Risa Wolf / Killerpuppytails

FRANZ IS AN ASS AND MUST BE EVICTED

In this video, masked men are pulling children out of a car and throwing them on the ground.

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

Spouse shared one of his homebrewed cysers - he's very into it, and my face puckered like I bit into a fresh horseradish. He asked "what makes it bad for you?" and I replied, horror in my voice...

"There's bell pepper flavor in there."

REVENGE OF THE PEPPERS! AT THE MARKET

The history of Nazis holding rallies in left-wing areas of Weimar Germany, instigating street fights, and then telling the press that only they could save Germany from the "violent communists" seems like an important thing for people to be studying right now.

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Ecuador’s Noboa faces escalating protests over rise in diesel costs The country's largest Indigenous group, CONAIE, has organised protests against Noboa's decision to cut a fuel subsidy.

The country's largest Indigenous group, CONAIE, has organised protests against Noboa's decision to cut a fuel subsidy.

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

This is EXACTLY why we've been protesting age verification!

Kizu, a short-haired fawn-colored dog with a white-flecked muzzle, one pointed ear and one half-flopped ear and dark brown eyes is in a veterinary office and is looking towards the photographer, mouth open in a tiny pant.

Kizu was VERY good at the emergency vet. Mx Barbarian’s laser beam noises weren’t half as bad as usual! We’re back home w/antibiotics for an infection.

If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow

I got married.

And in one of those “I got my internet handle for a reason” moments, Sammi’s tail just dumped an entire glass of water into a bag of electronics we were sorting. Killer puppy tails, indeed.

Federal employee resources:

If you know of businesses who are helping #Feds. Post it here.

#altgov and #altfam are compiling helpful resources.

#shutdown
#GOPShutdown

A bumblebee on a bright rich red zinnia

It’s chilly here but the bees are still beezing

ICYMI: my story, "The Little Deaths of Autumn," is out now in the new issue of Kaleidotrope!
kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

It's all a clever lake plot for some company; the peppers are unknowing accomplices 👀

Back from my family trip to tell you that I have a new story in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social ! "What a Big Heart You Have" is my tender tribute to Grandma and Aunt Ellen, though the characters aren't literally them. kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

They're very enthusiastic abt giving directions. Like toddlers reading a map.

My cousin died of an asthma attack on Thanksgiving a few years ago. Asthma is still deadly but people don’t remember how it used to send kids to the ER on a regular basis bc now we have such good meds to treat it - like this type of inhaler.

This continues to be the federal operation that seems most egregiously and frankly performatively unlawful in myriad ways. Completely flagrant in a way that seems a lot like tire-kicking to see just how much they can get away with. So far, seems like they’re getting away with it

(I really just loved the glossy colors. I personally hate bell peppers.)

Long sweet bell peppers in beautiful shades of red, yellow and orange in blue-green containers

Peppers! At the Market

Whoever on your team, @moderation.bsky.app who has marked images of a disabled person attaching prosthetics as “Explicit Sexual Images” appears to be admitting to acrotomophilia …

that person should perhaps be removed from the role of Moderation …

Because disability isn’t “Explicit Sexual Images”

Banning controversy reveals Bluesky’s federation isn’t there yet Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative network has figured out how to become independent

The Link banning controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality.

Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative, Blacksky, has been able to become independent plus.flux.community/p/banning-co...

it's anti-Prime day on Bookshop, which means FREE SHIPPING!!! interested in reading about a crew of scrappy lesbian thieves taking down a trillionaire tech mogul with superhuman aspirations? HAMMAJANG LUCK is available to preorder with free shipping!!!

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Wearing the Lion Check out Wearing the Lion - <b>"This novel effortlessly ascends to the heights of Mount Olympus. Tough and tender and bittersweet. <i>Wearing the Lion</i> establishes Wiswell firmly on the new fantas...

Bookshop has free shipping today and tomorrow! It's a great time to pick up my latest, Wearing The Lion! (But only if you want to see Heracles adopting every monster in Ancient Greece.)

It's Black Speculative Fiction month!

All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.

1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...

2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
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I have seen hundreds of full moons in my lifetime & yet this one has brought me to tears for no discernible reason.

Life is so fucking fragile. We have this one singular life on this one beautiful place. But we tear it apart. We care more abt imaginary lives than the ones here, now, that NEED us.

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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