I can’t believe I went twenty years of my life without The Mountain Goats in it.

I don't want any plastics, and I don't want any ground floors. I want to do what I want to do.

I'm trying really hard to find a valid reason why the Barbie on the bottom left is more expensive than the one on top...WTF Target?

I just posted this Internet Archive link to Facebook, where the aunts & uncles, grandmas & grandpas who watch 60 Minutes after football games live. It’s important that this story doesn’t just circulate on Bluesky.

omg

I don't have any news to counteract the terrible news of the last few days, so here is a thread of cute animals eating things, with most with crunchy cromchy sounds. 1.

When the NEA asked us to promise not to publish trans, nonbinary, or gender fluid authors, we told them to kick rocks. (Actually, formally, with a unanimous vote by the Board of Directors, we told them to kick rocks.) So the NEA rescinded our funding.

however much you hate these motherfuckers you do no hate them enough. (not josh, he's alright.)

1 week until Christmas Eve! 📚🎄 via Goodwill Librarian

Reminder that Rob Reiner talked the talk and walked the walk.

In a world where fewer and fewer people concern themselves with the plight of others, the loss of Rob Reiner, who cared deeply about humanitarian causes, feels that much more devastating. RIP: 1947-1925. [Selfie: July 2022, NYC]

Werner Herzog could tempt me back to Instagram

November Reads: 🩸📚🖋️📚💙📚 Back to normal with horror and literary on top. Read some good ones, and some not so good ones thanks to the SG Reads the World Challenge. Managed to only DNF three this month, with the intention of picking one back up as digital vs. audio.

Shop local, support a good business owner.

if you’re cold they’re cold let your demons in

oh they gave me a blue check now I can say how I REALLY feel!!! trans rights free Palestine housing is a human right universal health care for all six hour day for eight hours pay mandatory minimum wage raises that track to rent & cost of living protect the oceans & the rivers and bring back Jujubes

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

The best thing about having a cat is when he’ll walk in the room carrying a slice of ham but you don’t have any ham in the house. Where’d you get the ham little guy?

This pretty sums up my thoughts. I feel great unease right now. I already thought we were in the darkest timeline / upside down / take your pick…but if we were already there, where the hell are we now?

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

Pick. A. Fucking. Side.

We are amazed by the resistance in Charlotte, NC. The Trump administration named the operation there “Charlotte’s Web,” and people have been mobilizing fast. Students, especially, have become the heart of the resistance. This was

We’ve been nominated as a finalist in the 2025 Apple App Store Awards! 🎉 We’re being recognised in the Cultural Impact category for our work in building an inclusive book community. The winners will be announced in the coming weeks.

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Tell me you’re a greedy capitalist pig who looks down on everyone without…oh wait, no you just came out and said it.

I do love a good transatlantic accent.

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Me when Google or Meta gives me an AI summary of something I never asked for.

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike. Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%. Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

The Mountain Goats have ruined me. I never want to experience a new album any other way now. There’s no going back. @themountaingoats.bsky.social never disappoint.

Shots fired. Not cool IHOP. Not cool. You have forever tainted the great S of my youth.

AOC: "This is about, do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And they assignment is to come together across difference no matter what."

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

After the free marketing from Trump & Elon, Zohran Mamdani wins Mayor of NYC! 🎉

Onion and Mustard Suite, Third Movement

Sandwich at the Gates of Dawn / Incense and Salad Cream

October Reads: Romance took the lead this month as I try to finish my BIPOC Jane Austen Challenge. Read “13 Black Cats…” for the first meeting of my new book club at my local indie bookshop Oh, the Horror! I have to say I wasn’t impressed. Storygraph recommendations let me down on this one. 💙📚🩸📚

beyond wonderful

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

Read more booooooooks!👻📚

GOD: Sleep is one of the very most important things humans do. It will make them feel rested, and be crucial to their ability to function. ANGEL: Okay, got it. GOD: And some of them are gonna be REALLY bad at it for no reason lol

Leaked document. Yikes, things are about to get much worse. It looks like we’re on the verge of becoming a military state across the country. Step out of line, and the man come and take you away.

If you are not at risk it is your civic duty to tell these guys they are embarrassing worms if you see them patrolling a supermarket to arrest people that the government is intentionally starving

AI sitcom accidentally a Lynchian fever dream. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and insane lament.

we'll believe it when we see it (not holding our breath)