Virginia Woolf book cover designs by her sister, artist Vanessa Bell ( 1920's - 30's) #WomensArt

Come for the readings. Stay for the solidarity. #AWP2026

Goodnight bluesky. Here’s a library of all the releases Epstein files with search functions ❤️ epsteinfta.com

You can always check here to find some bail funds to support: www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-dire... - not all bail funds are part of the network but all who are part of the network are vetted.

TL;DR there is a role for you in this work that is at a pace you can handle. Find your lane.

Cruelty is the point.

Dammit @johncusack.bsky.social you made me spit out my tea. 😆

The Ben & Jerry’s Foundation is now accepting applications for the Jerry Greenfield National Grassroots Organizing Grant Program, which provides unrestricted general operating support to small, constituent-led organizations across the U.S. benandjerrysfoundation.org/national-gra...

I’m seeing increased use of this word and I just want to gently suggest that if there’s one word you can manage to remove from your vocabulary it should be this one. It was coined by a eugenicist who used it as a diagnosis to forcibly institutionalize and sterilize mentally disabled people.

If this was any other set of medical treatments, the entire medical community would be scrambling to study how they could improve their own treatments.

US photographer Margaret Bourke-White, Statue of Liberty, 1952 #WomensArt

There is an emerging community led convening occurring outside of City Hall beginning at 6pm. Some councilors will speak starting around 6:30pm. There is no place in this city for ICE.

The number of Gestapo in Germany was 32,000. The population was 70 million. That's one Gestapo for every 2200 citizens. The number of ICE agents is 20,000. The population of the US is 348 million. That's one ICE agent for every 17,000 citizens. There are more of us.

"Almost all the infrastructure we now use to find, access, and read books in virtual environments... has existed for two decades. So why are the vast majority of digitized books still inaccessible on the web?" Monica Westin says it doesn't need to be this way. asteriskmag.com/issues/12-bo...

“It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity... It’s as simple as that.” -Tove Jansson

The wrapping paper is the best part. #catsky

As always, a reminder that according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Jewish people made up less than 1% of the German population in 1933.

Will addiction and recovery modules be next? What a time we live in.

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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Oh the weather outside is frightful And US prices: frightful And the ICE attacks are frightful And war crimes, also frightful And the president's mental & physical health: frightful And our rights being stripped, way frightful And human trafficking: so frightful And everything else is frightful

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You’re locked in a room with a single button that reduces your income by 8% but gives you free healthcare forever and prevents millions of people from experiencing needless suffering and death. Wow what a moral conundrum.

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Three years old.

Happy Thanksgiving

REALLY recommended read…

Additional details: www.uaine.org Livestream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u-j...

Excited to read @jenny-forrester.bsky.social newest book! #goodmailday

Eurie Martin asked for a glass of water on a 95 degree day.

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

'Boab tree's by contemporary Australian artist and printmaker Rachel Newling #womensart

ICYMI: Our ancestors survived by knowing that our fate is inextricably tied to the land and the water, to one another. johnniejae.com/why-indigeno... #indigisky #nativeamericanheritagemonth #nationalindigenousdisabilityawarenessmonth #climatejustice #disabilityjustice

JUST IN: Judge Immergut renews her block on President Trump’s National Guard deployment to Portland, saying her three-day trial showed there was no credible evidence justify Trump/Hegseth’s incursion on Oregon’s sovereignty. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Jan 6 insurrection was successful, & now it gets to be preserved as a success by this administration it brought to power.

Explaining to children that they shouldn't worry about a career because the world will be completely unlivable in 15 years and that death will be a sweet relief from living in a nuclear wasteland is probably the hardest part of working at Build-a-Bear

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

"Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please ... tell us something that will save us from ourselves." ~ Alan Watts

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On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

New filing: "Oregon v. Trump (national guard deployment)" Doc #15: Attorney Appearance Download PDF | View Full Case #CL71481149

My way of coping with all of the madness is focusing on what I can do to make my community a little bit stronger. So excuse me for all of the earnestness, but I wrote about ways we can all pitch in to support a thriving literary culture. lithub.com/how-to-be-a-...

“In my experience, every kind of writing requires some kind of self-soothing Jedi mind trick, and, when it comes to essay composition, this rectangle is mine.” Zadie Smith shares the blueprint she uses to write impersonal essays.