“I have learned from Wong that to be angry is to be unapologetically angry. Let it move us forward, metamorphose into or lay beside limitless love”

Aaron Boehmer on finding books and more in community libraries in times like these: "These local libraries gesture toward a different kind of recordkeeping that is grounded in community stewardship rather than state authority." Read more: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/freeing-the-library/

Heading into the weekend like..

♥️

I’ve got good news: you’re gonna get the women of Burn It All Down’s thoughts on today’s FIFA embarrassment in the form of a podcast episode!

This is tyranny. The purpose of our republic being established was that such scenes would be vanquished from these lands.

do folks have recommendations for on-the-ground MN immigrant defense groups that imminently need funding?

this makes me so fucking mad. i lived in the twin cities for six years - two of those working at Rondo Library in st paul - and damn if Somali neighbors, friends, coworkers, patrons, moms, kids, aren't part of the fabric of minnesota life. it's just so fucking vile and racist.

Finished my final Anatomy & Physiology practical exam! still more tests to go in other classes, but damn that was a rollercoaster. Won’t be forgetting the horror of “oh my god I didn’t study my condyles well enough to disambiguate on sight FUCK” and pleasure of “body is weird!!!” anytime soon

out now! my mermaid story about a woman who goes to repair a subsea fiber-optic cable and stumbles upon a mer society, which may or may not have some answers about her absent father, available online and in a gorgeous print anthology from @reckoningmag.bsky.social

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

getting off at the same bus stop I got bashed at every time because, as they say, fuck em!!

This is a lovely idea in a hard time for trans young people, and they're taking donations, too:

is Microsoft Excel a feminist? Is Gemini a queer ally? Is this graphing calculator my friend

!!! what a treat. going through a "eagerly learning about how artists create art and think about creating art, broadly defined" season and this hits. also, now i'm just in my DE feels. forever grateful for taking an interest in cryptozoology in that game 🥺🥺🥺

Raccoon family (poking their heads out of a storm drain 😭😭😭) Seal (on block island) Pigeon 💙💜🩶 Roosevelt elk (big!!!) Moon Jelly 🌕

This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.

good (thousand-eye’d) kitty 🐱

my most cursed (/favorite) gym outfit of phee up top, liberty green shorts 😭😭😭 #WNBAsins

every time sunset-sensitive streetlights turn on I think of Shenmue 🥲

is my intense anxiety today a. situational b. physical c. relational d. emotional e. my psyche running hot / burning off all mental distractions so I‘m prepared to read all fifty-four (54) mainline Animorphs book this winter break

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

adopted a new running plan with lots of speed work thrown in! immediatley interpreted every “hard“ segment as “try to run as fast as mechanically possible 6 times in a row!” and uh gave myself an IT band injury! 🫠🫠🫠

Sarah has blessed us with a thing of beauty.

words cannot express how repulsive I find this.

Just in time for the holiday weekend, my 10 favorite short science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from October. reactormag.com/must-read-sh...

I just sat and read A Perfect Wife all in one sitting. It is is incredible and I highly recommend it. Great job @zedecksiew.bsky.social @amandalee.bsky.social Scrap World and @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social. www.copypastecoop.com/shop/p/perfe...

Very happy to share that tomorrow, I will be able to share a transcript and downloadable video of an interview I conducted for The Viral Underclass in 2020 with Alice Wong. It will be freely available for any use, as part of an effort to share Alice’s archive.

I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...

how did i sleep on earl sweatshirt for so long??? Live Laugh Love yes yes yes

i feel like a good chunk of my mental health as an adult can be attributed to letting myself get very bored on Saturday mornings. my cat and I just stared at each other for five minutes. I’m listening to music and watching wet leaves drip out the window. if you can manage it, hard recommendation.

Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...

This Day in Labor History: November 22, 1909. Approximately 20,000 garment workers in New York City went on strike against the horrendous conditions of their sweatshops. This strike, known as the Uprising of the 20,000, was the largest strike led by women in American history to that time!!!

America 2025.

#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️

Can anyone help identify what types of burrs these are? Photo taken in Cumberland, RI in late October - I think I picked them up along a swampy / wetland area. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years

also key to this semester: listening to "Euphoria" daily

being an adult learner is humbling as shit! there's this whole bundle of Adult Working World cognitive biases / shortcuts that basically prevent us from stopping and saying "I don't know" or "huh maybe my intuition is dead wrong here" in the cold light of the Scantron Bubbles, the bundle unravels..

It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.

I stan this trend so much

hi squirrel. it's me, human, thinking about how to love a world that is so beautiful and is so eternally slipping through our hands. (also, is this a common squirrel thought? b/c so many humans have had this thought, across time and space!)

I went back and listened to @sfdirewolf.bsky.social ’s 2017 conversation with Patty (linked from Alice’s post below) and it’s so, so beautiful. Listen for reflections on disability and aging, being an elder, developing a fond friendship with your body: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2017/11/26/e...

Can anyone help identify what types of burrs these are? Photo taken in Cumberland, RI in late October - I think I picked them up along a swampy / wetland area. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

today's sidequest was a little forensic analysis of a flooded part of the cumberland monastery - if you know it, the portion where Old Road Trail theoretically crosses over Monastery Brook. anyway, talked it over with a friend. apparently it's beavers. beaver engineering. beaver sabotage. i love it.