You know what I am going to be today? Today I am going to be fair. Today I am going to have grace. Today I am going to bite my fucking tongue until it bleeds because someone else is holding more pain. Today I decide who I am going to be and good luck to anyone who thinks they can stop me.

I know I famously throw out projects as jokes because the ideas are funny but they're not that good. And then sometimes I am up at 2AM writing detailed field notes for made-up species because it's still funny days later

Normal people get divorced, get a bumble profile, chat about nothing with some folks, maybe meet up. Me? I wind up explaining how the animal spirits do explain the stonks. This is me attempting to be normal and I do not think the mask is fooling anyone. But this dude knows about Hayek now, sigh.

This is a person who works directly with folks who need the help more than most. If they say it's urgent, I'm telling you it's vetted. Let's hit the magic button today, please!

37 hours and 40 minutes into the shutdown, I hit my first "we dont really do that anymore" wall, when a drone overflow me and I dialed the non-emergency line to ask was this a planned flight. I was told to call the FAA, it's their purview. Or would be, if they were open. Bring out your drones kids

Okay fantastic. Now I want you to read these replies and think to yourself hot damn, I might feel like shit is going really awry but that's a lot of people out there just all invested in adding to the well being of anyone who needs to be helped, or held, or comforted, or protected. We got this.

Separate but related: if you have ever been helped at random by me or anyone else and youre comfortable will you please reply here, so they know it already ain't just them up against it and that mutual aid means everyone including you or me or them or they or it or a fucking tree if it needs it, thx

Hi hello. I need a favor. Someone I have helped is feeling kind of a way about it. If you have ever given me money for someone else, could you please reply here with exactly why you did it and what you hope someone got from it? I want them to know how absolutely much it means to yall, too.

In an Uber with the kid. Bryan Adams comes on. Me and this driver, a man of about 60, are jamming. Lily says "why are you like this. A single tear runs slowly down my face gif." And then the line hits "if im with you, I'll take" and you know what happens next

I know that guy ain't been to an ER in a while and also that he ain't from no mountains nowhere cause if he was or had been he'd know the reason ERs are overcrowded is ain't nobody got no place else to go that has to treat them. And half of them are his damn voters.

Anyone that doesn't currently have teenaged daughters: i am being chased across all my apps by the saja boys song from when they're getting everyone to go to hell because the children have infected my algorithms right, like there is a world without kpop demon hunters as a soundtrack

An editor's note for our newest book, A Field Guide to Political Animals of the United States: 2025 Edition

An editor's note for our newest book, A Field Guide to Political Animals of the United States: 2025 Edition

I have just been told by a very kind man at a gas station that he has seen me out sometimes at night and worried about me being alone in this incredibly safe college town on deserted streets with absolutely no munitions nearby that I'm aware of I told him he was very kind and I was sure I'd be fine

My brain: i think i'll do satire tonight, I should turn on shuffle and work some Spotify: oh you wanted the entire discography of the oppressed, got you

Fuck it, time for another field guide. I feel as though my pen might need to rid itself of a drop or two of poison.

Hey Linda did your entire post divorce plan revolve around using archives? Why yes, Other Linda. Yes, it did.

I deleted the post cause I won the bet. You're the best. Stay tuned and ill toss up his YT channel too, guy does cool shit with music

Will everyone please stop explaining to the president how letters work, he's overloading again

TBI SOLVE KLAXON TATTOO MARKER PENS FOR REMEMBERING NEW PHONE NUMBERS SO YOU DON'T WRITE THEM DOWN AND IMMEDIATELY FORGET WHERE YOU WROTE THEM AND THEN YOU DON'T HAVE A HUNDRED RANDOM BITS OF PAPER WITH UNIDENTIFIABLE AND YET CRITICAL INFORMATION THAT YOU THEN HAVE TO SAVE FOREVER

Also I just find it offensive to be condescended to by a woman who wears a stewardess scarf as a jaunty accessory but ties it like a damned ascot. If one must condescend, let us at least do so from a posture with some dignity in it.

For many reasons, I am not going to explain why you should tell everyone you know this, but. Assume every disabled person near you had some kind of recording device on an behave accordingly because if you assume they're stupid and get taped in a one-party state you may find they're not the idiots.

