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This or just dumping people *in the woods* AND sending folks out w/o their phone or I.D.

Volunteers w/ Safe Haven wait at the gate & do sweeps of the woods, with warm clothes, a burner, and a ride home, "so no one is left alone at the gate."

I donated; pls join me if you can: gofund.me/7d506a3d0

Sesame Street Instagram: Big Bird snuggling a smaller bird. Offering comfort in Scary Times: After a violent event, children of different ages will have different needs. These age based strategies can help them feel safer and more secure.

Sesame Street is now offering tips for parents on post-trauma comfort because the federal government is physically and mentally abusing our country's children.

Yellow merino called “No! Not The Bees”

I got given some of my aunt’s yarn stash to use up and I would like everyone to appreciate what this colour is called

Weeelllll if you want to read about at least one person learning* to see the world through other eyes... may I recommend the anti-war, small acts of resistance and malicious compliance** book ONE MESSAGE REMAINS?

*being forced

**also occasionally blowing up train tracks

the video of another person being murdered by the state on the streets of minneapolis shows exactly what people are saying it shows. make your own choices but don’t feel like you are obligated to bear witness to it. reading a description is enough.

The Senate Switch Board Number is: (202)224-3121.

Donate to Help Bring 5-Year-Old Liam Home, organized by sarai Orquiz Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos is just 5 years old and currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and h… sarai Orquiz needs your support for Help Bring 5-Year-Old Liam Home

Please help us bring Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos (he’s only 5 years of age and is currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and his father were kidnapped by ICE. This will help the family with legal services to help reunite Liam and his dad with their family.

gofund.me/be8a1b2ab

A book cover for Bodies of Magic by Freya Markse. A deep blue building with a quadrangle, spires and cloisters fills the lower half of the cover with the title text in gold across it. Behind that, the upper background is grey and stormy with a prominent twisting white design that could be a bare tree rising up from the main tower OR an anatomical diagram of the lungs. Centered above the lung-tree are the words DO NO HARM in stark white. Honestly: a complete banger of a cover. Doesn't it make you want to preorder? Yes, yes it does.

BODIES OF MAGIC, out Sept 2026: Grey's Anatomy meets A Deadly Education, a mystery set during the final exam week of a magical medical school. (Or: five queer nerds solve a murder and have some feelings.)

Cover design by Jamie Stafford-Hill.

Preorder US: bit.ly/BoM-US
Preorder UK: bit.ly/BoM-UK

Just before Christmas, I got a puppy. Her name is Minerva, and we call her *Minnie. I'm still learning how to understand her. Me: Do you need to go outside? Do you need to go outside, little baby? Do you need to do a poo? Do you need to do a widdle piddle? Minnie: Arf! *I just call her "little baby" most of the time. I'm also realizing I can't turn off the baby talk now. Nobody tells you about that.

I got so lucky with my first puppy. Her wonderful foster parents had her completely house-trained by the time we adopted her, so taking her outside for potty time has been pretty easy. I've got the puppy poopy routine pretty much down, now. Me, putting on my coat: Let's see... I got the little poopy bags, puppy treats for bribes, jacket, scarf, phone… I think that's everything… Oh yes! And my passport.

I had been carrying around my passport for a while, but I knew it didn't matter. This is wrong. Nobody is required to carry around their papers. I became a US citizen when I was seven. Since I was born in a refugee camp, I was stateless. The US is the only nation where I've ever held citizenship. It's the only passport I've ever had, and it still felt important. Protective. I would hold it in my pocket like a talisman, like it might ward off ghosts or something. But I realized I was holding onto it basically out of superstition. ICE will pick up anybody. I know that. So I tucked my passport away. And I largely avoid leaving my house.

I live a few blocks just South of George Floyd Square. I was in the neighborhood for that, too. And all the neighbors came together to protect each other. We're already organized. We'll do our best to get through this. Me, to my dog: I hope I can take you for a walk someday soon. Won't that be nice, little baby?

Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis.

#iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls

Cannot stress enough that you can just do stuff. You don't need permission. You can just do stuff because it needs to be done by someone.

Book: A tale of family, memory, and friendship

Me: This describes 80% of all books everywhere

Book: *firmly* AND THE PAST

Me: *lying down on floor, dying*

"I need AI to write my story!!!"

Then you don't have a story. You have an idea. A beast without bones or meat or a heartbeat. You have smoke with no desire to build the fire underneath. And unless you're willing to put in the effort, that's all it will ever be.

Too bad, slopguy

Dirt Upon My Skin by @stevetoase.bsky.social. Picked it upon on a whim after @premeemohamed.com rec'd it. A short story collection that I think about regularly. The one with the fucking birds haunts me.

A cat lady with white fur and purple claws and pink toe beans and fluffy blue hair

Returning to Darkstalkers for a second with our favorite cat lady

Your local librarian here to say that it’s great if you read lots of books this year, alright if you read barely anything, that audiobooks, romance and graphic novels are all valid formats and genres, and that some authors suck but we’re still not stopping you from reading them.

Cracker insert reading: true or false? Elephants are the biggest mammals in the world? False, the big whale is the biggest mammal.

that well-known species, the Big Whale.

Hey Now
You're a Boxcar
Full of Children
Solve Crimes

“How can you suddenly dislike art when you find out it’s made by AI?”

For the same reason I can dislike art when I find out the employees were overworked and underpaid.

Because I care about people.

You dipshit.

Anyone else ever feel guilty about what you do, all of the time, literally everywhere, and constantly feel like you need to say sorry or ask permission?

A grey and red transit bus on the road in a city. The bus’ destination sign reads “NO? ?? ???????”

My response to anything over the next two weeks

The image is a 6 panel black and white comic Panel 1- two people enter a house, the girl in the foreground says, "And this is my home!" Panel 2- The girl from the foreground continues walking forward, saying, "Hey mom!" while the other person stays standing in the living room of the house. Panel 3- The person continues to stand there while thinking, "...They didn't tell me to follow..." and "I dunno if I should touch anything" Panel 4- They continue to stand there in thought, "I hope they come back soon." Panel 5- The person continues to stand there in silence. Panel 6- The other girl comes back, looking through a doorway and says, "You...You know you can just sit down, right?" to which the other person nervously responds, "For sure! haha what kind of weirdo would just stand there, haha, not me!" and trails off in more nervous laughter.

Pub crawls may be all the rage, I truly believe there could be an immense market for library crawls, bakery crawls, museum crawls, café crawls, bookstore crawls, and greenhouse crawls.

The meme has four squares: The upper left is singer Drake hiding his face behind his hand. To the right is the text "Using AI to come up with ideas and write a story because you don't know where to start." The lower left is singer Drake smiling and pointing towards the bottom right square that contains the text "Checking out SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES to learn about the genres you want to write, find inspiration, and try them out! Along the bottom of the image are the covers for Spec Fic for Newbies volume 1 and volume two plus a QR code.

In anticipation of Volume 3 hitting shelves at Easter, why not give yourself the gift of creativity this year?
linktr.ee/specficforne...

I wonder how many people are gonna catastrophically fuck up thanksgiving by using chatgpt for their recipes

Surround yourself with the kind of people who support their local library.

HOLY SHIT. They found the genes for fibromyalgia - and it's *not* autoimmune, it's the central nervous system. It's very cool to see some progress made on the thing that's ruined my life since late teenage years!

Ugh fine. I guess I’ll hex Chuck Schumer.

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

Illustration done several years ago, for an artbook.