Remember: It ys okaye to be lonely. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.

George Orwell has his faults, but my GOD he is incapable of writing a clunky sentence.

3, 4, 7, 8 are all out of here Honestly, all I want on this grid are turkey, gravy, and a modest amount of stuffing. Where are my nice green salad, my crispy roasted sprouts, my tart cranberries, my sweet baked squash?

I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone. Killing IMLS could have killed ILL. This is great news. 📚

Freddie Mercury didn't go into the studio and nail the vocals for "The Show Must Go On" in one take while dying of AIDS for you to despair and give up now. Take the time you need, but then get up and get back out there. The show must go on.

From the inimitable @tomgauld.bsky.social :

Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.

Look at this dumbass

One girl said “it doesn’t matter if you ban a book because everyone can find that information online” and then I blew their minds by talking about how your search history can be monitored and sold to the government without your permission, but your library borrowing history requires a warrant.

Gaah. I just realized that I was opening the latest ep of (what used to be) my favorite webcomic with a sense of dread: "how will it fuck up THIS strip?" Maybe it's time to remove it from my rota.

This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke... Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.

Some pigs www.dhs.gov/news/2025/11...

what *what* WHAT

Since everyone is rightly focused on the Epstein files, now would be a good time to remind you: Child marriage is legal in 34 states across the US. That’s almost 70% of this nation. How about we end that?

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.

I can't say which annoys me more about my new medication 1. It's extremely expensive even with insurance 2. It has a stupid catchy commercial jingle which I hear every time I take it

Currently scouring the slush funds at work for shiny pennies Gonna drop as many as I can in the kids' Xmas stockings this year

you heard em 🫡

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.

While feds are cutting support for housing, so is DC. There is no city funding for 2026 for permanent supportive housing for individuals experiencing homelessness. Shelters are at 95% capacity. Other voucher programs are shrinking, pushing people back into homelessness, including families.

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike. Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year. Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.

by age 26 you should have: • an unhealthy attachment to a fictional character • weird relationship with the media you loved as a teenager • a friend from a completely different part of the world that you never met IRL but you’d trust with your life

shooting pains and tingling all over my left side, neck to toes don't tell me to go to the ER, I cannot afford that just posting so that when I drop dead at work, my boss can see this post and find comfort that I was on social media and probably deserved what I got

The 12 Days of Christmas “advent calendars” piss me off. Advent marks the fourth Sunday before Christmas until, well, Christmas. Modern calendars go from Dec 1 to the 24th. The twelve days refer to Dec 25 to Jan 6. These are different timespans!

Super relevant to my interests

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

Blood on every hand

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

Good news for these senators is they won’t need to fly to Washington anymore once their terms are up

If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?

Find your senators at reps.fyi or call 202-224-3121

Don’t Cave for a Promise.

As the owner of an independent bookstore, I must ask all of y'all to do the opposite of this forever and ever, amen.

Permit me to rave for a moment about steamed zucchini topped with a simple avgolemono sauce 10 minutes to cook, one pot to wash, nutritious, low cal, low carb, gluten free, extremely pretty, and tastes DELICIOUS and indulgent

Note to authors: if your entire characterization of the love interest is "cool and aloof" and "terrifying self control" and you don't even HINT at what is going on inside, I'm not going to find it sexy hot when he finally cracks open; I'm going to run from exposure to the existential void

I don't understand why this isn't absolutely blowing up. A whole public library system shutting down branches to remove books because the Tennessee Secretary of State believes that Executive Orders are above the Constitution.

Can we just sit for a minute with the fact that I am simultaneously getting "breaking news" alerts for Tesla voting to give Musk a trillion $ compensation package AND a Federal judge forcing the WH to distribute the legally mandated meagre financial assistance so poor kids don't starve?

I was wrong about GLPs and Learned Better because of Bree's posts. Be smarter than me.

I'm very grateful to @jasonkoebler.bsky.social for letting me speak on the relationship between AI and book bans. This is a great and thorough article, and I'm glad I got a chance to say a thing I say a lot but that-- without the context Jason provides-- makes me sound a little conspiracy minded.

Maybe nobody in the great big world cares about this. But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!

Love this building. So glorious inside.

Good news!

the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit

Trying to keep my emotions in check this morning because this next year is going to be bananapants in terms of election suppression attempts, but "when we turn out, we win" is real because most Americans actually do want a functioning and more inclusive society, thanks.

Trump confirms he is weaponizing hunger