Be a goldfish. Also? Save a starfish! These are not directly related, but they do matter. www.thestarfishchange.org/starfish-tale

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

Not my good, not my fellas.

You’ve fought your last foo

That Senate. So timely.

As an educator, I have had some good luck lately with, “does this meet your goals?“ Which I now realize is five words And I usually have to follow up with five more, to whit, “What would make this better?”

Always good to know:

Happy Juneteenth from OMCA!

*jazz hands and a Russian accent* Kepitalism!

“That’s all we want is to be in a circle of people who can nod when we talk, in recognition.” -Helen Hunt, on the Humans podcast by Hank Green

More straight-up Nazi shit from this administration.

It’s not hard to do.

One of my small joys in visiting Europe was breaking out a copy of Ticket to Ride: Switzerland whilst riding a train through the Swiss Alps. Perhaps not The highlight of my honeymoon, but a cherished experience even so.

Friends, may I present, HOBBIT WHODUNNIT!!

Just walked into a coffee shop here in Redondo that basically feels like the Mirror Universe version of an Apple Store. Everything is very stark, very precise, very black.

Loving America is like an abusive relationship. I want to love you, but you are not well. With appreciation to Kellie Carter Jackson and Tara Westover. #thisday #anationofreaders

Make a Band Bigger: They Might Be Titans

Finished reading The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai. I wouldn’t have picked it up but for a class, and I’m glad that I did. Between this one and Brotherless Night, it’s been a week of young girls growing up to deal with family trauma and the personal costs of war.

Listen boys, if you’re sick of standing up for men all the time, just tired of defending yourself with a weary “not all…!, “you know, you could just not. We all know that only some mushrooms are poison, but still we warn people not to ingest some random fungus in the woods.

No Star Wars. No Star Trek. Name a favorite sci-fi franchise. Would have gone with Jovian Chronicles, but since they didn’t break out of the tabletop space, I hesitate to call them a Franchise. HG had games, video games, a tv show… c-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhäuser gate…

Well, fuck. The passing of one of the greats, too soon. So it goes. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being John Malkovich

I would happily sacrifice ChatGPT in exchange for some gum one might find beneath a bus stop bench.

Misleading Book Title: Moby Dick Nobody hangs dong, not even the whale. No DJs either

First grade, old Mrs Ward used to dig her talon fingernails into my shoulder if she caught me distracted and off-task. Left marks sometimes. I went home and told my dad about it. He replied, “Yeah, she used to do that to me, too, when I was in her class.”

Valid.

FOXNEWS: We’re getting reports of a multitude of leopards eating people’s faces across the country. Do you have a comment on this? ADMIN47SPOX: We checked with the leopards, and while a face is not a full meal, the leopards are in no danger of malnutrition. The leopards will be OK. (h/t Vi)

This is praxis

“If you value your lives, turn back now. If you think to face us, hope that the gods will grant you mercy, for we will not.” –from Moniquill Blackgoose, To Ride a Rising Storm Dayum. Book three cannot come fast enough. I will wait, with all the patience of Kasaqua.

They take the mask off entirely and beclown themselves.

Woke up to find it softly raining. In Northern California. At the end of May. Lovely, yes, but what the hell

Crying over milk on the floor? spill issue

Note to self.

Yeah, about that…

I sat down in a junior college math class next to a musician. Meeting and befriending him led me to be in a band, move to a new town, encounter ttrpgs, meet the folk that would get me out of small town life, and eventually lead to the love of my life, and the best job in the world. (1/2)

Ouch

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians that you’ve seen live “Weird Al” Yankovic Tim Minchin The Bobs They Might Be Giants The Red Hot Chili Peppers U2 Orville Peck Garbage The Rolling Stones Girlyman Rob Christensen

What’s the over under on the year of the Republican Party will have made itself so toxic that it never wins another national election l, à la the Whigs? It really feels like Trump is driving the GOP off a cliff.

dude adjacent

Yup

These tariffs were designed in consultation with my Council of Economic Advisors

Oh, Karl Rove. If I wanted your opinion, I’d pay you to have one. I see someone else already has.

Make a band out of 2 others. Fleetwood Machinehead

Chuffed to be the 113th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for The Old The Cold The Bold: 2nd Edition! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...

Kelley rockets in for the lead! #OaklandRootsSC

The most recent meme in your camera roll describes your current mental state. Well shit

Slightly heighten a book. Klara and the Sunfish

“slightly diminish a book” The Remains of the Daydream Klara and the Sunflower (h/t to vi for) Naked Brunch

Let’s go Oakland! No shade in Loudon, but I need a lot of goals today. #LFG! #RootsSC #USL