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real thing I literally just texted to @gunstreet.bsky.social:

"Remember this: Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction."

Melville would’ve had an exceptionally chaotic LiveJournal

genuinely incredible how much the bleak winter vibes have improved now that my balcony is so retina-searingly pink that the whole living room has taken on a glow

I’m absolutely convinced Trollope would’ve crushed it during Twitter’s prime era, but than he would’ve been one of those guys who refused to leave it as his brain got cooked by the algo

“Claire how was your evening”

this headline is what happens when you have no ability to talk about race: “US pauses all immigration applications from 19 non-European countries“ What a totally tortured way to say “global south” lol www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Top of the AP app right now: apnews.com/article/trum...

At the point of aging where my body still mostly works, knock wood, but I’ve started pointing and birds and trees and announcing their names.

tonight's fancy Poirot guest starrage: Zena Walker and Jeremy Northam!

Sometimes I think about how much would be possible without this huge effort to tilt the scales in favor of the worst people

“It’s giving” Tuesday

It is dawning on me that I am leaving New York soon and need to write a bucket list of stuff I want to do before Christmas, like go to live tapings of shows, museum exhibits, ice skating in Central Park, and notable restaurants with friends.

(TW sexual harassment and violence, drugging) I’m a few days late finding out about this, but this is one of the strangest and most upsetting things I’ve ever heard of www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I guess all of them.

I’m putting together a team, and by “a team,” I mean a playlist of the greatest one-hit wonder songs of the 1990s

“your piss and shit camera is E2E encrypted unless we wanna see”

Since there was a 12 point leftward swing tonight in that special election, I’m looking forward to all the articles about how they need to move to the middle, reinstate DEI, start doing land acknowledgments, give up on all those useless cis people

Seems that the only collaboration of tomorrow's birthday boys cinematographer Sven Nykvist and composer Nina Rota was 1979's Hurricane. Well, OK, but that was not what I was expecting to find.

I hope going from +21 GOP to +9 GOP is scaring the shit out of the right people.

the most impressive outburst of raw nativism of this or any other theatrical season

My husband just came down the stairs dressed for the snow, so happy to go out and snow-blow the path from the driveway to the basement door.

@rahaeli.bsky.social thank you for posting about Chirp. I got the Chirp wheels and holy fuck my lower back feels so good right now.

“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“ www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

One of those nights when your Tarot cards describe what you said in therapy and then a little more. The part you only said to yourself.

Sounds pretty antisemitic to me.

as a grantwriter, the lack of unrestricted funding is a MASSIVE burden on nonprofits. everyone wants to fund a new shiny pilot program that makes them look like innovators. they don’t want to help make your tried and tested programs that have served the community for 50 years more sustainable

One nice thing about bad writing is that it inspires good writing

To talk a little more about these books, especially the second, ANNELIESE...too often the context of "difficultness" can be misunderstood and a generalized cue for how to read misapplied to a unique instance. Thus, what is actually easy becomes impossible. For example, 1/?

scary boyfriend privilege is real and it’s spectacular

gonna be very, very funny if the Dems overperform in 2026 so hard that the GOP loses even some of the districts they just gerrymandered to steal. not all of them have bulletproof margins!

Shutting it down for the night. Thanks to those who supported our toy drive today. There's still lots of time to donate. Have a good night to all.

I love this for Jersey City, a place I lived for two months in 2003 and still remember with great fondness. never met a single person I didn’t like

A comrade is selling some great pins in their Etsy store. I think they're on sale until midnight: www.etsy.com/shop/wildfan...

it’s so fun that he straight up told that reporter “I’M LITERALLY SO MISERABLE FUCK MY LIFE” because now we get to think about that all the time 🥰

Newsmax turning on Trump feels like a bellwether moment I think there’s a lot more internal pressure behind the scenes on the administration from even their usual allies to give Hegseth the boot before he brings the whole house of cards down but they won’t because they’re all stubborn assholes so

The way Parker laid this timeline out—it’s so clear what has been ramping up, even if some of these appeared to be isolated events at the time.

The dad of the kids I used to nanny got remarried and I was a groomsman. We got the photos back. Me and the boys look like we’re auditioning for a buddy cop film or the runway.

Isn't the "accommodation fraud" discourse structurally identical to welfare fraud discourse?

NEWSMAX CALLED HEGSETH’S ACTIONS A WAR CRIME Whew, literally everyone hates him

"The Virginia State Bar cannot initiate a disciplinary investigation based upon what you identify as “potential violations” of disciplinary rules, court rules, the Federal Records Act or U.S.Department of Justice regulations" Can't or won't ? How high is the threshold to even *investigate*?

Looks like the next President can just declare his pardons invalid too. Why not if this is the way things roll now?

Joe is amazing. I have a con commission by him and it’s one of my favorite objects.

TL cleanse! Puppies!

just wait a few years till you get to lie to them and then go home and let your siblings deal with the rest, it's amazing

btw the other pic in the article features my hair of two years ago, whose curls, on several occasions, raised the dead from their graves

listen I'm a writer, I can't afford to believe in anything but the inevitability of success

Years of this, it must end. But for now let’s help @nurseehammamingaza.myatproto.social while we can.

And he shall pardon thee these outrages.

