 10-15 years earlier this would have read “millennials are killing retirement and hustle culture by taking a whole week or two off at a time, the entitled brats”

Please help Marcellous - he worked at U-M for 10 years. Then he got hurt on the job, and they discarded him like he was nothing. Every little bit helps. His story is at the link. gofund.me/abbc7d16

The evil that men do lives after them

tapping the sign, again

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

Not even noon on my first day back from vacation and the cat managed to spill my (mostly full) 40oz Stanley all over my desk 🫠

This parade will cost at least the equivalent of 180 years worth of an NIH biomedical research grant.

Mother I crave violence

O Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch.

Dear Other Cisgender Heterosexuals, Pride month is not ours. Pride month is not a fabulous party for us to whoop it up at. Our entire job during Pride month (and every month!) is to support the folks that we aren’t. Be supportive. Be respectful. Don’t talk over the folks who Pride is for.

If you are lgbtqia, you belong and deserve love and happiness and everyone who thinks otherwise is a raging hunk of wet trash. I love you, Red Sonja loves you, Wonder Woman loves you, Batgirl loves you, and the X-Men love you.

To Whomever vandalized the Peony Garden at the Nichols Arboretum at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor last night: There is so little beauty in our world right now. You are making the world a more cruel and ugly place. You are not helping. www.instagram.com/reel/DKXFSz5...

Leckie is talking about Murderbot/Mensah but it’s absolutely on point in a broader context. Personally, I (along with many of my friends) went DECADES without getting a diagnosis or proper support despite the fact that the signs might as well have been flashing neon

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Getting ready for my library’s summer reading program and I might *finally* knock out a good chunk of my physical TBR?!?!

Was looking forward to going out tonight for my anniversary…only to come down with what I’m 99% sure is the flu…AGAIN…for the third damn time this year. I’m so damn tired of this y’all 😭

Happy Murderbot day to all who celebrate.

I went and opened the hell app and saw this from @melechthomas.bsky.social over there as soon as I opened the app. Be aware, everyone.

Oops it did it again