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you lack a childlike sense of wonder. blocked

We are absolutely heartbroken by the loss of Arthur Folasa Ah Loo. A gofundme has been set up to support his family in this unimaginable time. If you can, please donate. If not, please share. www.gofundme.com/f/help-laura...

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

malts, not shakes, should be the standard

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

No good news goes unposted! To those of us who lost loved ones to HIV/AIDS, you’re in my heart today and always. Love! Science!

“Why is bluesky so incredibly dull” because you haven’t carefully curated a feed of the most unhinged people on the internet, like i have

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

I suck at this these days but: did you eat? Take your meds? Drink water?

GO GET YOUR FUCKING PASSPORTS

Like, Follow, Subscribe: Influencer Kids and the Cost of a Childhood Online is officially available for pre-order!!! bit.ly/LikeFollowSu... s/o to Gallery Books, Mina Hamedi, and everyone who got a frantic text while I wrote this. you're all the best. now go pre-order, plz! xoxo

(sliding out from under The Gyre on a mechanic's creeper, covered in grease) okay, bad news

Publishers don’t pay for nonfiction books to be fact-checked, the author does out of their advance.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth just said on Colbert, "We should all live long enough to develop a disability," & the audience laughed uncomfortably. I can tell you what they were thinking. It was "Not me. That would never happen to me." & the underlying, unacknowlged premise was "b/c I'm better than that."

So here’s a thing I do: I know that I am fighting a losing battle, but I regularly pay good money to get my name scraped from data brokers. I use a variety of services. I hate that people can find addresses so easily. Public officials. Regular citizens. Me. It’s awful. It’s dangerous. It’s scary.

These amorphous virtues of gentility that certain people love to invoke — nonviolence, civility, respectfulness, peacefulness, maturity — are worse than empty without accounting for differential power. A power differential is the difference between me running into a car, and a car running into me.

happy father's day to all the dads in my timeline. it's your day to shine and i'd like to give you safe space to do that. so tell me your *worst* dad joke (you can participate even if you're not a dad, maybe give them some new material) have at it

Another good reminder from today is that to win this we all need to get used to cooperating with people we sometimes find highly annoying

reminder for everyone: don’t post pictures of protestor’s faces online if they didn’t give you permission to :)

Sylvie peed on a leash for the first time. Did you eat and take your meds and do something scary but good for you?

I was once again reminded today of how much I enjoy being around people who give grace to others and who just want to make things better for themselves and their communities. No posturing, no pontificating, just wanting to figure out how to be with each other and what to DO.

I’m very out of touch this week out of necessity but I hope everyone protesting today knows to write a lawyer’s and a friend’s number on their body in sharpie and to wear sunglasses and to leave your phones at home/turn off all location services and not share photos of other protesters

Today, @vpm.org has teams across central Virginia covering today's protests. In Charlottesville, we have @meghin.bsky.social, @hannahdavisreid.bsky.social and @ezeamosp.bsky.social. In Richmond is @jahd.bsky.social and Billy Shields. @theshabomb.com is doing double duty.

the thing about mary oliver is that her simplicity is repellant to people who are uncomfortable with themselves. she's right, don't hesitate when you find joy

Did you eat? Take your meds?

That’s an arrest.

I hear calls for “civility” I believe that many of us are mistaking docility for civility

I really miss California today

r e m i n d e r

I love you. I hope tomorrow brings more dancing in the rupture in between the phone calls and the precarity and the mess of daily living

Did you eat and take your meds and hug your friends?