What's the word Blerds and nerds the big unc is seeking financial assistance to stay housed. For those who don't know NavyMontel is the lead of tabletop gaming at Blerdcon and a leader in the Blerd community. Any assistance I'm sure is appreciated. Much love 🖤

I don’t know how it gets any louder than this. So if you don’t know. Now you know.

One of the things from Octavia Butler’s Parables that inexplicably NO ONE I’ve seen is talking about it (and her name has been Pavlovian to me for at least 5-7yrs now); ~ The poverty gets so bad & dangerous that ppl start selling themselves into slavery. They exchange all their rights for safety.

Not to mention the fact that drug smugglers on a boat in the ocean are almost certainly nowhere near the top of the organization. It’s like murdering minors in gangs — not that the GOP would have problems with that but people with souls *should.*

I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen 💙📚 Currently obsessed with Simply More by Cynthia Erivo cause I needed it.

Oh this is the easiest (for me) challenge I’ve ever seen! I could probably do 5 per day. But I’ll just do one cause adhd and trying not to overcommit. Check next post!

FWIW & in no particular order, my top 5: 📖☠️ Death of the Author — Nnedi Okorafor 💚🎤 Simply More — Cynthia Erivo ✨😍 Positive Obsession — Susana M. Morris 👵🏾🎙️ Harriet Tubman: Live In Concert — Bob the Drag Queen Oof. Having a hard time thinking of a 5th. I did a lot of rereading this year tbh.

Definitely in my top 5 of this year. Super fascinating. Reminds me of The Fifth Season in that I had to reevaluate my perspective and understanding several time as the book goes on. “Like. Wait. Am I reading what I thought I was reading? Is this… ??? OMFG THIS IS GENIUS. HOW DID SHE DO THIS.”

If you are aware of the pendulum theory we are due for one HELLUVA swing. What we have to watch for is how to stop the equal but opposite reaction in the other direction.

I know , and beloved ? We deserve better We shouldn’t be just hoping for “not getting traumatized today” We deserve REPAIR . We deserve consideration

In another timeline Blockbuster just bought Disney.

Works on *what* for 21 hours a day? Sleeping through meetings?

It’s a public service not a business. Losses are not relevant. It’s in the goddamn constitution. Gonna lose my mind. AAAAAAAAAHHHHH

Now, we get to ‘Vixen.’ ‘Vixen’ is a noun and has 3 senses: 1. a female fox 2. a shrewish, ill-tempered woman 3. a sexually attractive woman Ummm, what’s going on here, Santa?

Yeah no. Could we please please please just *actually* support a woman candidate? Whitmer will be done with her governorship by then. Just sayin.

Sometimes featured photos gets it right.

I keep coming up w more chapters of the dissertation I successfully defended 18m ago. It’s called: “The Use of Feeling: Case Studies of Empathic Communication, Civic Imagination and Popular Culture” But that subtitle needs revising so for now let’s just call it: “The Use of Feeling or (TUoF)”

This is more representative: www.spotify.com/wrapped-shar...

Well. I have a two year old. www.spotify.com/wrapped-shar...

I’m hard pressed to think of an argument that could surpass the amount of damage RFK has done. That is if we’re excluding the man himself.

Dude, I’d have to relive every story. I don’t have the stamina or enough blood pressure meds. For those who do, here’s a comprehensive list courtesy of @mcsweeneys.net www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/oct...

The public deserves to see the video.

is anyone here a psychiatrist I can meet with via telehealth (in Pennsylvania)? mine closed her practice because of new DEA rules (she was all telehealth) and I am struggling to find someone with availability to take on new patients and I really need help, sorry if this sounds desperate

So my son is only 2 but I’m very committed to raising him as a feminist. Yesterday hubby told me that he got baby Jedi the hot wheels version of the Barbie Car from the movie. And yes it is powder pink. Also little Jedi loves saying “pink!” Small but still. I’m so proud of both of them. 🥹🥰

How many times someone explained to you the topic of your PhD.

Toys are art too. But this really does make me think that maybe the reason we disdain pop culture as low brow is so that ppl can get away with doing whatever they want with no consequences.

This is why photography is amazing. Somewhere Susan Sontag is like “yes. This.”

Sinners is on sale for $4.99 on Apple TV

Do we really think he never owned anyone tho?

She wouldn’t be a real corgo if she wasn’t giving side eye.

Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️‍⚧️

Why does it have to be the one day of the week that I actually have to leave the house?!?!? 😭🥶

16 degrees Fahrenheit is not okay!!!!

“Everyone chose whiteness we didn’t see that coming” could be the tagline to all of this But hey folks we’re tired of race and the loss of POC didn’t change anything And we all need to forget

The problem with postdocs in general is that most of them do not pay enough to relocate. Yes 60-75k would be a marked improvement on my most recently salary, but if I have to pick up my husband and my kid and sell my house and all that, 72k ain’t gonna do it.

Introduce yourself in five #ttrpg classes. Uh . DnD 3.5 rogue DnD 3.5 Druid DnD 5 paladin … I’ve played call of Cthulhu — my character was a photographer but I don’t remember if that was her class… Invite me to play more games!! 🥺 Oh I was a sun bear named Sunny Anne Bear in that bear game. :D

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I am begging one, JUST ONE, congressional reporter to follow up with Mike Johnson by asking, "What are the American people to make of a Speaker of the House who tells us daily that he's not aware of what's happening on Capitol Hill and the White House?"

The hilarious thing to me about this image is that this character is based on The Smoking Man from the X-Files, which makes this even more apt.

Tbh I actually don’t care how it’s defined. However you define it. I just think that version is more likely to produce what I’m thinking about

#MixedRace friends (and in this instance I mean no more than 50% of your dna comes from the same continent) do you have any weird genetic or body quirks? For example, I have mismatched ears. One matches mom, one matches dad. Can wiggle mom ear. Can’t wiggle dad ear. Mom = 🇳🇬 Dad = 🇺🇸 ( 🇮🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇮🇹)

Please interact with this thread or I will probably cry about it. Just stating facts.

I just want to play dress up and make cool stuff with cool people. That’s all.

Devastating. Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder. "It is a tragic irony that murals meant to represent the contract between the government and its citizens would be sold to the highest bidder rather than preserved for posterity." www.alternet.org/trump-destro...

IT IS YOUR F-KING JOB TO KNOW ABOUT THE NEWS. JESUS H CHRIST! I can’t stand this reality. Someone please open a portal and send me back to the Faewild.

what if what if what if

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

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I keep coming up w more chapters of the dissertation I successfully defended 18m ago. It’s called: “The Use of Feeling: Case Studies of Empathic Communication, Civic Imagination and Popular Culture” But that subtitle needs revising so for now let’s just call it: “The Use of Feeling or (TUoF)”