Nelys

To everyone: looks like my account got hacked. Sorry to anyone who got a message from me about needing help, a concern, etc. I will likely close this account and migrate to a separate one.

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

The perfect Calvin & Hobbes panel for this moment

I just saw someone genuinely say “just because one is worse doesn’t make the other one better” and I cannot fucking handle that statement. I’m just. These are the people who didn’t vote. holy fuck.

“Plassik? On my brame?” Ton Venit, Rhinestone Applicator

Study Finds Human Brain Contains Entire Spoon’s Worth Of Nanoplastics
theonion.com/study-f...

LOL

New Twitter Census Bureau (@newtwittercensus.bsky.social) The NTCB collects information on patriots in the MAGA Colony of New Twitter for patriot starter packs. Want to get counted? DM us!

⚠️Maga troll influx

Over the last 12-24 hours there has been an increase in new magat accounts being made. Look for the Sunrise emoji in front of username showing an account is less than 1 week old. Click on it to see how old the account is in hours, minutes or days.

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

I’m going to keep hitting this until they figure it out, because they are it…the Democrats are THE ONLY political opposition. They had three months to prepare for these acts. And they seem surprised and flat footed.

I love @theonion.com

Just a reminder.

OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

From Mary Oliver

the Eye of Sauron as depicted in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy

HE SEES YOU WHEN YOU'RE SLEEPING
HE KNOWS WHEN YOU'RE AWAKE
HE KNOWS IF YOU'VE BEEN BAD OR GOOD
SO KEEP IT SECRET, KEEP IT SAFE

Just finished reading it (faster than I’d like to admit lol) and I can’t wait to read the next part!

YearCompass YearCompass | The booklet that helps close your year and plan the next one.

Every year Nina and I sit down and do YearCompass, a free booklet that helps you reflect on the past year and plan the next one. It's fun and useful and inspiring.
I just started it for 2024/2025, and I recommend it to all of you too.
yearcompass.com

Final shot of Pangs with everyone looking at Buffy after Xander accidentally mentioned that Angel had been a part of the siege. Because everyone decided to not tell Buffy stuff for her own good. Because feminism or something.

To our US friends, we hope you had a lovely ritual sacrifice with pie. It might be a sham, but it's a sham with yams—a yam sham, if you will.

💙

I am so tired of waiting, aren’t you, For the world to become good and beautiful and kind? Let’s take a knife and cut the world in two- And see what worms are eating At the rind. Langston Hughes

Pervis: IT'S SO HARD TO MAKE FRIENDS AS AN ADULT! Stranger: I'LL BE YOUR FRIEND! Pervis: EW! Pervis, alone, eating a burger: THAT WEIRDO RUINED MY DAY!

I feel seen