You EXCOMMUNICATE Miette like the heretic? Oh! Oh! Jail for Mother Church! Jail for Ten Thousand Years!

No more His Holiness Nice Pope indeed. Benedict and Francis tried the carrot. Leo is bringing the Chicago baseball bat of loving fraternal correction to the problem now.

Nora Loreto came by the show to deconstruct the shooter’s incel ideology and what’s fueling the rise in misogynist violence youtu.be/hfEGVVYvJ74?...

I feel like I post the same post every time I read a @tkingfisher.com book for the first time, but. Thank you. Again and always. #ASorceressComesToCall

The evolutionary purpose of grief is saving life. Not only do we stifle its full expression by enforcing emotionally flat social conformity, we don't encourage the wielding of grief to inspire harm reduction NEARLY enough. We're meant to SAVE lives by exposing our whole heart through the tears.

obligatory repost

Lumba is a senior at Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé and won Alaska’s Poetry Out Loud competition in March. She'll perform again later today on the live webcast.

Elizabeth, I’ll tell the Supreme Court the same thing I told your family: 6 of you can go fuck yourselves. Darcy

@ilonaandrews.bsky.social thank you for the Arbonne eggs

This is the best piece I’ve read about it: macleans.ca/society/sena...

“But as geopolitical instability grows, inequality deepens, and social systems fracture in new ways—as the world, in short, ceases to behave like a scalable system—it is time to ask the uncomfortable question: Must all social innovation be designed to scale?” ssir.org/articles/ent...

my alley is having a pickup hockey game (without skates, it’s slippy enough that it works) and the adults are huzzah-ing positively. Nature etc etc

Nine Goblins is exactly the small parcel of good I needed right now, thank you @tkingfisher.com (and if I’m ever brave enough to adopt a kitten, Wiggles it will be)

Spoiler: the horse makes it, he's okay, all of the humans are okay This is a *stressful* story, but it's stories like these that make me remember there are a lot of human beings who truly care deep in their souls. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"That's the thing about uncertainty—anything can happen, but anything CAN happen." —Jumaane Williams, in his inaugural speech just now.

Molly Crabapple weighs in 🍞🌹💪🏿

@dynamoe.bsky.social can you do something with this?

@rahaeli.bsky.social , I just wanted to thank you (and your piss terrorist) for introducing me to ruggables. I am now a person who stares proudly at her kitty blissing out on her carpets :)

“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you’re dead.” 📸 Mark Gerson (June, 1969)

Ballet [1/4]

"They want you to feel powerless and surrender and let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving." 🔥

so much hoping that humans can be good, at least sometimes (we can do it!)

'We're not a violent city': Chicago locals take on ICE block-by-block reut.rs/4qDiyGV

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

just a long-time follower, but yes, I see you!

Discworld QOTD, from Witches Abroad “‘You’d have to go a long day’s journey to find someone basically nastier than Esme,’ said Nanny Ogg, ‘and this is me sayin’ it. She knows exactly what she is. She was born to be good and she don’t like it.’”

Good news from Chicago! Rivers can be cleaned up, and are being cleaned up. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Our work resurrecting ice age #ghostponds in the Guardian today @timholtwilson.bsky.social @hburningham.bsky.social @uclgeography.bsky.social ‘Just add water’: how to bring back ancient plants in a Norfolk ghost pond | Wildlife | The Guardian share.google/kO6HQaC4PAUJ...

That’s neat

This is an amazing excellent analogy. Civility in the service of evil is hollow.

Liking the same shit as someone else is the basis of friendship. Pretending to like the same shit as someone else is the basis of manners. Pretending to like the same shit someone else is pretending to like as an excuse for hating the same people as someone else is the basis of politics.

I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.

Well, I'll be damned. It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up. newatlas.com/infectious-d...

Cat poem and cat drawing and my cat Bjork

Ottawa threatens Mohawks with third-party management if they don’t resolve the cancelled election crisis by Wednesday at noon. One legal expert argues that could be illegal. Our story: therover.ca/ottawa-impos...

This is a fucking travesty by my alma mater. Sadie T.M. Alexander was not just the first black woman graduate at Penn Law, she was the first black woman to receive a PhD in economics ANYWHERE, and was the first black woman to practice law in the state of Pennsylvania. She's a true pioneer.

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, Ph.D was the 3rd profile in my dissertation. She was on the AME's National Affairs Post War Cmtte making demands of Roosevelt-1944;appointed to Truman's Cmtte on Civil Rights-1946 & Carter as chair of WH Conf on Aging-1979 had the appointment withdrawn by Reagan's HHS

Mostly small stations in rural areas that are news deserts; residents rely on them for local news, emergency warnings (radio works even when cell service doesn't). Mostly in Alaska or serving tribal communities. There are stations in CO, WV, NM, and AZ. One station lost 97% of its budget.

thank you, @rincewind.run , I forgot that to achieve the perfectly inflected anger of Esme, I need to deal with my Sam ( in other words, I’m re-reading my first Pratchett…Jingo)

@bcdreyer.social this is not an urgent request. I have got myself to the point where I think I can watch Cabaret without disturbing my neighbours. Movie, play video (and if so, which one) or no, you will be anti-social

I saw this last year in Germany, explaining how much goes into an urban tree. Blew my mind a little bit!

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

His heroism in war was absolutely unmatched and the repercussions of that almost completely destroyed his life once the war ended. The entire goal of a peaceful world is that nobody ever has to find out of they have a Little Audie sleeping inside them, because once awoken, he's awake *forever*.

“Next year’s coming anyway, for good or ill; might as well have roses.” youtu.be/f33k8hYO4JE

This podcast goes deeeeep into the housing crisis, explaining the origins and future of a phenomenon that’s turned housing into a commodity (instead of an essential right).

New! The prohibition against WiTCHCRAFT in the Bible, what it likely meant in its original context -- & how the Rabbis understood it, in both their own relationship to magic -- & what they saw of their wives, sisters, etc. "most women are familiar with witchcraft." (Talmud Sanhedrin 67a)