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Seasonal COVID shots may no longer be possible under Trump admin arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

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"I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone." - Charles de Lint

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

Read that last sentence. Now, take a breath, and then read that last sentence again. Maybe now some of y'all will understand why we've been telling y'all that white America has to do this. If this was a crowd of Black people, there would be cops in riot gear and armored vehicles. 1/2

submitted 82 days ago • 7 comments

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

submitted 89 days ago • 137 comments

I am a salt hag. The tides turns my blood. Waves call me down from the cliffs to occulted coves. Gulls gossip with me. My shore is augury. The rock I stand upon all the temple I need. All my magics are kissed by salted lips. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

submitted 92 days ago • 6 comments

Who wants some good news? The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...

submitted 101 days ago • 313 comments

Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has kindly provided this handy form letter that any US citizen can send to DOGE to request any records DOGE may have accessed about that citizen under the Freedom Of Information Act. jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

This morning I accidentally dropped a scoop of pink lemonade flavored electrolytes into my coffee instead of unflavored collagen. So while I can say I got out of this week alive, I can't say I did so unscathed.

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

Soothed my brain today by deciding what I'd put on an altar for @seananmcguire.bsky.social character the Luidaeg. Even though she'd probably hate it.

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

US citizens: keep calling your congressfolk. The 5calls.org website is great for this, providing numbers and talking points. Thus far, for Oklahoma, Sen Langford's mailbox is already overloaded! It takes 5 minutes. You'll feel better. And this is important.

submitted 129 days ago • 2 comments

Holy fucking shit. Kentucky is drowning under floods, mainstream media is silent about it, our "fearless leader," his Nazi boss, and VP Soul Of Appalachia himself are all AWOL, and so @coyotewallace.bsky.social has been covering it hourly with photos and updates. bsky.app/profile/coyo...

submitted 130 days ago • 3 comments

Look, given that talking publicly about what we and others are doing about All This can often be a bad idea right now, can we all just agree to give each other the benefit of the doubt by default? Silence on socials doesn't mean inaction or complicity.

submitted 131 days ago • 2 comments

Every salt hag has her place of standing. Wave-washed rocks as threshold, as turning point, as site of summoning. For as much as we are witches of the tides and their teeth, we are also of the omen shore. We know how to plant our feet and face the storm. – #EmilyCBanting, 1981 #WitchSky

submitted 134 days ago • 2 comments

goddammit why am I crying

submitted 137 days ago • 24 comments

OH FUCK NO. I'm sending an email, but white women, this is y'all's moment to shine. I can't think of a better reason to need to a speak to a manager. Inside every white woman reading this is a Karen waiting to be called into action. Lock-in, dig deep, and be a Karen for democracy!

submitted 139 days ago • 44 comments

I went into @tkingfisher.com’s Paladin’s Grace cold, having heard only that it was good and nothing else about it, and man it is the most Kingfisher romance possible. If you asked me to invent a scene from a T. Kingfisher romance, I’d have no choice but to come up with that forest scene.

submitted 142 days ago • 9 comments

This is the single most pratchettian thing @tkingfisher.com has ever written. FIGHT ME (From Summer in Orcus.)

submitted 144 days ago • 13 comments

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

submitted 145 days ago • 4847 comments

I just wish #yall would signal boost the Black people who are telling you this is Jim Crow more than you signal boost the non-black people who are saying it's Nazi Germany. I know why you won't though. . .

submitted 147 days ago • 23 comments

I'll add, for anyone (like me) with social anxiety, esp. around the phone: they don't argue with you! They listen and record your comment. If they agree they will probably reassure you! If they don't, they just log you and you hang up. That's it. We can do this. ❤️👊

submitted 149 days ago • 14 comments

Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this. Smashed records. Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

submitted 152 days ago • 1251 comments

In the midst of everything, sometimes the coffee chemistry is perfect. #TinyJoys

submitted 154 days ago • 0 comments

You say shut-in like it's a bad thing

submitted 156 days ago • 7 comments

Regarding Trump & TikTok, @vegasrev.bsky.social said "That thing where your abuser steals things from you and then gives them back, expecting praise." And it's spot on. He's an abuser, behaving as they do. We know this is a part of his behavioral pattern.

submitted 157 days ago • 1 comment

The return of TikTok is the flowers given to the target of abuse after a "bad argument" He is no hero. He's manipulation embodied.

submitted 158 days ago • 1 comment

Thanks to some diehard fans and a fundraising drive to pay the artist, we now have detailed full-body designs for the Iron Druid tattoos! Shoutout to the artist, Phil Balsman of @odinstarindustries.bsky.social! kevinhearne.com/the-full-bod...

submitted 163 days ago • 12 comments

As someone who has no or limited visual imagination I am in endless awe of people who read books and make mood boards for them. Such a visceral level of "how? what? OMG amazing."

submitted 163 days ago • 0 comments

I wanted to mention it's also a good time to donate to Undue Medical Debt unduemedicaldebt.org They used to be called RIP Medical Dept, and are a 501(c)3 organization, and have a 98% rating on Charity Navigator. You can mark your donation for a specific state, or just leave it at nationwide.

submitted 163 days ago • 3 comments

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

submitted 168 days ago • 802 comments

First loom dressing begins.

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Today is the sharpest 1-week relative increase in Covid transmission (54%) since the BA.1. Omicron surge in December 2021.

submitted 195 days ago • 27 comments

There are a variety of reasons why I'd be a terrible copyeditor, but not being able to tell the difference between wary vs weary or taught vs taut is not included in that list.

submitted 200 days ago • 0 comments

I will never, ever get over this.

submitted 205 days ago • 1354 comments

7 hour round trip + 1 mile walk to get my new loom home yesterday and it's too wide to easily fit through my front door. Oops! So today will include a bit of disassembly.

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Crochet baby blanket progress while watching Critical Role.

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