Stop their pay. Stop the pay of every official and elected member of all three branches. Pause their health care and benefits.

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

exceeded expectations.

This coffeeshop smells like hot coleslaw.

We take care of one another by destroying the obstacles to flourishing.

Rude of stores to play Christmas music today, in the heart of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Season

my hubs -- not from the midwest-- used to get grumpy abt Halloween Blizzard stories until I said, dude, it's a snowstorm ~Minnesotans~ are still talking about 30 yrs later.

If Washington won’t lead, Minnesota will. Trump is holding our tax dollars hostage and cutting off the funding that keeps 440,000 Minnesotans from hunger. I just announced $4 million in new funding for Minnesota’s food shelves to help our neighbors weather the storm.

seeing lots of posts abt what folks are doing to mitigate the SNAP shutdown. Have yet to see any similar posts* from anyone in congress do the same. They're still getting paid while the folks they represent go hungry. *not congress, but FUCK YEAH TIM WALZ.

ok. one last-last bit. pls remember to donate to hunger orgs then too. Donations traditionally drop off after the holidays and lots of folks have donation fatigue. It's super tough time of year for charities and they're going to need help keeping up w/ the usual need + refilling inventories.

GOV. WALZ: “This is not both sides. This is owned by Republicans. Dems are willing to come back and protect what passed, not let an authoritarian president do whatever he wants… people will be lined up to get food and we’re talking about a damn ballroom? DON’T LOSE THE PLOT.”

Lies, through and through, but what if instead of swallowing them, the press a) said "why are you lying to the American public?" or b) snorted, then said "And you pussies are just letting the libs do it? Omg, you cucks. Open up the government like real men. Your president must be a total loser."

Also one last bit. Donating to your local foodshelf over the regional food bank will funnel your donations quicker and provide a more street-level use. Do what you feel is best, though.

Former food bank employee here. Once again here's a list (a very long list) of items most needed by foodbanks. Each category will get its own post so I can add necessary deets.

and guess what US dept buys up surplus farm products and re-distributes them to foodbanks, schools and other institutions around the US. Good thing there's not a lot of excess, unsold farm commodities sitting around, unsold, due to tariffs.

now *that* was a rainbow.

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

Today Corporate sent new guidelines for "milk talks" Absolutely not, sir or madam. I say again, absolutely not.

Fandom is the weirdest, wildest, most wonderous damn thing in the world. This is how you follow your damn bliss. Brava.

it better have been a big ol' outsized Publisher's Clearing House style check.

I truly can’t imagine the person I would be, the art I would’ve made, the choices I might’ve made, the wide-open vistas that might exist in my brain if the constant anxious horror of the last 10 years in America wasn’t just 24/7 squatting its horrible carcass on every cell of it.

Wondering if this is illegal. That office building isn't zoned for residential.

I guess where I’m landing is less “oh no he’s a Nazi” and more “I just went through this shit with Fetterman and Sinema and a six year term is too long for me to take on faith that your Nazi tattoo was the accident but what you’re saying now is the truth.”

Niche joke of the night.

Last week, I devoted some of my writing time to researching if a particular chain store was open/operating in Oklahoma City in 2014. This bit of research was used in 2 sentences. Tonight, I cut those two sentences as extraneous. The backstory of those cufflinks will live in my heart, I guess

One can simply get a tattoo removed. And if one hasn't...

Seeing a friend tonight who I haven't seen in ages, and due to a day of messes, failures, and etc, etc. I will be meeting him in work clothes (I am a barista. I am stained with caramel and prolly stinky). No makeup. Pigtails don't care (but they do, oh they do!) work hair, and my janky work glasses

Some news. www.bishopriderbooks.com

Once again, I have sauntered onto social media to complain about people sitting near me in public. I do not mind nearness when said public places are crowded, but THERE ARE OODLES OF EMPTY SPOTS. Near the fireplace! By the windows! Booths, omg, all the booths. GO AWAY. SHOO

Very random question/request for Marvel Cineverse fandom. Has anyone written fic about Steve, Nat, and Sam retrieving Sam's Falcon Suit from Fort Meade?

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If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

coffee and words this a.m. Coffee is going down quick, the words not so much. Trying to focus on plotting, which is not my strong suit as a writer.

we are cranking serious 70's am gold at this writing retreat.

From AP: Hair museum filled with century-old mementos closes its doors, scattering contents around the nation abject horror, clown-level, seeped into my bones upon learning there is a) a hair museum, b) the hair is now everywhere. HAIR.

I feel like we got Dr. Oz anyway.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Ongoing enshittification. back details: During the pandemic the state of MN offered free online learning through Coursera. I leapt on, got my IT certificate, a social media marketing cert. I took rando college courses& made it partway through a traditional marketing cert b4 the prog was dropped 1/?

and then Baron Zemo made it look like Bucky was guilty.

"Feed fanfic into capitalism, and it comes out shaped like capitalism." @readingtheend.bsky.social dissects the trend pulling fanfiction through the traditional publishing pipeline (and what it means for fandom): reactormag.com/with-the-ser...

the best thing about Bluesky is as I log in, from the back of my brain, Willie Nelson croons, "Blueskies, smiling at me. Nothing but blue skies, do I see."

I have a new single out (as w.esp). It’s lurching, strange, melancholy but resolute dirge pop: wesp.bandcamp.com/track/its-a-...

This was a such a meaningful discussion … Give it listen!

better things are possible!!!!

I’ll take 3 words to put terror in everyone’s soul for $200, Alex. This recipe was published in 1970’s Del Monte’s ad for creamed corn. What is Corn Bologna Boats?

Whoever decided to put walnuts in brownies, I just want to talk for a minute.