We stopped by the park after an open house and encountered this well dressed statue. She is dedicated to the women who cared for the veterans of WW1. The scarf was clearly hand crocheted. Someone put a lot of love into it.

When I knit I smugly delight in how useful I’ll be to post-apocalyptic society.

Allowing insurance companies to profit off us is the root of the problem. #CorporateGreed

alt text: diagram is basically just a list of bad actors and long symptoms, with wee cartoons. but both are detailed in the article.

Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.

holiday anthem! <holly-ivy wreath emoji>

medieval "Advent was a bleak, cold time, the midnight of the Christian year... to face the desperation of their own broken hearts, as well as the broken world around them... Violence... was not permitted... These were solemn and fearful days... and articulated the human longing to be rescued"

"...When affected individuals left the lumberjack camp the disorder lessened in both severity and frequency." woah

Last Christmas Ich gave thee myne hearte But the verye next daye ther came a wolf, Wyth sinews of whispers - quiet as frost - And the wolf stole myne hearte, fled To a tower out of tyme biyonde all the stars. Seek now myne hearte, Return it within a yeare and a daye: Thys ys thy queste

heads up Portland! applications open for free office space at Meyer Memorial Trust for small progressive orgs ( budgets under $1M, "serving the Albina neighborhood, working in coalition or offering culturally specific programming") I just know one of y'all knows someone who could use this

I’m going to take a couple days off for the holiday. I hope you all have a fulfilling time tomorrow, I’m personally thankful for your engagement with my work, so thank you! #art #artsky #oilpastels #fineart #contemporaryart #artist

archived link sans paywall by peter eavis, 12/1/25, nyt: tariffs kick in bigly, in time for holiday shopping e.g., "Ms. Scholtz [78-yo PDX weaver]... asked UPS to assess whether it made a mistake, given that the duty [$333.50] is more than twice the amount of the item [$158.36, risers for a loom]."

nurse Julie London hugs a kid. it just gets better & better.

In case you are wondering what being a federally funded researcher looks like these days: the shutdown required that NIH cancel over 370 peer review meetings, impacting the review of over 24,000 applications. As a result the percentage of applications discussed will be reduced from 50% to 30-35%.

birds of new york[er]

dude. what a page-turner. thanks, prof kim lane scheppele, for posting it! if all y'all antifascists aren't following her, well, you oughta be.

And for soldiers who feel that they are in that situation, reach out to the Orders Project. www.ordersproject.com

Let’s see what 2026 has in store! ✨ We’ve designed a special deck of RWB tarot cards to give you a fun look at your year ahead. Click to pull a card and discover what your RWB journey might look like in 2026. Pull your RWB tarot: go.redwine.blue/TAROT-BS

Polls for months have shown a huge lead for Orban's opponent. Now the HU government is doing what it always does before elections: increase social benefits, threaten opponents, rewrite election law. Trump promised to underwrite Orban's election spending spree. dailynewshungary.com/latest-poll-...

Just Security has compiled a very helpful timeline to keep track of all of the vessel strikes that Hegseth has ordered, along with the official legal rationales and criticisms that these actions have generated. Experts and allies are uniformly opposed. www.justsecurity.org/124002/timel...

Exactly 80 years ago this precise moment (8:40am Hamburg time, Nov. 30, 1945), German submarine commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and two of his former subordinates on the U-852 were shot by Allies in Hamburg for killing the survivors of a ship they had sunk. Pete Hagueseth needs to lawyer up immediately.

boldfaced, since 1871 = A typeface with thick heavy lines (merriam-webster). bald-faced, since 1648 = Brash; undisguised (oxford english dictionary). bald-faced took over from barefaced (same meaning). "OED's earliest evidence for barefaced is from 1600, in the writing of William Shakespeare"

the word "remigration" is a dogwhistle. know your meme, low-engagement voters.

