I am not talented enough, or more importantly motivated enough, to learn to make all the things I want to make. Unfortunately, I don't have enough money to commission actually talented and motivated people to make things, either, which is truly the dream.

At a book fair this weekend and buying ALL THE BOOKS, but one author included this carabiner bottle opener with my purchase of a pair of sapphic romcoms, and let me tell you, best possible marketing move. I have giggled so much about it, and there's been a lot of cute bonus items from authors.

It's annoyingly difficult to find anything Krampus that actually gets his feet right.

News 4 has found “more records showing former State Superintendent Ryan Walters paid his executive staff massive bonuses—this time, offering his chief of staff yearly bonuses worth more than the average OK teacher makes in a year, on top of a nearly $200K salary” 11/5/25 1/ kfor.com/news/oklahom...

I have never been great with clay, and I took one class on cake decorating (and hated it), so somehow I'm vaguely convinced that if I set out to make a chicken-legged gingerbread hut, it would definitely work.

Thirteen Ghosts is on Tubi, and I'm delighted. Miss the DVD extras, though.

It is both awesome and annoying to find a cool new podcast when it's actually new and there only like the episodes out. Like, yay, I'm in on the ground floor! But also what do you mean I'm already caught up?

The 2002 Carrie doesn't get nearly enough love, and I will always think we were robbed when we didn't get the series that was supposed to follow.

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

Also a reminder that elections in the US are actually very secure and accurate, and rigging the system is hard, but undermining it is cheap, easy, and if you play your cards right, you can even get your opponents to help.

We've got another big one. Today we are feeding children who apparently are collateral damage to the President's ego. Short version is an illness and an accident disabled the parents, benefits are fucked, they need help. Venmo or chime: linda-tirado-3 PayPal bootstrapindustries@gmail

Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night. He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.

OH MY GOD IT'S HAPPENING MILLENNIALS AND BISEXUALS EVERYWHERE REJOICE #TheMummy deadline.com/2025/11/new-...

Remember the pundits saying the red arrows in 2024 indicated permanent political change…? People make a difference. Voting matters. Minds and hearts do change.

A thing you're not seeing if you haven't checked Twitter in the last week is all the political betting markets (Polymarket, Kalshi) are actively caping for Cuomo and spreading Zohran conspiracies on there. Usually this would be a cause for some sort of regulatory oversight but that no longer exists.

Saw someone announce the problem with cost of living in the US is SNAP, then when people laid out the numbers, answered, "I don't care if it's one cent, I'm not feeding other people. I have a family to feed.' That attitude? It's going to end the world.

If there's an event all about indie media and creators with a wait-list for tables, and you take one up with your AI-generated books, you're the worst person in the room, easy. And once again: if you couldn't be bothered to write it, I can't be bothered to read it.

We could live in a post-scarcity world right now. There is enough for literally everyone, and that anyone does without is a matter of deliberate choices made over and over again.

Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around. Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.

If you want or need SNAP benefits, literally the only barrier should be...signing up. "But what about fraud?" My sibling in red, white, and blue, THE PENTAGON HASN'T PASSED AN AUDIT IN YEARS AND MONEY IS FAKE. I don't care if too many people have food assistance.

Sometimes i get sad at those “I wanted to look up what kind of horse pulled medieval wagons It’s three hours later and playtex bra sewers made spacesuits i have a problem” no. No, you don’t. Hydrate and get back in there

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

When I try to get cute pics of Sonata...

They literally ruin everything they touch

I carved a pumpkin! I haven't done a classic jack o' lantern in so many years. Came out a little wonky, but that's jack o' lanterns.

I know a lot of people love Christmas, but how is it special when it takes up most of the year, is inescapable for more than a quarter of it, and crowds out all the other holidays around it?

I took the day off from work to come check out the zoo on Halloween...and it's Christmas. There's a big Haunt the Zoo event tonight that costs extra, but I guess you just get Christmas now. The only Halloween is kids in costumes. There might be more Halloween deeper in, but this makes me sad.

