@strayliotta.bsky.social “AITA for asking for hams?” 😹

People have these assumptions about how healthcare works based on how it SHOULD work. But has no actual basis in reality.

One of the problems with health insurance and the US healthcare system is that we don’t understand it until we run into something that fucks us. And even then it’s so convoluted it still makes no sense to most people.

"My allergies are giving me such a headache. I should add Tylenol to my morning meds..." @drsaddison.bsky.social Effexor and Mydayis. You know how bad this day is going to suck. 😵‍💫

The "funny" / sad thing about this is that it probably would have taken MUCH LESS TIME to just Google how to make Excel spreadsheets and doing it manually. And he wouldn't have paid 200 bucks to get gaslit by a chatbot.

Totally innocent!!

Ha!, @tomtomorrow.bsky.social. We're on opposite ends of the same photo

Turned in a draft of my September 2026 novel and my editor told me the book might be “too obscene to publish” 😇

Pls consider ordering a book from your local indie bookshop *NOW* before holiday season to give store time to order title if they don't have it? This helps: (1) support indie bkshops, (2) support human creators, (3) gets you ahead re: busy shopping time. Psst: maybe one of my books? 🙏🏽💛 #KidLit

The reason I know God is real is because @clairewillett.bsky.social went to town on the news that the pope is banning Opus Dei (most Catholics I know think they are weird nasty creeps and have long thought that!!) Anyway, Claire’s analysis has me like

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that. No phones, no staff, nothing. I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

Jordy created a website where visitors can contribute $35 to “provide an inflatable costume for a True American.™” He initially hoped to collect enough to buy a couple dozen suits. But as he put it -- “This whole thing has blown up a lot.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

welcome to Bluesky, where you may lay your dump truck down

Greetings, new Bluesky followers. Here is what you can expect from me

From the Larchives. Bats are Hallowe'en butterflies :)

for Portlanders marching this Saturday who want the best tactical gear without feeding Amazon, our local party supply house The Lippman Company has plenty of inflatable costumes

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

If possible, do not bring your real phone. Write at least one phone number on your body in sweat-proof sharpie in case you get kettled and need to call someone. Wear a mask, if you're going to be crowded in with people. Wear the most common and nondescript clothing you can.

Nothing fucks up your day like missing that dose.

I know it’s early but… Wondering what to buy for the Secret Santa swap at the Antifa Christmas Party?

a saga:

someone on the Internet who really wants to convince you to shine lasers at manned aircraft as a protest tactic “because they did it in Chile in 2019” is either: 1. a fascist fed, or, 2. so terminally stupid that they have become functionally indistinguishable from one

Because boy, howdy, nobody knows ritual and symbolism like the Catholic Church, and having it turned squarely back on the Very Bad Catholics who have been the public standard-bearers of wielding it for evil for so long is really good to see.

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

With a hearty promise to return, he walked off like the end of a Chaplin movie.

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

There’s something happening here What it is ain’t exactly clear There’s a frog with a cape over there Tellin me, I got to beware You better stop, children What’s that sound? Everybody look, they’re croaking now

As any military strategist knows, port cities are always particularly vulnerable to amphibian assault.

I will gladly draw all of the frogs as a symbol for the movement, explicitly to take them back from the fuckers who co opted Pepe for their nazi shit.

I love that Portland’s solution to being invaded was simply “Be weirder.”

Peace, good Doll

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors) Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

Munchkin Card Idea Because Apparently I Have Too Much Time on my Hands: PINK PONY CLUB.

Happy Happy release day @marthawells.com !

wizard frog is insane

Wow! 75 years ago, Charles M. Schulz's PEANUTS premiered in newspapers & changed the game! It was, and remains, one of my own primary influences & guiding stars, and I love it! This was drawn a couple of years ago for Schulz's 100th birthday, and it seems the most fitting thing to repost today.

It doesn't matter what your views on gay cruising in public places might be, the fact is nobody should get deported to Ecuador for it.

You NEED this book! It is amazing!

At night when the bars close down Brandy walks through a slient town And drags a man, across the ground. To ditch him in the bay. She hears him say Brandy you're a fine girl Please don't murder me My life, my lover, my lady, not the sea....

WELL HELLO. In the coming weeks I get to chat with both @marthawells.com and @tkingfisher.com at their book launch events (one in Allentown, the other in Doylestown) and I'm pretty darn excited about it:

just found a bullet casing with the entire bee movie script on it

[logging on every day] man what

Goob morning

*hums Ride of the Valkyrie

Happy Book Birthday’

Happy Book Birthday!! @sarahgailey.bsky.social