This is all really unutterably depressing.

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Winter is approaching and I'm considering purchasing a Lenny Kravitz scarf. The Chicago winter has broken the spirits of many. I want to lug around a big ol blanket and call it clothes. I am prioritizing comfort this year and that means wearing a comforter to work.

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

I do not want to enable location services. I do not want to create an account. I do not want to sign up for special offers and news about your product. I would like to engage in a simple transaction where I give you money in exchange for a good.

Two medieval tiles on display at Leicester Guildhall Museum when I visited recently. #tilesontuesday #medievalmonday #Leicester

We’re at peak greed when the president brags about 24k gold décor for the White House while cutting commissaries, healthcare, and social nets. A palace of glitter for him, an empty pantry and hospital bill for you.

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

“Secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy... censorship. When any government. . .say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives.” — Robert A. Heinlein

To everyone in Portland and Chicago, thank you. Thank you for resisting. For fighting back. For showing up for your immigrant communities. Please stay safe tonight. Abolish ICE.

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

If a full accounting of Epstein’s crimes - and his accomplices - is ever made public, people on the left and the right are going to feel really dumb that we’ve been arguing with each other while the elites of both parties pal around and do abhorrent shit.

"Free speech is not about whether someone else agrees or disagrees; it's about whether you are able to do it." --Jasmine Crockett, just now to Chris Hayes.

"Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact." -Carl Sagan

Trump just signed a an EO that allows the full power or the federal government to go after extremist groups. Stephen Miller predictably went on a rant about Antifa, but not a *single* reporter asked if they’d be going after right wing extremists too. Shameful.

I’m no expert, but could repeat infections with a virus that harms immune systems possibly be playing a role here too? “Infection rates from drug-resistant “nightmare bacteria” rose almost 70% between 2019 and 2023…” #COVID

Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right. Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!

Being disabled is a minority group you can join at any time. Everyone believes they will be the exception. That it won’t happen to them, or when it does they will “try harder” than us The truth is most people will become disabled. Health is both fragile & temporary. Engage in disability justice

Go, Violet!

I’m autistic. Not because of Tylenol. Not because of vaccines. Not because of some headline. I’m autistic because that’s how my brain works. Stop treating us like a problem. Start listening to us.

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

I for one am not at all worried that the most powerful people on earth have optimized my society and my brain to be ultra-reliant on the misery machine we keep in our pockets.

“limiting face coverings and opening officers up to prosecution would most likely hurt recruitment and drive officers from the state” So nobody will want to be a police officer if they’re not allowed to commit crimes with impunity?

Why does it take a BRITISH newspaper to break a story like this? Where the hell is the American media? 🤨

Of the 58 House Democrats who voted "No" on the Kirk resolution, only TWO were white, in case you're wondering if systemic racism is still alive & well in this country.

Aaaand Steve Martin has covid and has had to cancel part his tour with Martin Short. He is 80 years old. This is a stupid way to live and we don’t need to keep doing it like this.

What's happening now goes well beyond any talkshow host. This fascist regime will keep going until you can't even leave a snarky comment on your FB page. The free speech we had was imperfect at best with plenty of double standards, but if we give up, it's going to get so much worse.

The moon this morning next to Jupiter: #sky #moon #nature

This post and its comments made me laugh till tears were running down my face! Much needed—thank you all!

I read 1984. And Fahrenheit 451. And A Brave New World. And The Handmaid‘s Tale. And The Giver. And The Road. And The Lottery. And The Parable of the Sower. And The Hunger Games. I know what I’m seeing.

This is a 9-0 Supreme Court decision from just last year.

In a remarkable act of defiance and solidarity, "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" played the clip from the monologue that led to the suspension of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" by ABC. It aired on CBS stations and affiliates across the country. [Video: CBS]

"I get a lot of letters from people. They say, 'I want to be a writer. What should I do?' I tell them to stop writing to me and get on with it." - Ruth Rendell

If you all look under your seats, you'll find a fresh pile of dread to take home! You get some dread! And you get some dread! Everyone gets fresh dread!

First Colbert, now Kimmel. Not to mention Matthew Dowd, Terry Moran and Jim Acosta. And anyone at the CDC who dared to care about science. If you still think freedom of speech exists in American, you’re wrong. If you still don’t understand you’re living under fascism… please wake up.

Do you know what Matthew Dowd, Stephen Colbert or Jimmy Kimmel didn’t do? They didn’t call for the killing of unhoused people and a day later there were two mass shootings of homeless encampments and one unhoused man found hanging from a tree.  Stay safe folks.

Another question I get a lot: Sure, vaccination can create herd immunity. But since measles is so contagious, and recovery gives lifelong immunity, why can't we achieve herd immunity through mass infection & recovery? Thread [1/7]

A reminder that every day is a good day to abhor thraldom.

As someone who can't get a measles vaccine (because I'm immunocompromised), I hope people will read this.

/2 This next piece was published today on my Covid Competency Exam! boingboing.net/2025/09/15/t...

“A pandemic is not an “event” that ends — it is something that continues to impact lives for years.”

My thoughts and prayers…

It’s so easy to accept trans people for who they are. It takes zero effort. Whenever I see people freaking out about it, I just think of how my dog would bark at leaves when the wind was blowing because he couldn’t stand for ANYTHING in his environment to change at all. Don’t be a dog.

This cat curls up into a full circle. #cat #catday #bluesky

Yuuuuup. Also, I don't give a shit if some of the worst people in the world think I am being performative or am virtue signaling. Fuck 'em. They don't get to tell me how to be. Anyway, trans rights are human rights, y'all. It's not complicated.