They come in multiple varieties, for all of your emotional needs.

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS: THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

One of my favorite types of low-stakes news stories

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “I can’t find that species anywhere this season. What do you want to sub with?” 🌱

Me in your ear

My new favorite word that I am going to legitimately try to practice

fine. i will host the muppet show

Baby elephant time.

Please sign my petition to start an Autumn Olympics where all events empty into a pile of delightful leaves and whatnot.

Fund Friday thread of Gazans in need. Please share and donate if you can Nurse Hammam @nursee1ham.bsky.social, his brother Abood, and their family

Ok this book is exactly what I needed—completely immersive. A rollercoaster of catastrophes and triumphs of all sizes for a sole human alone on a planet, while a large group of people back home work together to help keep him alive until help can get there.

Is there a physical therapy sky? Any PTs who can answer a general question about something?

That poster is right tho that good human art takes skill and if you want to preserve that skill I hope you’ll buy art from me.

💫Mutual Aid Thread💫

You as a kid - Puts a piece of plywood over a cinderblock at the bottom of a hill that leads into a gravel ditch that leads into the woods to make a bike jump. You as an adult - My kid will never do something ridiculous like climb furniture to reach a toy.

*walks up to Doomsday Clock, slaps both hands past midnight* *pulls out sleep mask, earplugs, pillow and blanket and lies down on the floor*

So, first of all, of course it was Trump. But even if they were telling the truth, "We give staffers who post videos of the Obamas as apes access to the agenda-setting, decree-sending, market-moving account of the president of the United States" is not the exculpatory statement they think it is.

to be adopted is, all too often, to be unwittingly recruited for a role in other people’s trauma-rooted fantasy play.

Folks say this to also excuse behavior against Black health workers who care for the elderly. Someone said, how you forgetting everything except the fact you hate Black people? 🙃

So we’re all talking about the racist meme but not about what led us here or how to protect Black people The meme worked exactly how it was supposed to

Racism is not an unknowable disease of the heart, it's a provable set of actions and responses. That's why the @nytimes.com can't handle. For them to admit that Trump is racist would mean they'd have to admit they been carrying the water for a racist all these years. They won't ever do that.

Fund Friday thread of Gazans in need. Please share and donate if you can Nurse Hammam @nursee1ham.bsky.social, his brother Abood, and their family

the thing to keep in mind is that despite the small number of adoptions annually—the “infant supply” isn’t where hopeful adopters need it to be—there is A LOT OF MONEY moved in adoption. The fact that the NCFA has the cash for such a huge ad buy underscores why we call it an industry.

Many recipes are being lost but "if you see folks running, START RUNNING and ask questions later" is non negotiable home training

The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit. Gentle Spades "I'm a veteran"

Made For Each Other*

Olypmic ski jumpers injecting their penises to make it... thicker, was not on my bingo card.

a woo woo woo!

The tiny babies are GRADUATING today and heading off to normal foster care! So proud of them all.

Good morning, Happy Friday and a woo woo woo to all the good people in my phone

There’s too many to list, but I feel like Stevie’s “Songs in the Key of Life” should be a staple in every record collection

the National Council for #Adoption will be running a Super Bowl ad. That’s about $16 million for a 60-second spot. does anyone even fucking care how far that money could go to allowing vulnerable people to keep rather than lose their own children?

SAME. I don’t need more people perceiving me for any reason good or bad

If I had the money I'd give it away. But secretly, like Prince did, because while generosity makes me feel good, thanks make me uncomfortable.

If I had as much life-changing money as this dingus nothing would make me happier than to help build a better world by giving all of it away

I just imagined Jay Z stopping his PR guys hand just before it hits the keyboard and saying, “wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Call Lizzo.” I cannot stop laughing.

The acrobatic twists and turns everyone is making to avoid admitting that antiblackness and transphobia got us here is hilarious. You hated us so much that you voted them in. Hated us so much that you preferred the company of pedophiles. At every single wealth bracket.

today is the last day i will ask you to donate to people’s rent this month. we are trying very hard to meet a $30,000 goal today to help the last few families on our list before their rent grace period ends.

8. I would be remiss if I did not mention that the Epstein files shows the extent to which old political alliances are compromised. It’s depraved. It is also unfortunately capitalism. Tech elite has the money to shape public opinion and intervene in state law because of that cabal of exploitation.

7. Political messaging is lagging regular people’s sense that tech has gone rogue. There is an opportunity to tap into fear about government overreach and economic insecurity. That would tie together several threads of political structures of opportunity — from occupy to environmental racism

You don’t need to be connected to WiFi to drink water, bro.

Live from Gobbler's Knob

I'm so tired of this asshole and his doomering

‼️‼️‼️ [alt text: photo of the Nottoway Plantation ablaze, during a fire in May 2025.]

Black History Month turns 100 this year. This piece is about Black joy that never needed permission, especially in the face of systems that demand pain to justify separation. New Substack is up. buff.ly/p21WwmF

This is the best sign I saw today.

A (wonderfully nerdy) book called, "The American Stamp: Postal Iconography, Democratic Citizenship, and Consumerism in the United States," dedicates several pages to the multiplicity of meanings in the 1978 Tubman stamp. cup.columbia.edu/book/the-ame...

Today in 1978, Harriet Tubman became the 1st African American woman to appear on a U.S. postage stamp, and the first honoree in the Post Office’s Black Heritage Series. 🧵1/?