it would be a good afternoon to focus on work for a while and wow i really don’t want to. but i’m going to.

Ernie, for better or for worse

I feel like a novel

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Once again it is Friday!!! Please enjoy this red camellia flower.

This month, all proceeds from our back issues (The Devil + The Star) go to the National Immigration Justice Center (@immigrantjustice). We’ve raised ~$1k so far; donating at the end of next week. We publish for collective transformation. Each issue is an offering. 🤍 therebis.com/collections/...

if post-post apocalypse doesn’t make you feel things…i dunno man

somebody said they thought these were tarot cards at first (mysterious old lady flips over the Japanese-American tarot card) is that good

🧵!!!

“Just months after Putin had banned ‘gay propaganda,’ the Opening Ceremony was hijacked by ‘gay propaganda.’”

love finding new names of trolly media idiots to mute

just gonna add another mmm HMMM

i hear we’re moving this trend over to bluesky so okay! the author / the first page / the book [going with RULES FOR GHOSTING] but i know pass pages for LOVE ME LIKE A ROCK SONG are coming so soooooon 👀👀👀

like slow water

so,,, they’re beaky

"In recent months, people have been smashing and dismantling the surveillance devices, in incidents reported in at least five states, from coast to coast" @bcmerchant.bsky.social. YES - and I submitted a chapter this week on Luddism + critical data literacies that included destroying Flock cameras.

Later: “I was wrong. Water does have bones, when it freezes”

good morning, keep fighting “local communities and their elected leaders really are finding themselves on the front lines of this fight and are finding that they do, in fact have some power to say no to Big Tech." newrepublic.com/article/2066...

Christina Rossetti: Apples and quinces, Lemons and oranges, Plump unpeck’d cherries, Melons and raspberries,Bloom-down-cheek’d peaches John Ruskin: Your whole poem can't just be listing food Rossetti: SWART-HEADED MULBERRIES, WILD FREE-BORN CRANBERRIES, CRAB-APPLES, DEWBERRIES, PINE-APPLES, BLACKB

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

'If I read Lorde alongside the Combahee River Collective, I can imagine that creative victories sustain and transform relationships. Not, “I disagree with you, so I must destroy you,” but “I disagree with you, so we must use the creative energy of our differences to imagine something else together"'

Thought better of responding to an extremely stupid take; instead I'll just say, goddamn, it's so fucking cool that we have access to *centuries* worth of art and writing, connecting us in small, gorgeous acts of witchcraft to the lives and emotions of people long gone from the world.

i get so angry in states with red legislatures and blue governors when the legislatures can just overturn vetoes. it is a failure of democracy when the one elected official actually voted for by the majority has no power because of gerrymandered to hell rep districts

Obviously, invalidating trans people's corrected legal documents is meant to cut them out of public life and make it harder to leave

every time i hear stories about how nurses are treated there are flames coming out of the sides of my head

i want it

Avengers: Endgame. A waste of my life and made me question all the time I had spent watching earlier movies in the series.

Anthology idea: horror stories about bogeymen from different cultures, i.e. stories used to scare children away from danger and/or into obedience

Figuring it out is actually even more important in the classroom, where a "correct" answer is just a fact while learning how to figure things out is a way of living.

ok if you liked what i shared earlier check out the finished piece!

they won't even let you show GOD'S pussy anymore. but I won't be silenced. I think god's pussy is beautiful. retweet if you are a true believer.

have some erotic art in progress, happy valentines day, follow my favorite artist/writer @katieaki.bsky.social

Here's another quilt from the fair yesterday!

Yes this is about Mansfield Park and Dracula!!

Just saw a post about an octopus that called it “he” and my brain went “what? No, all octopuses are girls”

just got my first mammogram and it wasn’t as painful or uncomfortable as i feared it would be!

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

olympic watching friends in the us, i have a question. i thought i’d be able to watch everything whenever i want via peacock, but for figure skating it is only showing replay for yesterday’s free dance. is there any way to watch earlier figure skating?

ok friends i am done with my reposting storm, your feeds should return to normal now (unless you are like me and use the mutuals feed and only posts so you never see reposts 😈

during covid all of us public facing service workers were thanked ridiculously like we were volunteers during a time we didn't know what was going on or how to handle this shit but quietly running in the background who didn't get any recognition at all? janitors, custodians, maintenance workers

can't make and sell art bc payment processors don't like that it's gay, can't work my dayjob bc higher ups don't like that i'm gay. it's almost like everything in the world doesn't want us to be gay at all.

This is great! I’m also always happy to talk with people about my experience leaving Substack for Beehiiv—it was a financial risk & there was a definite adjustment period following the move but ethically it was the right thing to do.

Not a cell phone in sight. Just two guys living in the moment, traveling 90mph down a twisted ice chute

worth reading to the end

Very simple camellia flower for Thursday.

I sigh every time I see another overly complicated system seemingly designed for no other purpose than to waste time and cause people to make mistakes for which they will be punished.

Today in “oh I’m also an author“ I’m working on a media list for this book, coming out in July. Suggestions for folks who might be interested in an advance copy welcome!

And yet when I express frustrating that programs like mine are constantly under threat and that we are increasingly restricted from academic inquiry related to women and gender, I am told that I'm being paranoid

Mariana Lorena García, a researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico investigating data centre impact, called the failure to complete projects "a form of extractivism...They come ask communities what they need, they write it down in a report, and then they don’t do anything."

Me today, missing the fragment that would allow me to pull back the bow and create the tension needed to launch the arrow.