Today in dumb adventures in balcony gardening, my hot Swedish husband inquired how many more buckets, planters, and containers I was going to "put out there."

This is an absolutely terrifying escalation by the regime. They have now criminalized our freedom to fight the crimes they commit against us and our neighbors. These protesters acted with extraordinary courage and moral clarity.

Here is Tom Steyer personally supporting high school trans athlete AB Hernandez. I don't think I've ever seen a candidate as brave as Tom Steyer in his explicit support for trans folks. It says a lot that it took a self funded billionaire not dependent on donors to do it.

The Carrie Nations have withdrawn from the Freedom 250 celebration

My hot Swedish husband, a plumber, laughs in wastewater, floor heating, and cast-iron pipes.

has this story broken through at all? i can’t tell.

Today in dumb adventures in balcony gardening, I planted my ludicrously large grow bags.

Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email [email protected] to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

Today in dumb adventures in balcony gardening, the weather has been sunny, cloudy, sunny, cloudy, sunny, rainy, cloudy, sunny, windy, windy, windy, sunny, rainy, cloudy, windy, thunderstorms, sunny, windy, cloudy, windy, cloudy, sunny, cloudy, rainy, windy, rainy, sunny, cloudy, windy, sunny, wind.

Fuck—and I can't emphasize this more—no.

NPR just chose HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY as a book of the day. So much gratitude for eveyone who has been spreading the Bund’s rebel legacy www.npr.org/2026/05/26/n...

"NJ Governor Sherrill says she’s been denied entry into Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark... Roughly 300 detainees had gone on a hunger strike to protest conditions they describe as inhumane." DHS denies the strike is happening. 🎥 from @nj.com: www.instagram.com/reel/DYxIJaO...

i cant believe tom steyer is the first dem politician (that ive seen) to proudly and forcefully make this correct and obvious counter argument to the bigotry but im glad he did

The best stepparent gives support to their partner so that they can be the best parent. It's not you job to be a parent, unless the kid directly wants or needs it; it's your job to support your partner.

In which I continue to fiercely love Boots Riley:

Today in dumb adventures in balcony gardens, my single pea plant has grown a single pea.

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?

There is a Volvo greaser racing up and down the street in front of our apartment, revving their engine, and blasting their loud glass pipes. I have murderous thoughts.

Not pictured, sticker reading, “Stockholm hatar fascists.”

As a restaurant host said to me in Lisbon, "Yumyum!"

I really like these types of efforts. This is trench warfare and we can do things at the hyper-local level to throw sand in the gears. www.amny.com/new-york/ice...

Fun fact: my Hollywood lawyer, who has negotiated my contracts, said that post-WGA strike options contracts stipulate that authors attest that they did not use AI in the writing of their books because otherwise there could be copyright issues. So you gotta wonder why Hollywood is hot for AI.

I fiercely love Boots Riley.

I regret to inform that I believe I have found my magic jeans

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 "Greenland: Demonstration in Nuuk to protest Donald Trump’s ambitions following the inauguration of the new U.S. consulate premises."

Ok, but are we talking THE THING or THE SUBSTANCE?

This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push

So if I understand it correctly, one should serve revenge like a trout in aspic or a vichyssoise.

*high-fiving each plate on the back of a stegosaurus as I pass by him* good game good game good game

The feds harangued Kat and my family over bullshit charges for a year. They tried to beat her down, bankrupt Kat and her codefendants through legal fees, and a defeat her spirit. They fucking lost. They will continue to lose. Fuck ICE forever. To this criminal gang of a government: stay losing.

Tonight in dumb adventures in balcony gardening, my plants are semi-snugly wrapped in a plastic tarp so they can sleep outside overnight. Yes, it's a risk, but I'm tired of carrying them inside and outside every day, and it's time they braved the 50-degree Swedish night.

Preordered. My mom died five years ago next month, and while I'm okay now, the first eighteen months were absolute hell on heart, head, and body. It'd be great to not go through that particular desert of the soul next time.

i have many justifications for hating AI but ultimately don't think i need any besides "they stole the book it was my life's dream to write without compensation, and did not get punished." their hands are literally in my pocket and they can fuck off

I look at what the Trump administration and its cadre of billionaires do, and all I think is that they consumed every piece of dystopian fiction, every shred of racist history, every tidbit of historical corruption, every moment of misogyny, every possible eschatology, and thought, "Ooh, me likey."

General reminder, as Google continues its lurch to search awfulness, that Kagi is legit brilliant. Its own AI features can be turned off. You can customise your datasets and weightings. Also SlopStop allows you to downweight, or filter out entirely, AI slop results. Legit worth the $10 a month.

So long, New York Mag subscription 👋

Not only is Trump the most corrupt president in U.S. history, you could make a persuasive case that about a dozen things he has done this term would earn him that title even if he’d done nothing else. And we’ve learned about two of those things just in the past week.

Maybe the real meme is the posts you deleted along the way.

Edvard Munch's The Shining

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

A true style icon, the wardrobe of Diane Keaton is now up for auction. www.bonhams.com/auction/3253...

BREAKING: The judge in the $1.7B slush fund suit has dismissed the case, but she says THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT OF RECORD. As I said earlier, the media must stop reporting that this slush fund is a settlement. It's just plain THEFT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

My most recent challenge is attempting to explain to my hot Swedish husband why Trump and his cronies have won a juicy $1.8 billion slush fund, paid for by American taxpayers.

HUGE NEWS: ICE’s courthouse arrests have been STAYED by a New York district judge. That means that ICE will have to stop arresting our immigrant neighbors on the spot when they show up to court at places like 26 Federal Plaza, 290 Broadway, and 201 Varick. (1/2)

Getting kind of tired of self-styled serious people confidently asserting that data centre water use is a made up issue.

@bootsriley.bsky.social is the GOAT. Yes, that is ELECTION.

The best thing about having written, aside from temporarily silencing the rampaging guilt harpies, is knowing that you've created a tiny pocket of world that never existed before.

I taught writing to college students for about a decade, and from my experience, no one plagiarizes only once.

I really enjoyed @boneysoups.bsky.social's deliciously lush vampire novel, The Red Sacrament. It's a killer debut.

I don't care how much you like Good Omens or Sandman or Coraline or whatever - do not support this fucking horror of a man's works.