The first class in my new series of workshops is tonight in Norfolk, Massachusetts! Come learn all about tea blending and create a blend of your very own to take home. More info here! www.muddyriverherbals.com/events

@johnlechner.bsky.social Thanks for the repost, John! Hope you're staying cozy and warm this chilly night!

I'm debuting a brand new series of classes devoted to "easing into winter with herbs" & the first workshop is this Thursday! Join me to learn all about the art of tea blending. Learn more—and read up on my other offerings—here! www.muddyriverherbals.com/events

🖊️ LETS OPEN UP THIS FUCKEN PIT

You ever just snap & write a sternly-worded letter to threaten people for feeding hungry children? No?

It ys a such challenging, turbulent, scarye tyme. My greatest wisshe ys that you may fynde sum small moment of peace, delight, mirthe, pleasure, discoverye, connectioun, or fascinacioun that doth make yower day just a litel bettir. Ich wisshe thys for thee wyth all of myne hearte.

If your senator is not like mine (so craven he doesn't have his fucking phones OR his voicemail open), call them and let them know how you'd feel about them reopening the government having not achieved anything at all

It's true! Call Chuck Schumer at (202) 224-6542, press 4, then, yes, press literally any button and leave him a message. Very easy AND you don't need to talk to anyone.

just found out that if you listen to his whole spiel at his capitol office, press 4 to speak to someone, listen to his other spiel, and THEN press some other button, you can leave him a voicemail there. better than fucking nothing I guess

“Words cannot adequately describe the horror of the massacre of over 130 poor, young Black people killed by the Rio de Janeiro police under the pretext of combating drug trafficking…The world we knew is collapsing. Let us mourn those young people murdered in Rio, those bodies lying on the asphalt.”

Meanwhile trump continues continues to demand that children go hungry in this, THE MONTH OF THANKSGIVING. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Absolutely obsessed with this quote from Boris Pasternak. #booksky

🦠 Les bactéries et leur rôle dans l'anatomie et l'histologie pathologiques des maladies infectieuses: Paris: F. Alcan, 1885. [Source]

“We are not afraid!” screamed Frog and Toad at the same time.

Swans, Becca Stadtlander.

‘The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.’ ~ J.R.R. Tolkien. #BookWormSat 🖼️ Tolkien

Monet once confessed he could never finish a painting—“I stop when I’m tired.” Each canvas was a moment, not a conclusion.

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Gotta love The Guardian for those quotes from Europeans on #mamdani's win in NYC: "Verbeek backed this with a comment he had overheard in an Oslo cafe, in which Mamdani was described as an American politician who “finally” sounded normal." “Normal. That’s the word,” Verbeek wrote in his […]

Feels like the Democrats should maybe put up a website showing all of the Trump Flight Cancellations?

Government propaganda has always been used to justify police & prisons. Fear can work. It’s what leads us to still invest in prisons when they don’t keep us safe. But we have also seen that it is possible to see through lies and myths. We can choose hope & humanity. We can choose community instead.

Nermal, our grey kween!

Hundreds Of Thousands Of Lives Lost Forever.

After Samhain by James Pearson

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😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

I just love them all so much.

How lovely

Ahhh what a lovely, gentle poem.

Birch in a Forest https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/28510

"Star's Love Strike" 🤢

Jumping on the bandwagon to say it is okay—nay, Essential!—to seek out hope, especially if we're able to give it the room it needs to kindle us into action.

Well... this is fabulous news! The (unofficial) relaunch of 'Queer As Folklore' will be at the incredible @queerbritain.bsky.social on December 6th!!!! Tickets here: www.outsavvy.com/event/31166/...

Going into Friday like

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

Ooooh yes please!

Eastern European dissidents became experts in authoritarian takeovers, and authoritarians, of all kinds. What lessons can Americans learn from them? https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-to-endure-authoritarianism

at this point it’s kind of a behavioral tic

just tried to transfer from the G camel to the A caravan at Hoyt-Schermerhorn and it turns out the herd is running local on the F track to W4

I can still hear some crickets cricketing🥲

@theferocity.bsky.social Hey Saeed! In a recent episode of Vibe Check you mentioned how hard it is to find star anise. I bet you already know about these spots but just in case I recommend Cambridge Naturals & Curio Spice, both in Cambridge, as well as Penzeys in Arlington. All wonderful spots!

Illustrations from Japanese fireworks catalogues (ca. 1880s) — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/japanese-fireworks-catalogues #newyearseve #fireworks

If you need permission to unsubscribe from the times I'm here to say: do it!! When there's something you really want to read you can usually get it for free from a site like the Wayback Machine. I unsubbed a while ago and it sure feels great to no longer be supporting a waning & transphobic+ paper.

Poetry is inherently political; there’s not enough money changing hands for it to be anything else. — Ramsey Tawfick, our POTW interview up now 💙

"Ich askid ChatGPT." Well *Ich* askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

Over at @therumpus.net, I am so happy to publish an essay by @hebagowayed.bsky.social about Zohran Mamdani and the radical idea that Muslims are human! therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

The night of Shab-i-barāt. Mughal c.1735-40. ‘Woman Holding Fireworks’.

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

About 30 vultures just flew overhead, circling as they headed south. I assume they're looking for the GOP politicians who lost yesterday.