Karass, dear friends, fellow well-dwellers (or not)--The Wind-up Bird Chronicle has come to a triumphant end! Next up is Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera--reply to the quoted skeet to join the fun! 🐾👹📖

🐾📖👹 Who’s up for a dizzying month of beauty, love, wordplay, magic, demons, multiple universes and timelines, and generational trauma? Rakesfall is Vajra Chandrasekara’s award-winning second novel, and it is a stunner. Join us this month in the tangles of spacetime. We start reading on the 5th.

Whether it's agriculture in a drought year, overzealous tech and their datacenters any year, or oil and gas because some corrupt government gave them the keys to our future, we are all headed in this direction. We think of access to water as a right, but humans don't always get that right first.

L O fuckin L What pathetically incompetent turdwaffles

Surprise!

Hey man, I got bad news about this Spain/Portugal matchup

But otoh my extremely casual/lazy French team fandom is going extremely well 👀 Liberté ! Egalité ! Mbappé ?

Wow! Alt text: amazing drawing in black and white of a creature with a human face (missing the mouth?), rootlike hair, and a single yellow halo line around the face. Body entirely made of arms and hands in various positions of reaching, & gesturing, like an eldrich angel

A weakness of knowing nothing about a sport is that, when you want to sorta distantly root for all the former YU countries, you have to actually know who’s playing and what all the three-letter codes mean. 🙃 I think there were only Bosnia & Croatia & they’re both out, but JIC: go southern Slavs! 🎉

In terms of both eh direct costs and indirect effects, we've spent 3 times the NIH budget on the fucking war with Iran, and instead of cures all we got was 5 dollar per gallon gas and the loss of all our allies

Something like 99% of all new drugs have come about because NIH-funded academic researchers did 90% of the foundational work for basically scraps, allowing industry to swoop in and pick off the gems for profit off the back of the US taxpayers

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share books & boost all signals. Repost this & let us know what to repost for you. Flying back to Austin tomorrow, so I’m a bunch of feelings in a blender and just want folks to read about home, my friends, magic, storms…and it’s only $13! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

Maybe you don't want to read. That's fine cause nullification is easy: listen to all the evidence, and when you go in and it's time to vote on the verdict, you say "not guilty". Keep saying it no matter what.

Can’t believe people would root for a country that has done bad things. Now to take a big sip of Gatorade and read the history of every other country in the world.

So I know nothing about any of the sports balls really but I just noticed that England is playing separately, not as the UK?? What is that about?? I’m baffled. Unrelatedly, what does it mean to fly the England flag as opposed to the UK one, a) in the UK b) in the US? It’s a lil surprising to me!

Aaaaaah, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!! "Who thought this was a good idea?!" 😂🤣

This… does not sound funny except in a laugh-at rather than laugh-with way?

THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM

Elon Musk is a white supremacist huckster whose business practices routinely leave poor, minority communities stuck squarely under his bootheel:

Today, Liège waffles (middle kid’s fave). My normal recipe is a same-day 1h rise, but Pancake Princess did a Liège waffle taste test and recommends Smitten Kitchen’s 24h ones so we tried those. Middle kid: they’re too light and fluffy and therefore are too much like puff pastry, which is bad? 🤷‍♀️

Palantir CEO Alex Karp couldn’t stay seated in his chair as he proudly stated: 'We kill people sometimes', while speaking to shareholders. (Feb 2026)

Walked past this blooming artichoke today; these things always look so unreal to me.

Chicken katsu with slaw and rice always always hits

It is new. Trump is trying to break the world record for most fireworks. So they're setting off 850,000 fireworks in the span of 40 minutes. Apparently in a normal year it's like 17,000-20,000 fireworks for this show.

🐾 @hleisthen.bsky.social TYSM for organizing this! I was really glad to have a chance to read this wild book again with this wonderful group. ❤️

Chocolate waffles (actually more like chocolate cake made in a waffle maker), youngest kid’s fave.

This is bone-chilling. A conservative hedge fund manager wants to require little girls to pass genital inspections for their “safety.” And it’s only for girls’ sports. There’s a clear link between transphobia and child sexual abuse.

Yessss!!!

Active-duty Army women face a higher risk of homicide than male soldiers, and are more likely to be killed by their fellow service members than by anyone else. We already knew that, but now there are numbers to back it up.

just looked it up to be sure, and ... this man's wife is an American citizen born to non-citizens

“It’s the most wonderful time of the year”—the @romancingthevote.com auction and all the ensuing hijinks and histrionics. It’s amazing to see Romancelandia come together like this (thank you, organizers).

There is still one group of people born in the U.S. who are not entitled to birthright citizenship, even after yesterday’s SCOTUS ruling: American Samoans pay taxes, owe “allegiance” to the U.S., and serve in the military—but have no constitutional right to citizenship: boltsmag.org/prosecuted-f...

🐾📖👹 Who’s up for a dizzying month of beauty, love, wordplay, magic, demons, multiple universes and timelines, and generational trauma? Rakesfall is Vajra Chandrasekara’s award-winning second novel, and it is a stunner. Join us this month in the tangles of spacetime. We start reading on the 5th.

Factors I suspect influenced the Colorado elections that I haven't seen discussed much. 1. Voters are FURIOUS at Jared Polis for pardoning of Tina Peters. The backlash has tainted everyone from his former staffers to other moderates they selected during those same years.

I welcome a fact check, but Spain, a nation of 50 million people, accomplished the bulk of this transition in about 6 years I believe. And that’s *without* the great new batteries.

There have been too many disrespectful comments coming from Democrats about progressive wins. It is clear the American people want fighters, not people who prioritize the wealthiest who buy elections.

Literally where was this fucken loser (not Rick) during “we’re here! We’re Queer! Get used to it!”? Busy trying to become palatable enough to ditch the rest of us I guess.

I got to be here today 😍

Happy pride month all, fuck Palantir

Come one, come all, take the discourse bait & Rank yer Austens!

🐾 absolutely DYING laughing at this Goodreads review “I did not know why I had that feeling, but I was pretty sure that I had it at the time that I was having it. Although later, I was almost sure I had no memory of jt.” www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

🧵🐾 Cinnamon saved Toru from the well May writes another weird letter Kumiko kills her brother and goes to jail Toru visits May and acts like a boyfriend 🤢 And… Toru is back to waiting at home for Kumiko (to get out of jail this time)

I lurve daisies

The clear & obvious text of the Constitution wins by the slimmest possible margin at the 'court' that claims to be its most solemn guardian. This means the fascist movement currently in control of the US federal government is just one (1) vote shy of what it needs to fully suspend the Constitution.

Whew, shudder! I finished this. It’s a horror and definitely made my skin prickle unpleasantly (complimentary, bc horror!)

Book of the day is “Where Peace Is Lost” by Valerie Valdes. Not certain how this got on my TBR but I think I remember it being rec’d by @didichanoch.northsky.social ? Literally no idea what I’m in for. 😅 Always a fun way to start a book!

If it talks like a Nazi, takes over the govt like a Nazi, is corrupt like a nazi, is driven by eugenics like a Nazi, and decorates like a Nazi…it’s a Nazi.

11 stars is a symbol of the Confederacy

I love how she tucks her face like a little bird when she naps. It is so weird and cute. She also goes immediately quiet and calm when her eyes are covered, which is why we call her a bird sometimes.