Tiffanie

This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

Quercus petraea - Wikipedia

Was reading the Wikipedia page on sessile oaks, and did not expect the section on Notable Individual Trees to include the Fuck Tree.

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Any idea why the Seattle L8 bus is ghosting so prodigiously this week?

Just finished the amazing Raven Scholar, starting How to Survive Camping today.

These lies are like their father that begets them, gross as a mountain, open, palpable.

Here are some ways that you (yes you) can get a bill passed into law:

▶️ Find a bill you like
▶️ Navigate to the bill’s webpage
▶️ Read the bill (it's fun!)
▶️ Sign up for emails
▶️ Sign in PRO
▶️ Watch the hearings on TVW
▶️ Talk about the bill on social media
▶️ Write a letter in support
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[COVID zine front cover] [bold, handwritten] What’s Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition [Drawing of a person (me) with a shoulder-length shag haircut, wearing head-strap respirator mask a sweatshirt, carrying a Corsi-Rosenthal box (a DIY air purifier made with a box fan and furnace filters)] [word balloon] clean the air, basically! By Hazel Newlevant [COVID zine back cover] [handwritten text, circled by a chain which is breaking on the bottom] “Every chain of transmission that is broken is VALUABLE. Every person that doesn’t GET SICK, that doesn’t lose that WEEK OF WORK, that doesn’t become DISABLED or DIE, from the minorest of inconveniences, to the GREATEST of losses: every single one of those things is VALUABLE.” -Becca on DEATH PANEL podcast 2/16/23. Print and distribute this zine yourself! Download a PDF here. [arrow pointing to the citations QR code] [drawing of this zine, getting stapled with a long-arm stapler] [Creative Commons license logo] CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Citations: [QR code] newlevant.com/COVIDzine [bold, handwritten] ALWAYS FREE

What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition

I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:

Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control

Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇

I hear this all the time in Seattle! Thanks for explaining it.

Focus your mind and your actions very intently on what you can do to improve the world, even if it's only as far as your arms can reach.

Every time I see someone yammering about abolish ICE / policing and how DEEPLY UNPOPULAR it is, I want to remind them that the GOP abolished Roe v. Wade and that was also deeply, deeply unpopular, and here they are, in charge of everything still.

Eyewitness account: Good morning, My name is Brandon Siguenza, and l am a US citizen from Minneapolis. Yesterday, while doing legal observation, ICE stopped their cars to harass my friend and me. They sprayed pepper spray into the vent of our vehicle. We held our hands in the air and told them we were not obstructing, that the car was in park and they were free to drive forward and away. There was no active immigration raid. They returned to their cars, and drove forward a bit, then decided to stop again. They surrounded us, smashed the windows of our car, opened the doors (they were unlocked), ripped my friend and I out of the car and arrested us on charges of obstruction. I was put in an unmarked SUV, separated from my friend. As I was put in the back seat an ICE agent tore the whistle off my neck and said "I'll be taking this, I might need it later." My phone was knocked out of my hand while being arrested. As we drove away I asked the driver and the passenger if they wouldn't mind buckling my seatbelt, as they were driving erratically. I was ignored. I asked them if I could have the handcuffs loosened, as I was losing circulation, and was told no. At one point the passenger realized his own driver's license was in the backseat next to mine, and tried to surreptitiously grab it without me seeing it. We were taken to the Whipple federal building, where I saw dozens of brown people being processed in an unheated garage. I was frisked, told of my charges, and saw buses and vans being prepped. I later learned that these were being filled with detainees and driven to the airport for deportation. As we were led in, I noticed that the building was very busy. I got the impression that one of the 2 agents bringing me around was being trained. At multiple points throughout my stay, government agents were unable to open doors, not sure where they were meant to be going, and overall confused and overwhelmed. They couldn't figure out how to use the building phones, or complai…

just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday

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I (belatedly) thought I’d inquire about this. Anybody want to assist me in Getting The Hell Out Of Dodge at #Christmas? https://www.tumblr.com/dduane/802500831283953664/ill-be-home-for-christmas-unless-theres-a

A young Bart Simpson is sitting on the floor in front of the sofa, holding his knees and rocking, whispering “can’t sleep, the clown will eat me.”

Can you imagine 50 people a day, I said 50 people a day, walking into an ICE office, singing "You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant" and walking out?

Donald Trump smiling at Zohran Mamdani (as he admits he's a fascist).

Bard rolled a natural 20 to charm the lich king

Hate the argument of "Well you can boycott for now, but soon every game studio is going to use genAI and you won't be able to tell or avoid it anymore!!"

dude there are already more videogames in existence than I'm ever going to be able to play in my lifetime. this boycott shit is easy.

I appreciate how my teen didn’t warn me about Shin Godzilla’s first incarnation and got to witness my shriek when he flopped into view.

Everything so stupid but I have faith it can get stupider

I propose an international law that once you become personally responsible for the murder of 1,000 people, be it via direct violence or policy, you are declared a dragon and adventurers can form parties to quest against you.

For all you misinformed doctors, nurses, pharmacists, cancer technicians, politicians, bosses, teachers, caregivers, and average people on the street:

“There is no such thing as a COVID infection without consequence.”

— David Putrino, Long Covid researcher

I don’t care who you are, the one thing that links all of the -isms and bigotries together and sets them on fire is eugenics and ableism.

They’ve been playing you all the entire time. There is no progress in this country for ANYTHING without equity for disabled people.

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I feel like this is an important aspect to emphasize, loudly, to everyone who endorsed Cuomo. they chose to side with a known sexual predator for personal gain and frankly that should be disqualifying for public office. you knew who he was and decided the women he hurt were acceptable losses

US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S.

🚨🚨Things are just getting worse. 🧵
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I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

We ended up siphoning it every few hours into a 5 gallon bucket, as we couldn’t fix the outlet pipe (frozen thanks to deep freeze a couple winters back).

Yes, the condensation pump should be accessible, you can see if it is full. Mine had a blocked outlet pipe once.

For my entire existence, at least the parts I could remember, I had done nothing but accept the inevitable. I was tired of it.

One of my only remaining joys is that every single time Amy Coney Barrett makes a stupid argument, Ketanji Brown Jackson gets a chance to follow up and illustrate her stupidity.
And this will happen again, and again, for the rest of Barrett's life.

I like to marinate and then bake (in chunks or slices). Simple one is just tamari/soy sauce + sesame oil + garlic + regular oil. I also have one from a spam tofu bowl recipe.