Because you deserve nice things,one of my favorite wholesome videos. Today we celebrate Madeline Kahn on the 83rd year of her birth with her duet of Sing After Me with Grover. I honestly do not want to be friends with you if Madeline or Grover or Madeline and Grover together do not make you smile.

@gabliotecaria.bsky.social jack and his banner 😭😭😭

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

I love the way slightly posh Brits say ‘compromise.’

Didn’t know this! Do you know how many years I pined for jstor access! Yes I am a giant nerd who pines for academe leave me alone with my papers and books

There should be a framed poster of the Lokifesto in every classroom, every library, every home! It is the Reader's Bill of Rights for our time! ✊✊

This is my Lokifesto #KidsConf #UKkidlit #edusky lokibooks.com/lokifesto/

I think this list of tells us why I felt that the merge game dialogue came off as AI generated. There was no specificity, it was all hype & adjectives, it could have applied to anything.

Please donate of you can

Imagine having to ask for help just for the basics, every single time? Soad is going through so much. If you can help her out with a small amount of money, if hundreds of you do that, it really adds up. cc @mommunism.bsky.social

begging democrats to fight right now like portland is as important as jimmy kimmel

“The SPEEDBOATS in VENEZUELA are forcing the President to TARIFF all SOFT FURNISHINGS coming from NATO!

I’m doing some reading for a debut novel comp that accepts self-pub’d things. Now, one of my current favorite writers is self-pub’d. But some of these entries are RAW. Two page paragraphs in a genre where that is never a thing. Awful dialogue. Nonsense story lines I can’t call plot.

After a long, depressing, somewhat challenging week, it was nice to feel stressed with my fellow #Wimblenerds at the @afcwimbledon1889.bsky.social match. I’ve missed y’all! Especially @junketss.bsky.social And we won!

Today’s shameful shadow docket decision from the Supreme Court—allowing Trump to unilaterally cancel $4 billion in aid—is not behavior that any healthy democracy tolerates of its judiciary. It is a sign of constitutional rot that precedes the rule of law’s collapse. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Can you help Soad today? She needs food and shelter and clothes for her and her son Omar. 💔

Hey, this is a reminder that the Unbound for Gaza auction is live right now. I have the complete Wedgeford Trilogy up here: www.32auctions.com/organization...

1/ Whatever you think of digital ID, the process matters. And in 2025, this is still how we make big public policy. 👇

@gabliotecaria.bsky.social meanwhile! The fight with jupiter 😭 too real.

Someone I follow asked what song people just unapologetically like, that makes them happy, but deleted it. SO NOW, I’m asking! Mine are: ‘Sweet Disposition’ by Temper Trap. I smile every time; breathe a little easier. That and the Indigo Girl’s “Closer to fine” is probably cliche now, but I love it.

Okay, but who is going to be the first to order Heartstopper Volume 6 by Alice Oseman via our website? #kidlituk

No pressure team… but cast your vote (Picture SpongeBob running around in panic mode.) Or we are “all” (around 7-10% of hospitalised patients) gonna die!!! (Note this tweet contains both humorous and factual statements.)

Worth voting in this poll if you #Mask www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Someone I follow asked what song people just unapologetically like, that makes them happy, but deleted it. SO NOW, I’m asking! Mine are: ‘Sweet Disposition’ by Temper Trap. I smile every time; breathe a little easier. That and the Indigo Girl’s “Closer to fine” is probably cliche now, but I love it.

Can you help Soad today? Mutual aid is her only income in Gaza at the moment. cc @moma.bsky.social

I have a scrape and some damage to the left rear passenger side of my car. It’s unsightly, I give it that. But the way some men look at it and then look at me is ridiculous. As though I am dragging my child around naked and cover in poo.

Ugh. Ok. That’s me done on social media for the day. Dms only.

Expertise matters. I strongly believe that one of the problems with the media has been the tendency to treat everything as just a branch of politics, and to (wrongly) assume that fundamentally politics-focused reporters can 'get across' any topic. It's not just wrong - it's enormously damaging.

I hate it when my autistic child has to hear ‘news’ stories and rumors about how autism is some sort of plague or how it ought to be cured. He has a hard enough time with his self image. There’s so much he wants to do that he either can’t (yet) or does with massive effort. This bs just hurts.

Why is misinformation about paracetamol on the front page of every news outlet, without a mention of the fact it's misinformation?

This. THIS. Stop participating in his crazy bs and spreading misinformation in the process.

The Rapture gets earlier and earlier every year. Costco has had its Rapture stuff out since July.

I like reminding people of how Disneyland workers were made to wear communal underwear (like if you did character work) that wasn't cleaned and became a whole public health issue and required the involvement of the Teamsters Union to change things. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/a...

It's my birthday tomorrow. Wanna buy me a present? Donate to my friend Soad in Gaza. She and her son Omar are having, as you might imagine, a nightmare life at the moment. Every little helps! If everyone who has it spare gave 5 dollars, imagine what a difference! www.gofundme.com/f/providing-...

Can you help make my cousin’s day by sharing her new music and giving it a listen? It’s perfectly cosy autumnal vibes, great for curling up with tea and a book. (Specially if you have LotR and are on a Bilbo’s Birthday re-read.)

@gabliotecaria.bsky.social i suspect the Darlings are a den of vipers and not just bc someone murdered D. And I am tired of Jupe being away. It’s falling down as a device for me atm. When this hush lifts, I think all hell will break loose.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder is like

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

So on the one hand an agent said all the right and good things about my work. Gave me some points to polish further. On the other, they said they don’t rep the genre of the work they reviewed (paid session, not a query). They’d be happy to hear from me with a different MS.

Absolutely fuck off with this - which he is lapping up

A lovely German phrase for describing a place in the middle of nowhere is wo sich Fuchs und Hase gute Nacht sagen. It means “where the fox and hare say goodnight.”

Can you help? I've been talking to Soad for the past months and things keep getting worse for her and Omar.

Soad is in a desperate situation because Omar is now dangerously ill, there are bombs falling all around them and they have no money for food or medicine. She's also really struggling to get internet access. Please help her if you can. tinyurl.com/ycxdtddx @mommunism.bsky.social @fairshare.help 🍉

A cool thing about Robert Redford is that no one needs to be coerced into saying nice things about him. RIP King 👑

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@gabliotecaria.bsky.social when Morigan meets the Darlings 🥹🥹

Morning. #Tea.

You can't give in to despair, you just can't, even with everything that's happening already and the weight of everything to come. We are still going to win. I'm going to fight for that victory and it'll either happen with me or after me, in some small part because of what I am doing and will do.

In other news, I’ve got a writing gig starting towards the end of the year, that’s non-fiction. Something I have a lot less experience with. If any of you have ever worked on an anthology, love to pick your brain.

Four rejections and 48 hours is kind of rough, y’all. Two of them were quite personal queries as well; not to people who I’m friends with, but to people I have been friendly with in the past. And every single rejection was a form.