intro: neither bot nor ai nor here for self-promotion; blocking those who are. i pester about alt-text. antiauthoritarian. love scrub pants, disaster movies, bon bons, bon mots, bach motets, dad jokes, ambiguity, destabilizing metanarratives, yoga, cephalopods, color pattern knitting in the round.

hope maha doesn't decide that being sick with infant botulism is natural & healthy too. speaking as a former clinician for people with, for example, post-polio, post-borrelia, & post-streptococcal syndromes, not to mention numerous cases of the postpertussis 100-day cough, i say... f*k those f*kers

Northwestern joins the growing list of US universities which are caving to Trump by agreeing to illegally ban trans people from facilities. Banning trans people from bathrooms is illegal in Illinois, as affirmed by law and a court ruling. www.illinoislegalaid.org/legal-inform...

very valuable conversation here

Review via NCR - Rosalia’s “Lux" is devotion of the highest order, best experienced as what mystics called prayer without words. #Rosalia #Lux #music #pop #Catholic www.ncronline.org/culture/rosa...

but DUDE. let Nurse Julie London help. 🩶🩶🩶 j'adorrrrre

and another thing during the united states of america's induced-acute-poverty regime

the IV botulism medicine is "an orphan drug, meaning it’s not profitable for pharmaceutical companies to make. The process is expensive & there’s not a large market for it. So the California Department of Public Health makes it. It’s still very expensive, costing nearly $70,000 per treatment"

wee lil canadian infant elbows-up too

floppy babies can't breathe right "The only treatment for infant botulism is... an IV medication developed through California’s infant botulism program from plasma donated by adults immunized against the toxin. It is the sole source worldwide"

reposted with alt text for the blinkin' masses <3

When Is It Time to Flee? Trans people facing hard questions by Melissa Gira Grant 11/26/25 NewRepublic dot com ...when "you find yourself asking that question, they added, 'you probably are already in the space where you should be making preparations.'" paywall free archive link:

this person fills my heart with love i stg

Nov. 27, 1775: "I am more and more convinced that Man is a dangerous creature, and that power whether vested in many or a few is ever grasping, and like the grave cries give, give." Abigail Adams offer her husband, John Adams, some ideas on governing if a separation from Britain comes. 1/4

"Here’s what happens when people in your life don’t understand PEM: you disappear. ...you’re trying so hard you’re causing yourself harm just to maintain the bare minimum of participation in the world." actually you disappear either way. esp as aging, additional diseases, & disfigurement pile on

can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport

why oh why do i keep checking the headlines. it ain't healthy

briefly perused the wiki page of Common Sense. Paine said a man told his child, 'Well! give me peace in my day,' bc he didn't want the war in his lifetime. Paine called it 'unfatherly' bc the man should want the war in his time so it does not happen in his child's time.

WAT see this is why i read disaster & zombie novels to relax & go to sleep at night. they seem such a calm & sensical respite after i read the news today oh boy

"A police riot is a riot carried out by the police ...responsible for instigating, escalating or sustaining as a violent confrontation... characterized by widespread police brutality... may be done for the purpose of political repression" also demonstration of impunity, notes @jamellebouie in piece

police riot in st. paul, minnesota, usa i first read about it in mn gov Walz page. this little post is so poignant to me... follow them for details; it's their actual neighborhood

"These changes are designed to trap people in poverty and then punish them for being poor" "...[in] the 5 [washington,usa] counties with the greatest need for housing services – King, Pierce, Snohomish, Spokane, & Clark" content wrapper: avoid the comments, which apparently were written by demons.

WTF "grant requirements include that applicants must be in areas that enforce laws prohibiting public camping & illicit drug use, comply with federal immigration enforcement, & must not use “a definition of sex other than as binary" don't even apply for homeless $$ unless local culture is puritan?!

"Congress created the Continuum of Care program in 1987... support services to homeless people, w/ a focus on veterans, families, people with disabilities... without preconditions such as sobriety & employment... [for] housing, childcare, job training, mental health counseling, & transportation..."

usa pmds so jelly

simple really 💅