Bring back the ancient knowledge

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and Grogu

I am constantly learning benign stuff my parents told me was untrue. The ants aren't opening the peonies! I've been made a fool for 40 years!!

Do you have your whistles ready? Whatever coat pocket or purse or drawer they have ended up in, go get them.

I thought house-hunting would be fun, seeing how other people live, imagining my life elsewhere... It's actually psychological warfare, in which I have to go back to therapy because the whole thing has awakened all of my worst mental health habits! Amazing!

I went to a "build a terrarium" workshop, it was a team building thing at my day job. Chat, we did not build terrariums, we each put one succulent in an open pasta sauce jar. I am obsessed. That isn't what a terrarium is!! Now I just have a succulent in a jar!!!

VRA was reauthorized, of course, in 2006 by 390–33 in the House and 98 - 0 in the Senate and signed by GWB. I don’t people know the extent to which the Roberts court is substituting its judgement for Congress’.

It's so disheartening watching this court carry out the explicit project of white supremacy so blatantly while gaslighting the public to say it's trying to stop discrimination. They're dismantling every major legacy of the civil rights movement. We need to reform this court.

Wore a silky shirt to work, and it was ruinous for my productivity. Brain kept saying, "Jammies, jammies, we are wearing jammies! Take a nap!!"

genuinely sad and harrowing final note that hits a little harder with each passing year.

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

Did an intake with a new therapist today, and discovered that this person had actually met me before, when I was performing at a gig for Brewery Ommegang as Daenerys Targaryen. My Truman Delusion was triggered, but at least I'm, uh, getting back into therapy!

Happy Earth Day

We have had to make so many emergency calls to the gas company in the past few months that the technician just laughed and said, "See you tomorrow!"

Once again, the right is openly admitting that the entire focus on trans youth is to ultimately ban all gender affirming care for adults. All the credulous reporters and institutions that helped launder this right wing project are responsible. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I don't understand why Handmade Puppet Dreams and the Green Feather Foundation aren't on bsky, but the 48-Hour Puppet Film Project begins anew tomorrow. I am excited. My family's teeny film kicked off last year's festival, we are ready to make good art: www.handmadepuppetdreams.com/48hrpuppetfi...

I once had a serious, long-term boyfriend insist he had written a song about me. It was called "Sweet Emily" and repeatedly referred to a woman named Emily. My name is not Emily. He said Emily was easier to rhyme. This was before my first marriage, and I still think about it all the time.

My love for sports died at a young age, when I realized that the players did not have to be from the cities they represented. I'm sorry, I thought we were trying to prove that beefy boys born and raised in the Chicago area were the best and strongest beefy boys?? No???? I'm out.

Did not have "rooting for the Catholic Church" on my atheism 2026 bingo card, or my entire lifetime bingo card, to be honest, but lol. Get 'em. What a time for the pope to be Chicago Pope.

I think my coworkers have figured out that, when I ask, "Did you have a nice weekend?" It's because I actually want to tell THEM I had a very nice weekend getting a concrete porch goose in an adorable Springtime outfit. They correctly choose not to engage. Anyway, I love Stella Rose the goose.

I don't think you should focus on making your art good. I think you should focus on making your art sturdy. Archaeologists celebrate whatever they find. They put even the silliest, most pointless little guys into museums. Make your worst art absolutely indestructible.

California’s $20 an hour fast food minimum wage, instituted in 2024, did not reduce employment. It led to only the most modest of price increases—barely noticeable to a consumer. It significantly improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of workers. capitalandmain.com/despite-apoc...

Don’t invite me over if you got cameras inside your house or you own meta glasses.

Hi friends! I'm working on a reported feature about religious observance and its impact in fandom spaces. If you, or someone you know, are a religiously observant fan (doesn't matter what religion or fandom, or how you define religiosity) and interested in chatting, I'd love to connect with you!

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

I'm officially calling for the Cabinet to remove Trump from office under the 25th Amendment. If they can't, Congress must return from recess today and begin impeachment proceedings. Read my full statement below. quigley.house.gov/media-center...

Ds in Congress will really be like "oh you believe in impeachment? That pales in comparison to my strategy: passing bi-partisan legislation on kitchen table issues" and then not passing any legislation

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

Chicago: The warning sirens are about to go off, as they do every month. Breathe. Today is grim and dire, but this specific thing is OK.

I'm becoming too acquainted with the feeling of dread, coupled with anger that the people best positioned to stop all this choose not to on a daily basis

100% of the posts I've seen flagged as "rude" on Bluesky have been completely benign. You can, apparently, just get your whole account flagged as "rude," then you are labeled "rude" even when posting about beans or the library? Is that it? 1. That is stupid. 2. I wish it would happen to me.

I want to start a band (company?) that does totally immersive concert roleplay experiences where we perform as fictional bands like Josie and the Pussycats or The Clash at Demonhead. Like Princess Parties, but for nerdy adults, and huge. I have no idea who the target audience is, tho.

Spouse: (just trying to play Death Stranding 2) Me: "Neil was a porter at the border with post traumatic stress disorder. You are taller, he is shorter. You can kill him with a mortar. Sam, can I borrow a quarter??"

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

How many conversations must one have in a single week, where the other party responds in unhelpful nonsequitor moonspeak, before one must examine that the common denominator is one's SELF? Asking for a self.

“It is beneath my dignity to let myself be run over by any trolley, and particularly this trolley, burdened as it is by a cape and a stupid hat.” I wrote for Defector about boycotting Harry Potter, the ‘safe’, kindly face of anti-trans politics: defector.com/its-time-to-...

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

The left needs to realize: For some parents, their child's death is NOT the worst outcome. Name any (wrongly) politicized issue- being trans, getting vaccinated, being atheist, having a biracial child. Some (evil) parents would prefer those kids just die. That's why your good-faith arguments fail.

YOU - I don't want to get better -- I want to get worse.

Me: "I don't share this much at work, but my personal politics are so far left that I honestly don't feel represented in government." Coworker: "Yea, the pink hair kind of telegraphs that." Me: "So I'm not hiding it well???" Coworker: "You... aren't."

Submitted 3 panels for consideration to Dragon Con last night. Two are high-labor emotional live shows with lots of slides and audience participation... and then one is just a wild card Animal Crossing yap hour I decided to try for the first time.

No Kings is good because it allows people to break away from their propagandized TVs and phones to see how many others feel the same way they do. It is a gentle, safe place for moms from the suburbs to do activism for the first time. People doing "real work" can recruit there instead of mocking it.

Thread: "The US has diversified the disciplinarian apparatus… and nothing else."

It is payday. Used the Internet to find the lowest gas prices I could. Begrudgingly filled up our hybrid. Immediately spent the money I saved (and then some) on a box of macarons. Boomers will tell you this is why I can't afford a house.

Another round of national-level anti-Chicago propaganda incoming.

The new rhino baby at Lincoln Park Zoo shares my birthday. I think birthday twins are so sacred and special, and the zoo should let me be her godmother.

We are not pawns! Find your nearest event THIS SATURDAY here: www.nokings.org

One Piece Cafe, Las Vegas, NV

I cannot wait to get on train and read more book

Also just want to add: there is a reason that these big-brained executives thought this would be a modest film that would barely budge the needle, and that reason is because they are racists who bought the bullshit that the public doesn't want "DEI" (which means: anything about nonwhite cis people).