Sharon Arnold

I am very sad that I live in a time where the follies and pecadilloes and bombast of oligarchs are broadcast constantly. I'd like to have a day when I didn't hear about a stupid, venal, brutal thing they did or said.

Turns out those who warned about the Dems recruiting draconian prosecutors to be their candidates for the past two decades were on to something.

the laughter about how people raised children without chatgpt [implication, hundreds of thousands of years] makes me absolutely recoil in horror. it's community. community is how. and chatgpt only further severs us from community at a time when we should be drawing closer together than ever.

She took a chance, ran for City Council — and won by 20 votes Sam Doyle’s nail-biter of a win serves as something of a case study for people who might be interested in running for office for the first time.

Today's column: "Remember Sam Doyle, the first-time activist I wrote about in March?

Now, you can call her Mountlake Terrace City Councilmember-elect Doyle. … 

Her experience can serve as something of a case study for people who might be interested in running for office for the first time."

Israel Is Quietly Expanding Its Occupation of Gaza Under Cover of “Ceasefire” For us here in Gaza, this “ceasefire” is a fiction. The bombing has continued as Israel expands its Yellow Line.

What the world does not see is that, day after day, the Israeli military expands its control inside Gaza. It advances slowly, swallowing a street, a neighborhood, an entire area — quietly redrawing the map while the world celebrates a fabricated “ceasefire.”

these shelves are all dreamy, honestly!

Remember: what they do to Indigenous people they will eventually do to everyone.

This is infuriating.

A friendly reminder that wherever you can, given the reality of your situation, fuck all these massive corporations and the billionaire class they support. Give your holiday money to local and small biz, make gifts, whatever. Donate it to good causes. You do have material power. Use it.

People are struggling. I want us to think about how we're going to help each other hang in there this winter. How are you going to support your friends, co-strugglers, and community as they push through this moment? How can you help people muddle through, materially and/or emotionally?

What do you need to muddle through? How can we foster an environment where those needs get met in collectivity?

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I want people to displace the imaginary depictions of *revolutions* that they have come to create in their heads with the actual small revolutionary acts that happen daily. We might get closer to revolution that way.

"MOURN THE DEAD, AND FIGHT LIKE HELL FOR THE LIVING" colored with the trans flag over top of a black background -- created by Fox Fisher @thefoxfisher.bsky.social

I'm a trans person w/ a trans kid & we lose trans siblings every year to hateful violence. On Trans Day of Remembrance we're called not only to collectively mourn those we've lost, but to renew our commitment to keep fighting for those who are still here.

#tdor 🏳️‍⚧️
Art by @thefoxfisher.bsky.social

Mapping the Queer Landscape of Medieval Europe A new exhibition at The Met Cloisters makes the case that gender and sexual fluidity were an essential part of Medieval religious art.

A new show at the Met Cloisters speaks to the existence of queer and trans people in the Medieval period and within the Catholic Church, as well as sexual dalliance and humor, and nontraditional unions.

“The people in this book are brave,” said Toad. “They fight dragons and giants, and they are never afraid.”

“I wonder if we are brave,” said Frog.

When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/

omgosh this Misfits class looks amazing, what a great project this is!

Our fall class, which is exploring The Misfit, has drawn a wonderfully heterogenous group representing a range of knowledge institutions, city agencies, and artistic practices! Please help us spread the word about our spring class — and please consider applying!

my deepest condolences, this is truly such sad news. he is truly a wonderful and generous spirit, with a lot of wisdom to share, and he will be sorely missed

bahahahahahahahahahahaha aaaaah this is really on the nose innit? 🤣

your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

well, the trees know better than me, so...

A scarecrow who has got drunk on extra strength lager and, rather embarrassingly, is now reliving his glory days in the Royal Air Force.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of the best scarecrows I have met on walks.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

New York City billboards are displaying the president’s 91 felony charges.

SOMEONE: Fuck you!

BOVINO: That’s not very nice.

THE MOST MOM VOICE YOU’VE EVER HEARD: Well, are you doing nice things?

thank you for all that you gave us and for helping light the way to better futures, Alice ⚡️✨️

if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.

While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.

A wind came.

It blew across the land.

The victory of progressive candidates is a byproduct of our work caring for one another and building a better world, not the goal of our work.

Get in where you can or start something new. This is such a good time to do both.