He lived through slavery and did nothing. Good riddance.

Today's the day.

Fundraiser for librarian Luanne James, who stood up to her rightwing library board that demanded she remove kids books with any trace of LBGTQ+ characters or content. "I will not comply." They sacked her and cops escorted her out. She's a hero. This banned author just donated.

Yes, this is real.

Today is the Trans Day of Visibility, time for an annual reminder than trans people have always been here, including iconic fencer/spy/soldier La Chevaliere d'Eon! Read her whole saga here: open.substack.com/pub/vulgarhi...

While we're at it, call your legislators and tell them you don't want HR 7661 KILL IT KILL IT NOW

Visibility feels very not needed. I'd rather make trans books visible, especially if they have a trans main character(s)! So drop us your trans book recs! If you're a trans author & or have a trans MC; give us a description, link & graphic of your own books! 🌈📚💙🏳️‍⚧️ Boosts appreciated!

John Waters at the No Kings protest in Provincetown.

I agree with this. But also, if you're going to watch this anyway, the very least you can do is to not tell me about it, tbh.

I'm a #SundayLibrarian today and a patron just asked my heathen ass if today is Palm Sunday, and I was like uhh let me check. Turns out, it is, and Google has some other stuff it thinks I might want to know

If you think No Kings is too vague or insufficiently radical, I sincerely encourage you to go to your local No Kings rally tomorrow and hand out flyers/zines to recruit folks to your org/cause. It's a perfect recruitment event! Thousands of people eager to DO STUFF! Get out there!

thus proving whales are among the most intelligent creatures on earth

Last night I dreamed that someone was telling me that guanábana ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soursop ) is just guava and avocado combined and I was REALLY upset about it because a) that is not correct and b) I do not like avocados. Can't believe my subconscious is serving me produce disinformation

So, a reason I keep sharing alterna-reads to HP is bc I'm not talking to superfan adults, I'm talking to parents/teachers/librarians who are making book purchasing choices for kids -- I really think it's a needed step in killing the cyclical support this series gets

This dreadful book banning bill, H.R. 7661, has made it out of committee and into the House. It's time to call your reps.

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

My nocturnal son Omoo is so based he went to a fancy sushi place and ordered insects. The waiters were shocked because no one had ever ordered insects before! Omoo uses echolocation to find small insects and then eat them. He also hangs upside down. I know what you're thinking but he's not a bat

it's really rude that I have to work today, on Stephen Sondheim/Andrew Lloyd Webber's birthday. This should be a national holiday! In the US and the UK!

me doing yesterday's Wordle

It is quite telling that since the horrific story of Cesar Chavez re: sexual abuse broke earlier this week and calls to change the names of schools and other public spaces named in his honor, not one conservative voice has stepped forward to object that this would be tantamount to erasing history.

Good morning! You have 6 hours to snag one of these cool as hell queer FUCK ICE hats my beloved has made for the @ourfamilyourfight.bsky.social Fandom Craft Fair! Money goes to the American Immigration Council! Links below!

This has long been the first thing I think of when the name Chuck Norris is mentioned.

In honor of Mr. Rogers’ birthday, here’s your regularly scheduled reminder that the quote of his you keep sharing, that in times of crisis we should look for the helpers, was for his audience of children. We’re adults now. We’re supposed to *be* the helpers.

This is a fabulous interview with @tkingfisher.com! Everybody should read it. (And I saw whut you did thar, mon ami. Thanks very much!) ☺️ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/books/review/t-kingfisher-wolf-worm.html

Surgery was unexpectedly delayed for a few days, so I'm still crowdfunding. If you have a few bucks to spare or even just a RT, it would really help.

I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”

I've been trying to write about the (ongoing!) ICE presence in Minnesota but my scope is limited by being a white guy amid all this. My daily life around ICE is very different from people of color. That's why we put this interview in the Depresh Mode feed today: maximumfun.org/episodes/dep...

There's never been a more important time to promote trans superhero comic books.

Put Dolores Huerta’s name everywhere instead.

me: (getting a crown put on my toof 👑) dentist office radio: anyway here's Wonderwall dental assistant: (humming) oh who sings this? dentist: hmm, I can't remember me: (mouth fully numb) ith Oathith

Okay, the #TransRightsReadathon auction is up, and I have an offer in there! Drumroll... I will put your pet in my forthcoming book. Name, description, personality! (Nothing bad will happen to them, I'm not a monster.)

I pretty much agree with every word of this. Buffy could potentially be expanded on and updated in some interesting ways, but Firefly is over. Let it go.

Me explaining to everyone why we should abandon Bluesky and instead each make handcrafted webpages and form a web ring and never allow a corporation to use our culture and communication for something as unimportant and vain as profit ever again

My friends! I come to you with a request. @naomi111.bsky.social and I have been organizing mutual aid to feed families who are too afraid to leave their homes with ICE occupying our city. Right now we don’t have enough money to cover another grocery run. So here I am asking for your help!

Lincoln's New Salem, which is a historical reenactment village for specifically the era when Abraham Lincoln was the postmaster. Highlight: old-fashioned stick candy in the gift shoppe!!

This is an enormous step forward for women of people.

"Linda was gentle. That’s why I fell in love with her. She loved me more than I had ever felt in my whole life. She made me feel safe.” Linda Davis was a victim of ICE & their contempt for human life - if you can, please join me in supporting her wife & family: gofund.me/7fff2efa7

BEST BROOCH, an award that is important to me personally

let's not ignore a serious issue just because it's politically incorrect to point it out: a man has never won Best Casting

Send us your zines! - #ZINEPAVILION Your zines will be seen & enjoyed by thousands of library workers at American Library Association’s 150th Annual Conference and will become an important part of the Zine Pavilion. Zines will be raffled off to help build new zine collections &

Great North Minneapolis aid opportunity

you do not have to do racism to experience “the frisson of transgression” you can simply shoplift an eyeliner pencil or cheat on your husband instead

I have a really dumb bee in my bonnet which is that there's a new YA novel that people are hand-wringing about having a "graphic nonconsensual threesome" in it, so NATURALLY I read the book and transcribed the whole threesome into my GoodReads review and it is MILD www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I got a push alert that Maya Rudolph is playing Mary Todd in Oh Mary and I GASPED ALOUD

me irl

the men are onto my feminist microaggression of always offering them pink highlighters when they ask for one. this guy just looked at me and said "do you have a yellow highlighter? YELL-OW?" unfortunately the pink one is missing so I had to give him a yellow one, very discouraging to me