My babies (Interrobang and Ellipsis) just heard it’s #Caturday.

Singing my favorite Nippy song at Palms Up Academy

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“OUR HUMANITY” is under assault by our own government.

As Homeland Security’s siege on Minneapolis enters its third week, locals are volunteering for patrol shifts, protesting in the streets, and keeping one another up to date in group texts. Read more from @scottmeslow.bsky.social in Minneapolis:

Ellipsis loves to stare at me. It produces jump scares on my end. But I bask in her glow.

“I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!” - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ramzi is currently raising money for his family so they can eat. chuffed.org/project/1319...

One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years. Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.

you know the first person who said "good riddance to bad rubbish" had the crowd in shambles

DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

“It’s a pattern that supports a faulty narrative: If films with Black directors and Black stars are considered ‘risky,’ despite all evidence to the contrary, then the industry can continue to treat them that way.” This article! The only notes I have are the ones I’m taking.

Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.

There was an existing English dubbed version, with real actors. Very strange. Banana Fish is a favorite of mine, this is so painful but also literally needless.

Contrast these ledes. Left, NYT. Right, Reuters. www.reuters.com/world/us/off...

If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!

I have been looking at Black Friday sales for a week but I do not actually need anything so instead I closed all those tabs and bought a Polaroid for a foster kid in Florida who uses photography to deal with big feelings. Perhaps you would like to do the same for one of the kids at the link below?

Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.

Home.

If you can help, Walid is raising money for winter clothing for his children in Gaza. And food of course. chuffed.org/project/1253...

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte. ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018. We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

Trump's name appears the most: more than 1,600 times. couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...

“Show me the receipts!” Musings on how we say things and sometimes have no idea where they come from.

Would you like to see a BANANAS sitcom premise? Behold "My Living Doll," a jaw-dropping one-season flop that left us with two completely wild cultural impacts: 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-x5...

More musings from the Deity series. A more canine variant of a previous Sphinx design, thanks for looking!

If you’re feeling charitable this Veteran’s Day, please consider supporting my GoFundMe. I have an emergency move in a week and I still don’t have enough to cover major costs.

Found out from the housing department that the LAHD will perform their third inspection in the 14th. As of today the landlords have communicated no plans to fix the unit. (They’re obligated to give me a 24hr advance notice, so they still might.)

I'm spending the week packing, but I'll be popping back on here to ask y'all to please support me with next week's move. Ready to put this nightmare behind me and navigating all this legal and bureaucratic bull has been so much to handle. Any amount is helpful, and so is sharing!

Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.

Louvre heist mystery man revealed to be a 15-year-old dandy who styles himself after French resistance hero Jean Moulin: Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux. apnews.com/article/louv...

Thanking everyone who shared and donated yesterday and this morning! If we keep this pace up I might be all set within a few days!

Alternately, if anyone wants to buy my slasher screenplay, we can wrap this up in a day or so 😆

Can we please help this writer and these cats?

If y'all have been following my harasser situation on here, y'all know I have been dealing with not only the violent aggressor, but also unhelpful landlords and police. I got the great news that I can move, and I've been waiting for the Housing Department to approve the location which they finally

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

I hate gay Halloween. What do you mean you and your homie just accidentally cosplayed as Poison Ivy and The Creeper sunning themselves in a Gotham City garden two seconds before coming over and telling you they like your anti-hero vibe?

On Sunday at the Micheaux Film Festival awards, your boy took home Outstanding Animated (Short) for I Know Him So Well, an honor we shared with Dreamworks’s Wednesdays With Gramps and producer Shabrayia Cleaver. What joy.

When I was a kid, I saw diversity all over the media I consumed because we all understood it was a good thing. Now suddenly any display of diversity is considered dangerous. Wonder why.

Tag! started as a way to engage young people in the creation and platforming of stories that are missing from popular media—our queer stories. The erasure of queerness is now official government policy and your courageous storytelling is more necessary than ever. How can Tag! help you share yours?

Screened at "I Know Him So Well" @ The Roxie last month for SFQFF. What a great experience and a wonderful crop of films and makers. Shoutout to the homies who came through, my cousin and my Future.

Me, watching Here for Blood and specifically the character named Loverboy: I can fix him.

Hi friends, very excited to go to the West Coast and talk about “The Earrings of Madame de…” by Max Ophuls. I’ll be showing the film and in conversation with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, a fundraiser for the literary magazine @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social.

‘Terms like “woke,” “critical race theory,” or “diversity, equity, and inclusion” didn’t come out of Congress, they migrated from leftist activist or academic spaces… repeated endlessly by Republicans more-so than Democrats, but in a way to complain that Democrats had been using them too much.’

The Shadowed Mind (1988) Cedric Sundstrom, director George Bartels, cinematographer Ruth Strimling, art director Leith Ridley Combe, scenic painter & set dresser

After a follow up visit for one, both the kittens are doing well and purring in my lap. I am exhausted. We’ve been crashed out on the couch for hours now.