me: i should promote that i'm releasing 30 brand-new Anti-Planner PDFs on black friday for $9.95 🧠: probably me: also if they buy a book they get all 60 PDFs for free 🧠: ok hear me out me: 🧠: what if you overthink it & don’t post until saturday night

Went to a local Christmas "wonderland." Visited the library. Got burgers and fancy lemonade. Read a bunch of books with the kids. Watched the classic Grinch (the only one I'll accept). Tucked everyone in. Now it's hot cocoa time. I'm trying to delay reacquainting myself with the horrors.

I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape

He's doing research.

Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.

Can't engage with news today for mental health reasons so I'll just share that I've put up my Christmas tree and it's full of ornaments from our vacations and adventures over the years and it's making me hate the world less.

It's #smallbusinesssaturday friends! Say no to faceless corporate crap and say yes to the shops in your community. As for me, I'm heading over to @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social to pick up my order and probably buy more stuff. Books are better when bought at independent bookstores!

When I ask them: "What are you reading? What are you watching? What are you listening to?" Often, the answer is: nothing. Which has a direct effect on their over-use of prompts and AI, because they can't think of ideas, because they are literally not engaging with a single figurative thing.

🚨 BOAT STUCK 🚨

You never know what will come out of a broken crayon. #Uplift More broken crayons, classroom activities: debbieohi.com/resources/re... #EduSky #FoundObjectArt

WELCOME TO THE DAY OF MANY CALORIES YOU SHALL CONSUME YOU SHALL INGEST YOU SHALL HEAVE YOUR SWOLLEN BODY ONTO THE COUCH MOANING AS YOU DO SO BUT WAIT THERE'S STILL PIE

Hey casual reminder that this resource ⬇️ exists, and lists good places to donate & get involved if you're in the Baltimore area and want to support local Indigenous folks

Folks, two things can true at the same time. These 2 National Guard members should not have been shot, and it's a disgusting act of violence. And, Trump + Miller have deliberately deployed them to incite division { violence. That's part of Miller's plan. They have no reason to be in our cities.

PSA to neurotypicals - asking “why” is not arguing. “Here is how a thing is.” “Why?” Is not an argument. It’s a request for more information. Why is the thing that way? Teach me.

🌓 Ursa Major/Minor 🌗 (2025 Remake) #telekitneticart #formline #indigenousart

Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!

I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.

LIBRARIES MAKE BOOKS ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE, she shouts, apparently inaudibly WHY DO THESE "YOU'RE A CLASS TRAITOR" PEOPLE KEEP PRETENDING LIBRARIES DON'T EXIST? ARE THEY CLASS TRAITORS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN LIBRARIES?

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? Let's hope they're trying to rescue me from habitat destruction or poaching.

We're getting so close! This thread and the link can help you decide if you want to participate (the answer is yes) It's an all skill levels, unthemed, relaxed, fun & easy to spend the dark days of winter.

People need food. Market won’t provide it. Government should. It’s literally the whole point.

Is Santa Real? Many users feel they're getting presents from him. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.

Shoutout to food. Yall ever had food? stuff is spectacular.

2. It's rare for any creative, including writers, to be able to live solely off their creative income. Moreover, there is no correlation between the creative value of art and the income status of its creator. It's okay to have another gig to eat and pay bills and survive our capitalist hellscape.

And the folks who are actually writing full-time generally only got there after years of day jobs, family support, or both. The point of sharing this is not to demoralize anyone, but to let emerging writers know they're not failing if they can't make a living off writing alone. Almost no one can.

Device…hoarding. Because you don’t go get a new one while yours is still fine. Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.

Big stick energy

"Holy shit, look at me, I'm doing something that just a year or so ago I found really hard and stressful and confusing, but it's second nature now." Generative AI deliberately removes this, entirely, from learning.

I have given the plum that was in the icebox and which you were probably saving for humans to a groundhog I am not sorry my guy really enjoyed it

Okay, who remembers the first cassette tape/CD they ever purchased? For me: CD: Pink Floyd's The Wall cassette: Styx's Kilroy Was Here

Really proud of my colleagues for launching this new series at @coyotemedia.org -- First Aid Kit, a set of pieces that help you be safer, healthier, and more helpful in your community. How to respond to an overdose by @nuala.bsky.social

Probably the worst of them all is the Ring doorbell. It’s sold as safety, but it’s much more about fear and paranoia in a box that turns you against your community. The more of them in the world, the worse our neighborhoods get. Don’t help the spiral continue. disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...

"All of this, food bloggers say, erodes the simple promise of a recipe: that someone has actually cooked it before you have."

My kid has started designing "coloring pages" that he wants me to "put on the internet" so kids can print and color them. I'll properly scan and upload this eventually but here's a preview of his first creation.

Same, turkey. Same.

As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.

In case you’re ever wondering if there’s a point to calling/emailing your concerns: “Councilwoman Odette Ramos, the task force chair, said … that she and the mayor’s office had received about 1,000 emails about the proposed move to the Jones Falls Valley. Of those, two favored the plan.”

Say no to algorithmic beige

Welp, I'm not getting anything done today.

Friendly reminder that playing Whamapalooza, where you try to listen to Last Christmas as many times as possible, is infinitely more fun than playing Whamageddon.

Why'd I have to go and have 3 whole kids and price myself out of this joy? Maybe I can talk my boss into a raise...?

Children are not therapy Wives are not therapy Marriage is not therapy only therapy is therapy

Pay for art. Pay for creativity. Support artists. They can't keep creating if they can't pay the bills. I can't buy all of the wonderful art/music/books that cross my timeline but I boost what I love and sometimes toss $ into an online tip jar, if available. I want the good stuff to keep coming!

Always worth taking a moment to remind you if you’re pirating authors’ book you’re a shitty person. You can rail that our profession isn’t a profession all you want. You can paint yourself as an online revolutionary liberating ideas. It’s all bullshit. You’re just a shitty person who hates writers.

More reps should do clips like this, featuring the messages we're leaving, because almost everyone I know is calling on the regular.

Infant care around here is over $2k/mo per kid. I had a toddler and infant twins and we paid over $65k a year for daycare. It was ridiculous. And their caregivers were making absolute peanuts.

Sorry to get all earnest for a minute, but here are some ideas about how to say thank you more often and more meaningfully. lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/24/h...

this is not a drag of the writer of this particular piece, which is largely sympathetic, but this line of argument makes me nuts young people are involved in protest and organizing at several levers of power—but they're not able to show up to photo op street rallies at the same rates as retirees

I 100% agree and would add that if you are hosting a holiday event and you do NOT have something festive, creative and delicious for your guests to drink without alcohol in it, you are actually an asshole don't make them drink tap water while everyone else has bespoke cocktails!