DNC should hire this dude lol

the republican majority leader with a clear vision for the democratic party

Still watching Special Forces this week for Kody fuckin Brown, and somehow I made it to week three without realizing Randall Cobb is in this cast?!?!

Found a Kate Wilhelm in the nearest little library - Where Late the Sweet Bird Sang.

Lately I’ve been idly thinking about trying to figure out what “my colors” are, mostly bc we found this booklet of color recs my mom got done at a makeup counter in the 90s and my sister assured me that I am also “a winter.” Idk. The only thing I know for sure is, I do look good in black.

Okay, I’m really sorry that I’m not gonna alt text every single one of these, but. I searched my twitter for all the tweets I’d made like, “thing, an autobiography by ribbonknight,” and goddamn if I have Always Been Like This

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

stop bringing policy white papers to a propaganda fight if you want to live 2k25

Healing

I need to rewatch, it’s been too long. A solid Halloween movie, :D

Big strong men come up to me with tears in their eyes saying thank you sir thank your for eating the baby

people say to me all the time mr president mr president please, will you eat this lindbergh baby, and i say no you're not al- well i'm allowed i could eat the baby maybe later i'll eat the baby but- baby, what an interesting word, baby, you never hear about babies anymore, unless you're eating them

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

FFXIV had a new patch yesterday, and I’ve been having a lot of fun in the new deep dungeon. My default dragoon outfit is very fitting of a faerie princely theme, and I love it, :*)

These have been making the rounds on tumblr, so you should also see my decade-old fanart of Wicked Lady

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

What podcasts that are NOT new-focused are ppl listening to?

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city. They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Daily bunny no.3100 is just a branch away

Summary of comments: (1) Last study I saw showed USA reading rates *increasing* in kid & retired groups, declining only in working age adults (2) France also has smart phones, video games, COVID etc. (3) Agreed audiobooks are great for commutes, but labor causes the commutes It’s a labor issue.

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

Completely wiped and unable to focus today, called it early and am home now. I guess it was kind an intense weekend, in retrospect - pseudo-car accident and all.

i think the question of "is this Actual Historical Fascism" is not a particularly useful one to spend more than a few minutes thinking about but the stuff this guy thinks needs to be happening to call it that is one hundred percent happening

there are stories that i know it is simply not safe to report even though they are true stories and worth telling, that is not something i had ever experienced before in my career

it's impossible to know what people *aren't* posting and why, but i assure you that "is this safe to post" is a real concern that is shaping the decisionmaking of many real people right now

Today on Okazu – They Were 11! Moto Hagio’s award-winning science fiction epic is out now in a beautiful omnibus edition from Denpa Books! okazu.yuricon.com/2025/10/05/t...

Brown sugar latte

Stella’s limping a tiny bit today, :( she defo got unceremoniously dumped off the backseat when we hit the deer, but. Doesn’t yelp or cringe when we feel her legs, back muscles, ribs, etc.

Antoine a little freaked out by the deer thing - like, I was able to decelerate quite a bit, but the car still threw the deer like 20 ft, and it died. The only damage we can find on my car is that the front license plate is bent. As a frequent pedestrian, he’s a little like: fuck!

This is a good threat, and much better than most of the, “fuck Ezra Klein!” posts with no context.

I think my makeup looks better on days when I stay at a hotel, because I can get way closer to the mirror when applying it, 😂

October 4, 1950: ⁦‪Snoopy‬⁩ makes his first appearance!

The latter. These photos are from media photographers, not from phone cameras. It's because they are reading the texts on their phone while journalists with big lens cameras are visibly taking photos in the same room

are these stories about reading trump administration officials phones in public just a consequence of iphones having amazing cameras now or are these guys just particularly incompetent with opsec

Hit and killed a deer with the car coming off the highway, we and car are - I think?? - fine, but it sucked.

This cast metal statue of trump and epstein holding hands is now back in position in downtown Washington, DC. With the government shutdown there are no Park Service employees to take it down again. 🧪 #TeamFish#GreenSky

“there’s now zero major streaming services that care about typesetting. Crunchyroll is supposed to be the “fan-first” service, something their leadership likes to highlight wherever possible”

FF6 Celes🌹セリス　 （Drawn in 2024）

Justice.gov has a banner to this effect rn also, blaming Democrats, 🫠

“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Watson. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”… “Stuff was everywhere…people’s birth certificates, and papers thrown all over. Water was leaking into the hallway. It was wicked crazy.”

If this is military training, what is he training them for?

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

Cramps are fucking AWFUL today, I think it’s been a while since they’ve been this bad lolsob

You know… Lea killed it on the Oops cover youtu.be/aOnynRPbBpk?...

three young men in the library having a long, earnest conversation about what I assumed was a group project until I heard one of them say "Goku wouldn't do that"

Took a little drive today past the ICE building to get a sense of where we Portlanders are on the war-ravaged spectrum, and there was just one guy blowing bubbles and some journalists.

This is why you should listen to only to people who understand the federal appropriations process. This isn't to wave off the real risks to gender-affirming care AT ALL. It's to just say this is a different fight from the current government shutdown showdown at hand.

But accuracy matters, especially for a vulnerable population like transgender people, who are already afraid as is. Spreading misinformation for such a vulnerable community is not just grifting: it's shouting "fire" in a crowded theater.

So why do I say this? I'm not oblivious to the risks to care for trans people in federal spending bills. -I wrote how Republicans were teeing up to do it in 2024 with @iododds.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... And during the OBBBA www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

So where did PinkNews get the idea that Trump wanted to cancel gender-affirming care? It came from this below Truth Social post wherein Trump said that Democrats want to "force taxpayers to fund Transgender surgery for minors." 3/ bsky.app/profile/eric...