Tonight is the biggest bar night of the year, so please remember: if you don’t have to go out after dark tonight, don’t! And if you’re out drinking, CALL A FUCKING UBER. Don’t spend the holidays dead.

Definitely thought this was going to be like, “Don’t let your dad guilt-trip you into writing a Thanksgiving poem” or, “No, it’s none of your copycat aunt’s business what your characters are doing.” Instead, it’s great advice for personal essaysists/memoirists.

Gpoy

Just forgot the word for antique and ended up using old timey in a Google search instead. It worked, though.

Honestly, imagine being ridiculous enough to try to take on Mark Kelly. He served in the US Navy during the Gulf War. He has a BS and an MS. He was a for-realsies NASA astronaut who spent more than 54 days in space. He's a US Senator. He stayed with his wife after she was shot in the head.

The Fred Hill Drill Team is coming back to the Detroit Thanksgiving parade, and I am so hype. It’s been 84 years. (Fine, it’s only been 11.)

Accidentally writing.

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Because I’m working on Small Business Saturday and may not get a chance to do any shopping myself, I have chosen to support a small business in advance. I encourage all of you to show your best selves on Saturday and show some love for local stores!

I love it and I want it but I can’t afford it 😭

Boyfriend and I were with his two friends who have a baby the other night, and I realized pretty quickly that I was talking to the baby the same way I talk to my dog—”you’re so cute! Yes you are!”s and “you’re just a baby”s abounded.

Post a movie where you’re from. Hell, I’ll give you two: one for each part of my two-part state.

Dismissed: James Comey and Letitia James cases thrown out by judge

I am skeptical, and of course I want consumers to support actual bookstores, but Alibris sells used books, and it’s nice that they’ll be keeping books out of landfills, unlike Shein’s own fashion products. If only they would change their whole business model for the better.

- Customer: *paying for a popular history book* Yeah, I just finished reading The Brothers Karamazov. - Me: Need something lighter after that? - Customer: Yes.

Mariahpocalypse has claimed another victim. RIP Cate Johnson, who made it 24 days into the season before falling. Still surviving Whamageddon. Will report back.

it's getting to be bad month to be literate.

SLUGGO’S OCTOPUS THOUGHTS IT’S JUST DESSERTS

I hate heated seats, because what do you mean my ass is having a hot flash?

I can’t even bring myself to read this article, because Noe’s choice of quotation from it is almost too much for me to handle (though I thank him for summarizing nicely).

Call him what he is: a child killer who is incapable of telling the truth about reliable scientific data.

'Look Back 3 Red' - Ono Tadashige, 2003. #Caturday #JapaneseArt

ew ew ew ew ew I only read to the paywall notification, but even that was more than I ever wanted to know, and no, I will NOT be Googling a certain term.

Slowly re-finding people from the old (Twitter) days here. Still looking for a few of my faves/former mutuals, but so happy to have found who I have so far.

Multiple bomb threats against politicians today, many of them Dems: Elissa Slotkin (Michigan’s junior Senator), Chrissy Houlahan (US Representative from Pennsylvania) and Chris Deluzio (also a Rep from PA). This is not the way.

About to leave work halfway through my shift and just go die somewhere so I can finally get enough sleep.

people: can we have insulin Reps: WE STAND AGAINST STALIN FOREVER

Breaking: Administration officials working overtime to find turkeys with sexual assault and crypto scam convictions so the President can pardon them

I THINK YOU’RE A BIG PIECE OF CHEESE!

“Adversarial poetry.” Love this. Obvs.

NATURE/ASPENS.GIF

Good morning. Release the full and unredacted Epstein files. I believe the victims. Thanks.

Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."

This is the kind of headline I live for.

Massive Study Debunks One of RFK Jr’s Biggest Claims about Fluoride in Tap Water www.scientificamerican.com/article/mass...

Babcia Bramble

i painted this little one a while back. having lived in cold snowy places, it reminded me of winter 🤍🕊️ . . #artistsonbluesky #blueskyartshow #abstractart #abstractexpressionism #painter #art #artist #womensartbluesky #abstractartist #blueskyart #oregonartist #oregon

Nearly killed in a crosswalk by Lowly Worm doing 490 km/h in a Bugatti apple

The only way to for the public to see complete Epstein files is to leak it. Do it. Now. Anything else is complicit.

It occurs to me, and I'm sure I'm not the only one, that what is happening with the ultra rich oppressing and exploiting everyone else is a mirror of what humans have done to the earth.

Your periodic reminder that there is an actual politician in Michigan named Dick Posthumus who was once our lieutenant governor and later tried to be our for-realsies governor, and if you think I’m making that name up, here is his Wikipedia page.

I’m sorry, how is this not helpful to the American people? I know we’re unlikely to get the full, unredacted files. But voting to release them (even with unanimous consent) still has symbolic value and shows that politicians are starting to turn away from Trump. That is a positive development.

Just got back the memory of my boyfriend waxing rhapsodic over Tom Ford suits on Saturday night.

These are the best jobs in 2025, they said. You can make so much money, they said. No mention of the fact that you mostly need advanced degrees, or at least some level of licensure, to get these jobs.

ICE is prowling around Oakland County (Clarkston area) today, and apparently Washtenaw County (Ypsilanti area), as well. Keep your eyes and ears open and do what you can for your friends, family, and neighbors, metro Detroit.

I‘m Gonna need Ryan Lizza to drop part 2 IMMEDIATELY.

“Whether you like [MBS] or don’t like him, things happen.” Donald Trump said this in response to a question about the killing and dismemberment of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi citizen living/working in the US. “Things happen.” A man was murdered and this is the best he could do.

I understand that jury duty can be inconvenient and that the payoff isn’t going to replace a day of labor for most folks, but it’s a very important thing. It guarantees your Sixth and Seventh Amendment rights and helps your peers. Anyway, they played Shrek 2 last time I was there.