Yay! A new episode of my emotional support podcast just dropped 🌈🥰 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

I finally started listening to ‘The Bechdal Cast’ and while I am kicking myself for taking this long to get into it, the upside is that does mean I have ten years worth of episodes to marathon through, and I won’t have a shortage of podcasts to listen to for quite a while 😅

One of the most valuable lessons* from my film degree (way back a million years ago) was a study of ‘experimental cinema’. Watching them and discussing techniques, and also thinking about the elements that define something as experimental, who gets to name it that, and why. 🤔 *imho/ymmv

We need to acknowledge the ways that capitalism creates disability. Working through injury and burnout causes disabilities. Denying care for treatable illnesses because of the cost creates disability. Factories that poison vulnerable communities create disability.

the people crave more animal chats

The teen convinced me to go to the bigger bookstore in the next over town for the big 20% off sale. The dog seems to be skeptical I will need the 3rd book anytime soon 🤣

Just saw a couple red-breasted nuthatches teaching a couple smaller ones to fly 🤩 🌱 🥰 They are very small, very fast, and well camouflaged so getting a good picture can be tricky.

One of the things I found really useful on roadtrips through the American West is a monocular that can be attached to my phone’s camera lens. Plan, learn, & pay attention around megafauna. I think bison generally weigh the same as the average passenger car+, so even in a vehicle, be careful! 🦬

What’s being done to Cuba is devastating to everyday people, and the silence surrounding it is disturbing. Human suffering should never become invisible because it’s politically inconvenient.

This is pretty shockingly evil. Wild (if not surprising) that Washington does this while maintaining that Cuba is a threat to the USA.

I hope someday I am able to do roadtrips again. It’s an absolutely magical experience. ✨ (2019, Yellowstone)

Really? Because every time my enemies hear a pronoun they act like someone just murdered them to death.

I get that in ‘La Brea’ the initial fall through the sinkholes was unexpected and no one had thought to being supplies, but I’m getting really tired of people jumping into sinkholes where they actually had at least an hour or two to prepare and they still bring nothing extra with them…

there's a whole bunch of perfectly decent food that have become internet memes and it's weird. mayo is literally oil and eggs, can we stop pretending that most of the world doesn't love that shit.

Rats fleeing a sinking ship. Americans needs to be sure to catch them as they try to swim off, or they’ll try to weasel their way out of consequences for their corruption and the harm they cause.

1. Some progressives believe "the people" don't know the truth: since 2000, a Democratic president has handed off a pretty good or very good economy to a Republican, and that Republican has ruined it.

Next time I will label my little cups of soil better. I am about 60% ish sure this was where I put some basil seeds 🤔🌱

Seabed life triples after bottom trawling ban in Scotland protected area Nearly a decade since Scotland established the South Arran Marine Protected Area and banned bottom trawling across much of it, life on the seafloor has thrived, a new study has found news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

These 8 Democrats voted to pass a national ban on trans teachers and mention of LGBTQ topics. Rep Henry Cuellar (TX) Rep. Don Davis (NC) Rep. Cleo Fields (LA) Rep. Laura Gillen (NY) Rep. Vicente González (TX) Rep. Marcy Kaptur (OH) Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA) Rep. Eugene Vindman (VA)

Earnest requests for clarification and scripts are absolutely legitimate ways to respond to horrible policies. Plus they can really show up how shitty those policies are, AND GET IT ALL IN WRITING. "Ok, and what do I say when they say....?" IN WRITING. Little bits of gravel can be trouble.

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

Employees should unionize whether or not they’re being treated badly. Sometimes you don’t even know the ways your “good” company management or execs are screwing some or all employees over until you do. (I hope no one is fired from WotC in order for their union to have the motivation to succeed).🙃

As much as it disappoints me to see WotC continuing their trend of never learning the lessons about cooperation and community that is the cornerstone theme of the products they profit off of, it also doesn’t surprise me.

sighs brings out the megaphone once again TRANS LIVES ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN CIS FEELINGS

There’s a lot of well meaning advice about how to not care what judgey people think about you. But its not the asshole judgey people that bug me, it’s the friends who let loose some out of pocket sentiment that they don’t even clock has just cut you to the bone.

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

2/ The Epstein network was never just one man. It is alive, protected, and still woven through politics, finance, media, and Hollywood. Cancel Cannes. Fuck them.

I am not remotely a lawyer, but I think if you agree to review a manuscript for a press and then feed that manuscript into AI without the permission of the author, the author should be allowed to sue you into poverty.

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Hey, it's late, but a year ago today, ICE tried to sneak eight migrants to South Sudan via private jet. I wrote all day about catching them in the act, and what has been unleashed since. Go easy on me, it is very sincere. 🙏 gillianbrockell.com/the-private-...

This; plus it hurts to talk about being too anxious to travel to places outside of Washington and have people tell me I’m overblowing the risk and just being dramatic 😑 🫩

It's looking grim but not too late to call your senators. These kinds of policies exist to keep kids in the closet and punish them if they do choose to come out, both of which are potentially life-threatening outcomes for trans kids. Bill is H. R. 2616.

Managed to get distracted following all the odd little things and found such a strange text exchange: “But did they chop the guy up?” “Why not poison him the way putin does?” “Hopefully not one of your own” “Most of these guys like to wear go pros on their heads when they are doing such things…”

I was listening to a mini episode of Weird Little Guys and on a whim I thought, why not pop this name into the search on the JE Files… There were 3 results, and the content of the results in relation to that individual’s is, imho, less interesting than comparing those three files to the others.

I was skeptical that leftover fish chowder would work for breakfast, but I’m currently heating up my *second* bowl. It managed to get better overnight 🤯

Nearly all flotillas over 20 years have been intercepted by Israel. Hundreds remain missing after latest interdiction.

1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026: CBS: 0 CNN: 0 Fox News: 0 NPR: 0 PBS: 0 Politico: 0 Semafor: 0 Business Insider: 0

Imho, the massive “starter packs” of accounts to follow made people’s experiences of bluesky worse & has contributed to all the boring ass takes about what the vibes are here. The vibes are what you make them, and it takes effort to find and curate social media to an individual’s preferences.

what do you call it when the president steals an unfathomable amount of wealth from the treasury and then declares it illegal to investigate him

Awwww y dont u let ur dog give you kisses?!? That’s so sad!” No, it’s not sad, it’s smart. I see where she puts her nose, and I’ve literally seen her try to lick random poop, and she keeps trying to eat the compost soil for my plants 🤢

I used to love making clam chowder so I tried making a salmon chowder for dinner. It didn’t go as intended, and its not photogenic, but it’s surprisingly tasty 😋

What if I did a zine of bear illustrations with fun facts about the bears featured 👀 Kind of like a mashup of my bear art posts and the bear of the day posts, in zine form?

In the past few days I’ve spotted a northern flicker *twice*! They are such beautiful birds, it always gives me a little boost of joy to see them. 🥰

I know it's not the most important news today. But I think we ought to be really worried about the BLM winding back the principles on which it manages our land, but probably not for the reason most outlets would have you believe.

Woke about as tired as when I went to sleep last night. Debating if I should just try to push through, risk the exhaustion getting worse, but maybe get some stuff I have to do done, or try to do a quick power nap and see if that helps get my body back to the energy level I need to do shit. 🤔