You might think a house would run out of improvement-based History Boys references, but you WOULD be wrong. Natalie, goin strong! What a house!

One of the best parts of sustained friendships is you, too, can commit to the bit! Natalie is a very accommodating boss, she always sends in her orders with plenty of time to execute on her vision.

my third romance novel, SECOND HELPINGS, comes out in may! my books are FUN: they're made to make you feel like you're watching a rompy 90s romcom, but queer. also there is a dog in it named pastrami & i believe in my heart that if enough people read it, that dog will become real & come to my home

Honored to have my first poem published in @garlicpresslit.bsky.social! Here’s to the middle of the country and sunsets and gas stations and awe. 🧄 🌅 🌬️ Check out the whole issue! www.garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue...

Genuinely haven’t figured out how to promote my writing on Instagram when several coworkers follow me there, but I do know that I *will* be keeping legendary goalie Manuel Neuer on my Close Friends list

every transphobic argument boils down to "in spite of the infinite variety of experience inherent to humanity, you are only allowed to be the kind of person we (a collection of miserable ghouls) say you should be." an amazing coincidence that every fascist argument boils down to the same thing

Wedging this into my narrowest hallway

Good morning

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

Multiple friends have caught COVID recently, including some of my more cautious pals. There are a lot of winter germs in crowded places right now, fam. Personally, I never feel that shopping or riding transit unmasked is worth potentially getting sick. You can always renew this practice.

what if instead of every writer having an individual premium substack we had lots of writers working together for one publication. you might have editors, too, and designers. and only one regular fee, instead of seventy billion! wonder who will invent that. sounds like it’d be good

hello beautiful friends, if you are looking for (yet another) way to help mn, the school i am volunteering with has an ongoing fundraiser. we distributed over 100k to help with february rent and food and that is expected to continue for the next x months.

every time the pxp mentions the nhl while commentating on a women’s hockey game he should have to donate twenty bucks to a girls hockey organisation

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

I'm going to share a very good story about the internet. I won't tell it well because I apparently have the flu, but I think we all need a good story about the internet. It starts in 2021, when I took a sabbatical and got a little workspace to write a design book.

when i give wired dot com $40 i get access to so many journalists‘ work, when i give my favorite writer $40 i only get that one person’s work AND i can only do that for like one person a year. it sucks!!!!

The Pitt got greenlit for a season 3, out next February, and the announcement has very funny comment from HBO chairman Casey Bloys that’s like “yeah, turns out if you just make a TV show like how we used to make TV shows you can have a 15+ episode season every year 🤷‍♂️”

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Chotiner: Tell me what you found interesting about these vampires. Documentarian: Well, it's just -- the group dynamics, I guess. Chotiner: I can see that. I can see finding Nandor, Laszlo and Nadia entertaining. Documentarian: Exactly. Chotiner: So. How many people did you watch them murder?

Tit of the Day: Himalayan Black-lored Tit 📷 Nitin Chandra

I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.

my snail van has very close to no computer and the carburettor (replaced in modern vehicles by electronic fuel injection) is designed in such a way that if you turn left too suddenly before it warms up, it starves the engine and you stall. only going left and only when cold. you want 5% computer.

I love sports because it's woven into the fabric of both community and family but also hate that I love sports because of pretty much everything else

if you are unfamiliar with my personal most referenced dan mcquade piece i talk about it basically any time rocky is mentioned www.phillymag.com/news/2013/09...

There are so many people in this country quietly going about their days doing brilliant and compassionate and beautiful things that will never be documented and I need to remind myself of that today

Happy large boulder the size of a small boulder day for all who celebrate

me, absolutely not misremembering anything: i could be misremembering that

If you need something positive to do to help your community right now that will cost nothing but time, go give blood. Someone is always in need. (A family member's life was saved by donated blood.) For a list of blood donation centers & blood drives within 20 miles of your zip code, search AABB:

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I'll also add that if you're in the path of the storm and your library is out of the books/ebooks/audiobooks, you can support your local bookstores by using @bookshop.org and or @libro.fm! You don't have to leave the house!

brecht wrote this in 1945: twelve years after he fled nazi germany fearing persecution, and two years before he would flee the united states to escape the crosshairs of mccarthyism. thinking about it a lot these days.

This is pretty much a bill like the one Governor Murphy just vetoed in New Jersey a few days ago: boltsmag.org/new-jersey-g...

logging off to be hysterical offline but i love you people and remember to turn your inside thoughts into mutual aid links instead of posting them

Anyone who is part of the federal government who is not doing everything in their power to stop this administration, regardless of the assumed cost to normalcy or career, is a coward and a collaborator.

Illinoisans: Dick Durbin's office numbers: 202-224-2152 (DC) 217-492-4062 (Springfield) Tammy Duckworth's office numbers: (202) 224-2854 (DC) (217) 528-6124 (Springfield) Not one more cent to this government until ICE is defunded. No excuses.

also, if you access bluesky on both mobile and desktop, you'll have to turn of autoplay on each one.

The connection between viral infection and other apparently unrelated diseases — HPV ➡️ cervical cancer; Epstein-Barr Virus (mono) ➡️ multiple sclerosis (MS); and increasingly looking like herpes zoster (shingles) ➡️ dementia — is probably the most paradigm-shifting medical discovery of my lifetime. 🧪

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DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO POWER STRIPS DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO POWER STRIPS DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO ANYTHING BUT A GROUNDED, WALL SOCKET

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

* The donor eligibility guidelines have changed *considerably* in the last few years due to updated science and many people who weren't eligible now are. In particular, the UK/EU travel ban is completely gone and the blanket ban on MSM has been converted to an all-gender behavioral risk screening.

We've been dealing with regional blood shortages and shortages of some blood-derived products for a while, but "severe blood shortage" nationally is Very Bad! If you can donate, please do! (*)

Buy a transistor radio. An AM FM NOAA one that uses AA batteries. Buy a flashlight that runs on AA batteries. Buy a 20 pack of AA batteries. Buy a box of 12 hour long burn candles. But some storm proof matches. Put all these in a ziplock gallon bag. Put the bag in a drawer.

SO excited to share: I'm writing three new books with Storm Publishing, in addition to my next novel, SECOND HELPINGS, which is out in May! Also exciting: two of those books are going to be the start of my first ever SERIES. Can't wait to share them all with you 💜 stormpublishing.co/storm-signs-...

Kelpie, now a 2 color risograph print. I looove how much texture came out in this print kendrap.com/shop/kelpie

The older I get the more intensely I believe that merely being able to sincerely say “I was wrong, I fucked up” inoculates one against so many kinds of wildly destructive personal evil

'Why aren't they in the streets' is answered almost every day in my small town by people in the streets! Rather than asking 'why aren't they in the streets' it's worth asking 'why isn't your media showing them in the streets' and 'who is served by downplaying resistane in its myriad forms.'

Hey southerners, put a bunch of containers of kitty litter in your car right now. Put it under your front wheels if you get stuck and it will often give you enough traction to get out.

feeling lost alone & hopeless at the prospect of being without AO3 for 15 hours? don’t despair- there’s another highly addictive website out there just waiting for you. it’s got heated rivalries. it’s got behavior: mating. and so much more. that’s right. it’s iNaturalist.

Tom Baker is 92 today