the fact that no "best fantasy authors" list ever includes Clive Barker is a mortal sin; that is our GRANDMOTHER!!! he IS the blueprint!!! his writing is gross and sexy and weird and queer and beautiful and it's always ambitious and inspiring he should be required reading!!!!*

Tomorrow's Bandcamp Friday fundraiser will be for The Trans Continental Pipeline, helping trans folks leave hostile states (ahem, Kansas) for Colorado.

An original Nashville sit-in member, along with Diane Nash, James Bevel, and John Lewis. Trained in non-violence by James Lawson. At age 21, he signed a will before the Freedom Rides, knowing he could die. May his soul be at peace, and may we all have such courage in the face of oppression.

my last thought as I fell asleep last night was "what if Emerald Fennell adapted The Da Vinci Code" and you know what, I stand by that

Anyways.

And is ripping off my creative and professional work and throwing it in a cement mixer while reliably informing me that their business model simply won’t scale if they pay for my labor.

my latest finished spins! top row: the rest of the Polwarth/silk, chain-plied, probably about 100 yards? bottom row: Gnomespun wool roving (I forget the breed), also chain-plied, probably 150 yards? #handspinning #yarn

A very large juvenile diamond squid - this one measuring in at a whopping 3” - perhaps the 2nd largest I’ve ever seen! Shot in the wild, using scuba, while out over the deep abyss, several miles offshore from Okinawa #diamondsquid #thysanoteuthisrhombus #blackwaterdiving #gug #gugunderwater

The pipeline from "this makes me uncomfy" to "this is not allowed to exist" is dangerous and REAL. There is value in sitting with discomfort and confronting/unpacking your own biases. People are so afraid of their own "icky" feelings that they would destroy art and other people to remain "safe."

You only have a short time to comment. They are trying to destroy our forests to enrich a few logging company executives and the politicians they’ve paid off. Leave your comment here: eplanning.blm.gov/Participate-... morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ...

something that pleases me an inordinate amount: starting a new bullet journal on a Sunday that is also the first of the month it is Right and Nice* and Proper (*=in the sense of it being precise!)

somewhere, Brennan Lee Mulligan is having full-body chills

HELP

Thread. There are a lot of Super PACs with non-descript, even pleasant sounding names, that are throwing millions into Democratic primary elections in order to boost the crappiest Dem candidates (like the one, below)

"I asked Chat GPT and -" ok, I asked the exhumed corpse of Pope Formosus during the Cadaver Synod and he went "... ... ..." and then his jaw fell off and it was still a better answer

bobbin bobbin who's got the bobbin I doooooooo #handspinning

The @officialpax.bsky.social PAX East schedule previews are live – and I hope I’ll see you on Saturday (10:30-11:30 in Bobcat) for Worldweaving: Tabletop and Textile History! 🌎 Are you headed to PAX? Which events are you most excited for? 👀✨ #paxeast2026 #paxeast #characterdesign #ttrpg #cosplay

"It's Only II", digitally altered graphite. #DarkArt #Art

I've written up a brief script for anyone who wants to call or write your representatives regarding this bill (yes, even the ones you think won't care). PLEASE DO THIS IF YOU ARE ABLE. This bill *cannot* pass. You can find your representatives here: www.congress.gov/members/find...

the newest spin -- 4oz of Polwarth/silk from Three Waters Farm, in the colorway "Quiet Contrast"; I chain-plied this to try to keep the colors together, but I love the barber-pole effect! about 92yds of a DK-ish weight yarn so glad I have another 4oz of this! #handspinning #yarn

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

This is extremely dangerous for those who use wish lists for organization & mutual aid. Please share far & wide.

last week at spinning class, we went to our instructor's studio and after we spent most of the night carding, I got to try the great wheel and fell COMPLETELY in love

Quote with your purple art 💜

Name 5 authors you’ve read 3 short stories by. Stories have to be published within the last 10 years. Ann Leckie N.K. Jemisin Gemma Files Julia Armfield Eric LaRocca

It's a national holiday

Four years ago I woke up at 5 am from distant explosions. I asked my boyfriend if he heard them too, he said he didn’t and I should go back to sleep. I tried to calm myself down, went on the internet, it was silent, no news or explanations.

As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.

Spread the news

now that I have a spinning wheel and a sewing machine in my apartment, all I need is a loom and then...then...I can truly go bugshit about a handmade wardrobe

even Annabelle is depressed by the snow

Elven Divine Commission

I am HOPING for a snow day tomorrow, but I am trying to act like it'll be a normal Monday. so: laundry is on the drying rack, the trash and recycling have gone out, I've planned easy, quick meals, I've swept, I did some fiber organzing, and now I shall write but...maybe a snow day...

Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).

Dnd character concept: a bard based on Uncle Colm from Derry Girls

Hey, friends! @ziibiing.com and the awesome folks at StandWithMinnesota have launched #keepMNhoused! Check out keepMNhoused.com and kick in to help folks affected by ICE stay in their homes! ALSO, artists, please join the call for art to help spread the word! (art here by the great @trungles.com)

god I love babylon 5. falstaff and king lear and julius caesar are the same guy and he has 6 dicks etc etc etc

As a Leftist, this is technology I am pretty excited about! I think more billionaires should keep trying!

Mild plant horror 🌱🌿

red alert red alert, Scott Hawkins has a new book coming out and I am 100000% sure it's going to fuck me up as much as The Library at Mount Char did

Incredible victory! After years of organizing across Canada, Scotia Bank has divested from Elbit Systems! Elbit is Israel's largest weapons company, arming the occupation and genocide of Palestine. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

one step closer to making my coworkers worry about me

ICE IS STILL IN MN. GO HELP PEOPLE.

sword and sorcery icons dating sim and when you pick Elric you get killed immediately

update: the sweater was at least two sizes too small for me, it has correspondingly been frogged and set aside

I was going to spend the night spinning some of my new fiber (a gorgeous Polwarth/silk blend from AJemFiberArts on Etsy) but INSTEAD I am being good and I am going to work on a sweater that's been half-finished since...before COVID I don't think it's going to fit me but at least it will be DONE

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

yep, they're still at it in LA and Portland too the media is gonna be like "time for a new narrative" and it's so important to keep talking about how none of the cities they invaded have become more safe since the spotlight shifted away from them