“You should grow a thicker skin.” Maybe. But maybe I like that my thin skin reminds me to move gently through the world.

Wednesday!!!! If you're an East Bay person who's missed all my San Francisco events, you can come see me along with some truly incredible authors, no need to cross the bay! <3

Got my performance review.

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

I want to be brave warrior snail but I’m afraid I am actually anxiety owl

Being in your 40s is fun because you start feeling like shit and you’re like am I dying? Is it perimenopause? Or did I just forget to drink water again?

What I call Serfdom of the Self is when our identities, attention, and even emotions become dependent on digital systems we don’t control. We hand over more of our inner lives to these systems, and in return they decide the conditions of our existence.

When you were down, what helped you through?

I hope this is true

Why is email an infinite firehose vortex of certain doom? 😞

Shoutout to unmasking and discovering you’re kind of mean lol

Rn I need a little seasonal cafe called Sweater Weather where the AC is absolutely cranked and there’s crunchy leaves on the floor and the coffee is hot and delicious and there’s a little menu of really good soups and fresh bread and everyone’s talking about what they’re gonna do for Halloween

i write poems so that i don't withdraw from the world. or abandon myself. or lose all hope. or think clumsily. or feel imprecisely. or forget my own gentleness, or the possibiity of it

sie haben ein buch über mich geschrieben

I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved. —Louise Glück

I want to take the PREVIOUS step in my career please

For me I’m pretty sure it goes beyond aesthetics to basically everything…

Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins

Mom & minor daughters are citizens who just moved from MD to Oklahoma. This statement from the Mom should be read, absorbed & circulated. ICE cannot be allowed to terrorize vulnerable families. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @ericswalwell.bsky.social kfor.com/news/local/w...

Yes I know: the thread you have to keep finding, over again, to follow it back to life; I know. Impossible, sometimes. —Jean Valentine, from "Sanctuary"

When I say “something came up” this is what I mean

A weighted blanket isn’t enough I need to be crushed under the weight of my own unrealistic expectations no wait this is worse

☕ Happy World Book Day! 📚✨

Me when it’s fine: it’s fine Me when it’s not fine at all and I’m definitely going to go throw up about it: it’s fine

I wrote to my senators to urge them to join Van Hollen. Call/write your reps and tell them the same thing if you feel similarly. Find your reps here: reps.fyi

"The President would look feckless if the administration tells a federal judge it can’t get its prisoner back, especially since the United States is reportedly footing the $6 million bill for the incarceration of the deportees." joycevance.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

A small list of good things: - walking in the evening light - more fruits and vegetables - audiobooks

And we're all supposed to keep doing things??

TODAY: Our friends @moveon.org are hosting a safety and de-escalation training. A core principle behind all of Saturday’s Hands Off! events is a commitment to nonviolent action. This training will teach you how to recognize, respond to, and diffuse tensions while staying focused on your goals. 👇

For the record, when I ask for advice I don't actually want advice. What I want is for somebody to blindly reinforce the potentially regrettable decision I already made when I was overstimulated and unsupervised. To be clear.

Legit lol

Can’t sleep anyway so #5amwritersclub it is

#5amwritersclub did not work out this morning but I #amwriting now

What’s the best writing retreat you’ve ever been on? #writingcommunity #booksky

Tag yourself, I'm "FINE! IF MY FISH ISN'T WELCOME IN HERE THEN NEITHER AM I! WE ARE *LEAVING*!"

*Yawn* #5amwritersclub? #5amwritersclub!

I love Libro.fm!

Trying this #5amwritersclub

We've been, correctly, beating them up for not doing anything. Today they did something and they deserve credit. Nice job, Dems. More, please.

And the conviction that you will definitely do some writing. Just 5 more minutes of scrolling…

There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵

It’s simple: I don’t want to write a poem I want to have written a poem

I am an artist, I swear! I think about drawing all the time!

I’m not doomscrolling I’m just desperately sucking the marrow from the bones of hope

Several good things are happening according r/fednews so I am going to drop them here. If federal workers are fighting back, how much more us? A thread/

What was the thing that finally let you let go and dive into your art?

There’s always a little bit of blue under there somewhere

Favorite sign so far

Writing is fun except that it's hard and no one cares and if you're good at this, you'll torturously be the last one to know