🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.

Sorry I can't come into work I'm evil

On this World AIDS Day, we leave you all with a message from @drdemetre.bsky.social former Director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. #WorldAIDSDay #2025 #AIDS #HIV #PublicHealth #Prevention #Treatment #Remember

I’m still thinking about this and it really is one of those “everyone thinks Elon Musk is a genius until he gets involved in your field” moments. I’m gonna be a total bore and think about this seriously, please don’t read on if you don’t care what a landscape architect thinks about this shit… 1/?

My mom's birthday. She would have been 84.

If you like to read self published and small press books or play games by anyone not a huge studio, track this bill: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c... So, what this does is mean that if any of us in the U.S. hires ANYONE not in the U.S. to do ANYTHING - cover art is a biggie, but also layout

Yeah, fuck that.

“Now we have no more cookies to eat,” said Toad sadly. “Not even one.” “Yes,” said Frog, “but we have lots and lots of will power.”

I'm not sure there's ever been a physical object I couldn't find a way to ruin.

[December 1st, 1945] National Airlines launched a new service between New York and Miami, with a stop in Norfolk. Shuttle flights between Norfolk and New York are expected once 18 Douglas planes are added. Food prices in Norfolk rose slightly, and a woman lost her false teeth in a storm.

This is probably my favorite movie for 2025.

Whistle zine google doc is updated all the time, it's a great resource drive.google.com/drive/folder... It's SO important for folks to know what their rights are, pls research this. KYR cards in many languages here: www.ilrc.org/redcards

One of the very few things I don’t like about Bluesky is that there are currently less than a dozen search results here for “Grunge Frasier.” This will not stand. In honour of my brother Jon, who created it and who is not on Bluesky, here’s “Grunge Frasier.” youtu.be/jl1vN-3jiT4

Please stop and enjoy a few moments of our happy sheep munching a mountain of pumpkins. 🐑 🐏

Allez hop, on se bouge ! Gogo Gadget aux ressorts ! 😂

Wake Up Dead Man already completely sold out for tonight at the only theater showing it near us. Take note, Netflix.

Last night the mischievous cat had to be rescued from a paper bag handle. I thought that commotion was why the youngest kitty wouldn't come upstairs to eat this morning--till I saw the scattered bits of fur (squirrel? rabbit?) in the yard. 😬

We’re the only country that lets the gun lobby write the laws and then pretends to be shocked when children end up in coffins. NEW UPDATE: The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office has announced that four of the victims shot in the Stockton mass shooting were ages 8, 9, 14, and 21.

Impossible sometimes not to think--as I lift weights in a room full of mostly other middle-aged women lifting weights--that we're training for the resistance.

There aren't really shortcuts to writing, the process is bumpy, you take the thing in your head and try to explain it to others. You can't delegate that to a machine that can't really see into your head. 🧪🩺 #ScienceSky You must struggle through it because the struggle is the point.

Hi! We're a small business & we'd love to get a sale today. 1st time since we set up in 2015 that we've had no traffic on #SmallBusinessSaturday It's so hard, we know everyone is spread thin. Us too. But if you like vintage / gothy stuff, everything below is still available, thanks for your time:

zoomers are ruining the planned obsolescence industry

I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape

I don't know who decided that "pet" is an acceptable past tense of the verb "to pet," but I'd like to have a word. *continues to conceal bludgeon behind back*

Jesus Christ, the "remastered" Beatles Anthology documentary they re-released is filled with AI slop. Look at John and Paul's faces, and the "T" on Beatles.

my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI

The scene now at Lafayette and Howard, diagonal to the ICE garage which activists remain camped out in front of on both sides of the building.

Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.

And this is why voice actors are fighting so hard for AI protections in their contracts. g33khq.org/amazon-ai-du...

Thank you for the huge donation of pumpkins!! Everyone is loving them today!

FOUR-DAY WORKWEEK! Kickstarter workers unionized, went on strike, and won a four-day workweek.

Home Depot wanted holiday cheer, got a whole-ass choir calling out their partnership with ICE instead…

In other words, it's the people who don't have real jobs that use it the most. Which scans, frankly.

Pick it up at any of the sites listed here! It's extremely funny, was way more timely than it got credit for, and has been very close to being a television show twice now so that has to count for something.

A long read about water pollution, data centers, agriculture, and insider trading in Eastern Oregon.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

The magnitude of the change over time is striking. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

What the actual fuck is Statista doing with this graph?

/2 Nearly 40 years after the Jamaica bobsleigh team's first Winter Olympics inspired the film Cool Runnings, it made history again last weekend by capturing its first ever gold medal at an international bobsleigh competition.

Jamaican bobsleigh team captures historic gold medal at Whistler competition Victory comes just weeks after country was devastated by Hurricane Melissa /1 thread www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

The Administration’s response to the DC shooting is a classic example of what cognitive psychologists call the Availability Heuristic, where someone generalizes from a vivid event and erroneously applies it globally to all people of a certain category. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...

Kudos to my mom for all the holiday dinners she hosted, because it really is quite a lot.

Mexican Gothic Lace Palette Trio This month I wanted to draw some lace and my patrons voted on the theme and color palette. For this set I imagined book covers or movie posters to stories that don't exist In my store now for $20 and $2 shipping world wide yoshiyoshitani.store/products/mex...

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've been to: Cocteau Twins Chameleons Aimee Mann Metric Orville Peck

Indigenous actress Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake

Greetings from a microbiologist (yep!): think of food safety this holiday! - Cook/reheat foods until at least 160F - Don't let your food sit out for hours on the table, it will reheat fine - Use VERY CLEAN serving utensils and platters for your food (keep your hands and licks to your own portion) 🍗😋

This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

Day 330 of #365DaysOfSmiles Those handbag thieves on public transportation are getting bolder every day

Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.