It has just occurred to me that a solid quarter of my favorite albums are a century old, and that actually i am the weird one for knowing every tune in the great American songbook It has also occurred to me that the kids don't know about Billie.

at what point does a government lose all legitimacy

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

Someone made me remember a chumbawumba song and now Spotify is just playing me El Fusilado every twenty tracks and honestly? Okay.

Also, someone asked, so fwiw my take on this mess is that if I were an accelerationist who wanted to seize power I would simply target cities I knew would stage a strong resistance with something they'd find intolerable and then use that to justify further atrocities. So would Machiavelli.

Fuckery averted, thanks everyone! Related: if the house leadership is going to talk about stuff that nobody is paying attention to right now do you think we could convince them to ban nighttime fuckery. Just a thought. Nighttime fuck*ing* is of course fine.

Last time I spoke with Kaleb, that's what we talked about. He was one of the people I spoke to now and again and we just got on. I think he'd just want his work read, that was always the important thing. To see people in their quiet parts and be seen.

I don't like to be someone who knee-jerk bitches about major overhauls (a certain era of internet commenter will remember folks getting exercised about stars and hearts) but this apple glass thing...is really healthy because I am actively avoiding looking at my phone now? Not at all accessible.

I spend weeks asking strangers for cash to help specific cases and get maybe half usually. Give me a staff and a building? I hire all those people to help other people so I can do my actual job. Not rocket surgery.

Who told them

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

Everyone is saying what they don’t wanna hear What do you want to hear? And how much of it is dependent on making sure you ignore everything before it and “ protect your peace”

Also. Folks with difficulties regulating mood: my brain decided this week was gonna be it. We were going to have a bad one. This can be managed, perhaps. What i mean is that I am sorry if you have it real bad. But if you're just afraid you do? Decide what mood you want to be in and do not deviate.

The central point is that when fascism came to America it wouldn't call itself that, nor would it be wearing a swastika. It would call itself "patriotic" and "100% American."

For those wondering It worked. Mood: youtu.be/acT_PSAZ7BQ?...

Now. I feel like shit and I would like not to feel that way and I cannot today leave my house because my body is on fire and so I will go to the internet and say today I am going to damn well help someone because that is how we make pain worthwhile. We use it as fuel. Pay attention to this part:

Hi. I'm saying this for my.benefit more than yours. But just so it's crystal: My name is Linda. I am some bitch from no place you ever heard of, you wouldn't know my family name, and I never went to college. I am not nice, I am not polite, and I am not compliant. I am fucking effective.

You know what will make me cackle in the way only writers can when bad things happen though is if my passport renewal is refused because I keep posting about how many songs people have used to score Richard Spencer getting punched. Probably it'll all be fine, but that would at least be material.

The puppeteer's union has rejected my slogan "We Need More Hand Jobs!"

Fuck

You know that thing where you want to tell someone something for their own good because they'll blame you if they don't get told about it but then they also don't want to hear it because you couldn't possibly have anything important to say? Yeah that is what we call "I tried. Good luck."

Things I can do: complex geopolitical analysis across sectors Things I cannot do, apparently: answer phones without it becoming hilariously bad

Remember too that we are not dealing with one intelligent entity with a master plan to authoritarianism. We're dealing with who, he's on first, and I don't know is running around here somewhere after what. clown car levels of stoplight fire drills. Endless palace intrigues. There is no right hand.

Probably also good I got divorced because I think I'm about to go through one of my intense weird periods where there is no sleep schedule and I'm muttering about obscure commodities in emerging markets and Diogenes when I'm not mainlining Cock Sparrers or paradoxically all of Bizet, for the strings

Really cannot scream loudly enough that for the next while you will feel an urge to hunker and turn inward and that is the last fucking thing we need everyone to do. Now is the time to have weird casual conversations with neighbors and friends about emergencies and to offer what help you can.

Okay so here's where people get unsettled: it really does feel like there should be someone to call and complain to! We were promised a government, damn it! most societies under this kind of pressure learn quickly that we choose society and must always. The only people to call is us a decade ago.

America was designed to not be Praetorian. This depended on the military being overseen by the executive, judicial and legislative branches. It's not a good sign when people are saying they hope the generals feel patriotic and not nationalistic. Power corrupts; power with nukes causes winter.