Nick Slaughter

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

Answer me bsky, should I tussle with the white people I know suddenly concerned about "political violence" because one white elite fascist was assassinated? Or leave them to their ongoing bullshit

It's Pyrite, or to his friends, Pypy

It's ZZ

It's Penny

This book spooked the fuck out of me as a kid, so I got a copy for my kid.

I know this can sound kind of silly at a time like this, but doing a war without congressional authorization is ample grounds for impeachment

what are you supposed to do when the "good" political party doesn't treat a dozen credible sexual harassment claims as disqualifying for a political candidate. how are you supposed to ignore that

It stormed so we made cookies

Book cover of Octavia Butler's Bloodchild

Finished The Odyssey and on to Bloodchild

Season 3 Invincible is such a fucking meathead douche

Reporters: Please stop calling things DEI that are not DEI. This is only cementing the propaganda being used to legitimize the dismantling of all types of initiatives that are not DEI as well as legitimize efforts to end civil rights enforcement. Be specific with your language. Be accurate.

Game night went about as expected

Pickling a pick of peppers

Worked through all the unread HG Wells in my house, and on to the recently acquired Le Guin collections that are really putting me behind on reading all the books I own

Checking in to let everyone know that I'm pickling mushrooms over here

I started using StoryGraph a few months ago, not sure if that would be the same ballpark

Our jolabokaflod haul!

Jolabokaflod books!

on the #readthatshelf journey I'm now on a collection of Poe stories and poems I've never cracked open before. No idea how it got on the shelves

Probably going to start cooking tofu once a week or so for the family going forward, anyone have solid recipes or ideas to share?

My five year old said that the kinda whack chicken curry I made last night was better than today's Chipotle, so suck it

Selfie of bearded white man with gray tabby (blind in one eye, missing the other) sitting in his lap with alert ears pointed at camera

Gray tabby cat lifting a pen slightly with his mouth over an open notebook

Another shot of Gray tabby cat lifting a pen slightly with his mouth over an open notebook

I never worked well with co-authors until now

Orange tabby cat laying contentedly next to the book _Lakota America_

Shameful how much overall we (me and my boon companion here) are learning about indigenous history from reading one history book, filling in huge gaps in my institutional and personal education

UMD faculty rights group rebrands, pushes for collective bargaining The group aims to collaborate with campuses across Maryland in creating “united and powerful faculty” for public four-year colleges and universities.

Support labor rights!

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I fought a gang of spreadsheets to a draw today

Close up of mason jar filled with red onions in pickling brine

Pickling is a coping skill