Donna Ramone 🪒🍰

Iranian missile struck Bahrain.

Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured?

Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.

I much prefer being around people who try to improve things, even if they ultimately aren't successful, rather than folks who assume nothing will ever change.

Still got it

I’m riding that brine shrimp into the Utah sunset

A poster for GRID ZINE FEST featuring a canine cowboy saddled on a bucking brine shrimp that's shaped like a horse. Text reads: Stop sea-monkeying around! get yer butt to GRID ZINE FEST March 28 + 29 2026 12-5 pm Church & State 370 S 300 E Salt Lake City FREE! www.gridzinefest.org

YEE-HAW! It's time for a rootin' tootin' POSTER DEBUT!

Salt Lake City's GRID ZINE FEST is in two months! Are you ready to saddle up?

2026 poster art by Felix Phoenix, www.instagram.com/thingfromthe...

Doing the good work of highlighting the venn diagram center of conspiracy, anarchists, labor history, Thomas Pynchon, and St. Louis.

I live and die by the mantra DONT POST but I just want to shout out @devintoshea.bsky.social on the new QAA podcast episode talking about Pynchon and making my day a whole lot brighter despite all the *waves hand around*.

Islamophobia and loving billionaires is a bipartisan agenda in this country

Not the most important thing here, but a more common term for someone coming to the United States with nothing and becoming a millionaire with an influential job is "The American Dream."

Trump pulled the US out of the World Health Organisation yesterday.

In response California has become the first state to join the WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network.

If this is the start of a pattern Americans will only be safe in Blue states.

to despair and embrace cynicism was to hand powerful weapons to the enemy

Be angry. Be grief-sick. But live the fuck out of your life too.

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread

This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.

According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

Mario piccross! It’s very confusing at first!

Friends of the library zine cover featuring three people enclosing a library. The background is blue.

We made a resource zine on Friends of the Library groups over at @librariesftp.bsky.social: www.librariesforthepeople.org/resources#fo...

YouTube video by I Love Zines LTAM 3 - Creeepy Ephemera: American Christmas

Talked about "Creepy Ephemera: American Christmas" by @donnaramone.bsky.social over at the I Love Zines YouTube channel with Missy and Billy! youtu.be/gO2kw9b2hVo

First-ever US airstrikes in Nigeria put the second Trump admin’s 2025 combat actions at:

—Nigeria—tonight’s strikes
—Yemen—1,000+ strikes (Mar-Apr)
—Somalia—120 strikes, 1 ground raid
—Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids
—Caribbean—11 strikes
—Eastern Pacific—20 strikes
—Iran—3 strikes
—Iraq—1 strike

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu." Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee. You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE                THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Uhhh, folks? This is real bad.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Knuckle tattoo idea: DONT POST

RIP Mercury, Hello Retrograde! How Administrators Failed to Stop the Presses at the University of Texas Dallas - UNICORN RIOT How student journalists at the University of Texas Dallas formed their own newspaper after being fired over their coverage of pro-Palestinian protests.

NEW: Student journalists at the University of Texas Dallas tell us the story of how they formed their own newspaper after being dismissed from their school's paper for their coverage of the 2023 pro-Palestine protests on campus.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/rip-mer...

"A Bridge Too Far." Caine and Hackman in the same movie. This is my thesis, man.

so mad i forgot to send this to you yesterday like i meant to

Exploitation of resources was built into the American system decades, even centuries, before any of us could have prevented them. society made this choice for us. The siren song of nihilism can feel so irresistible at this moment. If there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, and capitalism is what shaped the society we were born into, then there’s nothing any of us can do, right? Wrong. Also, fuck you.

My pal @donnaramone.bsky.social

Last sentence might have been directed at a certain person I interacted with who, turns out, isn’t a nihilist. They’re just a coward.

It’s notable that significant research was conducted over the last 5+ years on how to structure technology affordances to help people make sense of information and improve their literacy, much of it funded by tech companies, who’ve now gone out of their way to throw it out and do the exact opposite