“It takes hard work to avoid the temptation to recapture the boundless energy and rock-hard abs you didn’t have when you were thirty. But the perks of not changing are 100 % worth it.” Ask me how much time, money, and comfort I have not spent on appearance enhancing products and services!

This poem by Gwendolyn Brooks continues to be an anchor on hard days.

They imagined this and strategized. We have to imagine and strategize more and better. (I am reading Ruha Benjamin’s book Imagination)

building the case to the rest of the world isn’t to explain Trump’s actions are wrong—that’s clear. It’s to demonstrate elite dissent & rejection of Trump’s actions, to reassert Congress’s role in authorizing force, & to create the kind of public noisiness about policy that characterizes democracies

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

From Governance Board's Calendar view, you can submit your public comments, or attend any of the meetings of the Governance Board, or their sub committees. The Governance Board must deliver a plan for how Oregon can finance, administer, and transition to a universal health care system for Oregon.

I feel like people wanting to “solve” uncertainty due to their lack of distress tolerance is part of what has gotten us *here*. But when you remember this, you can handle the scary parts.

Happy New Year to all. We are 25% done with Trump 2. Toast with something sweet with your sweethearts. We will make it through this evil administration. #2026

AI doesn’t know the difference between HEPA and HEP-A 😂

This is a @multcolib.bsky.social appreciation post. I request stuff on ILL not totally getting how it works & the library has emailed & SNAIL MAILED me the thing because they own it already. Part of the reason I can be a working writer with no institutional affiliation is bc of this amazing library.

I like the term "homebody" because it sounds a lot cozier than "intense introvert with crippling social anxiety"

“May the spirit of love and generosity bend the arc of justice.”

Dear Santa, please bring me a progressive primary challenger 🎄🎁

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

There’s a campaign to get rid of District 4’s one good city councilor. You can donate to him here if you want.

Oregonian link with no paywall and link to gofundme:

My cat has to take Miralax via oral syringe. (She is allergic to every effing thing and can only eat her special dry food so I can’t sneak it in anything. She’s also a brat and would know and refuse on principle.) Anyway I got a new syringe and it turns out THAT was the problem!

Let’s fucking goooooooo!!!

I never thought of it this way

I LOVE MY TRANS COMRADES

“The important thing to remember, though, is that IT will HAPPEN”

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

ProPublica management WHAT??? Jiminy cricket. There’s an Action Network email tool in the thread so you can tell them what will happen to their credibility and subscriptions if you want

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

AI is fancy predictive text. IT DOESN’T HAVE IDEAS. You may as well play Mad Libs.

I think the most illustrative example of why AI is so terrible are those fake animal videos. Sure, let's drain the fucking oceans to create videos of animals being funny, something you can easily experience by being near any given animal for 5 seconds

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Universal child care, yes! Coming from a person with no kids who is now beyond the point of having any.

We have art in order not to die from the truth —Neitzsche

The County needs to support our immigrant & refugee community members. Join me & Chair @jvegapederson.bsky.social for a virtual townhall to talk about Multnomah County’s effort to update our sanctuary policies. bit.ly/Multnomah_Sa.... We will limit comments to 3 mins & provide interpreters.

Don’t want them at all, but I definitely don’t want to pay for them and get polluted air and water as part of the deal.

Adding lanes to freeways makes traffic worse not better, and creates even more pollution and other problems. Tell Oregon transportation committee to pick option 3!

Gresham City Council will hear testimony Tuesday night about why standing up for sanctuary status as a city is important. Learn more about it and connect with likeminded neighbors here. #gresham www.mobilize.us/oepindivisib...

reading this my main thought is that the leavitt family appears to be a bunch of degenerates and this woman was unlucky to enter their orbit

A hero whose heroism consists of killing people is uninteresting to me, and I detest the hormonal war orgies of our visual media, the mechanical slaughter of endless battalions of black-clad, yellow-toothed, red-eyed demons.

This sunset today

“When I was small, not much bigger than a pollywog,” said Frog, “my father said to me, “Son, this is a cold, gray day but spring is just around the corner.”

Points are made! What part of “the rent’s too high and the wages too low” is so hard to understand? Until that’s fixed, it’s just rearranging deck chairs infinitely on the titanic. And people making money off Deck Chair Rearranging!

I still remember the feeling of wanting my mom.

I just finished The Scammer by Tiffany D. Jackson and I wish she was on this app so I could politely ask for a sequel! #booksky

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

ʎuɹoH History: Thanksgiving, The Violence They Called Providence 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺, 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘥𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘣𝘰𝘹 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘦. More on this linked in the comments. ♥️ New here? Hi I’m Brooke and I tell the right-wing men in my inbox history until they no longer wish to ‘date’ me. 😉

This family has a loved one who is detained by ICE. They are asking for only $800, I hope that they will get much more.

Link to Part 3

This is probably my favorite feature! It’s never let me down to not ever once use it!

Windmill Farms workers are fighting for a union! Support their boycott. This holiday season, don’t buy Windmill mushrooms! ¡Los trabajadores de Windmill Farms están luchando por una Unión! Apoya su boicot. ¡Estas fiestas, no compres hongos Windmill! #BoycottWindmillMushrooms

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

Kristi Noem et al being sued by FISHERMEN’S WIVES for illegally snatching the water rescue helicopter www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/l...

Not now, Ryan Lizza. Teasing a preview of part 2 with that word in it? If you don’t know that word, don’t google it. DO NOT GOOGLE IT!