The thing I am learning from Kimmelgate is the size and shape a thing has to be for normies to see it. Most of the things that horrify me on the daily aren’t visible to an America-sized group of people. Jimmy Kimmel going off the air scales on its own, for better or worse. Good to know.

Unfortunately I am the single most reliable source of information about the sexual assault I’ve experienced. However you should not trust anything I say about vaccine safety that isn’t a direct cite to scientists or clinicians. Sexual assault and vaccine safety: they’re different! jfc

Lovely and sharp with a sweet ending. A long short story.

I just remembered there’s new Naomi Novik out. The Summer War, a novella. If you need me, I’ll have my nose in it.

True! And coupling this with “but where else are you going to go, leftist?” Is a recipe to make your base despise you, which is precisely what we are seeing in polling. Nothing functions when leadership hates their base and actively works on behalf of the base they wish they had!

Julius Wechter and the Baja Marimba Band Or Ronnie James Dio

So I got into NYC yesterday, but woke up at 4 am this morning; my first stop was my favorite place to get a proper capuccino, Zibetto - so I set off around a little before 7 am. I passed an apple store and noticed folks standing in line which was a little surprising, but I didn't think much of it.

“We’re gonna keep showing up til they stop abducting our neighbors”

With comments from @chromatowski.bsky.social

🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel. Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣 This is a must-watch. 🔥

NO TRUST IN ACIP! Well, the absolutely incomprehensible vote at the end of the ACIP meeting has left everyone confused. MMRV resolution passed, so it’s off the schedule for younger children and CMS won’t cover it.

Brad Lander and ten other elected officials were arrested inside 26 Federal Plaza after demanding access to observe the 10th floor, where detainees are held. The group staged a sit-in before Federal Protective Service officers moved in with zip ties.

Dammit I forgot to put the ice hat back in the freezer. (Have considered a second ice hat and am afraid I’d eventually find myself holding two room temp ice hats. There’s no number that solves the problem)

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. Bill Jarvis Bird Sanctuary. The fall light was fantastic at 10am this morning. 8.18.2025. #Birds

It is excruciating to be used like this. I call on him to resign. I call on Congress to remove him. I call on Democrats to care enough about Long Covid to keep it from being made a wedge issue.

sharing my notes from the long covid round table for those who were not able to attend live. theyre no where near perfect and i tried to remove all snide remarks

RFK jr asks Putrino what works. Oh no, the Handbook.

Hoping Colbert makes them regret leaving him on the air.

*looks directly at bsky devs*

The censure against my dear colleague @repilhan.bsky.social failed tonight, and rightfully so. The baseless attacks on her were not for any dishonor she brought to the House of Representatives, but because she is a former refugee, Muslim and a woman of color.

I worked at NOW in 1993. A million people came to the Mall. We knew they were coming. There was no online anything. Phone calls. Butcher paper on the walls. I am also older than the fucking VAN, we can live without that too if we have to. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_o...

Goodnight friends. Sleep well. youtu.be/S2rOh6dCwao?...

I feel like Brad Lander got fully inside my heart in the space of about five days and I am waiting for him to disappoint me but it won’t be today. (Politicians do not belong in my heart but wow he had an intense five days capped with his nobody watching joy dance at Pride. It did me in.)

Just in: Minnesotans have elected who will replace Melissa Hortman. Xp Lee, a Democrat, just won today’s special election. He’s a former Brooklyn Park city councilor, who was born in a refugee camp in Thailand; he beat Republican Ruth Bittner after winning a competitive Dem primary last month.

One of my favorite Redford appearances is in Robert Pirsig’s novel Lila; the Pirsig character is spiraling, trying to get to a meeting, and it turns out the meeting is with Redford, to discuss a film version of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Our own #DoSomething at #MEAction: help ✨save telehealth!✨ Telehealth is vital for people who are immunocompromised or severely ill. A doctor's visit can set a patient with severe ME back weeks or even months. Join us tomorrow at 12pm PT / 3pm ET at the call party-- RSVP below, and please share!

I have been wondering about that number and expected it to be high but my god. That’s so high.

Author friends — what would you want to see from such a site?

Really, no one else can get to 23? Nature abhors a vacuum but senate Dems are really showing a capacity to tolerate one.

HUMANS APPEAR TO BE AT THE 'PUBLISHING LIGHT-HEARTED LISTICLES ON HOW TO COPE WITH ACCUMULATING COVID BRAIN DAMAGE' STAGE OF THE NEVER-ENDING PANDEMIC. www.bbc.com/news/article...

It's 100 percent worse for Black women in media. Just like it's worse for Black women in nearly every job in the country. "The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman." -- Brother Malcolm.

there we go

Seriously if you had said YESTERDAY that there would be a ticker counting the money children lose for every extra minute artists express themselves on the Emmys I would have said Too Dark, no way. It doesn’t matter that they will likely give the whole amount. Message sent. File under Not a Comedy.

Say Anything Grosse Point Blank War, Inc

My mom just sent me a pic that had these boots in it and I am passing it on in the interest of morale.

Recently it hit me over the head that I should be asking my young adult kid for more help with a thing and they are truly excellent at negotiating the junction of (thing) and my disability, better than me. Good for both of us.

Split. Sooner the better.

Friends with ME/CFS! The incomparable Lenny Jason is working to develop consensus on a research definition and severity scales to use in studying ME. He needs your opinion! Takes ~15 mins but you can save and come back if you need a break. If you could also share this, that would be a huge help!

Thank you good people of Reddit for finding the Morse code and translating. (Foundation Easter egg; if you look for it on Reddit you’ll find it.) Jane Espenson, the writer you are. Triple blessings, lady.

Pears still exist.

If you have bandwidth or want to change gears, book writers? If you give an early draft to someone to read, what do you want back from them? And what do you really not want back from them?

My MN young adult kiddo just called with a delayed reaction to Annunciation and their years of active shooter training after seeing the other video. Sending love to everyone whose buttons got jammed on today. Lots of brutal memories up and in the mix.

This is so real and lovely - have raided my work clothes before so friend candidates who lived in jeans would have enough outfits they could stand to get them through pictures and the first weeks. Her friend says It’s the policies, and it is, and it’s the pink jacket. You look great in it.

Re-upping this again. I assisted the amazing team at @onthemedia.bsky.social developing the breaking news consumers handbook, and its recommendations still hold true to this day.

Listen to your friend Andy Carvin

PSA you need to treat bluesky as if it were permanent. always. every post you make goes out to the public firehose and it is probably captured by someone somewhere. the delete button doesn't do what you think it does. every day is shut the fuck up friday, besties 💜

NATO has scrambled aircraft.