I was super depressed so I mad myself this shawl for Easter to match cardigans I made for my son & nephew

alright christian god i know we’ve had our quarrels but i am prepared to ‘go catholic’ if you make it happen for comedy effect today specifically. i won’t half ass it like i do with judaism either. i’ll wear the thing on my head and eat the crackers and shit

Trump advisers think the age of imperialism ended because of wokeness, not because 1) colonized peoples made colonialism untenable 2) technology made territorial empire unnecessary. They thought mere brutality and perceived genetic superiority would make wars against countries like Iran easy.

One of these political leaders has been repeatedly portrayed as an untrustworthy radical hostile to others because of his religious beliefs. You’’ll never guess which one!

You could make a list of occasions where disruption leads eventually back to exactly where we were in the first place, but just with different people making money out of it.

Also I think a lot of ppl LIKE algorithms. It surfaces things they can get excited or mad about. We're living in bleak times that can be numbing, algorithms are focussed on you feeling SOMETHING at all times. Even if it's fury.

Hello to all the other parental types who are also up late actively & intentionally making a mess in their own homes, purely for the entertainment of the little humans they love, for reasons no one fully remembers.

This is the type of content I log in for

Your regular reminder that dehumanizing the people who are dehumanizing others isn’t how we’re gonna get to liberation. We have to live into the world we want to create.

Caught some of a Noah Wyle interview earlier where he was talking about how some fans have a show they’re making in their head and they don’t like it when the actual show deviates from that and DAMN. That’s it

The 30 Rockification of real life is nearing completion

I’m slowly rebuilding my Goodreads lists after locking myself out of my OG account so if you want to be friends / follow, here is the link, which includes a photo of me that doesn’t really look like me, just for funsies: www.goodreads.com/user/show/19...

One improvement about being on a smaller website is that there are less people hyper obsessive over one particular thing that search it to fight with everyone. During prime Twitter you’d post “that Disco Duck song sure is ass” and someone named RickDeesFan1038 would reply an hour later like OK FUCKO

this remains my take on the Mastodon user experience I’m glad it exists and that it works for some people: it is not for me

It's indeed possible to beat bad things backed by big money

Just started the titular novella in this collection after my husband told me every single day while reading this book how much I would like it & had to read it next & so far he was bang-on. There is something charming, mesmerizing, enchanting here…

It was this for me. By the time I left Twitter I'd begun to tense up just visiting it, and I was burned out by being condescending to the folks trying to be nasty to me. When I came here, I fully signed onto the "don't engage, just block" ethos and tried to model a better online version of myself.

guys, bluesky is dying. if we don't start getting more likes, a greedy developer will bulldoze the site to put up a parking garage. the only thing that can save it is for a ragtag crew of misfits to put on one last big concert at the community center.

The internet wasn't a mistake. It saved lives. It's allowed community. It's one of the best advancements in modern history for information. The mistake was normalizing rampant cruelty and dunk culture and protecting predators and harassers over victims.

Idk about the rest of you but I use BlueSky bc my main passion, interest, talent, & hobby is talking. That’s it. Just talking. I talk A LOT. Or I did, before I got sick. I’m always talking to someone about something. So I’m just hear to talk to a bunch of ppl about whatever bc that’s just who I am.

May be the best internet theory yet

I legit think about this once a week.

More things should be in black and white, not to evoke a sense of the material being old but just because some things look cool in black and white!

Everyone activate emergency discourse topics: mine is that I think the two guys from ABBA have definitely seen each other naked

i’ve seen every social network i love die, you cannot scare me

Peak Twitter was cutthroat as hell. I don't understand the people who don't remember this. I think that some of Twitter was siloed so that some people perhaps couldn't see this????

Finally showed our son the Passover episode of Rugrats & he loved it. We hadn’t seen it since we were kids but both remembered it fondly & it did not disappoint. Gave us a chance to explain his Jewish ancestry since he’s already obsessed w his Sicilian ancestry, & to talk about story & tradition.

i'm trying to stay out of pile-ons and don't really agree with the premise, but i'm happy to weigh in and admit "anti-bedtime leftists" is objectively a great own

This is why I return to seminar-style learning over & over again. There is a lot of room to tweak, personalize, adapt, & improve, but the framework remains the same for a reason.

you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like

Like so many other aspects of my life, I owe a lot of the good to a lot of the bad, & Easter is just another reminder of that, for me.

Easter is jammed w a lot of painful memories for me this year but it’s also a fun reminder of that time my friends & I performed Jesus Christ Superstar for a parish fundraiser. Life used to be so much more fun before Catholics started acting like evangelicals.

In honour of Good Friday, go kiss a man you want to kill. Should be easy for most of you.

Decided to personalize things a bit more. PFP from 2018 depicts half my face while rolling my eyes & adjusting the mic on a stage manager’s headset. I’ve got my hair pulled back & am wearing large black glasses. Banner is pic of garbage bin cordoned off behind blue velvet rope. Fancy trash.

Chronic illness girlies make great leaders bc we need to be able to quickly solve many problems often in inventive ways to survive. Trust me on this one—we are more of an asset than a liability when things get weird.

Started watching Years & Years last night & boyohboy was that a bad idea.

When your wife has hEDS & you’re damn proud of her for it

Pfizer has ended its large Phase III Trial of an updated COVID19 vaccine. They were not able to enroll enough people to meet their goal. A major problem is the FDA’s wholly unreasonable demand that people with chronic conditions, who benefit most from the vaccine, not be allowed to participate.

Lot of truth here. Hence my AI policy for my students, based on advice from my friend @quincemountain.bsky.social “if you want to be a writer, go sit in a bar and talk about yr novel. But if you want to write, write.”

Been enjoying K.Flay’s music via playlists & such for several years now but actually looked her up to find out that she’s my age & 🔥 damn

Since we’re talking about mushrooms let me share my big mushroom theory: that the magic ones aren’t really magic so much as we are just ingesting their existing consciousness & that mushrooms are fundamentally smarter than us / think on a different plane of reality than we can comprehend.

I feel like pretty much any Italian woman could have told us you that.

Mary Oliver: What is it you plan to do with your one wild & precious life? Me: Talk to the HelpDesk.

One of my favourite things my son has started doing recently is complaining about his Microsoft PC (required for school) & just endlessly slagging off on windows like yes son, yes, you understand. (He is 7.)

two of the hardest things ever written are "face god and walk backwards into hell" and "you cannot kill me in a way that matters" one of them came from a tumblr shitpost and the other one came from a dril tweet about hollering at zoo animals the internet truly is a magical place

OK for fun: top funniest tweet ever? I am torn between "moon's haunted" and "Denise I was at your wedding."

all timer banger

I’m sorry cishet man friends, as much as I love you, we must all admit that the fact that strictly heterosexual women exist is proof itself that no one chooses their sexuality.