My arts and crafts projects for the @nj50501.bsky.social No Kings event

An artist friend of mine has been struggling to get back on her feet after leaving an abusive relationship (among other upheavals) and needs help.

Today’s project is sticky note outlines and wow does “Whoaaaaaa, we’re 20% of the way there!” not hit the same as halfway.

Is there a special dog (or cat [or person]) in your life who needs to know what a special good boy (or girl [or person]) they are? If the answer is no, you should go adopt a pet (or person). If the answer is yes, you should check out this shop. #noprime #wasthattrending #didimissit #fuckbezos

You can get your books for #BannedBooksWeek from an independent bookseller—without leaving your house!

Since 2021, nearly 23,000 books have been banned—proof that fear still wields a red pen. They’re trying to erase stories of race, identity, and love because they can’t erase the people who live them. Read defiantly. Share loudly. Rebel with a book. #BannedBooksWeek

My newest writerly self-sabotage is printing pages single-spaced to save paper and thinking it’ll still be easy to make line edits. #regrats

The world: *is on fire* Me: … okay, but what if I dye my hair about it?

As a child on car trips, I worked through stacks of Mad Libs books. It occurs to me only now that really, if not for that early indoctrination, I probably wouldn't be an angry leftist. This is why we have to control children's literature. How about some Trad Libs? #thisissarcasm #plsnotradlibs

I feel like we've gotten numb to these threats but it really is something to stack them all next to each other www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

Spent approx. three and a half hours babysitting our poor bottom-of-the-line consumer-grade printer as it chugged out five manuscripts’ worth of pages. That, a cat carrier, and some background Unibroue forms a pretty decent self-portrait, I feel.

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

Breaking via Gothamist: "Nearly a dozen New York elected officials" — including NYC comptroller Brad Lander — "were arrested by Department of Homeland Security officers on Thursday afternoon in a protest at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in Lower Manhattan." gothamist.com/news/lawmake...

I wanna signal boost this - I am looking to recruit a prospective PhD student to join my Stress and Health Equity lab at the University of Delaware in HDFS. My research concerns biopsychosocial mechanisms of health across the life course with an emphasis on stress and coping.

The most common lie I tell: “I don’t know what the fuck you think you’re doing.” I almost always know what the fuck you think you’re doing; I’m just disappointed in you for doing it.

Tables turning so fast these days I’m starting to think we’re sitting at a lazy susan …

Meanwhile I’m just writing escapist fantasies about being able to afford half of rent on a one-bedroom apartment while in grad school working only part time. #verisimiliwho?

I keep saying this. The Right fundamentally are *not* hypocrites. They believe in double standards. For them, double standards are correct, inevitable, and desirable, because the idea that certain groups are better than others and should therefore have more rights is the basis of right-wing ideology

The problem with words like "petty" and "childish" is that they minimize the very real, existential threat. That said … petty and childish. Dangerous and scary and embarrassing.

RFK Jr. needs to resign. Now.

Just finished a first draft. 116,162 words, and only 41 of them are “fuck” (55 if we’re including derivations) Thanks to #scrivener for giving me the data that matters

The Body Worlds exhibit at the Franklin Institute in Philly concludes with an interactive wall for visitors to complete the prompt, “Before I die, I want to …” SEE HIM GO FIRST.

Happy back to school season to those who observe!

As a Millennial who is both trans-positive and a vampire novelist, I feel personally victimized by coming of age in the exact target audiences of both Harry Potter (which I loved) and Twilight (which I hated). This is obviously what people mean when they talk about generational trauma, right?

Everybody is talking about the Switch 2, and listen, I love Mario Party as much as the next Millennial, but what about an updated Luigi Party?

I've been reflecting on what it means to have come of age in the era of The Daily Show. Say what you will about Freud (and there's plenty)—psychoanalysis calls humor a mature defense mechanism, and I often feel like it's my one hope for survival. Sometimes all we can do is get by.

Self-portrait in the form of inbox study.

I’ve had enough fucking coffee to know that… Article 1 section 9 and 10 specifically is holy ass white Jesus shit gone from constitution.congress.gov

Having trouble holding yourself to your #NoBuyJuly commitment? Here’s a hack from my cat Special Agent Dale Cooper, FBI: Get rid of temptation by pouring all of your disposable income (and then some!) into emergency surgery.

📢📢 1/8 🧵 We’re back in the age of McCarthyism — but instead of the Red Scare, it’s the *DEI-scare* Health and Human Services (HHS) just blasted out an alarming agency-wide email: They want us to report on each other. (Pretty sure that’s called “snitching.”) DEI-scare Survey ➡️ rb.gy/fnrbgc

Seen this pointed out before but part of the reason AI uses em dashes and rule of threes is because IT’S PLAGIARIZED OFF ACTUAL WRITERS

The thing about the Times is when you look like mamdani you are not owed any privacy even as a teenager while filling a confidential form for college but if you look like Jordan Lasker your identity must be protected even as a grown man while sharing stolen data for the purpose of neonazi propaganda

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New chant just dropped, a remake of a classic: Hey hey RFK—how many kids did you kill today?

The corrupt Supreme Court by the numbers. It’s why the dear leader wants everything to go to SCOTUS. The right-wing majority Supreme Court no longer believes in law, only the power of a king.

Because sometimes we need things that aren’t historic. Anyone play #PokemonSleep and want to be friends?

i don't mean to come off as rude but we cannot sustain ourselves on outrage and anger forever. i think it's even more important now to post about other things too. even if it gets less engagement. you never know who will find it cool and interesting.

Padilla gave this speech on the floor pretty much as the news of Brad Lander's arrest in New York was breaking. Two Democratic lawmakers tackled and handcuffed by federal law enforcement in the span of a week.

My washable marker did not hold up to the steady rain at #nokings in Trenton, NJ, but the energy did—thanks to all who came out together ❌👑

www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/06/12/i... Today marks the 9th anniversary of PULSE MASSACRE 49 beautiful souls killed 53 wounded This PRIDE MONTH 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ In Memory of these loving people . Please fight for our LGBTQ SISTERS AND BROTHERS They are under attack This article shows Desantis cruelty

1/3 Listen to Masha Gessen, a journalist & expert on authoritarianism, warn we are entering “the most dangerous phase” normalization in the decline of democracy. This is the stage when repeated violations of democratic norms—actions that once shocked us—become part of everyday life.

This is the cycle: raid, escalate, criminalize the response, send in troops. ICE raids are not neutral, they’re psychological warfare on communities, and now they’re using military backup. This isn’t enforcement. It’s state-sponsored intimidation.

“I lied. You were right to confront it. I take full responsibility for that choice. I’m genuinely sorry.” - psychologically abusive partners and also Chat GPT

Some days the only thing that gets me out of bed in the morning is the need to pee. Whatever it takes, right?

AI does not dream of electric sheep.

I cannot stress enough how much of a Def Con 1 moment this is. Federal judges fear that the President of the United States will stand down security for judges in retaliation for adverse decisions. This is such a huge story.

Five years since George Floyd was murdered by cop. Trump was president then and he’s president now. I wish I didn’t feel this way. And I don’t think I’m alone. But I’m bracing for something to happen. Because Trump has made it clear from day one: he’s not neutral, he’s aligned w/white supremacy. 1.