I love love love that they hired a painter to do these portraits and then acknowledged her by name. Artists of all kinds supporting each other is so beautiful.

a lovely obituary but this in particular really got me

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

As much as her more recent bent was … problematic, to say the least, this is still sad to hear. She was such a filk institution — I think hers were among the first songs I ever heard.

Evergreen:

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

For everyone traveling, a reminder to masks up and avoid spending your holidays sick. 😷✈️🦃

Remember: don't eat the mid tier fast food chicken, don't play the wizard game, don't shop at the hobby store run by the bad guys from Indiana Jones, and don't donate to the bigot bucket.

Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made. Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊

It is genuinely insane how bright and distracting car lights are now

The many same faces of Mr Angry Brows (Pelegrina galathea) over the years 😠🤎 #EmotionalSupportSpood

shut the fuck up ai overview nobody likes you

THIS IS IT. THIS IS THE ONE. FOLLOW THE LEAD OF THE SURVIVORS ALWAYS. Help make this go viral. Please.

Introverts are unique creatures. We want to talk, just not with everyone. We like going out, just not with everyone. We’re fun, but not with everyone. We don’t mind being the center of attention, just not from everyone

setup a recurring donation to PBS while you’re there

I'm Jewish and I don't care, sometimes smol sampler things are where it's at. So ... probably fountain pen inks. I've done Bonne Maman and loved it, and alas most food ones contain verboten death ingredients so those are tragically out. (Ways to kill me: make a Really Nice Fabrics advent calendar.)

AUTHORS!! Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON? Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen. More here:

There should be a German word for white men who cannot conceive of possibility they'll be held accountable for their own actions.

This year has been the longest decade in centuries.

Readers in Arizona, Michigan, & Georgia! Your senators have been getting a LOT of dedicated pressure to end the shutdown, without fixing healthcare. If you have a minute, go ahead & give them a call! Their job is to respond to constituents & they're mostly hearing from GOP voters rn.

Without weighing in on my thoughts in the Zionism vs. antizionism discussion (tl;dr complicated af), this remains something antizionist goyim *desperately* need to understand. We have literal generations of trauma in the diaspora showing that safety is at best transitory. Do better; prove it wrong.

I love this news playbill.com/article/repo...

Thank you to everyone who voted! You are gorgeous human beings.

please vote. please. please. please. please. show these fascists and billionaires we're fucking done. show the corporations and universities that we're against this and if they stand up to fascism, the public will be there. do what we failed to do last year. please.

“My tax dollars are paying for their steak!” Yeah, well, my tax dollars are paying for ICE to threaten and abduct my neighbors. Steak sounds better.

it should be illegal to move your cat off-camera during a Zoom meeting

'My name is Fozziemandias, king of kings; Look on my wocka wockas, ye Mighty, and despair!'

With SNAP/EBT cuts looming I highly recommend downloading this app! Basically restaurants and other food businesses will have available bags of random food they don’t wanna waste for ppl to buy for hella cheap! This has saved me sooooo many times when I only have $5 and need some food.

This is an especially worrying statement when facial recognition can be inaccurate, biased, and generally make mistakes. Basing whether someone should be in the US or not, and ignoring physical media like a birth certificate, is ripe for disaster bsky.app/profile/jose...

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

You had me at “fancy cheese vending machine”

Not gonna lie, I don’t even go here but it’s pretty funny watching all those who do right now joining me in “oops, why am I still awake”-land. (Here, obviously, being Baseball.)

Findhelp.org is a free resource where you can search by ZIP code to find food pantries, emergency groceries, and support services near by. You don’t need to sign up or explain yourself-just enter your ZIP and get connected. And if you can give, now is the time. Every donation, every share matters.

(sigh) It wasn't a lot of fun to put together this year, but here it is: My official 2026 #ACA Open Enrollment Period Tip Guide. Twelve important tips to keep in mind before you #GetCovered (some of which are even more important this year) acasignups.net/25/10/27/slo...

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

They don’t even pretend to care. This is the only story. You can’t open the government if the House refuses to show up.

you have been visited by Baby Bison and will now enjoy 48 hours of elevated serotonin

This is amazing. 🤩

Rough math: 12.3% of Americans (41.7 mil) are about to lose SNAP. Many food banks produce 3 meals per $1, so a November worth of meals for one costs $30. Round it up to $35 for asst. costs & hygiene products. If 13% of us donate $35 each to food banks, we can get everyone through Nov! #EndHunger 🥙💪

"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it

Food banks need money if you’ve got it. For everything else, contact them and ask—some can take donated meat by hunters or eggs from backyard flocks, some can’t.

If anyone can help @catvalente.bsky.social get the dog of a family member who passed unexpectedly moved cross country please contact them.

The response last night was so overwhelming, I need a new thread So a family member died unexpectedly & left behind this sweet girl, who’s now on a 5day hold at a shelter in Eugene OR. I need to get her to Portland Maine to adopt her. Some offered to chain a ride. Can we get her coast to coast?

Old Soviet joke: Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three? One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals