Dena Hankins

YouTube video by Amnesty International MPs suspended for this Haka in parliament

How I wish my elected officials were conducting business.

youtu.be/XZkpr8FcErA?...

Closeup of a person's face, bundled against the cold and with a large frozen tear hanging from her eyelashes. Her bike helmet is barely in the frame.

Portland, Maine...I biked to work all winter and it was wow

I was JUST anger-posting about the betrayal of Seattle voters who declined to pay for a new stadium...in the 90s...and then got roped into it anyway by a Paul Allen switcheroo. I have a huge heart and a dogged brain. I do not forget.

Ohhhh, right. I remember now.

Whew, I mean, I want that to be a benediction but I can't remember the context and damn did that writer do a slick curse

Me too. The feelings are personal.

Brave admitting to being head editor online! Lucky you that I write queer erotic romance and sf or I'd be sending you pages right now

I'm torn about reading this... I've been angry about this shit since 90's Seattle voted down a new stadium and Paul Allen...ugh...okay... I hope that's in there and I can eventually let go.

It's a real weak spot in the public monies reality. If that doesn't sound familiar, #mustread

Y'all are DEDICATED. I'm glad the publisher of my novels didn't have a ton of rules, and the first and most important was consistency. "If you mess up once, it's a mistake. If you do it three times, it's jazz." (A paraphrase of something commonly attributed to Miles Davis.)

This is his pardon, purchas’d by such sin
For which the pardoner himself is in.

YouTube video by The Midnight Special Tell Me Something Good - Rufus | The Midnight Special

I never expect you and yet you keep showing up with something good. youtu.be/3Fbwok5caD8?...

This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰

Even better, there are MULTIPLE communist parties running in any given election. One of the most impressive parades I've ever been caught up in was in TVM for Political Day

a man in a suit and tie says i 'm so sick of congress Alt: Josh Lyman, from the West Wing, says 'I'm so sick of Congress I could vomit.'

Thanks to @lindstorian.bsky.social for reminding me of this perfect gif.

Smiling person wearing a bicycle helmet and sunglasses, straddling a mountain bike that has a single-wheeled cart behind it, loaded with laundry in a yellow and black bag. She's wearing shorts over thermal leggings, which is probably part of why she got called a weirdo by someone in a car.

On the way to do laundry one day, someone shouted from a car, "Weirdo!" I was so tickled off - but then tickled - that I asked a stranger in the laundromat parking lot to take a picture of my epic weirdness. I don't think of myself as having a style but, if pressed, I'll take weirdo.

All that, and stylish too!

And, personally, I find skilled tool users sexy. Wheelchair users, folks with canes or wearing prosthetics. I was privileged to get to know a lot of people with disabilities in explicitly sex-positive spaces and I wish more people had access to those events/communities where we're all feeling sexy.

I'm glad you said desirable! That's so much more achievable than the moving goal posts that are "beauty standards". I don't know you, but I'll bet someone desires to be more intimate with you than they currently are.

Really good consent practices are important, including educating yourself on power dynamics common to people with disabilities and particularly the physical/mental/emotional reality of the particular person you're attracted to. And cultivate awareness of what all draws you to the three-D person here

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

I live and travel on a small sailboat with an electric motor. The very last fossil fuel we aboard is propane for cooking... we're working on that!

I hope housing is all electric if/when we age out of this life. I am horrified by the idea of going backwards in a vulnerable life stage

I'm a fan of not reposting shit that lacks alt text, but you really need to pay that nasty animal or you could end up with rabies

I also perked up at the idea that Othello had gotten such a cool restaurant. Oh well.

Yep, especially when there are no unclaimed lands to sow or sleep on. The regression is neverending once it's "well, build something!" Where? With what tools? "Mine the metals for shovels!" Where? With what tools?

We need collective answers to these collective needs.

Republicans running anti-trans hatefests lost and Zohran Mamdani is a hugely vocal supporter of trans and other LGBTQ rights.

That is MASSIVELY important to look at and run on.

Roll around in all this & soak it in. This is the good shit, & it should be celebrated.

And then it should be Built on.

obama's election night was pure magic, but it was also a moment without a movement, obama disbanded his army the next day. this election night is every bit as magical, but in the meantime we built movements that cannot be disbanded and we know in our bones that what zohran says must be what he does

My favorite so far is SNL's "Zoltar Rob Zombie"

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Sailboat partially sunken in brilliant blue water with a background hill, greenery top and bottom and a dry streak in between

How can y'all just celebrate this when his voice and legacy creep me out? I'm not claiming his artistry was false, but his humanity was broken