These are not the droids you're looking for, Charlie Brown.

It's officially ❄️ season. Weather Buddha has his new, freshly crocheted scarf for the season!

So I was invited to accept an award for "imagination in service to society." This forced me to think a bit about what "imagination," "service" and "society" mean to me. Here's the speech I delivered last night: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

Fuel for your weekend: How to be more alive – artist and philosopher Rockwell Kent on breaking the trance of near-living www.themarginalian.org/2025/04/06/r...

Your reminder to go outside, breath deeply, connect for a moment with the wildness we are created from. Turn off the noise created to distract, induce fear and scarcity. It is a feedback loop. Discern carefully but remain vigilant. Protect your inner peace. ✨✨✨

Me, running away from my problems

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

#store Have you seen my BRAND NEW coelacanths skirt?? These living fossils have swum all the way from the Cretaceous period to live in modern oceans, and now they can even swim around the hem of your skirt alongside other deep-sea critters against an enchanting starry background!

Warren: "With Jeffrey Epstein, I really mean follow the money. Here's the deal - JPMorgan Chase - yes, Jamie Dimon, I'm looking at you -- is Epstein's bank, a close personal relationship that spans years. Shouldn't this be in the JPMorgan's ads?...I'd like to have Dimon come in & under oath testify"

You’re not beholden to respond to every rando that decides to challenge you on something just b/c they had or are having one bad experience. Some people on this app simply like being argumentative and confrontational for the sake of it (especially twitter/X refugees) and nobody is entertaining that.

"Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others." An Alan Watts classic on becoming who you really are: www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/06/a...

Owl Lake – a vintage treasure from Japanese artist Tejima www.themarginalian.org/2025/05/23/t...

Beaver-engineered habitats are outperforming ours. Two studies find that beaver-engineered wetlands attract twice as many hoverflies, nearly 50% more butterflies, and a richer variety of bats compared to human-made ponds or free-flowing streams. www.anthropocenemagazine.org/?p=239258

Periodic PSA, the only currently licensed Murderbot merch is at Worldbuilders Market, where it's sold as part of a charity fundraiser. You may want to sign up for their new product notices because they should have a new Murderbot thing coming up: worldbuildersmarket.com/collections/...

Steve is back from the pub. I can tell something has happened. He has shenanigans written all over his face.

I want to very gently say something, and I hope nobody will be mad: If somebody on the internet says something that is NOT about politics and NOT about how terrible everything is, it’s a kindness not to reflexively make a comment (in jest or not) that brings it back to those things.

VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM, YOU FLAMING SHITBIRDS. WE HAVE, IN FACT, NOT IGNORED YOUR NOW-DEFUNCT HYPOTHESIS. WE INVESTIGATED IT TO THE TUNE OF STUDIES WITH DATA FROM MILLIONS OF KIDS.

Kaylee had her surgical consult and CT scan yesterday. I've got a lengthy update here: www.gofundme.com/f/save-sweet... The short version: She could live several more years if only we can pay for the surgery. Any help is so gratefully appreciated. #uglydogs

Today’s advice from your Goth Auntie -Unclench your jaw, drink some water, take your meds. -Worrying is worshipping the problem. (I saw that said elsewhere and winced at the truth of it.) -The Cursed Object said today is “naps only”. Oh, if only I could do that. ❤️ Auntie Jilli

There's only one for me.

In case you’re interested: The radio documentary was part of the BBC World Service’s “Heart and Soul” series. It’s available to listen to now on BBC Sounds and such!

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

"The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time." A Mary Oliver classic on creativity: www.themarginalian.org/2016/10/12/m...

Wearing the Chasing the Ghost tee makes you 73% cooler…or at least we like to think so. 😎 Pre-order now, just over a week left!” www.collide.net

Hi. Could at least 40 people buy a Life of Sharks 2026 Calendar? For a project I’m working on* thelifeofsharks.com *my overdraft

If you light a lantern for another, it will also brighten your own way. ~Nichiren Daishonin

Elder Goth is ELDER. #ImSoOld

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

I've now heard from 3 authors targeted on X by a scammer impersonating Lois McMaster Bujold. Bujold impersonator refers author to "Eleanor Wood at Spectrum Literary", also an impersonation. Goal: to sell editing svcs. Scam is impersonating multiple authors & agents writerbeware.blog/2025/11/14/i...

We've almost finished emptying my mom's house. Bittersweet, but a relief nonetheless. Just one last donation run, sorting through photos, and getting the cleaners in. Probably will have the house up for sale in a few weeks. Seven months. I'm exhausted, as are my siblings. But life moves on. ❤️😭

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have just identified a powerful new antibiotic that is 100x STRONGER than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA and VRE. Hiding in a well-known soil bacterium, pre-methylenomycin C lactone KILLS drug-resistant bacteria WITHOUT triggering resistance.

How to love the world more – artist and poet Rachel Hébert’s breathtaking catalogue of gratitudes, one of the most moving, miraculous things I have ever encountered: www.themarginalian.org/2025/11/16/r...

YAAAASSSSS! IRELAND!!!

mistakes were made 💀

For some reason that link triggers security warnings on Safari, so I just googled real quick and found a second article covering the research paper. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is HUGE!!! #ScienceNerd #HealthNews

The measure of a visionary – Jane Goodall on the indivisibility of art and science www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/01/j...

Yes. This. So tired.

Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.

For whoever needs this. *Yelling fuck is mandatory. It helps. It’s science.

Tie between What Dreams May Come and Dead Poets Society

Blasting this on the telly right now (thank you casting!) #DMFangirlSquee #44YearsAndCounting

GOOD NEWS! A groundbreaking study in MORE THAN 1,000 people reveals that cancer patients who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy lived dramatically LONGER than those who didn’t. In some cases, their survival rate was DOUBLED.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

We’ve served our country in uniform. Now we are stepping up to serve again. We are The Hell Cats — four female veterans that are going to flip the House in 2026. Join the mission → www.hellcats.us/