Ashley Rattner

See a Little More Light

Years ago, on a whole ‘nother website, I crowdsourced this playlist in honor of daylight savings open.spotify.com/playlist/4xi...

Because they killed trains so we need them

Every time I need new tires I’m like “Maybe in 50,000 miles I’ll be able to afford the good tires!” and it never happens ✨

[with my final breath, in a Tori Amos voice] Ooooohooo, time to be a ghost

Stop making fun of Britney Spears for listing "Celebrity" as her occupation. That is literally her occupation

Help I'm being shadowbanned

Lisa Barlow ecstatic and naked in a bathtub filled with Wendy's french fries

Lisa Barlow is so Trina Sieppe coded right now

I hate knowing how to read

i've seen enough. generally speaking. could do with seeing a bit less overall

Nightmare shit on Temu

Lunar Eclipse of the Heart

I was worried the February cicadas would all die because we had another frost but I am here to report this is not the case

This but The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Beautiful thread

Rancid

"Uh oh."

“How many of these gentle people have I helped to kill just by paying my taxes?" June Jordan, 1984

Please livetweet!

I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img

acefoundationict.org

Same but 2004

Okay actually I love receiving unsolicited 19th century apocalyptic tracts in the mail and I've scanned so many Shaker pamphlets if any kindly benefactor wants to bankroll my mailing them to people

How can I possibly finish midterm grades under these conditions?

Send me The Great Lawsuit next time you cowards

That sweet, sweet man

"omg check who on Instagram is rewatching your story"
I literally only post interesting bugs I see. Good for them

Communal Societies is now open access, kids!

Unfortunately a lot of states still have anti-DEI laws in effect

If AI is an all-encompassing movement to rationalise and dehumanise life, and poetry necessarily asserts the human and the beyond-rational, then poetry is the only viable response to the philosophical implications of AI

Obviously I would say this because I'm a poet, but y'know... this is our moment

These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.