Just trying to go about my business while fighting the urge to vomit every five minutes at the hypocrisy, double standards, threats, and fascism

oh I also DMed my first D&D game Saturday and it went well! Turns out I like being in charge of things and performing, two things that are rewarded in this activity.

& lift my eyes & lift my eyes

Genocide studies is forever altered. The concept of national security in US and Israel is basically a Dept of Revenge and Other-Cleansing. People are purged and expelled for where they were born and for their genetics. Not for what they do but for who they are. I will never shut up about this.

this memoir was an excellent read. will not forget one particular scene about what it feels like to choose your own freedom.

The thing that helped me sleep was reading this. The press release article was especially lovely

my loneliness is killing me and I must confess, I still believe when I'm not with you I lose my mind give me a sign hit me baby one more time thank you for reading this abridged version of FIGHT CLUB by Chuck Palahniuk

it is the fourth week of the semester and i finally am feeling settled in the new routine. students are great. world horrifying. have kept up with 3x week strength training and 1x week ballet! also walking more during the days. movement is keeping me sane enough to go on.

The Devil anthology of @therebis.com is now available for preorder! It's a 120-page issue exploring themes of power, rebellion, desire, shadow work, liberation & more. I am so proud of how this came together. All profits donated to social justice orgs. Preorder: www.therebis.com/products/devil

our species' greatest achievement has been figuring out how to keep our young alive, and it's so heartbreaking and infuriating that we're letting them die in Gaza and die in schools and die because we made software programs that help them figure out how to do it

Anyway, I designed this poster for our coworking space today, and added a subtle(ish) anti-AI dig, haha 💙 ✍️

Elke Erb, tr. Rosmarie Waldrop

went on a guided walk in remnant prairie at sunset this past week. the guide has been a biology prof for over 30 years. here’s a picture of some prairie plants:

need to be me and say it

I point this out for clarity. I also have a long-term interest in how my crafting of ideas is sometimes confused for the very serious idea being crafted. So to be clear: AI is political attack on labor with few limited cases for social value and an absolute ecological disaster.

only allowing another body to interrupt long enough for our limbs to tangle like weeds up the side of a brick house, reaching for something impossible #SaturdayPoem

Also implied in a shocking number of Scooby-Doo episodes!

In selecting cover art for Small Remedies (engineidling.net/2025-micros), @apbrown.bsky.social introduced us to artist Maddalena Bouchard (1772 - 1793?). Shepherd's Purse was selected for the cover & to pair with the #poem Remedy for Birth Trauma. It's said to help w bleeding & menstrual disorders.

What we really need re: Newsom is for the media to cover people who are actually doing good shit the way they cover attention-seeking powerhounds because so many elections boil down to familiarity

sometimes i hear facts like this and i can’t really handle it

Coral Bracho, tr. Forrest Gander

after about 6 months of rapport-developing this week me and three of the people who work at this cafe decided to be friends and exchanged phone numbers and i could not be more thrilled

Kaitlyn Greenidge on D.C., white reconstruction, and how you really can and should be able to believe multiple things are true at one time. kaitlyngreenidge.substack.com/p/chocolate-...

another excellent thread from Kristen (and what an amazing assignment)

1 and 3. it’s a rollercoaster ride but sometimes it’s fun

The Popcorn Inlet. The Popcorn Isthmus. The Popcorn Archipelago.

excited to dig into this

love this dispatch in Lux magazine's newsletter, from the Abortion Dream Team in Poland luxmagazine.cmail19.com/t/t-e-gijiuh...

i am back on my liftoff (tm) strength training bullshit and it is making me feel unstoppable. i really, really, really hope i can keep it up during the semester this year.

One Weird Trick to Having The Best Time of Your Goddamn Life

"what happens after the end of your book?" look man I already told you everything I know

some things that have been nice: walking more, trying cross-stitch, reading more, cooking more, going back to meditation group, studying Classical Chinese, creative writing, d&d with pals

Y'ALL I AM SO VERY EXCITED TO BE DOING IRL QUEERING THE TAROT CLASSES AT Moonstone here in Mpls AND I've added some zoom Study Halls which are gonna be rad and both work with and stand alone from the classes. Anyone can come! Please come to whichever you're able? cassandra-snow.com/specialreadi...

So I’ve been working on a project and I think I’ll tell you about it: I’m editing a book of oral interviews done by the WPA on American work/workers, to publish next summer

Philip Whalen

anecdata that sales of a book and coverage/reviews/chatter about a book are increasingly divergent and almost entirely separate spheres. Books sell great w/no coverage while books get endless coverage and few sales. It’s very the map is not the territory!

this was a very fun and moving read, hard recommend

"Incarcerated workers are a part of the working class,” journalist @kimkelly.bsky.social says. And we are “not telling the real history of labor in this country if [we’re] not focusing on the organizing efforts & the labor of people who are in prison” @therealnews.com therealnews.com/prison-labor...

we will feel a great affinity

I've been in an ongoing conversation with several other demographers about birth rate panic and what we can do about it. We've written this, with @karenguzzo.bsky.social and Shelley Clark. More to come! theconversation.com/fears-that-f...

i’m genuinely angry i have to think about one of the worst internet idiots of 10 years ago today because i made the mistake of logging onto this website

*taps sign*

i already hated canvas 😓

I'm going on vacation next week for a couple weeks, so if you want anything from the illustrious katieaki.com, you should order ASAP! There are only 4 Knife Church omamori left. This design will never ever be made again! the screen is dead!

I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do. —Naomi Shihab Nye

the problem with reading a book i’m so-so on is that i’m not motivated to pick it up and read it but i also don’t start reading anything else. but i also don’t hate it so i don’t DNF. and then i will go a month barely reading when reading is something i really like to do

I’m in a milkweed state and I do love our milkweed

Update: I forgot these tickets are in the suburbs. Being carless, getting there is very expensive, I definitely can’t do that x4. Does anyone in Chicago need one lawn ticket for Hozier’s Thursday night show? #chicago #hozier

this is my only commentary on the discourse.

i love weird vegetables