North Shore folks we need to put a stop to this madness

It is beyond time for us to come together as a country and have a frank and honest discussion about what the phrase 'restaurant style' means

Reading some Kafka a day before my birthday

KATU interviewed the guy in the frog costume at Portland ICE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlDR...

If everyone who hates ICE has their social media tracked, are they going to track the media of 102 million people??

I’m ready to call it: water is the king of all liquids

those of you who are 200+, please share your advice for people who are just entering their 100s

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Bucket list.

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Republicans already hate the trans community, we know that, it's why they're trying to legislate them into non-existence but anyone asking for your vote that agrees to a CR attacking the trans homies is no different than the Republicans, they're just lying about it which is worse.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

there are almost certainly more people — more blue collar laborers, specifically — involved in the cultivation and production of chardonnay grapes and wine than in coal

we must abolish ICE

Pretending we can “behave” our way out of Trump’s attacks is a fantasy. He’ll send feds, unleash ICE, & come for us because it benefits him politically. The only answer is us: our solidarity, mutual aid, & refusal to let each other stand alone. That’s how we fight fascism. Find your community now!!!

Do you think the dishwasher teases the oven about being allowed to be left on when we go out?

Walid and his daughtees have survived the trip south in Gaza also, and are rebuilding in their new tent. Can we help keep them alive? chuffed.org/project/1253...

The next person I’d like to thank for blurbing my book is the amazing Mo Daviau. Her novel Every Anxious Wave is my all-time favorite time-travel book. Its highly imaginative premise opens into a surprising, deep, human story full of Mo’s brilliant, dry humor... annieblooms.com/book/9781959...

I was asked by @gqmagazine.bsky.social to write a little bit about just going bald in the age of widespread head-shaving and affordable, believable hair transplants...so I did!

“Dear Poet, Unfortunately, not a single poem in the packet you sent us felt *right* for Such Great Hyatts Quarterly. And we are sorry for that!!! This is not a reflection of your work, or even our tastes. Honestly, this isn’t a reflection of anything. Poems simply are not mirrors. Best, SGHQ”

yuck

Hello fellow internet user, I see you posted a cultural reference I am not familiar with and instead of googling the reference I have chosen to take offense and make it your problem

I have a show this Friday, come out!

Check it out

If there was purple fennell like the color of purple cabbage it would be the most popular vegetable

My son is autistic, largely nonverbal. He reads a lot, is smitten with all things Lego. He excels in school. He finds his ways to communicate. There’s nothing wrong with autism. The rhetoric drives me mad. It’s on us to make the world easier for neurodiverse folks, not to push them to conform.

Has anyone ever enjoyed sex more than Bob Hoskins character in Mermaids?

I'm going to start using the phrase "Hand Washing the Whisk" to mean 'an activity that is necessary, unsatisfying and possibly futile'

In my fantasy Strange New Worlds has a season 4 and it jumps forward in time to William Decker being the Captain of the Enterprise.

Lynchings still happen here in the United States, because the United States government has still, to this day, never atoned for slavery, Jim Crow, white supremacist domestic terrorism via the Ku Klux Klan, Neo Nazism, the indigenous genocide, or police brutality. In fact, it still allows all of it.

*inventing Bluetooth* Well, it works about 60% of the time. That’ll probably be good enough forever.

Billie's a superhero bookseller in need of some help.

the fact that a sitting US president is talking about antifascism being terrorism should tell you a lot about what he thinks his own government represents

simply irresistible

one of my most popular designs

catch my meek ass inheriting the earth

I feel like any kind of rock music with horns gets ska coded but that’s wrong for two reasons 1) a lot of good rock music can have horns and not be ska 2) what are you too good for ska?

The hardest thing about publishing a book is learning to be okay with the majority of the world not giving a shit about it.

my new poetry tic apparently is that I really want to put a saber in a poem? they keep cropping up. maybe my poems are sick of me

The next person I want to thank for blurbing my book is @lidiamiles.bsky.social . She is a brilliant and unconventional writer, a teacher, a artist, a warrior, a supporter, and a wonderful human...

1 month away from my book launch. Please join me at Powell's City of Books, Oct. 7, 7pm, with the brilliant @margaretmalone.bsky.social and foley artist David Ian, who will be accompanying my reading with sound effects a la the old-time radio shows my book is based on. #timeloops #noir #otr

kevin garnett is so good in uncut gems i’d watch a whole series of movies where he plays himself getting drawn into various high octane capers

You don’t have to destroy yourself to write a poem. You can pretend you have a field in your chest. Unbutton your shirt to better hear the birds singing. Oh no what is your mom doing there. Why is she driving away in a teal car. And the trees are filled with fathers weeping.

Where I am at with Omlets right now is an almost constant fiddling, and they are coming out better than ever. Truly the meal of agitation

“Violent crime rates in America’s big cities have been falling over the last two years, and at an even greater rate over the last six months. The decrease in violence in America is unprecedented.”

Do plants experience different types of rain as having accents?

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

I mean… he’s welcome to fuck around and find out. Portland residents are more than happy to waste his time & resources. We don’t take kindly to fascists. Although @tinakotek.bsky.social & the state AG better prepare a legal defense against this threat, or they can both kiss re-election goodbye.🤷🏽‍♂️

First Epic and Lovely event tonight in Portland at my place of business. Tracy will be asking why I named the villainous twat of a mother character after her. I don't have an answer yet.