Hillel: put your right foot in Gentile: done Hillel: now take it out Gentile: ...ok Hillel: put your other foot in, shake it all about Gentile: wait what? Hillel: what is hateful to you do not do to another Hillel: that's what it's all about

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Happy book day to Cynthia Erivo, whose well-produced, self narrated work, Simply More, dropped today. Reflections on creative, present life & living through the lens of autobiography, it has been a heartwarming and encouraging evening's Listen. Received with love & gratitude.

Alice Wong has died. Rest in Power, and may her memory be for a blessing.

#RemembranceDay Lest We Forget 🙏🕊

I'm hearing these SNAP benefit updates: -100% Washington state -100% Michigan -100% California -Partial Illinois -Partial North Carolina -1/2 Vermont (Note that not everyone in these states received money today because their typical day of the month for benefits may not have passed yet)

"Last week, I watched a flaneur spend his entire afternoon staring at a blank piece of cardboard. When my manager asked what he was doing, the man responded that he was 'Kinda just raw-dogging the Montmartre, waiting for the light to hit.'"

@governor.ca.gov Governor Newsom, given the abject failure of GOP transphobia tonight to get them absolutely any success whatsoever with voters, will you be reconsidering your policy of throwing transgender Californians under the bus to further your political ambitions?

We are deeply enjoying our first dip into Michael Twitty's new book, Recipes from the American South, and look forward to this program about it!

Feel like I need to drop this in here, people need to know youtu.be/eXXYfigdfw0?...

"Trump tore down the White House without permission" is even easier to understand than "No Kings"

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

Oh, I love that monorail in Seattle. Thanks for posting the No Kings rally view!

Help me share to 100 (big number!) You know you want to 😀 #RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth youtu.be/G71MZynajjQ?...

Ooohh... This is fascinating stuff.

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread: I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong. So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

Oh, sweet summer children. If you see this, quote repost with a game that released in the year you were born! #gamesky Yes, released as in published (feeling quaint).🤣🤣🤣👍💖

Reminder from your resident high school lubrarian: if you plan to do a Banned Books Week display and programming, prioritize living marginalized authors. Use this time to help those who need it the most.

So we find that we are bith too old-and-creaky to slot the new fluorescent bulbs into the ceiling fixture. But this kind of thing used to be so easy!

Fall gardening delights: the pea shoots are up! 🌱 The sun has reappeared after several hours of soft soaking rain that started at 4 am here; Autumn in Cslifornia is when we welcome rains again after months of dry summer.

Oh, if we were still in town I'd write in @karlthefog.bsky.social ! 🌫️🌫️🌫️🌁🌫️🌫️🌁🌫️🌫️😶‍🌫️

I've been down the most fascinating rabbit hole this evening. A charity here in the UK called Heritage Crafts are giving bursaries for people wanting to learn endangered crafts. Just some of the crafts on the list: 1/

A @brianbilston.bsky.social poem is always a treat and this one is terrific.

As an Oxford Comma loving gal, the True Purpose of a paper dictionary in these times:

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

If you see this post a concert picture you took

PREORDERS for September’s booklet are open (FYI booklets will cease production with Dec’s issue) 15 available Free Little Mari Autumn adventure sticker set (TBC) US customers- I had to include to 50p handling fee in the shipping cost, due to tariffs :( skullsandsheets.etsy.com/listing/4373...

Fun fact: 70% of US Tylenol is manufactured in China. You gotta wonder if this focus on tylenol is related to his stupid fucking self-inflicted gunshot wound of his tariffs.

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

A South SF Bay omelette would be Huevos Rancheros: eggs with warm (pico de gallo) salsa on pan toasted corn tortillas, avocado if you have some.

The Friday night bike ride is going by: numerous groups of cyclists, each block's peloton with a different style of recorded music to let cars know they're here, from upbeat rock to Mexican folk tunes, the bikes all aglow with beautiful lights for their ride through town.

Okay, I had thought Jo Clayton was a woman writer but “Lifting the bar and latching it started the blood throbbing through her veins while her breasts fluttered with short rapid breathing.” goes tittily on the burn pile with some of the worst excesses of men writing women (badly). Diadem Saga.

Okay - late to the party, finally saw Hamilton, in its movie if the thestrical perfotmance cersion. WONDERFUL!

Great info!

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

Last repost: there are lots of ways of putting stitches into the world where it is torn. We need folk doing all of them; repair what you can reach.

Battle doomscrolling by posting five small pleasures in life: 1. Dreima's Vidalia Onion Upside Down Cornbread, tonight's iteration having bacon & corn salsa additions 2. A tremendously earnest young rooster down the block: just far enough for its crowing to be charming 3. The love of good kitties

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Tomorrow is the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance (something I wont get to see until retirement!) but at least Little Mari is getting in the spirit of things

Age verification? I saw José Feliciano and Helen Reddy at the MN State Fair.

Now THIS is a bit of fine theatre. Wow!

California, Oregon and Washington announced yesterday they’ve created their own health alliance, saying the CDC has become “a political tool that increasingly peddles ideology instead of science.” New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island have now done the same.

They're not knots in knitting, Hank! Otherwise great notes and thoughts on knitting design science.

I am really enjoying this book, and also? Thanks for the music recommendations along the way. If you're in ATL, this sounds like a great event!

Here is the growing list of countries choosing to pause mail deliveries to the U.S. because of Trump's tariff chaos. Did anyone vote in 2024 to become the new Hermit Kingdom? Austria Australia Denmark France Germany India Italy Japan New Zealand Singapore Spain South Korea Sweden Thailand

Ignatz Awards voting is open to the public. That means YOU. 🫵 Vote for your favorites things to win. There’s no onsite voting so make sure you get that vote in.

activists please paint four other crosswalks rainbow colors. every site they watch should provoke four new sites

Chestnut tea this morning, in a Lodema-the-Potter mug

On Hugo Award nominee name mispronunciations: After mangling the name of FIYAH years ago, this year's butchering of names can absolutely not be laid to ignorance. This is what systemic racism looks like, and it is awful. Thank you for making this note observing these times.