HEY, I AM DOING ANOTHER FUNDRAISER FOR MINNESOTA RENT FUNDS! AND GIVING AWAY ANOTHER SIGNED ARC (Advance Review Copy) OF OBSTETRIX!!!
YOU COULD GET TO READ IT EARLY (it doesn't come out until June) AND HELP MINNESOTA FAMILIES STAY HOUSED!!!!
I've sort of been preparing, by reading post-apocalyptic and apocalyptic fiction since 2016, but I didn't really expect that the fall of the United States might start in Minnesota. Here's a link to buy the book: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
I'm reading The Quaking of America, by @resmaa.bsky.social
"The Reckoning is here.
I live in a time of great peril and great possibility.
I do not and cannot know what will emerge.
As the future unfolds, I will act from the best parts of myself."
Duluth, MN. There's a paywall, so you might not be able to read the story, sorry about that.
www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/d...
"Do you want to unwind by watching movies where innocent people get thrown into detention centers or abducted from their homes by masked government agents or slaughtered by domestically deployed shock troops? Does that feel like 'horror' to you, or does it feel like news? I’m genuinely asking."
I'm not sure if this link will work, but here's my 2025 reading wrap-up from StoryGraph.
app.thestorygraph.com/wrap-up/2025...
If anyone wants to be friends on StoryGraph, I love to see what other people are reading.
You mean the company that's currently being struck by its workers and the company that's currently being boycotted because of its terrible DEI policy rollbacks? Why not just call this the Chocolate Mint Racist Scab Frostie?
Honestly, until like the 1970s or 1980s, people have held the attitude that adult men having sex with teenagers is "normal" and "biologically wired." They still believe it, they just learned to stop talking about it openly at some point.
I am genuinely confused about why people think that the Epstein files will make a difference.
I’m so sorry about that. I feel like the trans and gender-expansive singers that I have sung with are really contributing to the community, and making the singing better. I hope you’re able to make more connections with people who want to sing with you. They’re out there.
Somewhere in my 50s for me - but I still don’t feel like an adult all the time.
No kings. Sacramento CA.
"Calling for civility is about exerting power. It is a way of reminding the powerless that they exist at the will of those in power and should act accordingly. It is a demand for control." -Roxane Gay. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
"...that there is such a thing as a “through” - that eventually, we’ll come out the other end. And I'm no longer quite so sure that is the case. Instead, I think we need to talk about the long haul. The wandering in the wilderness without a clear endpoint in sight."
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
It's kind of refreshing to have somebody come out and say it:
"... But that ain’t why “we” lost. It’s time for this country to reckon with the real reason America lost with one indisputable fact:
More people wanted Donald Trump as president."
open.substack.com/pub/michaelh...
#shapenote #sacredharp #shapenotefriends
All day singing from the Shenandoah Harmony, in northern Wisconsin, on Saturday June 7. All all welcome, details on Facebook event page: www.facebook.com/share/19ZLec...
Happy Easter.
The tyranny of gender and a direwolf called Khaleesi: they couldn't call it "Ghost" because IT'S A GIRL DIREWOLF.
slate.com/life/2025/04...
Yes, there are certainly other atheists at Sacred Harp singings already. Having some kind of emotional connection to the songs is helpful (like nostalgia for singing in church when you were growing up), but you can also find meaning in the words even if it's not exactly what you believe.
For Trans Day of Visibility I became a paid subscriber to @assignedmedia.org.
I once could mourn o'er dying men, and longed their souls to win
I travailed for their poor children, and warned them of their sin
But now my heart's so careless grown, although they're drowned in vice
My bowels o'er them cease to yearn, my tears have left mine eyes.
(2012 Cooper Book, #67, verse 4)
Current mood: My tears have left mine eyes.
#shapenotefriends
There's no exit ramp from a shutdown, but there's also no exit ramp from going along with each successively more terrible thing that the Republicans do, because it could be even worse.
I said I know a shutdown is going to be awful, and possibly give Trump more power to wreck things -- BUT THEY'RE DOING IT ANYWAY. Isn't it better if they have to do it without support from Democratic senators?
I failed to save a copy of what I wrote, and it vanishes as soon as you submit through the email form. I'm sure it was very eloquent (just kidding).
Minnesotans: It sounds like Amy Klobuchar may be voting with Republicans and Schumer to support the continuing resolution. DC and Mpls offices lines were busy, but the Rochester office line was taking messages: 507-288-5321.
Email: www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index...
It's almost like obeying in advance doesn't work, won't keep you safe, and only emboldens totalitarians to be worse!
I have quite a lot of days where I don't buy anything, so this is not going to be too difficult. It seems worth a shot. And yes, it's nice to have a good visual.
"You have to be the adult in the room now.
...
Which is scary as hell."
Umair goes long, I usually sort of skim through. But I generally agree with him.
(Being a camp counselor is a good way to work on being the adult in the room. That's how I learned it.)
www.theissue.io/what-kind-of...
I signed up to become a monthly donor to www.familytreeclinic.org, a clinic in my neighborhood that provides gender-affirming and reproductive care and education.