Rewatching Cursed to determine if it's a Halloween movie (the only rule being it actually takes place during/around Halloween). It's not, though there's a costume party toward the middle that might make you (me) remember it that way. Still the bestworst werewolf movie, easy.

Yikes! This is fake news. More trans kids felt safe to come out, now they don't. Government's are painting a target on the back of trans kids backs, forcing them tk stay in the closet. www.wsj.com/opinion/evid...

The Trump-Vance admin’s outright refusal to fund SNAP for millions, including children & senior citizens, is immoral & unlawful. Turning hunger into a political weapon is not governing – it’s cruelty. So we sued on behalf of the broadest coalition yet.

New Yorkers please make sure you vote for Mamdani if for no other reason than to ensure that Cuomo loses the general by an even wider margin than he lost the primary because that'd be funny as fuck and we could all use the laugh

There's something about the way so many journalists are happy to put their thumb on the scale to support fascism that disappoints me so deeply. I thought better of a lot of people and institutions, but that one hits extra hard for some reason.

The Governnent of Jamaica has established a disaster relief portal that can be found at the URL below. It includes a comprehensive needs list of supplies and equipment, as well as information for sending monetary donations locally and from abroad. #HurricaneMelissa supportjamaica.gov.jm

I accidentally dropped some bread (butter-side-down, naturally), and I picked it up, then when to get something to clean up the floor. When I got back, Laszlo was like, "Don't worry, I got this."

It's fascinating/frustrating how often recipes or meals labeled as 'healthy' are fully inappropriate for my (medically necessary, not voluntarily followed) diet. The louder a restaurant touts itself as 'healthy,' the more likely it is there isn't anything on the menu I can safely eat.

I love the Goosebumps movies, but having the first one feature teenagers and the second feature even older teenagers applying to college seems like a real misunderstanding of the target audience of the books.

World Central Kitchen is mobilizing to Jamaica, please consider donating

I'm making an effort to spend more time listening to audiodramas, audio anthologies, and podcasts discussing fun stuff like mythology and less bleak stuff about the worst people in the world. It's only been a few days, but I hope this will be better for my mental health.

Nobody wants this shit, which is why they keep sneaking it onto our devices like some unwanted U2 album.

It is much less common that a charity needs to be created to do X than that charities already doing X need more resources. Those resources can be time, if you are able to commit to a sustained schedule. But a lot of the time, money is just going to be more effective.

“Ensuring that everyone in the United States has access to a diversity of fresh, safe food must be part of the larger healthcare framework,” writes journalist and @theflytrapmedia.com cofounder @sesmith.lol in an op-ed. “Apparently, our lawmakers have lost sight of this.”

Got a text (supposedly) from our regrettable president. Did not click on the link, did report it as spam and blocked. If only it were that easy to not hear from him again.

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families? Now you know.

Pregnant Women, DON’T TAKE PARENTING ADVICE FROM A CONVICTED FELON WHO OWNED A TEENAGE BEAUTY PAGEANT AND HAS SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT TO HIDE THE FACT THAT HE WAS BEST FRIENDS WITH THE MOST NOTORIOUS CHILD RAPIST IN MODERN HISTORY.

Come on people. PayPros aren't letting up. Why are we? Keep calling, keep talking about this, keep shining a light on it.

I thought really hard about it this year, but I bought some candy for Halloween. I've gotten less than 5 trick-or-treaters in 15 years, but I'd be so sad if I actually got any this year and had nothing to offer.

Reminder: there is funding and there are measures in place to make sure SNAP continues during government shutdowns. This is a deliberate choice. This is a malicious infliction of harm.

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What I want to write: weird fiction, autumnal vibes, creeping dread What I keep writing: body horror, daylight horror, summertime vibes It's just that bodies are so gross and it's worse when you have to see everything clearly, right?

GOOD NEWS! A new cancer vaccine has shown progress in triggering POWERFUL and LASTING immune responses in patients with pancreatic AND colorectal cancer. The vaccine, known as ELI-002 2P, targets mutant KRAS proteins AND had a huge impact on PREVENTING or DELAYING cancer recurrence in patients.