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For this month’s @outsidemag.bsky.social column, I took a rat taxidermy class, and it was… surprisingly sweet? As the teacher said, “We’re reclaiming what’s beautiful and interesting about the things we’ve been told are bad or gross.” I love my rat. His name is Meatball.

Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.

My husband’s Henleins outnumber my Elizabeths Bear and Peters combined.

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Dreamed I was giving a conference presentation on how to figure out where your document has ended up between OneDrive and multiple SharePoints. I do not actually know this.

since we're doing USPS discourse again, a reminder of what Dems should be saying

the law is fickle, and money is powerful, but the good news is that transphobes cannot force you to be nice to them. so don't be

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

In the seven months we’ve been in this house all our books have been in boxes in the living room. Schuyler’s were in storage for three years before that. Today our giant Amish-made bookcases finally arrived, and I have unpacked and cataloged and merged almost everything.

Goodbye, Stoppard. Your monologue on the fallibility of the transmission of texts has been scratched into my soul since I first fell in love with The Invention of Love a dozen years ago. As has the counterpoint: “We catch our breath at the places where the breath was always caught.”

We’ve been rockhounding the last couple of years without the tools to actually cut and polish the rocks. We discovered on the last visit to my parents that my dad actually has a full setup, so we brought up our buckets for Thanksgiving and started cutting.

Introduce yourself with five places you’ve seen raccoons and your mental state at the time: • college lake path (drunk) • Haight St at 2am (drunk) • my 3rd-floor apartment kitchen (concussed) • @schuyler.info’s 4th-floor roof deck (sober?) • my chicken coop (furious)

Starting your holiday shopping? Check this thread for independent artists to get amazing things from! Let's support each other, not billionaires!

Portland dog owners understand how to coexist in a park challenge: impossible

Larry Summers Announces He Will Step Down From Chair With Belt Around Neck

Heavily sedated, down two more teeth, still furious.

Dropping the dog off at the vet: “aww, is she gwumpy she didn’t get bweakfast?” Ma’am, it is 7:30am. We’re both furious that we’re awake right now.

authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

“Babe, I think the freezer you bought is too big,” said my husband, immediately before turning into a fruit goblin.

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites

Been off the internet for two days, did I miss anything

I can't go to anti-ICE meetings or trainings, but I'm printing out fliers and distributing them with whistles solo and I've been so heartened by how enthusiastic everyone I've talked to has been. Feel free to use this Portland Oregon flier to distribute whistles in your neighborhood.

When I was on my college radio station’s exec board, a DJ did something very stupid with a pencil and fried our main soundboard. We were off-air for a week. In her email to e-board she said “I tink I broke it…. sowwee lol :)” I hadn’t realized her total uwu insincerity had such a noble pedigree.

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

if you've been in/lived in your aging grand/parent's house, you know the sign and label stage of trying to care for them at home

this genuinely feels like a moment history books will look back on where the Democratic Party was forced to either fix its hearts or die

JAMES CARVILLE RETIRE BITCH

There are more of us than there are of them.

I hope Stephen Miller sees his own future in the celebrations happening today

Send help we are trapped inside a pirate tifo 🏴‍☠️🌹⚽️ #baonpdx

I like soccer fine but I fucking love Thorns fans.

If I am coming down with something, the day before the first Halloween in years where my home will get trick-or-treaters, after I have purchased candy and a wig and thrifted a dress and planned my makeup and decorated the front window and put up new lights, I SHALL BE VERY PUT OUT

If I have bought you books or knitted or sewn you anything I am also your aunt. Even if I don’t see you as often as I should.

i just need people to know it's not hypocrisy when Devout Christian Mike Johnson cuts off SNAP benefits. it's not a lack of "christian charity" to make kids starve; it's because the christian right wants to control who gets food, through churches, so they can deny queers and sluts at will

My maternal family has had such a procession of tragedies over the last couple weeks that my 95-year-old grandmother, who is no longer fully compos mentis, looked directly at me and said “aren’t you glad you never had kids?”

I just saw a bumper sticker reading “‘The Mummy’? No thanks, I’m more of a Jurassic Park (1993) bisexual” I must be a) back in Portland and b) buying that immediately

Just used an outhouse in a cemetery, so my trip home to Northeastern Washington is complete

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

Food banks need money if you’ve got it. For everything else, contact them and ask—some can take donated meat by hunters or eggs from backyard flocks, some can’t.

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com Altria Group Inc. Amazon Apple Inc. Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. Caterpillar Inc. Coinbase Global Comcast Corp. Hard Rock International Google HP Inc. Lockheed Martin Corp. Meta Platforms Inc. 1/3