If you want to make the world a better place, you (yes, you!) are going to need to sacrifice a little sometimes. You’re going to need to pay taxes, you’re going to need to turn the A/C down you’re going to need to be a little less comfortable sometimes. Anyone telling you otherwise is lying to you.

Fellow romance lovers, the array of products, critiques, conversations, and books in this auction is diverse & intense, including an online session called “Samuel Alito is a Whiny Pissbaby.” All for voting rights & access, and perfect for These Modern Times.

Sorry I was absent from my job as the Baby Healthcare Slasher. I had depression for reasons that I’m sure are entirely unrelated to that. Anyways back to my job giving everyone infectious diseases and driving teenagers to suicide.

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Today was my last gaming stream for a few months until @innocence.com and I are settled in our new home. Huge thanks to the folks who have been taking this streaming journey with me for almost *seven* years - it’s been great enjoying creativity and friendship with all of you!

People said Occupy was a failure and it ushered in 15 years of actual political engagement on economic inequality People like to call BLM, Abolish ICE, etc failures and, no. Spontaneous mass protest moments rarely win immediately. But they change the political environment and lay the groundwork.

extraction capitalism and the tyranny of “good enough” are killing one of the most important legacy media outlets in the US

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

Agnes is our little miss sunshine

”Juneteenth Has Always Been About Black Liberation” by Kaitlyn Greenidge for Harper’s Bazaar. An oral history, as told by members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of The Black Panther Party. www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

I talked to Chris Begley and Amy Edelman about their book, The Emergency Playbook: A Bunker-Free Guide to Disaster Preparation. I believe disaster preparedness can help our movements become larger, stronger & more capable of facing not only climate disasters, but fascist threats as well. Here’s how.

Can’t agree with this enough - Such great films!

Mayonnaise. I know what it’s made of, I know people like a wet thing on their sandwiches or whatever, but I can barely look at it without my stomach flipping. Satan’s own condiment!

It’s absolutely infuriating that the @seattletimes.com can write a competent, smart article about baseless election fraud claims and it’s wasted effort because they let MAGA Republicans run wild in the comments. Y’all have a policy forbidding misinformation. Please use it.

Pope Leo XIV casts a wreath into the waters off Spain's Canary Islands in memory of the thousands of desperate migrants who have lost their lives while attempting to cross into Europe. “Human dignity has no passport and does not lose its value when crossing a border,” he said in his remarks.

It is true that this is a beautiful pluralistic country with everything good you could ever possibly want in the world and also a corrupt stinking hell hole presided over by demons who want us all dead.

Arah Ko, "Hens' -- after Ada Limon. "Just the way one leg lifts gently when waiting, the dance of three eyelids and their slow, eerie blinks."

Coming out of his cone and he’s (not) doing just fine

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

I don't use public libraries bc I can't afford to buy the media I wish to read or listen to. I choose to borrow bc I don't need to own the materials, and I'm glad to have an opportunity to enjoy them outside of consumer culture. 📚 (I saw a post that implied that pl use is solely abt affordability)

Mega master calendar hearings are the latest evil tactic the fascists are using to mass deport our neighbors. (1/2)

Yes. And the assumption that all horror films are similar drives me ape. Watch “I Saw the TV Glow” or “Oddity” or “Talk to Me” or “Mārama” and try to say that again. Also, get out of here with your “elevated” nonsense. Horror runs the gamut, just like the people who enjoy it.

Cuz ppl growing more conservative a they age isn't just the natural state of things, it's a result of a lifetime of accrued enfranchisement in the social and economic contract. If your buy-in is rewarded, you see no point in agitating to change the system. Rewards have been withheld for ~20 years.

"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.

Our move to MN is going to be awesome, but right now I am upset and feeling like an asshole and want to see pet pics. I’ll be fine and my husband is an angel. Brains are just hard. Pets! Bring out your pets!

Of course she’d be in the pocket of Big Transit. Rude.

Well, I have now dipped a toe into the Mall of America. I am not into either acquiring or owning Stuff, so it was basically just an overstimulating swirl of primary colors and kids yelling. That said, cool Barnes & Noble. Surprisingly good horror and movie selections.

This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone #ProofOfCat This is not a furry hydra, this is two cats. Two! Don’t be weird.

Black Neighborhood Demolished To Make Room For Nothing In Particular https://theonion.com/black-neighborhood-demolished-to-make-room-for-nothing-in-particular/

It's not just in the trees. The case for urban folk horror Folk horror isn't just harvest festivals, stone circles and rural retreats. True horror lies in the conflict between beliefs and what people will do to protect theirs New blog at www.folknhell.com/blog/urban-f...

Twelve hours in Minneapolis and my GLP-1 is already feeling insecure.

“We are in a war of elite predators against ordinary people whom they view as prey. We are in an existential battle against technofascists,…”

Trump just named Bill Pulte the Acting Director of National Intelligence to replace Tulsi Gabbard. Pulte is a real estate developer whose grandfather is in the Epstein files for facilitating the laundering of Russian money to Donald Trump through a real estate deal apparently brokered by Epstein.

Holy cats stress lately. Cat in the kitty hospital (he’s fine; recovering from surgery), travel, weird noises in the neighborhood, preparing to sell the house and move. My husband’s retirement is the bright light - it’s going to be great to have @innocence.com around all the time (no, really!)

i’m feeling like we approach ideas like this and a lot of people go “ew don’t say they need a hobby or to make friends, they are hateful monsters” …like the idea of getting these people fucking life is kindness, and not, you know, wartime strategy. self-defense. community-defense.

@innocence.com retired yesterday so of course we got up at 5AM and cruised down to Portland to hit up the @criterion.bsky.social closet. Now we wait!

I wish more people understood the nature of our current dilemma and that the conversation around the situation we’re facing was framed in the context that @sarahkendzior.bsky.social outlines here

Writing IS the work.

We need our Members of Congress to respond to the immediate crisis that immigrants in detention centers like Delaney Hall are facing. That means investigating ICE’s detention facilities, exposing the horrifying conditions, and blocking any additional funding for ICE and Border Patrol.

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

It's my wedding anniversary today -- much love to @innocence.com, who isn't a better half or any sort of "half"; he's a very cool whole being I actively choose to spend my life with. Once again, I'm taking that option to renew. Happy anniversary, babe!

All the excitement! Hello Twin Cities people!

Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.

I am SO excited for this. Tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow!

If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

Public goods, held in common, distributed to everyone is good.

I'm not sure how much the rest of America knows or understands about the MOVE bombing in Philly, but it was probably the single worst instance of police brutality in American history. I think of it every 5/13 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MO...

I reject austerity. There's enough for all of us. I reject the "commonsense" scarcity bullshit espoused sometimes even by people who call themselves Leftists. There's enough for every single person to live in dignity.

“What is wrong with Gen X?” Well, for every alterna-geek that became the face of my generation, there were thirty wannabe Alex P. Keatons, Steff McKees, and Heather Chandlers who used “f*g” or “r****d” freely and with venomous conviction.