Johnny St Germain

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Good night everyone

What is the Best Independent Bookstore for 2025? Voting for the Best Independent Bookstore is open! Cast your vote daily to help pick the 2025 10Best Readers' Choice Award for Best Independent Bookstore.

it's not every day that you can vote for an anarchist bookstore as the best independent bookstore in a mainstream publication, but it IS the next several days (you can vote for Red Emmas once a day)

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My wife choked on her energy drink watching this.

That alone was the price of admission.

But Leon does awesome work and if you aren't subscribed, why?

The Eagle, a former gay club, once occupied a tall building with a strange past The opulent four-story structure has a long, tangled history.

Gay nightlife entrepreneur Scott Noxon founded The Pittsburgh Eagle in a curious building tucked beneath a highway bridge. The building itself has quite an unusual history. 🗃️https://www.pghcitypaper.com/news/the-eagle-gay-club-once-occupied-a-woods-run-building-under-ohio-river-blvd-28076258

if bluesky dies, how will I get zero likes all the time?

Two books I'm currently reading bc I have zero self control: Nova by Samuel Delaney, and Afterglow: Climate Fiction For Future Ancestors, edited by Grist Collective

Next up on deck.

Moby Dick in space and queer ecological futuristic.

But being real, yall shouldn't take book recs from me, a 🚬 that very nearly brushed his teeth with Preparation H.

Longer post still incoming.

That said… I have no idea what I may leave in the wake of this upcoming title year as your IML. But I hope it’s one of unity, kindness, and righteous compassion.

So bsky is handing out checkmarks. After intense lobbying from rich entitled assholes given the posting behavior we've seen so far.

Two books I'm currently reading bc I have zero self control: Nova by Samuel Delaney, and Afterglow: Climate Fiction For Future Ancestors, edited by Grist Collective

Next up on deck.

Moby Dick in space and queer ecological futuristic.

But being real, yall shouldn't take book recs from me, a 🚬 that very nearly brushed his teeth with Preparation H.

Oh absolutely 💯

If you only read one new book a year, make it this one.

Amazing concept, strong execution, and it pulls no punches.

Everybody loves Allegheny Reproductive Health Center, one of Pittsburgh's two abortion clinics with a commitment to reproductive justice and justice more broadly.

*Touches ear* we regret to inform you that Allegheny Reproductive Health Center is union busting.

Anyways solidarity with the workers

Red, white and BOOOOOOOOOO 🍅🍅🍅🍅🥫

I smell money laundering!

A neighbor told me at the share fair that the stained glass and mosaics all wound up in piles.

Beautiful, historic, locally made art... in rubbish piles.

"We are trying to build a replacement Twitter, like when Twitter was good" ok hold up let me stop you right there

Marvel could pay for my healthcare for the rest of my life for a fraction of 1% of profit from Spider-Man Noir, a character whose original comics I edited. For Peter David to die in medical debt, co-creator of Spider-Man 2099 and writer of countless seminal Hulk and X-Factor comics—that's a disgrace

There's nothing better than the smell of petrichor when you're falling asleep. 😴

spaces to cause them harm. We are compassion in action. These are some of the reasons we will continue what we do. Every Indigenous life carries so much value that most do not see. They are the teachers of survival, a wisdom you can find nowhere else. Helping is human virtue. Loving them is creation

The painting titled Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi. The painting portrays the moment that Judith beheads Holofernes, mid act of sawing his head off with a sword. Judith grasps his hair as he lies face up on his bed and cuts the sword across to behead him while blood spurts out of his neck. Another woman helps hold him down as he attempts to resist.

Some guy on Twitter made a point of announcing that thousands upon thousands of men are descended from rapists, and we women "aren't going to like it when [they] stop asking nicely."

Which, you know, surprise surprise brother, but you're also not going to like it when we stop refusing nicely.

I can NOT look at bread slicers at the grocery store the same. Or for very long.

I thought i knew what two thousand word character limits looked like, but fml.

I'm going back to tumblr.

Bucolic beauty inspired a story right out of my pants. Read it in the alt-text 😘

And to get out around the same insufferable question: Why, as an anarchist, are you voting?

Bc its a low effort way to ruin a rich fuck's day. 💅🏻🤘🏻

Also important to note for residents of Allegheny County, the correct answers to increase the autonomy of our neighbors are: Yes, Yes, and NO!

Whenever I see spell check "fix" it, I'm always just like: ok girl, whatever. 🥲