Telling folks exactly who they are.

Lost the appeal, filed a reconsideration. I will not let this go without a fucking fight.

Is it time to indulge in 17776 again?

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

We mourn, we keep fighting.

Another week, another round with the insurance.

Support your local quirky Black woman!

"Who made these rules? We're so confused, easily led astray" --Ms. Lauryn Hill

Since we all about to be on a Peabo set all night, here’s one I know a lot of us start with

Care for others takes many forms. Look out for each other out there.

california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that don’t get counted because people don’t know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr don’t put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box. www.kqed.org/news/1208537...

Happy Pride to the bi4bi bisexuals/ Pan friends out there. Tammy's fine. She's in her happy place.

Prince. Kenny Burrell. Jamiroquai (the early tours were immaculate vibes)

With apologies to Saul Bass

Listen. Do this. Do it while you can.

Pride is nice and all, but I'm feeling Lust and Wrath.

🩷 Goodnight, dear neighbor.

We won the appeal. *lays down on the floor*

Now is the time to make your thing. Stop motion with LEGO, webcomic, walking sim game, weird Halloween costume, backyard water feature, container garden. This is your sign. Make your thing. Stop waiting. Do it.

Me squaring up against the insurance company this week.

*added to my Things Are On My Last Nerve And I Need To Escape reading pile*

oakland should annex piedmont and abolish prop 13 locally to make them pay for all the cities roads and schools

Family is a unit of survival with shifting facets, fluid roles, and infinitely adaptable and expansive. If you believe it to be.

Paying attention to birds supports a person’s health. Moving around in nature tends to correlate with lower levels of stress. You’re not only moving around, but you’re listening; you’re noticing signs of birds, you’re enhancing your cognitive flexibility. buff.ly/T2Ef4E8

The gorilla was killed to save the life of a Black toddler who fell into the enclosure. White nationalists in 2016 glorified Harambe as a meme because they saw the Black child as less important than the gorilla, hence the White House post. The article does not mention any of this context.

does Patagonia really want the lgbqtia community to boycott them just before Pride season?

These Ferguson activists all died within 4 years of the Ferguson protests. #Blacksky Darren Seals (29) Danye Jones (24) Bassem Masri (31) Edward Crawford Jr. (27) MarShawn McCarrel (23)

There are currently 3 ongoing/upcoming Kickstarters for Black-led animated projects to support: • The Three Tomes by @breanimator.bsky.social • FLY by @jayrayart.bsky.social • HEY by ToonrificTariq Links below! ⬇️

everything that's happening keeps happening more 😮‍💨

Tiny pleasure for today: I watched a handful of birds line up on a fence in front of a moving sprinkler and take turns showering in morning sunlight.

Semiotic anthropologist here w/alt-text! As I tell students & everyone who will listen: One of the great lessons of anthropology is that we built this. All of it. And we choose throughout our days how we will continue or change the world we have built. We can & must build differently.

Good morning, Bluesky. Have you subscribed to Stephen Colbert's new YouTube channel? www.youtube.com/@colbert

If the corporations are doing well and the people are doing poorly What you have is a hostage situation not an economy

Mama's watch was broken, took it to the watch repair place in Southlake Mall. It's not dead dead, but it's a shell of what it was/what I remember from the 70s - 90s.

They didn’t steal the knowledge . They created a discourse where we all learned helplessness So instead of talking to each other and the archives The ultimate creators of that knowledge We act like their whims are the controllers rather than figuring out how to talk around them

I know this is mine as in extraction, but by the end of the post I was reading it as call and response with a greedy toddler. "MINE!"

This country is so beyond both parody and satire that it has become the embarrassing embodiment of both wholesale.

And now they are all gone. RIP Sonny Rollins.

"think less silver bullet, more perfect storm."

My father said this weekend "your grandmother put a mark on you."

This is why I say breakfast is the most dangerous meal of the day. Thank you, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Evergreen

I made soup!

Running at West Beach (Indiana Dunes)

We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration

Can we please, please be able to grow old together?

I have a belief that capitalism is the economic version of narcissism

The last known caterpillar that could have become a Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly has died. The term for an animal that is the sole survivor of a species is endling. In a sense, we are all endlings—each the last of our kind. All life is precious, irreplaceable. crimethinc.com/endlings

I miss working in a library.