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YouTube video by PBS NewsHour Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter reunite on stage in Broadway's 'Waiting for Godot'

Oh, I would love to see this - Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in Waiting for Godot.
youtu.be/YXv4SzeEfWk

I keep thinking, this is the week I was supposed to go home. My fam and I agreed it would be safer not to.

I am beyond sad that we were right.

This is the week I would have gone home, but didn't because I didn't know what the political situation would be like. I am very sad to say good move, past me.

Waking up and getting a full day of US news at once is... a lot. Cheered to see people resisting, both there and against other regimes - no one will save us but us.

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I talk about this with my therapist constantly. How I want to build a Hobbiton of my friends and just live in a communal setting. Like, I don’t feel called to religious life except for the idea of living in community.

I love to hear this! It's also good on less than ideal paper - less ink to feather.

I love my Metro F! I have one perennially filled with Iroshizuku Kirisame, and it's like having a pencil around - perfect for to-do lists and writing in margins. Enjoy!

Be where you are, not where you think you should be. (Unknown)

Some very good news.

I cancelled my morning run for a pre-recorded video 🤬

Signing up for an "event" that happens at four am my time, only to be sent a link to a pre-recorded, not at all live video at four am, is a bit of a gut punch. (Not naming because they're doing good work, but UGH do not like how they handled this one.)

A wooden board propped up on a residential street. In big handwritten letters it asks “how can we protect our community from ICE?” Someone has tried to cross all the text out but it’s weak. The suggestions and comments are many. They include “don’t open doors”, “self-defense classes”, “call out fascism”, and “satan never wins.”

I document a lot of political street art - mostly stickers opposing various political figures - but this one, propped in front of a home in a residential neighborhood, took my breath away

Most timely throws from the outfield look like they have mustard on them, but this one floats in speedy like. Incredible.

I rode a sleeper train from Chicago to San Francisco and it was lovely. Thought I would get a lot of reading and writing done but ended up glued to the window

The English Speaking Lifeline in Japan - TELL Japan TELL Lifeline has been providing connections and support to people across Japan for 47 years. You don’t have to be suicidal to reach out.

I am sorry, Marina - it hurts so much when compassionate suggestions are seen as attacks. If there's ever a chance to pop a link her way, Tell has an English language lifeline. Volunteers, only there to listen and support, not doctors or therapists
telljp.com/lifeline/

Age verification, Japan version? One of my jobs paid in cash, monthly.

PEZ NO
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Sold!
~runs to library~

Lovely to see you, LB! 💜

Friend found a postcard I sent them 20 years ago, during study abroad - so weird to think it was literally half a lifetime ago. I can say that my handwriting has improved, at least 😂

This is a brilliant thread of contextualization of this moment and what's praiseworthy about it amidst the atrocities.

Where is he? If we stop asking, stop demanding his return, we are complicit in his disappearance.

Romance Books Helped Me Make Peace with Being Too Much Reading romance made me realize I never needed apologize for my "too-muchness." I could celebrate it instead.

Party On!!! bookriot.com/romance-help...

Ideas on where we can start - the small things are everything.

The courts will not save us.
Institutions will not save us.
Only we can save us.

This is so perfect - following one postal carrier through a day that's actually a year, changing uniform to match the season and the cart having fewer things in it (I think?) by the end. I would be all over these 😍

Oh goodie, I get to be anti- middle east war **again**.

That's my main line - ChatGPT lies. I cannot trust what it says, so you'll have to explain this to me with you own words/reasoning. If you cannot, that is something for you to reflect on.

Hoping people have more ideas, I'd like to hear them, too.