Esker Park

a woman in a wonder woman costume is holding a shield and a sword . Alt: a woman in a wonder woman costume is holding a shield and a sword .

What I sent to Senator Collins today:

Here is your chance to prove your courage! Stand up to your Republican colleagues who want to trade ACA subsidies for abortion restrictions. Say NO! Say it publicly for all of us constituents to admire! You can do it! Prove you're a woman and not a mouse!

Great news! Can't wait to read it. I bet Weird Wild West is...Wicked Weaselly and Well-crafted!

Congratulations!

Doesn't this sound FANTASTIC!?! Can't wait!

I love how it looks like some 1950s sci-fi gizmo. 🚀

I'm just reposting this to show how much fun them Scots are having in naming their festivals.

Heh heh. Why not?

Great news! May your employment be a happy one!

Fantasy-astic! Congratulations!

On Threads, the usual suspects are telling ppl about to lose SNAP benefits to just start a garden. As a gardener, I had to laugh. You need at LEAST an acre of land to feed a family of 4. Start-up costs are enormous. But yes, subsistence farming on the balcony of your rental apartment is the answer

Audiences baffled as TV detective not even a little bit autistic Crime drama fans have been left bewildered by Channel 4’s latest offering, which features a sleuth protagonist so neurotypical that he is completely unrecognisable as a detective, critics have claimed...

@thedailytism.com covers entertainment like no other.
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They say if you sit by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies gonna float on by. Well Lord, I brought a picnic basket and a bottle of that good French wine, but there seems to be some kind of logjam upstream and I'm starting to wonder if I oughtn't fetch the dynamite.

Well, this is the best sentence I've read in a while.

From Angel Maker by @matociquala.bsky.social/

Thank you so much for this!

(the author is @lumchanmfa.bsky.social )

Check out this book promo; it's by an author I know and she's great!

Yeah, there's a glitch going on.

So slimy!

Iowa revokes license of schools superintendent arrested by ICE, saying he is in US illegally | CNN A state agency revoked the professional license of the leader of Iowa’s largest school district on Monday, days after federal agents arrested him on accusations that he was living and working in the c...

A state agency revoked the professional license of the leader of Iowa’s largest school district on Monday, days after federal agents arrested him on accusations that he was living and working in the country illegally.

One perfect dark red Macoun apple hanging on a tree

Apple season in New England! My favorite is the Macoun, bred by New York researchers in the 1920s from MacIntosh and Jersey Black stock. Great in pies and greater eaten fresh, crispy and tart (but not too tart).
They don't keep super well, so there's many a pie in our near future.

South Korea to probe potential human rights abuses in US Hyundai raid More than 300 South Korean workers returned home on Friday after being held for a week in the US following the raid.

Thank you South Korea, with your polite but insistent resistance to the unconscionable.
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Cover of the book, True Biz, by Sara Novic, showing the ASL sign for 'true biz' meaning 'for real.'

Just finished this amazing book, True Biz, by @novicsara.bsky.social and it brings home how vicious the new Trump cuts to disability education are. Calling my senator now.

Hi Jared! You liked one of my #PitchDis pitches, but it's for a story you rejected in February. I've revised it since then, but Query Manager won't let me resubmit. Let me know if you'd still like the query and pages, and if so, how I can get them to you. In any case, thanks for liking my pitch!

I am not quite exhausted by it all, but the edge of exhaustion is now within spitting distance. My own personal little life is as near to perfect as anyone can sanely hope for, but the state of my country feels so dire that I can't relax into simple enjoyment. This whole catastrophe is self-inflicted. We could have had a joyful, competent, decent, and compassionate government, but we chose a hateful, idiotic, corrupt, and vengeful one. The disource about Charlie Kirk is so awful that I had to disengage. It was right-wing white boi on right-wing white boi violence, but all the right-wing white boys are blaming leftists for political violence. It's illogical and factually wrong, but you can't get through to them, as you experienced. It's very tempting to go Full Ostrick. Work in the garden, bake bread, take naps, paint. No news, no social media. Find sand, jam head into it. I'm trying that strategy, at least temporarily. It feels like a relief, but also like cawardice. It's what MAGA world wants. So. I'm taking some time off. BUT I'LL BE BACK...

Posted by Mary Doria Russell, one of my favorite authors, over on FB. I'm not as exhausted as she is, but she's been battling harder than I have. I guess it's up to the rest of us to step it up while she rests and recuperates.

Democrat James Walkinshaw wins race for vacant, deep-blue Virginia House seat NBC News projects victory for the Fairfax County supervisor, who will bolster Democrats' numbers amid fights over government spending and the Epstein files.

Expected, but still, YAY! www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

Exactly. Underdeveloped and petulant.🙎‍♂️

Map of US showing states that provide Covid vax without prescription and those that require prescription or don't provide vax at all. The latter are: Maine, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, New Mexico, Utah, and Nevada.

Maine? Can we get on this and change that yellow to green?

Definitely brothers.

Massive walkout underway at CDC.

RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.

list of words pronounced differently in US, UK, and Australia.

Sorry, I don't know where this is from, but it's fun.