I straight up gave a friend $100 to help her get a Gaiman-related tattoo covered up. You think I'm gonna lose a minute of sleep over a *politician*???

November gloom/pre-holiday season has officially arrived, time for me to fall down my annual old timey radio rabbit hole & listen to nothing but wartime broadcasts from now until January.

HAPPY EXPLODING WHALE DAY! (this whole thread is great)

Super love to spend enough of my yesterday in unexplained & sustained tachycardia that I got literally zero sleep & the ECG my watch took at 6:30 a.m. was concerning enough that my dr. has made time to see me THIS MORNING. Exactly what I needed, on my day off and also just in general.

Dear Seattle friends:

I got my gallbladder out at the end of September. And this doesn't include the anesthesiologist, who billed his services separately from the hospital and for my portion that was another almost $700.

Any other #UglyDogs go to the @portugaltheman.bsky.social show & do the [Leo DiCaprio point dot gif] at the sled dogs???!?!!

Making my holiday movie girl's nights plan & the ONE Hallmark channel Hanukkah movie sounds like a supercessionist piece of trash called "Oy to the World" Nothing's going to beat 2023's flawless Groundhog Day inspired "Round & Round" but COME ON. At least TRY.

Temu Batman Villain and proud Richard Nixon tattoo afficionado Roger Stone is launching a menswear line? Where's it gonna be sold, Spirit Halloween?

The level of support that my neighbors are showing for the victims of this is heartening, and I'm trying to focus on that more than the folks who say these people deserve to be treated this way.

I'm from a rather small town at the southern end of the Willamette Valley. I live in Portland now, in a neighborhood about 30 minutes away from where the ICE shit is going down. People back home are worried about me being "so close" to the ICE facility. I've never seen them in my neighborhood...

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

When my grandmother was slipping into dementia, we put nametags on the photographs that had hung in her home for decades. Her parents, children, late husband, grand & great-grand & great-great grand children. All labeled. Just saying, I am reminded of that today, for some reason.

Hogan Gidley shut the entire fuck up challenge.

I run Portland Burrito Brigade, every month we make a few hundred burritos for people who are homeless, food insecure or just hungry. We're volunteer managed and powered by donations. If you feel so inclined, our cost per meal is about $1, donations of any size make a big difference! bit.ly/4n05nN0

🧵Thread of cafes, restaurants, bars, bagel joints, etc offering free meals to SNAP recipients, for those who might need it, & so those who don't can give 'em their business. If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s. Here's one! toastedseattle.com

Would be REAAAALLY interesting to know if these layoffs (and the corresponding ones at Paramount under Ellison, for that matter) comply with NY's WARN Act, since Weiss hasn't been in charge for 90 days yet... dol.ny.gov/system/files...

French bakery in Bed-Stuy offers free breakfast to SNAP card holders

Hundreds of Somerville families are set to be impacted by the SNAP shutdown. Every school in Somerville has put together a fundraiser in record time and are collecting grocery store gift cards and money to buy more gift cards. If you’re able to help, please pick up a couple gift cards...

Mt. Hood Community College also has a free food pantry that students can access once per week (valid MHCC student ID required, and it's a "shopping style" pantry - you pick what you want & there's no limit on what/how much you can take on any given day). www.mhcc.edu/student-reso...

Someone has put together a VERY thorough list of resources for people in the Portland area who need food. For those who have enough to share, please consider putting your time and/or money somewhere. For those who need help, here are places to get it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

LABUBU-SIZED WOMAN. LA BU BU SIZED WO MAN 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

Sometimes, even now, in the midst of ::waves arms generally::, the internet does something amazing and good and kind, because PEOPLE make up the internet, and PEOPLE remain capable of great acts of kindness.

I've called my mother's bestie Joann, my godmother, "Aunt Joann" my entire goddamn life. My parents also had friends who were Auntie & Uncle. My dad's sister's husband wasn't given the title "Uncle" before his name until I was 10. The fuckin' attempt at a gotcha here is infuriating & racist & gross.

It seems to me, who knows an avg. of 3.27 facts about any given sport, that "letting a game run past the time that a concert would be allowed to go" is unreasonable. Let the stickball men go home & resume the contest tomorrow, after everyone's had a good night's sleep, or just call it a tie.

My senior year of high school, the winter show was The Hobbit. Enough of the football team had crushes on the usual Theater Girls (myself included) that about 1/2 the cast was linemen. Poor Mr. Hummel, having to change everything about how he directed because of that cast.

Fund Me Fridays is back! In honor of Link, who remains unjustly banned, I will be reposting mutual aid links under this thread. Drop your links and let’s meet some needs!

I don’t even play video games and I can tell you this is laughably bad. It’s like having a stroke while drunk at a 2000s college LAN party

OK there is ONE exception to "stop giving men microphones."

Storytime, about an actual Nazi tattoo cover-up. So my mom had these friends, Mike & Eileen. Eileen had a son from her first marriage, who we called "little Mikey," to distinguish him from his stepdad. Little Mikey was 15?ish? years older than me. He went to prison for a little bit, late 80s.

Again, dismantling ICE and DHS is the moderate position. Even if you're a centrist squish who thinks strong, competent immigration enforcement is important, you can't have that with a rogue agency.

One of the feds who processed my arrest in 2020 had one of these fuckers around his elbow.

Live your life such that when you slip into dementia, the people around you love you enough to take you out of the spotlight, care for you, unplug your stove, listen to your repeated stories, don't argue when you confuse them with another person. No one loves this man & we're all paying the price.

This Graham Platner Totenkopf tattoo thing has reminded me of my brother-in-law, with whom we have very limited contact, proudly calling me to tell me about his first tattoo. 3 interlocking triangles. "It means family, you know, for those who came before, those who are here now & those yet to be."

We regret to inform you that the oysters have milkshaked in the most egregious way possible.

When I was in law school, I taught the basics of conlaw to high schoolers as part of the Classroom Law Project. My favorite week was 3rd Amendment week, because there's never been a SCOTUS case about it. I would very much like there to continue to not-be any SCOTUS 3rd amendment cases.

Seen on r/quilting (of which I am a proud member)

my wife and my baby, y’all. frogs together strong

Oriana Korol, the clarinetist who was arrested by ICE last week, is part of the Unpresidented Brass Band, which plays while wearing those costumes because THIS SHIT IS BANANAS. Welcome to Portland. We aren't fucking scared of you.

Portland showing up! #NoKings

#nokings Portland frog brigade

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

My mother-in-law, father-in-law, and their neighbors at the #NoKings in Bonita Springs, Florida. The retirees have HAD IT with this nonsense.

1. Geography quiz, for every wrong answer an insect is placed *somewhere* in the room 2. Have to give a eulogy at my estranged-since-1999 father's funeral, can't curse or be mean about him 3. Retrieve items from the bottom of a pool, while wearing a string bikini, all my HS crushes & exes are there.

Given his unjust banning, I am taking up Link's charge and doing Fund Me Fridays in his stead. If you have funding needs, drop them in the thread below. I'll also be grabbing links that I've missed from previous threads and reposting them. Today is a good day to meet some people's needs.

Tired: Milkshake duck. Wired: Milkshake oysters.

Menswear guy/@chucktingle.bsky.social team up when?