Luke :)

This is in one week :) free and virtual!

Prisons and jails ban more books than all public schools and libraries combined. Throughout the country individual prisons and entire states are implementing more draconian and non-sensical prison book bans, with little public knowledge or outcry.

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Evil nonbinary person named Nestle

A red book on a yellow background with the words Banned Books Bookdrive October 5-11 All books donated from our partner bookstores will be matched with cash! linktr.ee/dcbtp

@bannedbooksweek.bsky.social starts today! Prisons ban more books than all public schools and libraries combined. All week books donated to us from our partners will be matched. See our @mahoganybooks.bsky.social @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social and @peoplesbooktakoma.com wishlists - linktr.ee/dcbtpp

A picture of Lilac Peril’s book TABOO with text above it that reads “$500 raised to defend migrant rights in DC”

Our auction raised $500, split between Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid and Alice Correia Barbosa’s legal fund 🥳 massive thanks to everyone who bid, and especially to our contributors who donated their work

Should I treat this problem with a true classic? Benydryl: you can’t tell you’re dying when you’re asleep!

(Marketing for the uti pain meds I took without realizing they contain lactose) You can’t feel dick pain when you’re dead!

I’ve been so stressed all week, but I just found out the auction I planned extremely last minute raised $500 for our migrant neighbors 🥳🥳

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

A little more than a day left!

I’m losing my mind over this transition in an episode of the Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau

Grass in particular is criminally under read imo, just one of the best essayists around www.theoperatingsystem.org/oa_library/h...

Hall of Waters, Camellia Berry Grass. Changed my life lol. I think you know this one, but Supervillianz by Alicia Goranson. It won the Lammy so this is on me, but I only recently came across Neotenica by Joon Oluchi Lee

Why Not Have A Rod Of Teeth On Your Forehead For Sex Reasons? | Defector If you are human, you might believe that teeth belong in the mouth. If you are a fish, you already know better. You know that teeth belong in the skin, too. These teeth are fittingly called dermal den...

I am bravely asking::
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Check out our auction :)

My health has been bad for probably a lot of reasons but this didn’t help!!!!!

Laoganma Spicy Chili Crisp

Laoganma Fried Chili in Oil

One of these has peanuts and the other one doesn’t. Guess who’s been micro-dosing poison for weeks 🤪

Tonight!!!

A really good sign that I’ve been replaced by a clone is if I ever publish a heartwarming tale of found family

banning trans people from joining the military, buying guns, and getting married would be pretty cool if it was like an initial rollout program for the rest of the country and not a calculated effort to invent a precarious class of second rate citizens

That made her more mad, if I recall! Some people truly orient their entire lives against pleasure

Once at an old job someone called to viscously complain because children were drawing on the sidewalk outside the library. I had to explain that 1) we had given them the chalk 2) it would simply wash off with the rain

I think celebrating trans art in DC feels even more essential right now. I hope to see you all in Lost City Books next weekend!

‼️ALERT‼️
Active checkpoint on Georgia Ave and Dahlia St. MPD and other unidentified officers seen stopping cars at 10:55 am August 30. 1/2

"dark academia" do you mean middle school

I was so close to buying this the other day, pls report back!

I know that the percentage of dyke climbers is high, but we need to admit as a community that Adrianne Lenker is not gym music

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

Donate to Justice for Alice Correia Barbosa, organized by AJ Timoteo Alice Correia Barbosa is a Brazilian trans woman currently in U.S. immigration custody.… AJ Timoteo needs your support for Justice for Alice Correia Barbosa

My friend Alice was violently detained by ICE in Silver Spring, MD yesterday by agents who were waiting outside an apartment in unmarked vehicles.

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