People with mild ME/Long Covid & people who have recovered, please start advocating for the most severe instead of mildwashing the disease & using your story to sell your personal projects while feeding the media narrative of “individual overcoming” 🙏

I shared some thoughts about how my new series of seascape paintings, Moments Along the Way, came to be over on my blog: tishamark.com/2025/09/27/m... Tisha Mark ©2025, We Met Along the Way, oil on cradled Gessobord, 14"x11" Available: tishamark.com/product/we-m... #art #painting #TraditionalArt

Think you aren’t trained enough, that you don’t know enough, that you have to be an “expert”? Think that you have to “sell” something something or you need approval from some authority? We are all community members. We can gather together and build support in a million different ways.

They've lost the 9yos

Yes I will be fighting back against the unjust firing by @washingtonpost.com. I have filed a grievance and will be represented by none other than the amazing @katiephang.bsky.social and an incredible legal team. Journalistic freedom is a bedrock of a healthy society and is worth battling for.

Song For a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity From a Coal Miner’s Daughter will be released on April 21st 2026 from @haymarketbooks.org. In the midst of hateful divisive rhetoric, violent repression, and grifters writing elegies, let this one be a song. ❤️‍🔥 Pre-orders are open!

If you are serious about supporting your neighbors and the vulnerable members of your community, this absolutely and by definition means intentionally acknowledging and addressing some basic inclinations, like the one that says to abandon people who aren't always able to be there when you want them.

(SF) Today, Sunday, 9/21 ⬇️⬇️

Happy September 21st to those that celebrate!!! 😃 💃🏾🕺🏾

see with inflation in 2025, we need at least 7.96 watergates to get 1 watergate from 1971

Can you imagine if this was happening WITHOUT social media? We’d be in an absolute dark zone

Trying to connect with your unhoused neighbors? Here’s supplies we’ve found are always welcome & needed: - socks - bug spray in summer - hand warmers in winter - batteries (AA & AAA always, D or C for fans & radios) - water Pack em in a ziploc, bring a $5 & go meet your neighbors that live outside

If you are interested it a free structured community group model, learning more, practicing, founding your own local group or participating as a facilitator in our network you can hop in here and join us tomorrow morning www.whatashrinkthinks.com/gathered-mee...

I think I love her.

The thing everyone can do right now is to find your lane if you don't already have one and work that lane diligently and with commitment.

WHEW! An excellent thread:

Again, I'm just describing the situation. If we want to transform it, there's pretty much only one thing for converts to do: shut the fuck up and listen. But even that might be too much to ask.

Currently inviting applications for the fall season Co-Resting sessions that run from October into December. #ME/CFS #LongCovid #NEIS #Resting #Pacing #Community

From Milton Mayer's "They Thought They Were Free" I first read it in November and I'm rereading it now. It crushing feeling the exact same things as this academic did. It's the same process.

timeline cleanse: franky watches the garbage truck pick up the trash this morning

As was posted earlier, how to delete your account without agreeing to the ToS: Opening this "privacy policy" link www.academia.edu/privacytakes you to a page where you can access the drop-down menu and reach "account settings." From there I was able to delete my account without agreeing.

I can’t say it any plainer or better than any other Black woman but I’ll try They talk like that to us because society lets them. The person you swear is cool is awful to me almost ALWAYS the person who was cool but feels slighted wil try to destroy my life Because they get rewards for it

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Ta-Nehisi Coates has a few choice words about this man and this moment. Whew. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

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I think something we have to establish and hold firm on is that you can’t be magnanimous with other people’s lives.

Don't talk enough about the win of having chronic illnesses/disabilities being that it *usually* does the heavy lifting of keeping people who aren't empathetic, compassionate, or understanding away.

im getting really tired of everything being bad bc like 12 ppl can't fill the hole in their hearts despite being billionaires

I grew up hiding from the FBI and helping shelter people without documents from Border Patrol and INS and the possibility of my parent's imprisonment - and I am thinking about many of the realities and questions this important story below raises for the moment we are facing now

Writing this to name the cortisol in my veins. To say it without snark or glib or bravado. This shit does scare me. I’m still writing, but I’m not going to posture. No time for apologists; no time for fools who think they can use fascist techniques against fascism. Let us only seek precision.

There are several different Pillow Writer meetings, different time zones, different frequencies and different languages. All the necessary information on how to join us can be found here: pillowwriters.wordpress.com

Listen: one of the ways that people survive and hold on to reality in totalitarian environments is by forming sanity/reality pods - circles where we can tell each other the truths we hear and see and defend against collective delusions You can join one of mine or I’ll help you build your own.

“they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and i keep on remembering mine.” – Lucille Clifton

POV: this 🤩

Works I think the Art Institute of Chicago should put back on display ASAP: A thread. Philip Guston - Bad Times www.artic.edu/artworks/118...

As an archivist, this keeps me up.

No, they just mean “convince me with words and if you don’t, too bad you have to live with racism/transphobia/misogynoir/etc”

What they’re doing is refusing to talk about what really matters in this equation: power Discourses about debate pretend there are fundamental power symmetries between the two positions and the people impacted by them. They ignore the power asymmetry induced by white supremacy. Civility is a cover

Image descriptions: The famous Cosmo image of a naked Burt Reynolds reclining on a bearskin rug, reinterpreted in Tlingit #formline style on a traditional leaf-bladed canoe paddle. The head of the bearskin Burt's reclining on, fills the point of the paddle blade. This is just too delightful

URGENT! could someone (or if a few people could split?) please send me $55-60 so that i can get home in a few hours when they discharge me? paypal.me/thelongestroad

Here are the _public_ email addresses for the reporters and the standards editor listed on the WSJ site. Standards editor: [email protected] Journalists who wrote the article: [email protected] [email protected] Politely and peacefully demand a retraction and an apology.

So weird how people confuse “utterly loathsome” with “charismatic”

"Punishing people like Gretchen Felker-Martin for their honest expressions of disdain only reinforces the hierarchy of the right, which normalizes white bigotry and the incitement of violence, while seeking to control and punish marginalized people for daring to think and feel in public."

Y'all said you wanted to hear from me. Just posted a long thread. Sit with it a bit. Breathe. Repeat. Maybe go journal. Take a walk outside if you are able. Eat something decadent & sweet. Then come back & read it again.

Yesterday I was sitting with the realization that many Black organizers I know are grieving. Not grief over a person, but over a paradigm. A vision of what organizing could accomplish that’s cracking beneath their feet. 1/12

It's been a gift to see all of the white people who are publicly defending that man. A true gift. They are offering you an opportunity to clearly identify your antagonists.

whew this poem 😮‍💨

Charlie Kirk spent his life making people like me unsafe. His followers sent me death threats for years and threatened my employer if they didn’t terminate me. His work was NEVER about free speech. It was about hate and emboldening violent people. The dishonesty of the past 24hrs is disgusting.

Also have to point out how disorienting it is to see condemnations of political violence alongside exhortations to lend credibility to reports seemingly designed to foment it.