Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*. workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...

Sloane Ranging in a shirt and tie that belonged to my grandfather, tassel loafers, obligatory inherited signet, and a beat-up green Beaufort. Carmilla critical edition, knocked-about fountain pen, and loose klonopin in the pockets. I look like I got kicked out of Eton for having too much sex.

I think I shelved like 200 books tonight. In Manolo Blahniks.

Every word, a stepping stone on an amazing journey.

called my congressman! your turn.

If you're in the U.S., contact your House Representative by phone or email and ask them to co-sponsor, support, and vote for Rep. Kelly's impeachment articles. "Please co-sponsor, support, and vote for Rep. Kelly's impeachment articles against DHS Secretary Kristi Noem."

When will everything stop being so fucking stupid

“this is 100% eugenics”

there are so many tween graphic novels I could shelve in my sleep

one of these kids refuses to check a book out, reads without looking up whenever he’s in the library, and puts the books back on the shelves (kids are not allowed to do this because they get it wrong so often) WITH A DOG-EAR (extremely not allowed!!!) and will not change his ways

a modern sisyphus: every night I shelve ten thousand graphic novels from the third return cart in the middle school library, every day the children pull another ten thousand (mostly the same ten thousand!)

did you all know that tegan and sara wrote a graphic novel for teens about being a teen? because I just checked in an overdue copy at the middle school library !

‘you’re only allowed to talk or think about one single bad thing if it’s happening or you’re complicit’ also feels like it’s in opposition to critical thought. genuine belief that brain only has one channel and that thinking and posting is praxis

what people perceive as rightwing anti-intellectualism and anti-expertise trends are 100% seeping into the overly-online-left in the form of whatever this is and the related ‘if stories are about a topic or character they are endorsing that and if you try to analyze it you are also endorsing it”

might quit social media after all. am only still on here to see my friends (few that didn’t jump ship entirely post-twitter) instead I am inundated with fatuous fervor, lazy thinking, doom and gloom and neverending blame. it’s not healthy and it’s not smart and it’s not fucking helpful to anyone.

The way you all talk about “the media” on here makes you sound like Trump. It really does.

there is a reason you’re not allowed to bring food to the dog run !!! Celia got attacked — mild, but she’s been extremely vigilant all night and has barked at everything and nothing (she never barks) THERE ARE SO FEW RULES AND THEY ARE SO EASY TO FOLLOW

puppy was wagging her tail in her sleep because we were watching a scene where wolves are running together barking

my boyfriend’s love language is sending me paywalled academic articles about the television comedy, psych ❤️

oh ! the irony !

He’s the devil, I say. The reason why you don’t see his tail, is because he tucks it up out of sight; he carries it coiled away in his pocket, I guess.

podcasts

covered in lidocaine patches, draped across the couch, looking at my phone through oversized Celine shades: my boyfriend says I resemble a Studio 54 overdose or perhaps a Postcards from the Edge fellow inmate, but in fact I am simply mitigating a migraine!!

The holidays are an INTENSELY ambivalent time for me, someone with a lot of weird relational issues due to complex family trauma. Should I write gothic horror? Probably.

The Old House, Grove Street, Salford https://www.wikiart.org/en/l-s-lowry/the-old-house-grove-street-salford-1948

“Within, its walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.” (Shirley Jackson) #wyrdwednesday

I’m obsessed with how much these hockey bro podcasters are obsessed with Heated Rivalry — they are DELIGHTED and excited and 100% invested.

pretty quiet tonight on bleecker, compared to last. Eddie Murphy, prosecco I will regret, and orzo with spinach sautéed in quantities of butter that can only be described as French. early to bed, I think.

Winter Queen's Flowers, Zofia Plewińska-Smidowiczowa (1888-1944).

I am so sick of how bad the Bluesky voice to text feature is – and you might tell me that it’s the same as my phone’s but I won’t believe you because my phone can get most of what I’m saying with ease but I have to fix every third word and almost all punctuation when dictating to this app!

curiosity is treated like an experiment gone wrong. society only wanted you to have a little curiosity, just enough to learn some productive skills! but now you’re reading unassigned books and talking about ideas at the coffee houses. it’s too far! you’re out of control, damn you!

working at a university

🎶 seven sloots a’slurpin’

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

None of these people are actual "nerds," none of them have any real technical abilities or non-standard interests. The only thing they bring to the table is social license to say stuff like "what if there was a doorbell camera with a gun in it"

Yesterday I learned that there's at least one place in Switzerland where they light all the candles on the Christmas tree using a fuse cord attached to all the wicks and it is metal as fuck

Otd a year ago, my dear friend Sarah Connor passed away. She was the reason I started Sídhe Press and she was and is at the very heart of it. I miss you so much, azizti Sarah. #AlwaysFire #sídhepress

they should make a sing-a-long version of gladiator for all the speeches

LeMonde said, not on our watch

passed a billboard that said “shackled with lust? Jesus will set you free” leaving me with new questions about the services offered by Jesus

this Christmas was a week from hell, and the stress of it has reinjured me and made me sick again — my cough was almost gone but now it’s terrible and doesn’t respond to meds and I always have. A very mild fever, which may be due to unholy rage in my breast

i have yet to see anything made with GenAI that was worth the brief, fleeting moments of my one and only life I spent on it

WHEREAS, i go back to the same museum every month and spend time with the exact same sculptures, paintings, and books as though they are silent friends

my gift to myself has arrived: a new, unworn lock &co hat that was 1/3 the cost thanks to online sleuthing!

needlepointing my 11mo niece a little something for her first birthday — because my joints and nerves are healing and I can actually stitch a bit again!

my dog is a fucking maniac for snow

The stress of This week has set me back to square one in recovery — and I got sick 2 weeks ago and was 99% on the mend four days ago!

i know america runs on scams but man, scams need to lower their stakes a li’l bit sell someone some tea in a bottle and claim it regrows your hair. who cares. scam a little bit smaller, fellas. jesus.

I am very, very tired.