while Pretti's GFM surpassed $1mil, please don't forget Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, killed by ICE in Chicagoland last September. They haven't even reached their goal yet. www.gofundme.com/f/silverio-v... (gonna be obnoxious & tag @chucktingle.bsky.social @marthawells.com @tkingfisher.com)

New from @stevanzetti.bsky.social and @tristanl.ee: Through analysis of publicly available information, interviews and in-person observation, the Observer identified multiple companies in the Dallas-Fort Worth area operated by individuals with connections to Patriot Front.

liminal space airport at 5am local time- man drinking a beer, couple splitting a bottle of red wine, I am just trying to caffeinate myself enough to have thoughts

"Here is another lesson that can be drawn from this: In the eyes of the state and its agents, all of the rest of us are walking around with a standing presumption, not just of guilt, but of murderous intent." defector.com/ice-agent-ki...

Every time I go on vacation, I swear next time I’ll find the magic shoes that stop my feet from hurting. As of yet to find them.

Beethoven still slaps, unfortunately

Will never stop using this lovely lady as a visual representation of how I feel after international travel. Time change also got me good and I’ve been up since 2am (now 5:45am)

LOVE that my SOP for packing for a big trip is disassociate, panic, and then just get shit done. Can we skip the first two, perhaps?

Murderbot is checking the perimeter. Ilya and Shane are going to the cottage. Even in the darkest times, our imaginations create places for love and safety.

christ, i've had a helluva week. i am going on vacation in 10 days and it could NOT come soon enough. fucks sake let life just fucking chill for a second.

just me, or is it harder for everyone to read stories set in warmth when you are in the dead of winter and it's negative outside? i just keep wanting everyone to put on a sweater and get inside and- no wait it's july there. must be nice

a new winter-time rule i will have to instill in myself is not checking my weather app before getting out of bed in the mornings. it helps no one, harms everyone.

Literally no one is doing it like Defector

having a wee existential moment of staying at my grandparent’s house- they are not here but the house remains frozen in time, as it was when I was here with them as a child. and my god, a lot of this decor has influenced me as an adult and I didn’t even realize.

this is the same theater where we hosted @chucktingle.bsky.social lmao

In a shocking turn of events, I need to go to the store to buy a bottle of hoisin sauce

filling out tax-related paperwork recently and it keeps asking if I’m 40 or older. And it’s such a weird time to fill it out because technically, no. Not for another two months. But so close!

The arc of history is a foot-long, but it bends towards justice.

Everyone who remembers this thread whenever the book comes out

Chicago Mothman shoutout heeeyyy

I ❤️ a man and his emotional support knife. This trilogy is excellent and if you haven’t read it, do it now!

do NOT sleep on Penzey’s

our bedroom has skylights and it’s raining so I had to yell at my husband in the kitchen that my show was on and scamper up to my bed to listen to the rain (not a big lightning storm tonight)

Insanely, I just noticed this happening on Insta. And I only noticed because you mentioned it and I forgot it was about amazon. The weird part on IG is that they dub it with an accent if they think it’s …necessary? I.e, Spanish-accented English with a caption in Spanish.

I contain multitudes

I just had FOUR preordered ebooks arrive in my kindle like a blessing from a kindly god. What a lovely present from my past self, and right when I need it most

I wrote about Bari Weiss as the grim future of mainstream media under billionaire control: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

light a candle or something for the two different job interviews i had this week. one pays more, but the other has an office dog. i would take either position, thank you v much

trying to give a friend book recs and it turns out- a: there's some books i will take to the grave and y'all will never hear about them from me b: apparently if i read sci-fi, it MUST have lesbians c: i definitely have been trending towards fantasy/magic/magical realism lately, for reasons

honestly it's either Mozart, Beethoven, or Credence Clearwater Revival

I would like to take this opportunity to remember Melissa Hortman, a serving Democratic politician assasinated by a right-winger.

What an expertly called shot

have you ever dropped something, only to have it go skittering off into the unknowable abyss? i dropped a s-hook- well i dropped 3 of them but two remained in this plane of existence. the other one has gone on to adventures i cannot comprehend i guess.

why did i think bill pullman was dead? apologies to that man, i guess i just devastated myself for no known reason

sometimes trying to explain something to my husband ends before it even begins because i start with a background thing that i think EVERYONE knows about (ex: so you know the movie 'Psycho' right?) and then i'm just. welp. nevermind then.

loved learning about piss Christ in my history of photography class in college

What a terrific essay. reactormag.com/i-didnt-expe...

i got 25 mosquito bites simply by existing in my backyard for less than a full hour. i am full of hate!!!!!

finished both Hemlock & Silver ( @tkingfisher.com ) AND Lucky Day ( @chucktingle.bsky.social ) and boy! that's a LOT of feeling disguised as fiction! (they were both amaaaazing, highly recommend if you like fantasy/fairytale re-imagining and/or horror with a soul, respectively)

This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read

I’m fun at parties and also baseball games

If I were a curator at the Smithsonian faced with a Trumpist review of the items in my care, I'd take the audit stooges into the deepest part of the unsorted acalyptrate fly collection and have them start there, drawer by drawer, until they die of old age having gone through half of them.

whoooo just saw a sparking live wire somewhere in the alley behind my house! our power keeps flickering! this storm is bonkers.

It’s gonna be a Monster Energy drink laced with ivermectin.

Went to a friend’s place to celebrate her birthday and this was posted up on her back door (this cat has escaped before and is an unrepentant bitch I love her so much!!)

These books are so fucking sexy! @marthawells.com !! (And the universe seems to have rewarded my reckless spending splurge by giving me a second-round job interview tomorrow.)