Abolish ICE.

TWO THIRDS????????????????

I feel like news publications should put more energy into asking autistic people how they feel about all this because…

I got bitten by a radioactive HOA president and now I want an Escalade

A new initiative pieced together by the National Quilt Museum, along with professors at Murray State University, is using the fiber arts to teach K-12 students about geometry and other mathematical principles. www.lpm.org/news/2025-09...

Y’all remember back in 2018 when 200 newscasters read from an identical right-wing script? That was Sinclair.

This is a genocide as well——just fyi

Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches. This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists! Archaeologists! Please volunteer www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

300k Black women got fired, Jimmy Kimmel was gon be OK. Give them their jobs back

Today was...a day. I got the kid to the dentist, but I still have a balance of $100+, I just stretched what I had left for groceries, and it's still looking funky for next week. Please check out my Etsy shop if you can or share the link (www.etsy.com/shop/BurkeHo.... also in profile).

The thread this is pulled from is about writing but could apply more widely. I read this advice as a quilter and nodded. Mug rugs and pint cozies and cushion covers FTW!

Goodnight, all. May we all know moments of peace and sun-warmed bliss like this adorable ocean potato I saw today.

I would always rather be us than them, every fucking day, no matter how angry or scared I get trading our humanity for the feeble hope that proximity to power will protect us is not fucking worth it we all die as we live and their picture of what "success" looks like is truly so fucking bleak

I'm considered a Leo ♌. But based on the real position of the stars now, I might be a Cancer ♋ instead. Find your (new?!) astronomical sign here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Garfield and Odie watching The Rapture, LOL.

I skeet for people who still miss Google Reader.

Not enough people say "to bad rubbish" after "good riddance."

Pro tip: Don't buy the actual pimple patches, because they are a huge rip-off compared to how much more you get out of a roll for wound care a.co/d/javMq23

People acting like Disney being fascist is new should go back and read the company’s history. Disney himself was a Nazi-sympathizer and only got into the US propaganda film game because he was also a staunch Nationalist. Before that he literally hosted dinner parties for Nazis.

It's that time youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk?...

Amongst the many, many other faults and follies of the party, perhaps the single most dangerous problem with the Democratic Party today is their incessant habit of reinforcing the idea that there is absolutely *no* principle that matters, no policy that is sacrosanct that they will stand behind.

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As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

Tomorrow is National Sew a Jelly Roll Day. Last year I couldn't find the only jelly roll I had. This year I am ready! This is a post about quilting.

All the quilts on display in France at Carrefour European Quilt Show. Here until 21-Sept. #genartclub

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

future children in history class are going to love studying our era because everything about it will look so stupid to them “oh so they took all the serious bad things from past eras, and then redid them, but like clown shit?” yes

Looking forward to meeting up with a friend this afternoon to go to a local quilt show. Gonna bring my fabric scissors and kitchen knives so Snippy Jim can sharpen 'em up. Maybe there will be a woodworker selling square clappers for whole blocks—have regretted not getting one when I saw them before.

Whaddaya know—could this be the reason my machine is making a racket? sewing.patternreview.com/SewingDiscus...

"Beginning in January 2026, YouTube will have the largest digital library of Sesame Street content, with hundreds of full episodes coming to the platform." This makes me so happy. I have a deep love for this program and its mission to be widely available.

The Huz when a car we don't recognize is parked in front of our house, LOL. alt text for image = cartoon cel of middle-aged man with glasses bent over with curiosity looking out of the front window of a house in a suburban setting

what ezra doesn't seem willing to accept is that charlie kirk was part of a political movement that does not think that "we are going to have to live here with each other" and is fact very interested in the elimination and/or subjugation of many, many people

Some phrases are so well-known, you don't need to say the whole thing to be understood. E.g., you can say "birds of a feather" without saying "flock together." -“When life hands you lemons…” -“Great minds…” -“When in Rome…” Such partial phrases are called 'anapodotons.'

The library has a public word tile game (think Scrabble) on a magnetic whiteboard by the entrance/exit. There's a basket of magnetic letters with instructions to play from the 7 you draw randomly. I drew the letters to spell PENIS. I spelled PINES. Feeling mature and virtuous.

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

“It reminds me of the pleasure of just being in nature and being surprised by what nature can do. It’s been wonderful and joyful and fascinating to witness.”

Happy Pythagorean triple day (9/16/25) y'all's

btw Costco seems to have the cheapest updated COVID vax. You can get it without a card at the pharmacy and they do take walk-ins. If you’re also uninsured due to the massive amounts of layoffs this year, they also take this goodrx coupon to lower the cost of www.goodrx.com/comirnaty?sr...

Excited to see that we’re doing “you know, sometimes black people commit suicide by hanging themselves from trees”

Despite what Klein says, he’s not trying to understand the American right. Understanding them requires being honest about their beliefs, policies and (far!) higher propensity toward violence. Pretending this is all a polite philosophical disagreement is the opposite of fostering understanding.

This morning, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry concluded that the Israeli government is committing genocide — affirming what Palestinians and experts have been saying for nearly two years.

“The study found that about 7% of US adults have been present at the scene of a mass shooting in their lifetime, and more than 2% have been injured during one.”

The name ‘Tiffany’ is many centuries old. To many people, it sounds like a stereotypical name for a Valley Girl in the 1980s. This has led to a phenomenon called “The Tiffany Problem,” which describes things that sound anachronistic, but actually aren’t.

"I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means — except by getting off his back." – Leo Tolstoy

My new shirt design is a very serious PSA that I was asked to make, because apparently a lot of people don't know. roryblank.bigcartel.com

“Quilting is one of those forms that sneaks in through the comfortable parts of us and says, ‘Oh, I’m familiar with quilts.’ Then, you get a sneaky poke of information and ideas. It’s really special.”

Every single social justice concept — safe spaces, intersectionality, microaggressions, representation — is embraced by the right when they talk about men or whites or straights.