you should listen to my podcast about reconstruction people.com/barack-obama...

BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

repost to share the good news

@lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social your book The Z Word got shouted out in my book club on a completely different book this week!

Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin book club at the local indie bookstore tonight. Need to log off, change my clothes, eat dinner, and then discuss sad 90s lesbians.

Just Watch Me 🪨🩸 #art

"Someone remembered. Someone always remembers." I always think of this grave marker mentioned in the ending of @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social's powerful essay, written on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of 6/4/1989.

if you want to ruin your life (good actually) this serial novel I’ve been reading for the past few years is finished today and it fulfilled all of its promises and more. and no one inconvenient was sent to Australia (looking at you Dickens)

i apparently drew and painted a lot of leopards growing up and i saved all of them. had almost forgotten they were one of my favorite animals.

when my dad digitizes all of my nutcracker VHS performances I think it would be funny to edit an uber nutcracker with me in all of the roles i had over the years into one seamless performance

the traffic in Columbus visiting my grandma was horrifying. Columbus should have a robust subway/train system.

Speaking of theory, soft-launching here that I'm trying to get my shit together for a twin cities satellite

I went through all of these photos one by one and this is the discard pile. the amount i saved was maybe 1/5 of this quantity. my brain is mush.

found out that Alaska ThunderFuck performed at the first ever drag show I attended in 2007

you could put this guy as an endorsement on posts, recipes or whatever, that people gotta try.

going through boxes and boxes of childhood ephemera today. fun and a little overwhelming.

Not just 2024–every year from 2014 to 2024 except for 2021 & 2022. Speaking for myself, this absolutely aligns with my experience.

getting a real education in the gluten free fast food options of Ohio (bibibop fully gf, pretty good! at noodles & company now, fingers crossed, Boss Chick N Beer, four locations in Cleveland area, is a must-eat)

I’m always saying this

don’t speak to me or my son ever again

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

sex toy website advertises "free discreet shipping over $[x amount]" anything under that & you have to pay for it AND they're slapping a huge label that says "DILDOS" on the side

It’s not quite smashing the cameras with a hammer, but denying Flock and cops access to this surveillance system while protecting people from further datafication is one form contemporary Luddism might take.

"There are things in the world that are more important than money" seems to be the hardest thing for this country to grasp right now and we are all suffering for it

need this to live outside of replies

Did you know that when a baby sperm whale is born, non-kin adults will participate in helping keeping it afloat during its first hours so it doesn’t drown? Yet humans are told that the nuclear family ought to be self-sufficient, that community is optional for lives to thrive.

"The mantra, repeated ad nauseam in those years, was ‘competition drives up quality,’ an assertion that anyone looking at, say, the privatised water companies or privatised train companies might greet with a hollow laugh."

love that this is a response to a hypothetical "what specifically ridiculous thing would you do with a ridiculous amount of money" question and it instantly started happening for free in the replies/quotes

It’s different there

I am driving with my parents three hours to visit my grandma in Cleveland and I half-jokingly suggested I read aloud the pope’s encyclical and now I am reading aloud the pope’s encyclical. it’s actually pretty fun.

Fishermen at Sea -JMW Turner (1796)

Okay, St Jerome but THE LION. The mosaic whiskers, the furrowed brow, the crinkle of the eyes, the wavy fur - in tiny tiles of color. Genius

This is the reality in many library systems. And the difficulty in getting time off leads to burnout and health issues among library workers.

Ohio State Football. I simply Do Not Care.

produce and preserve. i worry about how much will be lost.

my lesbian snails #mylesbiansnails

big i made dis energy at the smithsonian's national zoo

I am visiting family north of Dayton Ohio and they have had over 8 inches of rain this week. there is water everywhere.

well, well, well. If it isn't the bridge I said I'd cross when I came to it

“When texts are accessed solely by digitized means, without experiential basis … and material contexts, the learner is cut off from the process, extent and relationships that ground and constitute human works and knowledge.”

he’s never happier than when it’s time to change the sheets

I only know about this because of Jordan Peele’s movie Us. I was living in Santa Cruz when it filmed and had friends who were extras doing hands across America in the Monterey Bay

I need to pack for a trip to see my family tomorrow. I am going to log off.

@keyofmgy.bsky.social wake up babe, new octopus just dropped 😍

Beth in Little Women. Sobbing.

a fun side effect of surviving cancer in a country with universal health care is you can also easily call bullshit on every argument about the US healthcare system and it comes down to what's in this thread: racism and greed

Cover of the day

9 pm is supposed to be log off time but it is 9:30 so now I will log off

The Don't Worry Guys is now a print, per request www.inprnt.com/gallery/kati...

how cruel that, at a time when admin often uses low enrollment to justify canceling courses and shuttering departments, these losers can manipulate curriculum requirements in their favor I'm sure the adjuncts at Iowa wish they could do the same when they are in a similar position