one last boost for the morning crowd (I'm very excited about this, naturally)

You know what? Someone just reposted this onto my TL, and it reminded me that I want to read this book, which I haven't yet. Writers, please, feel free to mention your work on this platform now and again because I need reminders. I forget; I'm busy; I mean to but don't. Thank you for your service!

Did my donation to get that amazing match! Go Foodraiser! Feeding kids is our jam.

My kids and notes: Year 10.7 | agaishanlife.com/2025/11/my-k...

When my grandmother's best friend (an immigrant from County Clare) saw my college graduation photos where I was wearing denim shorts under my robes, she said "ach, and isn't a shame that the St. Vincent de Paul only has enough shelves to put out the top half of the pants"

This is because many food banks have limits on how often people can access them — they have to, the need is so great — but that doesn’t mean the people who need food are any less hungry. Mutual aid fills those gaps, and it’s where cash is absolutely less useful (most informal mutual aids can’t do $)

Now ask yourself, why are the media and political parties ignoring sensible laws written by sex workers, and instead trying to enforce the nordic model which reduces safety? It's clearly not because they care about safety, but it's probably a lot to do with bigotry, ignorance, stigmatism.

Did you know that in #Germany, sex workers have actually worked together and written the laws that they'd like to see enacted? Here's SAG — the Sex Work Act, it's written by sex workers for sex workers: smart-berlin.org/en/resources... Give it a read, it's an incredibly sensible set of laws.

It fails to recognize that trafficking happens in every industry, it fails to actually mention that if sex workers actually had rights and support of the government, then they could have actual legal recourse against traffickers who attempt to muscle into the industry.

A little puzzled by the suggestion I just read that anyone believes America has dealt with its racism problem. Whoever thinks that is rather deluded. It hasn't. This country is WILDLY and DEEPLY racist and won't even talk about the roots of that racism.

Still a major favorite

Peeps, here we go.

WAIT what

Totally forgot to share what students actually get out of this deal! Below is a screenshot of this year's Costco order: 1x of most items, then 2x of a few bsky.app/profile/greg...

Trump turned off the Bureau of labor statistics monthly reports... and never Turned them back on

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice. KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond. His reply was a doozy.

Failing on every front. Chicago isn't cowed. The Courts are spanking them (and Bovino is courting criminal contempt) The rest of the country is getting more lessons in how to defeat ICE. Robert E. Lee was a better strategist.

This is high praise for an academic author. It means @laywilliams.bsky.social wrote clearly enough that multiple generations of readers could access his scholarship.

Today is the book birthday for the new expanded edition of THE LOST!!! THE LOST is about a woman who is trapped in a town full of only lost things and lost people... and I'm so thrilled it's out today with a beautiful new cover and a new expanded ending! sarahbethdurst.com/TheLost.htm

My book was one the books these kids saved. They are absolute heroes. But I'm so enraged that ignorant adults put them in this position.

Sharing first sentences of most recent works... "For the whole of the year that I now look back on as the best of my life, Susanna Miller’s act began twenty-three minutes after mine ended." www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-... But also check out Kerstin's book!

These usually sell out fast and they make great holiday gifts. You are also supporting a woman-owned small business too. www.blackbirdletterpress.com/limited-edit...

Look at it like this: a $5 contribution gets +$41 in donations from matchers, then that now-$46 gets another +$46 in matches from LA Brian And that combined $92 all-up donation buys 3 full bags of groceries! 🔥 bsky.app/profile/nark...

*** II. WHAT WE DO *** The sole purpose of this event is helping school-aged kids from lower income families eat during the 2-week school break in December ➡️ In the US, most food aid is school-based ➡️ In NC, access to that aid goes away when schools are closed Dumb? Yes. But so it goes

Correction: I missed someone, so we're at +$41 per donor! bsky.app/profile/greg...

We also have Los Angeles Brian, who you'll learn more about during the history walkthrough! LA Brian does this same sort of thing in Los Angeles, and has offered to match $1-for-$1 everything we raise up to $75,000 USD 🤯

Saved it on the work laptop by mistake, no wonder I couldn't find it 🤪 So matchers! They make things exciting because no one knows where we'll end up 😂 I think I've got all the current matching offers here, basically adding +$36 for each person who donates by this Friday @ 11:59pm PST! 🔥🔥

➡️ Donor Matchers The highlight of this event each fundraiser, we have folks who have agreed to join me in donating a certain dollar amount for each individual contributor across all these donation methods 🔥 So the more *people* who give, the more money the matchers give!

*** 11th ANNUAL BULL CITY FOODRAISER FUNDRAISING THREAD *** It's that time again! 🦃 For the 11th year in a row, we need your help providing groceries to 5,100+ schoolkids! ➡️ GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/11th-annua... ➡️ PPGF: www.paypal.com/US/fundraise... (Plus other donation options in thread!)

Many people were driven into military service because impoverished communities had so few choices for escaping a cycle of poverty, it was the only path by design. This Veteran's Day I think of them, and others who laid down their lives for a country betraying its own principles of "freedom."

This is really good and captures precisely how AI, as a longstanding field of scientific inquiry dating back decades, has been coopted by tech companies into a marketing term for a specific set of practices that bring attention to them.

Already preordered but if you needed a reason to: here you go

also, have you seen Natania's adorable new kitten Salem?

I want to be clear about this: @markwarner.bsky.social and @abigailspanberger.com own any vote by @kaine.senate.gov regarding the shutdown & continuing resolution. Including any vote that does not include 100% funding of ACA premiums.

Good morning Monday! Who wants to take home their very own galaxy? This gorgeous labradorite pendant is wrapped and ready to travel: oishiny.etsy.com/listing/4382... #Handmade #ShopIndie

Imagine meeting someone and what they remember most about your videos isn't your carefully crafted message or cutting-edge research, but the fact they couldn't enjoy any of that owing to a lack of captions. Let us help you guarantee that this never happens.

Trans people aren’t the ones trying desperately to take away our healthcare or food benefits or kill public education or all the other things the GOP is destroying.

I agree with most of this New leadership. Now. Get ready to fight harder in January.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Cowards!

if the Senate has an ACTUAL leader she would be in a back room somewhere telling Kaine and King that they won’t even be able to get a seat on the holiday party planning committee for the rest of their natural lives if they don’t slink their narrow asses back to their own side of the aisle

Absolutely not, @durbin.senate.gov. No promises. They're worthless. Get the actual commitment or no deal. People will die without healthcare.

Add Rosen to the list. It is worth directing enormous constituent pressure her way if there’s a delay. Not up for reelection until 2030 but the most surprising flip on the list, and Nevada has a LOT of ACA subsidy recipients plus high rates of child poverty. thisisreno.com/2025/11/neva...

We walked past the NYT building today and I just want y'all to know I flipped it the bird on everyone's behalf but especially my trans friends

Minnesota cis people, it's especially our time to stand up to do the work so our trans comrades don't need to spend further time and energy defending their right to exist!

$219 received. Desperate #UrgentNeed as they won't take payments past tomorrow. Please #HelpSky 💸 💕

To my other #Virginia people - who do we want in the Senate? Clearly we were snookered with our 2024 votes.

Would like to trade in my senator @kaine.senate.gov. Lightly used, but the blue has faded too much.