I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5. My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.

Normal Tuesday. Got a few meetings today but not too many. President's threatening to genocide millions of people and there are folks flying around the moon in the fucking sky. Gotta take out the garbage later

i feel like a lot of people are dissociating and not reacting to the threat of nuclear war with an appropriate level of alarm?

Bluesky is temporarily working again. Here's a duckling to be permanently in your heart!! 🪶 🐣

Missing #HATM to prep my parents for future trip of a theater performance of A Midsummer’s Night Dream. Watching the 1999 version.

christian nationalism? from this white house? i definitely didnt write an entire book about this. im shocked

Just write anything. It literally doesn't have to make sense even to you. If you're any good at this, you will be the last person to ever know

I'm a reading purist. If you're listening to an audiobook, you're not really reading. An e-book? Nah, that's not reading either. A softcover book? How could that possibly count as reading? Hardcover? Not reading. Scrolls of vellum or papyrus? Hardly. The only REAL reading is off stone tablets.

All of these are terrible, but imagine proposing cutting some NASA funding while in the middle of a very popular moon mission

You gotta be kidding me

Am about to lift the following from a thread I did once in the Olim Bird Place, but if I leave a legacy behind, please let it be the legacy of coining the term The Chortlemuffin effect. The Chortlemuffin Effect describes a citational chain leading to bullshit. /1

Boston University’s student paper, The Daily Free Press, reports about the multiplication of pride flags on campus following the administration’s attempted crackdown on free speech.

omg Challenger trauma is real. I was in sixth grade and they wheeled in one of those carts with a tv on it and we all gathered and watched the Challenger explode. I have a crap memory when it comes to a lot of stuff but that is burned into my brain.

People think writing is this: Aha! I have a fully-formed idea, I will now write it down What writing really is: I kind of have an idea but I will only know what it is as I write it. Then I'll *really* know what it is once I've revised it a few times.

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

Today, March 32nd, Greendale Community College officially bans April Fools' Day (Community, s01e20, 2010)

Multiple people have told me today that based on headlines, they thought a moon landing is happening today. And this is why I am insisting that word choice matters, fellow #scicomm folks

While this finding might have surprised the researchers, it makes sense to me that the men who view women as inherently inferior would also be the ones most able to justify exploiting women's unpaid labor for their own pleasure, power, and personal gain.

dang

Ohio just introduced HB798, an omnibus anti-trans bill that targets every aspect of trans peoples lives. It bans trans people from bathrooms, even in private businesses. It retroactively bans gender marker changes on birth certificates and drivers licenses. It compels misgendering in schools.

not ‘shopped. not cropped. not stock. straight from the phone of stormwater inspector Lindsay Schiel snapped yesterday at a basin in Hudson.

I don't care what Kristi Noem and her husband are doing in their private lives. It's none of my business what consenting adults do in private. But I do find it very strange that these people believe the private lives of the rest of us are their business while they're doing this.

My case for reframing March 31 as National Farm Worker Day, to commemorate the more than 125-year long movement of Filipino, Mexican, & many other communities who fought for fairness & equity for all American workers. 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

UoPA must release lists of people affiliated w/ Jewish organizations on its campus & comply w/ other measures in a fed agency's subpoena, a fed court judge ruled Tuesday. UoPA doesn't have to say which particular organization each person is affiliated w/, said US District Judge Gerald J. Pappert.

Folks have already tried that and failed. United States v. Lee, 455 U.S. 252 (1982) is a landmark Supreme Court case ruling that Amish employers must pay Social Security taxes despite religious objections.

Breaking: The president has signed an executive order on mail voting. He has no lawful authority to write the rules that govern our elections. He tried a year ago; we sued him; we won. A year later, he has tried again. He can expect the same result. 1/2

Every kidlit publishing group/imprint that shutters is terrible sign of things to come. You don't have adult readers if you kill the joy of reading in children and teens.

2 weeks ago, I wrote how the Supreme Court is creating a dual state for trans people with its rulings. It's incredibly relevant after today's decision voiding conversion therapy bans. www.thedissident.news/the-normativ...

Trans friends, thank you for being you, and for, when you can, sharing yourselves with a world that is so frequently undeserving of the light you bring to it. I love and support you, always. 🏳️‍⚧️🫂🫶

Medical schools will no longer be required to teach about health inequities. The change comes as political pressure about diversity, equity and inclusion grows. Experts say removing DEI from the guidelines will affect patient care. www.healthday.com/health-news/...

“No book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.” - George Orwell

Ah yes it's "students give up" time 😭 every term w a month left. Endless encouraging emails, in class support, meetings, extensions... sigh. Solidarity to all my academe teaching humans who are all trying to help our students.

Priced low, growing fast: women's sports draw smart money reut.rs/4bV0PnU

🗃️March 28, 1898: In United States v. Wong Kim Ark, the Supreme Court upheld the principle of birthright citizenship enshrined in the Fourteenth Amendment. A thread on birthright citizenship… 1/6🧵

Changes that Republicans made to SNAP will kick a lot of people off food stamps starting April 1. If you can, please support your local food bank. www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/...

As harmful autism disinformation campaigns go, grievance parents‘ attempt to break off “ #profoundAutism” as a separate diagnosis via smearing #neurodiversity advocates is notable—mostly for its spitefulness. Select observations by @embergreen.bsky.social: thinkingautismguide.com/2026/03/debu... 1/

Working alongside local partners, WCK teams are distributing Passover food kits to families and children who are unable to leave their shelters in northern Israel. These kits are packed with foods to help families observe the holiday with nourishing and traditional meals. #ChefsForMidEast

Again, if you would like to know WAY MORE about the trans allegory in this, check out this SEVEN-PART write-up by @tillybridges.bsky.social #HATM #ISTTVG www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2024/09/03/t...

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We've never been about being normal around here. #HATM is for those of us who keep this world a fun place. Love to all y'all.

Thank you so much for guiding us cis-gendered people through the film. Really glad I watched it tonight to remember the advocacy work that cis-gendered people need to be doing #HATM

That actually makes a lot of sense - that there is a missing piece that will solve the malaise, that will be what makes you a happy, productive member of society (its the same stuff going on in the Manosphere, for instance). Repression, indeed, inflicts us all. #ISawTheTVGlow #HATM

Baseball with dad, cooking with mom. Clear gendered divisions! #HATM

Listening to my jr high/high school nieces talking about schoolmates with their friends recently (they are on the same swim team), and the casual recognition that some of the male classmates are gay, and it was not a huge part of the conversation, was relaxing to hear. #HATM

I worked/volunteered at a local theater in early high school, working backstage during shows. I got to know the Nick at Night schedule well at a young-ish age, which is how I missed so many 90s shows. #HATM

More real than real life?! What is it with trans filmmakers and movies about the world not being real? Almost like it represents something. #HATM #ISTTVG

"My stepdad will break my nose again." OOF #HATM

Quick shot of the CorningWare Dish on the buffet table. Great period detail. #HATM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corning...

Let me try that again because I’m stupid #HATM www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2024/09/03/t...