too old to be an Austen heroine about to have a rollercoaster of a year. too young to retire to Bath for my ills.

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it's a repeated pattern on every platform, tbh. there is no term for queerness that hasn't been both weaponized against us or widely used to tag pornography. you can't ask people to avoid slurs and porn when any term for their identity is inevitably made into one or the other

I want a movie that makes *this* explicit lol like Odysseus is a a multitude of disasters stacked on top of each other in a trench coat and we deserve that version on screen

ELMER FUDD: ahhhhhwwwaa..... da spice mewange.... found oenwe on da desert pwanet of awwakis

"still punke as fuck" Ich whisper googlinge whether it ys safe to drynke the gatorade Ich lefte open at room temperature for 1.5 hours

“Separate.” I don’t wanna talk about it.

People refuse to believe it and most who do believe it usually shrug it off but US prisons and jails are in fact torture chambers. Conditions are HORRIFIC across the board. People are OK with this on the whole.

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Truly feel like the “Yes on D” campaign would be stronger if it was “Give us the D” or even “We want that D”

When I finally try a Diet Coke and salty snack for my headache AND IT HELPS.

Anthony Horowitz uses AI, says 'it feels like cheating'. I mean...yes? You're using the theft-powered plagiarism machine to generate text, do you expect it to feel like a good day's hard work?

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reposting this because I have literally never heard about the kochs funding this, and it's just kinda funny that bezos is often the only big boss of bluesky when there are SO MANY billionaires we could hate!!!! (simultaneously! yes, and!)

Oh just the Pulitzer Prize Committee honoring two transphobic journalists from the NYT who helped normalize that transphobia and make it easier for rightwing politicians to pass anti-trans legislation.

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I think they just wanna shake big tech down like a piggy bank.

Oh hey, it’s May the Firth! #MayTheFirthBeWithYou! #JaneAusten #StarWars

You pieces of dogshit conceded ground on public school funding for decades which put our kids behind and now you want to line your pockets with AI cash? Now you can find the money for the kids? You worthless asshole.

Has anyone stumbled on any long form writing re: the technofascists and the chore coat bullshit they’re trying? I haven’t seen anyone really diving into how the chore coat has been a very popular sewing pattern for home sewers for a minute. Curious if anyone is talking about that.

Life has been heavy lately. So I’m being intentional about embodying flow and lightness. Linked up with my tai chi / wushu sword instructor in Los Angeles this weekend. It’s been a year since we last worked together, and yes I’m improving! Working on some new moves. ⚔️✨

I am still printing a bunch of whistles (and if you need some, visit linktr.ee/3Dwhistles and we will hook you up), but I have finally started to use it for the thing I originally bought it for.

The Great Bay Area Fabric (and Craft) Store list + map has been updated with BRAND NEW MAPS. bookhoarding.wordpress.com/2026/04/27/f...

This is very sad and I truly feel for these farmers. But let’s be clear about why anyone selects a candidate. It’s not to obtain some specific policy outcome. Brad voted for Trump bc he liked the way Trump made him feel (powerful) and bc all his buddies were voting for Trump, too.

"It takes zero courage to love you." the ten year old trans kid in me is just ... welp, the 40yo me is crying.

It was at a magical Star Wars night at the Cal Academy that I met Frank. And you bet I was ready to write a letter to them about how stupid the layoffs are. I care about that place and you should too! Please support the folks that got laid off!

Speculative fiction fans, can you *please* stop using YA as a way to insult adult fiction? YA isn't devoid of subtext or descriptions. It isn't lesser. If you notice those trends in adult, it's not because YA trends have infected it. And if you notice that in YA, then you need to read better books.

The same managers who forced RTO for remote jobs because “the job can only be done in person” pivoting to replacing those same employees with AI? Yeah, it was never about the RTO.

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I just wanna say that I think it’s very telling that I never see Psych DVDs at the thrift stores.

It was at a magical Star Wars night at the Cal Academy that I met Frank. And you bet I was ready to write a letter to them about how stupid the layoffs are. I care about that place and you should too! Please support the folks that got laid off!

Ima hold your hand when I say this- There is no world in which everyone has bodily autonomy unless it's a world that also has sex workers' rights. The fight for Sex workers rights is often one of the front lines of fights for bodily autonomy

Take this blessed seam on this very small jacket for good wishes for your day.

Mail ballots have already gone out for the May 16 primaries but Louisiana Republicans are looking to cancel the state’s US house primaries to redraw a map, eliminating at least one if not two of the state’s Dem-held seats. lailluminator.com/2026/04/29/f...

Me: why is this person being weirdly negative about the fabric store options in the city when they’re arguably better than most of the Bay? Two seconds of looking at their profile later. Me: OH THEY LOVE FLEET WEEK. Somehow this says a lot.

May Day's coming! As a special holiday treat @reveleth.com packed this week's calendar of Bay Area events with all the walkouts, protests, billionaire pestering parties, and marches they could scrounge up. Make good trouble out there 😈 www.coyotemedia.org/coyote-calen...

our first episode of season 4 drops this sunday!!! it will be a real surprise — despite my pathological need to ruin them — for anyone interested in the why of monsters!

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

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There are now officially more than 600 (!) independent bookstores signed up to participate in this year's Bookstore Romance Day. Time to start planning your August 15 shopping. bookstoreromanceday.org/participatin...

Star Wars Dad Jokes Strike Back is out ⋆˙⟡ today ✧˖°. at your favorite bookstore!!

The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis—and then called her a “fucking bitch” moments before she died in her car—was only placed on three days of administrative leave and continues to work for the agency in another state. trib.al/C3bEEAM

who could possibly have guessed

Once again, I wish we'd go back to bullying the rich Gilded Age style: Oh, these people with money DID NOT support the arts and community with their money? Now they are so shamed they can't show their faces in public, and their staff is equally ashamed to work for them.

Leaving the house is a great reminder that AI actually won't replace much of anything and that human interaction is actually needed for so many things. Go outside. Get a new library card. Try the new coffee shop. Read a book in a park.

HIRE THIS INCREDIBLE PERSON!

Great resource for SF Bay Area residents and visitors looking for fabric and craft supplies! Both new and reuse/secondhand options.

we all know this classic way

Bay Area fabric sources! A list + a map. bookhoarding.wordpress.com/2026/04/27/f...

We are the LARGEST union in trade publishing history, and we want better for our workers in order to make a sea change for creatives everywhere. Let's take a stand together against the existential threats to the arts, whether stagnating wages, the AI slop machine, and destructive layoffs.