Elizabeth

As someone who still has a TiVo: 😭

Congrats!

A single white hibiscus surrounded by yellowing rain tattered leaves

The hibiscus I grew from a seed decided to bloom this week lol

One way to cut down on social media posts that are like "so you hate waffles" would be to ban matt yglesias and jesse singal

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

Remember when the words "illegal" and "unconstitutional" meant the government would not do the thing?

This is why I don’t watch Jimmy Fallon. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I feel like there’s a very janky clock counting down to these cultists literally worshipping Charlie Kirk.

When Trump dies they’ll just port Christianity over entirely with TrumpDaddy & Kirk as his innocent sacrificial son it’s gonna be AWFUL.

It strikes me that quite a lot of people knew for the last year that the guy running our horrific deportation squads took a bag with $50k in cash from undercover FBI agents investigating corruption, and it didn’t get out until now.

I particularly love when two characters who have ABSOLUTELY NO CANON CHEMISTRY make it work on a fanfic through the hands of a skilled writer. No wonder some of these people are moving on to write trad pubbed novels.

@nnaylime.bsky.social @somuchwhatever.bsky.social

shipping is one hell of a drug creatively. you will actively start honing your craft just to see two (or more) characters smooch. actually strive to get better at what you do just to do them justice. it's genuinely wild.

Thanks!

So
I chose to go back to school
Tomorrow is my first day
I’m a little nervous lol
I’m taking Non Verbal Communication, Critical Thinking, The Art of Theatre, Algebra and TRIGONOMETRY (help) and some kind of intro class for my major lol.
This should be fun!

*hugs*

If you think about it, it's actually surprising that it took six whole months before putting a vaccine-denying, roadkill-eating, ex-junkie carnivorous dead brainworm host and loonytunes conspiracy nut in charge of the CDC destroyed the CDC.

As an old white lady, I am WEARY of Black people having to constantly bail us out of legislation put forth by the stupidest white people alive. FFS, vote better. DO BETTER.

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.

While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

A photograph of Vice President Harris and Douglas Emhoff at their home.

Happy Anniversary my Dougie. You fill my heart with love and laughter — thank you for being the best partner in this adventure called life.

I mean, you could take the time to research this yourself, and see that it’s all true, or you can keep sticking your head up his ass.

I’m not MAGA. Not liking Newsom for the awful shit he has done does not make me MAGA.

If you think all of that stuff is okay, then maybe you’re the one who’s MAGA

Yeah they tried to pass a bill to track the spending and he vetoed it. Dumb.

“Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good”

Nobody is asking for perfection. Just stop shitting on marginalized communities and hero worshipping politicians

If you think that’s asking for perfection, then that’s a you problem

Fuck no
He’s a republican cosplaying as a Dem and his history reflects that

His track record with the disabled and Black communities is abysmal. He turned his back on trans people. He’s rolling back environmental protections and vetoing bills that would limit Trumps reach

Do you STILL have a hard time understanding why he shouldn’t be president? He doesn’t even have votes

Newsom let’s the state steal from foster kids
Newsom hates the homeless, apparently threw 20 billion to fix it, but the money couldn’t be found, and then when they tried to pass a bill to track spending, he vetoed it
He took cash away from the homeless, and personally destroyed their belongings

This is creepy

the fuck your feelings crowd has a lot of feelings about restaurant logos, apparently

In the bookshop this morning:

PARENTS: “Okay, we’re leaving now.”

CHILD: *pulls another book from the shelf and sits down *

CHILD: “Then I guess this is goodbye.”

The lost city of Atlantis did not sink as legend suggests, but was simply flooded when its dam broke.

Wow, that's so interesting.