If you're buying gifts for the holidays, maybe consider supporting artists, writers, creators. Gift someone a Patreon, commission an art piece, buy a book, purchase handmade jewelry, etc. Your support means everything.

gmail including inbox sorting categories in their "smart features" to get people to keep their AI scanning bullshit enabled is gonna be my last straw. time to switch

alright, today's turning out chaotic, so to try to remediate that... trans creatives - in honor of TDOR, plug your works in the replies to this! no matter what you do, plug your stuff. we need to support each other today! cis people - boost, follow, and donate to ppl in this thread!

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

i'm a trans tarot reader and i write weekly newsletter pieces featuring essays, tarot spreads, and tips for building a tarot practice that reflects who you actually are. if you're looking to give your $$ to a trans creator today, a paid newsletter subscription would make my day: 3amtarot.ghost.io

If you're over legacy media, I've got great news! You can donate to our non-profit newsroom at @thesicktimes.org to help us keep investigating injustices, challenging powerful institutions, and offering a platform for those affected by the #LongCOVID crisis. the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/

TDOR is a day I've had complicated feelings on for many years, and this year it feels especially hollow. To have people only celebrate our names on the day we remember the dead. There has been little to silence of any of our triumphs and joys, and many feel all too eager to lay flags in memorial.

I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott

if you're being pedantic about the definition of pedophilia I'm assuming you are a pedophile

if you need a palate-cleansing, joyful read: jeannakadlec.substack.com/p/fairy-tale...

My political hot take is that US voters should be able to recall elected representatives via petition - at any time. No more hiding behind election terms.

this article is absolutely blowing my mind

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

not to be vengeful but i want all of us to remember this exact feeling the next time anyone pops off with some apologia for weak willed self serving democrats as if any of these fuckers deserve the benefit of the doubt

the vast majority of the self-employed artists and writers you love can only do what we do because of the ACA

Also, and I say this with my whole chest: do not give establishment Dems a dime of your money. Not a CENT. Give that money to mutual aid, to food pantries, to your library, to the guy on your street corner. All of them will put that money to better use. Do not give politicians your money.

Chuck Schumer should follow in Nancy Pelosi’s footsteps

hope is not foolish, y'all.

Hope is a fuel. Use it to burn down something terrible.

i'm really proud of this birthday tarot essay that i shared yesterday with newsletter subscribers. if you're craving something authentic, vulnerable, and grief-oriented, you can read it here (it's free to read, you just have to sign in first):

Lexi woke up in a good mood for some reason so we're celebrating our Assembly Member's promotion by running a flash sale in store! 20% off everything, in stock items only. Open until 7pm.

Moving into the midterm cycle, a simple request to not tell hundreds of millions of Americans that we don't deserve candidates who actually excite us because we don't live in one of five cities on the coasts. thewhitepages.net/p/wherever-y...

The victory of progressive candidates is a byproduct of our work caring for one another and building a better world, not the goal of our work.

hope is not foolish, y'all.

Just because we beat them doesn’t mean we should continue to let billionaires spend whatever they want on elections.

There’s no reason ever again for any Democrat to suggest moderating on trans rights. There was never a moral reason but now there’s no political reason either. Somebody tell Gavin Newsom and Pete Buttigieg. it’s joe-ver.

one year and everyone is so sick of your boy that Virginia is starting to look like Massachusetts and a democratic socialist won a million votes in NYC, get fucked

I will always remember this Mamdani ad. www.erininthemorning.com/p/as-some-de...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME OMFG

all i want for my birthday today is for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social to win

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

listen this is the most basic fucking thing but it is a lot easier to boycott a company if you ALSO unsubscribe from their emails AND block them on social media.

having an election day birthday is always pretty intense but it's really and truly great that this year a lot of my happy birthday messages include the phrase "fuck cuomo"

all i want for my birthday today is for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social to win

Someone give Lex $2 million so they can launch a politics version of Teen Vogue. Do it now. No strings attached.

The gutting of Teen Vogue, a publication which dared to treat its readers seriously and with respect, is an especially dispiriting day in old media's long, self-destructive forced march to nowhere

really can't emphasize enough how hot it is to care about other people

I’m doing research for a project and found out about the “don’t buy where you can’t work” movement during the depression, where Black people boycotted and picketed places that wouldn’t hire us. Shout out to everyone who’s not going back to Target!

i wish there was some setting on my computer that would let me universally tell every program, app, website, and service that i will never want it to "help me write." literally my job is to be a messy imperfect human writer. i don't need or want a plagiarism machine to help with that, ever. fuck AI

NewMatch is such a cool program. They even match monthly donations! $5 a month becomes $10 a month for the whole next year!

"what does it mean to sit with the hard thing, to hold space for it, instead of rushing to solve it? when is it actually kinder to give ourselves or others permission to feel bad, instead of trying to get over it as soon as humanly possible?" read my latest now:

🚨BREAKING: 2 fed courts have issued orders blocking Trump’s attempt to defund SNAP. Congrats to @democracyforward.org, its co counsel and clients, and Dem State AGs.

So many folks are interested in witchcraft, but don’t know where to start. For Samhain, here’s a quick explainer on the deceptively simple things that inform my practice. jeannakadlec.substack.com/p/what-is-wi...

Good morning everyone. It's me again here to ask NYC residents to please send a letter to your City Council person in support of allocating 0.5% of the city expense budget to our local public libraries. Thank you. It will only take you 90 seconds. This time with the correct link:

sulking in *votes by mail*

"if you're struggling to stay connected to your people, your values, or your magic, that is a wildly reasonable and deeply human response. you are not weak, or pathetic, or not trying hard enough. you are a person, living through challenging and disruptive times, and you are *grieving.*"

"if you're struggling to stay connected to your people, your values, or your magic, that is a wildly reasonable and deeply human response. you are not weak, or pathetic, or not trying hard enough. you are a person, living through challenging and disruptive times, and you are *grieving.*"

if knowingly starving millions of americans while he builds a gilded ballroom isn't cause for revolution then i'm not sure what is