Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

Flirting lessons from a tiny cat: Ask for what you want. Lay on their chest and purr. Biscuits. Nap together. Walk in front of them and shake your tail. Biscuits. Put a paw on their mouth and trill. Encourage an early bedtime. Discourage phone use. Biscuits.

On My way home. (THANK FUCKING GAWD) Somehow managed to not put the kitten in my luggage.

To all of us who said fuck dreaming about it and decided to be about it.

I think a lot about how Americans in the postwar decades massively screwed the elderly by changing so many cities so that you needed to be able to drive on freeways to exist; now it's happening again online

If it's worth doing, it's worth going all in.

Hey so when I ask questions about systems and processes? I am being serious, I know it’s hard online because folks are sarcastic and constantly into power games over solutions But when I say “hey have you developed this system” YOU WILL NEED IT I tend to mean it bsky.app/profile/blac...

Reverse engineering patterns from clothing out of spite.

"The Constitution is under assault by DJT." No. Wrong. He's the figurehead. It's the revanchist right being aided by every single member of the GOP in the House and Senate and on the SCOTUS and in every agency. That's your through-line.

Thread, up and down.

Happy Bi Visibility Day! 💖💜💙 [ #cuteart #artshop ]

Its plenty of exciting things (derogatory) happening right now and i dont need none of them in my house

You don't. Really. Want. To.

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

*holds up flashing arrow*

Venus. That girl

I lived in Atlanta 25 years ago. Looking around at it now and can't shake the notion that it feels like LA.

Day 9 of travel:

Saving this for double feature ideas...

RIDERS OF ROHAN WE MAY HAVE OUR RIDING ORDERS

"How you die doesn't redeem how you lived" is such a bar

The reality is ? You should be rip roaring in the streets angry about Kimmel . Not just canceling , but shutting it down And you should be doing that with a full willingness to examine what went SO DAMN WRONG that it got to this point

Despair is a commodity for which we have no use for in this moment

Made it to Atlanta. It is time for some Waffle House.

There is no point in letting them manipulate us into chasing our tails. Tell the truths you can stand upon. Find your own work. Ignore the rest. Their lies will work on us like spells if we let them in our ears.

I continue to be amazed at the absolute lack of courage

you cannot be disparaged by your own words... people cannot attack you with your own ideas if ones words are repeated and they are viewed unfavorably that is not a reflection of the one who repeats it is a reflection of the author

rewatching this episode of the Twilight Zone where a man becomes obsessed with getting advice from a demonic fortune telling machine until he can no longer make any decisions without consulting the machine. for no reason in particular.

Pause here and exhale all the way to the bottom of your belly. And inhale. Use the belly. And all the way back out.

(confession: i want to get hype for nepal, but i don't know a damned thing about what's really up...)

*smiles in elopement*

And still refuses to do one iota of shadow work.

*slides into bed early*

More heathens in deathcare. (Note: I am also heathens.)

Whatever number the officially tabulated unemployment rate is, it's much smaller than the number of people who need work they can't find, which is smaller than the number of people who are making insufficient money to maintain their lives at a stable level without their situation wearing over time.

Yeah, it's not really made for navigating the wider region, not without headed back towards/into the city.

*thinks* I should buy entirely too many kazoos.

Made a dirty (gin, by gawd) martini with jalapeno stuffed olives in a jar and stuck it in the freezer. Forgot about it until now. The martini is ice cold and the olives are frozen. This is delightful.

Immediately adding this into my lexicon.

Hawaii announced they are joining California, Oregon, and Washington’s West Coast Health Alliance which will provide their own science-based vaccine guidelines and make vaccines accessible to everyone.

"i will not be taken seriously because it is pink and cute" There is a Heroin addict that sounds like a cutlass carburetor that believes sunlight will cure covid... and he's in charge of Health and Human Services buy the pink knife!

Getting dark earlier. *starts letting the bedtime creep earlier*

I want ALL the vaccines! I don't care if I'm not traveling past my front yard. Vaccinate me for Hepatitis A through Z, please.

When we find out Pritzker's Illinois Intelligence Agency has fully infiltrated the feds we are going to laugh and laugh and laugh

Pritzker says the press should be asking this question, too, and he's right.

The birth rate discourse makes me snark in Black Gen X… they criminalized Black parents (teen & single) back when we were growing up. Reagan literally made our reproduction a campaign issue! (Read Professor Dorothy E. Roberts’ work!) Many of us Black late 1970s babies had kids late or not at all… 🤷🏾‍♀️

it's kind of hot, isn't it? Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, September 2 – September 7: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/oakland-revi...

Time to remind people about the Commercial Pattern Archive — it doesn’t have instructions and search is a bear but there’s two hundred years’ worth of clothing patterns in here including all the big names new and old: copa.apps.uri.edu