NYT discovering what everyone with a grandparent on the wrong side of sundown has discovered- if you start trying to cover up for the loss of filter, that soon becomes the only job

REBUILD has a match until 9 pm ET [only 15 minutes to go to unlock it]. They need to raise $500 more to get a $1000 match. givingtuesday.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil... - I donated $150.

my takeaway from this is I dunno what will happen tonight but with margins like these Ogles is cooked

Let me lovingly say to the left that this bit about “who cares about the details, we understand the big picture” is stupid and dangerous and the right is winning partly because they pay very close attention to our details and exploit weaknesses accordingly

I went to the NYT and this is in fact their lede and like, you know how bad things have to get for NYT of all pubs to call something “unapologetic bigotry”? Infinity alarm fire

a million American dollars to the first person to secretly plant a baby monitor in that room

I have to say, when I started recording songs into a boombox in my employee-housing apartment at MSH, I did not anticipate one day talking about those songs with PEOPLE magazine people.com/the-mountain...

imagine if the media covered book releases the way they do AI "Ramdas ' new book is the greatest book ever, say industry experts*" * the industry expert we asked was Ramdas

i cannot respect Duke till they hire a coach who is actually a duke

music.apple.com/us/album/mez...

stop playing control decks, they said. get in the ring and fight, they said

my sister sent this to me today and I laughed so hard I got a stomach ache www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrUoNjkk/

I think that it's actually a problem that this man has such limited self-control and is pathological. I do.

Loved this little movie theater in my old neighborhood in Chicago and this is such great news: blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/01/r... - I saw soooo many movies here.

Around Portland...

thanks to those who have already supported our toy drive. there are many more toys and gifts available.

“I think we have to be careful with the Nazi comparisons” people are always waiting until we are five minutes until the Holocaust and then they’re like well it’s only ethnic cleansing not a Holocaust

I think we have to interpret this through the lens of 1. The tanking poll numbers 2. The freak out about war crimes They are hoping some extra racism will cheer up the base and spread opposition to their political program/pogroms thinner. It’s a distraction and also the point. Simultaneous.

This must be very scary for those who benefited from Biden’s very limited use of clemency.

Scarcely imposed, extreme punishment doesn’t deter—this is one of the more uncontroversial criminological facts

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ASKING I LOVE TALKING ABOUT THIS Cat Willett the author and illustrator (whose tarot book I keep meaning to buy) is not my sister, but she is my sister’s name twin. we all have one and we love to keep up on what’s going on in their lives. Cat Prime and I both follow Mirror Cat

If that senile old man was making comments like this about me, I would ASSUME that all of my comrades would be coming for him.

She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???

Say more about why they are afraid to say “bombing”

This is an ethnic cleansing campaign

did anyone ever get anywhere on this

he tried to tell me that he had the same views on interracial marriage as Muhammad Ali, so it was fine.

a cULtURe tHAT wE aRe kNOwn FOr herE iN tHE UNitED sTAteS, says Florida woman

I’ve been thinking a lot about the old saw that we get more conservative as we age and wondering whether what that really means is not so much that you go backward, but that you refuse to evolve as the world moves forward without you. Hillary is who she always was, but we have WILDLY outgrown her

First Van Jones, then Sarah Hurwitz, now Hillary Clinton with these talking points about social media and carnage in Palestine … It’s clear the talking points are being distributed. By whom????

“it looked as if someone had drained my body of blood like the Black Dahlia and strung up the shell of me at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.” What

Getting a lot done today, like compiling the short story collection, THIS WORLD IS FULL OF MONSTERS before a re-read and then culling a bit. First and last stories are definitely in it.

I know it's all DARVO but my god this makes me so mad. This useless old scrotum-looking rapist has never done a moment's work in his miserable life and he's never wanted for anything. He's just a terrible, useless person and we'll all be better off as soon as he's dead.

SIDES Fries, You Fools Onion Rings to Rule Them All MAINS Ent-Moot (v) You Shall Not Pasta (gf) All Shall Love Meat and Despair

My most-used emojis in 2025: 1. 🤣 (35×) 2. 😂 (27×) 3. 🤡 (7×) 4. 😀 (5×) 5. ❤ (5×) anisota.net/harvest [This is absolutely appropriate]

Y’all <curb your enthusiasm music> doesn’t quite cut it

OK, I'm hawking some books (other people's books!) and celebrating some birthdays, plus there's a list, because I know that people like lists!

I shared a total of 124 images this year on Bluesky and included accessibility alt text with 92.7% of them which is 73% above the average. Find out how consistently you include alt text here: anisota.net/harvest

A lot of other books published today you know

It’s Giving Tuesday. (It’s giving … Tuesday.) I really encourage you to donate to an abortion fund, which make the promise of equality real by allowing women to control their bodies and lives, pursue their dreams, and live with dignity. Find your local fund here: abortionfunds.org

Not a Barb but I do say “I give zero fucks and I got zero chill in me” under my breath like multiple times a week

I was due for a crying fit (I said three times this week)

not to keep ragescreaming about Hillary Clinton but can you imagine if she and Biden had just gracefully retired after the Obama administration? they were popular then! they would have gone out on top! and then they just lit it all on fire. honestly the desire to be president feels like a red flag

also absolutely I had an anti-acknowledgments section in the acknowledgments and I really had to adult and take that shit out but if you're reading this and feel like it might be about you, go fuck yourself and your fake commitment to DEI and fairness in STEM

truly feels like every day we are waiting for someone in the press room to point out that the emperor has no clothes someone will, someday, and the tide will turn, and these people’s children and grandchildren will be deeply ashamed of them; but they aren’t there yet, and it’s maddening

Abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia on December 2, 1859.

me roughly 3/4 through this absolute banger:

I realize I've been posting about my book a lot and want to share why 🧵 1. It's fucking hard to write a book and getting this one to the finish line with everything happening in my life has been a huge accomplishment for me. I'm excited. 2. Now is a hard time to get a book into circulation. Because

Have you heard the good news? Black Zine Fair is coming back to NYC on May 9, 2026—and we need your help to have a successful event. gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f... We’re raising $20,000 to keep the fair free and accessible. If you can, please give $5, $15, $50, or more.

omg they've got me reposting George F Will

Israel is still bombing Gaza The press isn't covering it as much but it's still happening