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what's something good that's going on in your life that feels very incongruent with the state of the world? collecting all the little bits of joy today here.

submitted 2 hours ago • 16 comments

you lack a childlike sense of wonder. blocked

submitted 702 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 6 days ago • 85 comments

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

submitted 3 days ago • 181 comments

malts, not shakes, should be the standard

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

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.

submitted 3 days ago • 110 comments

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!

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

“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

submitted 4 days ago • 71 comments

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.

submitted 4 days ago • 261 comments

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

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

GO GET YOUR FUCKING PASSPORTS

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

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

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

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

submitted 5 days ago • 27 comments

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."

submitted 5 days ago • 74 comments

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.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 11 days ago • 29 comments

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

submitted 7 days ago • 29 comments

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

submitted 7 days ago • 63 comments

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

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

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.

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

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

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment