Oh my god, FreeTaxUSA really is that good! Feeling worse about what my taxes pay for than any year ever but at least I got to give Turbotax the finger @clairewillett.bsky.social

Armageddon is terrible, but immigrants were eating people's pets.

Am I being unfair when I assume anyone who uses the word 'female' as a noun rather than an adjective is at the very least slightly misogynist? Sincere question. It's an assumption I *do* make; am I being unfair, do you think?

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

Librarians/archivists don't actually wear white cotton gloves to handle rare books and papers; clean bare hands are much better.

Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵: These protests are important b/c: 1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

My lips? Flaming

Either Walking on Sunshine, or that Tears for Fears song Shout? Hard to decide, but def one of those two.

Interpretive dance

So, I'm enjoying the photos of Rubio in his terrible giant shoes as much as anybody, but the 'he makes them wear these shitty cheap shoes!' is starting to grate on me. These are shoes that cost half a week's pre-tax salary for a person working full-time at minimum wage, which lots of people do.

Corn dogs. Always and forever. Love 'em

Dykes to Watch Out For, obvs! Also anything Lynda Barry

It's not just you, @spindlypete.bsky.social

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

went to a training this weekend and we talked about exactly that malicious compliance! work to rule! handwritten documents in really bad handwriting! it's all sand in the gears

Sitting in front of my house with the candle my step-sister made for me. It's a suburb, so nobody came by, but it was good anyway. Rest in peace, Alex Pretti, may your memory be a blessing

Suburban Lawns Odetta Phranc The Avengers Laurie Anderson

Hidden City Cafe, in Point Richmond CA. They had a cornmeal pancake with little bits of smoky ham and green onions in 'em.

oh dear

For me, 100% drumming. I got into it 3 years ago. Even when my teacher has me working exclusively on technique (instead of on a song), it's thrilling to see my skills growing. I have to be completely in the moment, focused intensely but staying loose, equally present in body & mind. Best thing ever

Hi Ben I'm not actually saying anything about you I'm just posting to say made you look.

Knitting Without Tears, by Elizabeth Zimmerman

omg. Kat Abughazaleh just posted that if she's elected, she'll swear in on a copy of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower. If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?

Shingles vaccine, man that sucked! Couldn't lift my arm high enough to brush my teeth. But I watched my dad and my grandma suffer with shingles and I'd do the vaccine annually if I had to rather than go through the kind of pain I saw them in.

This article is giving big 'we're looking to find the guy responsible for this' vibes. WSJ all: 'we're so mystified that the insurance companies can't maintain accurate databases' GTFO. You know perfectly well that it's because if patients can't book appointments, insurance companies save $$$.

Well, he's completely fucked over homebuilding with tariffs on materials and ICE terrorizing the workforce so the only way to make homeownership accessible would be extending our terms of debt servitude, I guess

I turned in the same essay twice in the same high school class, just wrote a different title at the top and a different date. Don't need AI to be a slacker if your teacher DGAF! This was in 1981

Candy corn. Love it. Love it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2Ji... I got into this when I was living in Tokyo.

Maybe "Diva"?

People in libraries working with rare books while wearing white cotton gloves

I think maybe the Descendents?

Space Island One! Sexy Eurotrash cast, premise is that space exploration is all for-profit companies instead of governments and some of the plots involve the corporation interfering or cutting corners in ways that endanger the crew

Small good thing: spent 10 minutes in my sideyard watching a monarch butterfly struggling out of its cocoon in the sunshine. We have it all: tiny caterpillars, big fat ones getting ready to pupate, cocoons hanging off the undersides of patio furniture and fence posts, empty cocoons AND butterflies

Age verification? The first I heard of Matt Groening was reading Life in Hell when it was being syndicated weekly

Seinfeld. Like, they tiptoe riiiiiight to the edge of 'these folks are narcissistic assholes' and then they back off every! single! frickin'! time!

Beach boys

Posting these around my neighborhood. The plastic bags are $2.25 for 50 at Daiso. Thank you Megan! @meganpiont.bsky.social

WaPo: CDC Director Ousted WSJ: CDC Director Removed From Post NYT: CDC Director Leaves Abruptly Leaves abruptly? Like the problem is she didn't give two weeks' notice? smh

Small good thing: just watched Priscilla Queen of the Desert with my kids and they said it was weirdly sweet, funny and compassionate.

Sly and the Family Pebble

Thank you CA Attorney general for stepping up to defend our kids' right to their own bodies and the health care they deserve!

thank you, muckraking journalists of the bari weiss tribune, for exposing the awesome stuff zohran mamdani has tweeted about like abolishing medical bills and seizing the property of millionaires