I don’t know which of you needs to know this, but: hot honey in ginger tea

I was just on a walk and said to myself, "It's a @rachelhands.com sky, good light update time"

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“conceptual art is just like gen-ai prompts” just crossed my feed and you know what, I think I will go make a cup of tea and read a book

I passed the exam, glean what you will about my preparation approach

Semi-regular reminder to be kind to retail workers today & patient with the people shopping with you. This doesn't have to be a stressful weekend for anyone. Let's just enjoy how nice it is to celebrate the people we love with gifts. Thank you!

Socrates: So you would hold that for everything that exists there is one true and perfect idea of it? Even cats? Plato: <gestures emphatically at Ozzy>

I should probably be studying for a certification exam I’m begrudgingly taking tomorrow but my perfect angel cat* is asleep on my lap and (Th)ings and (Th)oughts is WAY more fun than studying *who will be screaming at the top of her lungs into her water bowl ca. 3am for no discernible reason

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Refusing to be bound by genre, Link crystallizes essential truths like no one else can.

today should have been Claire’s 36th birthday, so re-upping my match for donations to clairescontinuum.com for commissioning collaborative work, and also my encouragement to create rituals with your friends. the rituals can be unserious but they matter if you take them seriously.

my clients have me clocked: ask for something out of scope and then close your email with “I have so appreciated your wise guidance this year” yes you can have the out of scope thing, flattery will get you everywhere

I don’t know if I exactly recommend reading Force Drift with your first cup of coffee, but look,

“we didn’t give you permission to bind your chest” is not something I expected to hear this year but is it ever on brand

Wrote a little holiday blog about autoimmune disease and how it can teach us about our movements and what they need to thrive. www.bravaleaders.com/juicy-joyful...

I was just having drinks with someone and talking about being a Committed Regular at local places, and they were like “I would watch your tiktok series about how to be a regular!” I am not gonna start a tiktok but is occasional Learn to Be a Regular content a thing people would want?

MA pals: if you’ve got some extra cash (like $25 of extra cash) and feel safe giving some of your data to the prison system database, you can contribute to the canteen fund for currently incarcerated folks locally: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

officially in “snoozing that email till January” territory. Jan 5 me is going to hate December me.

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.

Hey #BookSky! Today is your last chance to get book recommendations for the holidays from us! Tell us who you still need a book for & we'll do as many as we can tonight!

what I want trans kids, queer kids, and gender nonconforming kids to know: you are loved you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)

Chicago folks, do not miss this exhibit. Firelei Báez's work is phenomenal. #ArtSky #BlackSky

yr friendly neighborhood former musicologist here to tell you this holds up and “jonasquin” is a great username

strongly recommend both this album and spending a couple hours making bespoke playlists for your friends

making playlists for various reasons and this is my reminder to self that I need to listen to this album more mingjia.bandcamp.com/album/star-s...

if you are a trans teen right now, you do not have the lifetime of experience with the united states federal legislative branch to cope with “this will *probably* die in the senate” on top of the rest of your life and that right there feels like a fucking flavor of abuse at scale.

on days like this I like to reflect on how each and every one of us is currently on *someone*’s last nerve

just buy soylent and commit to the bit

Send an email to people who's work you like. It's easy and generally makes folks happy to know people appreciate their work. Better than being paid in exposure points tbh.

Portland brings frogs, Chicago brings whistles, Boston is the elder hippie that brings the “I can’t believe I’m still protesting this shit” sign. I love us.

hearing from some folks that they preordered my zine in October and haven’t gotten it yet - if that’s you, reach out to Microcosm and they can get you squared away!

many things about 2025 are Bad but we do live in the best age there has ever been, opera-wise www.operanorth.co.uk/news/meet-th...

thank you for bringing this to my attention. I will investigate and report back (obsessively watch all these youtube videos). also please join me in appreciating this cast of characters.

scrolled past this quickly and assumed it was the cover of Sea, Poison

I would like it if, in my lifetime, we stopped talking about the amount of money people have access to as “what that person is worth”

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If you're having the Sunday scaries about work tomorrow, consider our course on how to take control of your career! You have more power than you think, and in this market, and with the goal of capitalism to be maximal utilization, you need to be more conscious to deploy it www.driyourcareer.com

came out as ace at a holiday party which, one day I may figure out how to do that without sounding either like a scold or like I got away with a crime

the next soup I bullied out of my friends requires multiple days and comes from index cards the friend’s grandmother hand wrote. i expect it will be top notch but it will not be ready tonight.

good tree update: still good

if you really miss the experience of a book recommendation based on an air conditioner you once bought, you can probably find that too if you ask

it doesn’t have to be like this.

you know what, yes. here’s a bit from my zine about being honest (with yourself) about the power you hold.

Ok nerds, I am going to recommend some books. here are ten books that either came out this year or that I read for the first time this year which I think are worth your time // it is a miscellaneous and ill-assorted list but perhaps like a magpie you can pick something shiny from it

a thing one could do, if one were so inclined, is go to @portersqbooks.bsky.social in Cambridge and buy copies of my zine for all the managers one knows. just, like, an option that exists.

let's say you were in downtown Indianapolis without a car, and maybe a little cranky about it, on a Wednesday night/Thursday morning in January. what should you do, if you're a person who likes books and coffee and art?

put on my attitude adjustment playlist to make myself do a boring essential task, and forgot that this Nathalie Joachim gem is on there sopercussion.bandcamp.com/track/note-t...

2 Mending Skillshares this month, 1 this Sunday! 1️⃣ Sun 12/14 Hillside Community Church, 144 North St, Medford 2:30-5PM 2️⃣ Sun, 12/28 Connexion, 149 Broadway, Somerville, 1:30-3:30PM Bring your own projects, or work on clothes for the Free Store. Masks required! Español/Português/Kreyòl Ayisyen ⬇️

weather app: feels like 10° F boston: i’ll have an iced coffee, thanks

you can help! bit.ly/donatetomamas