Kiki is a little hobbit

“I love that our relationship strives for 50/50 equality, not like a check split down the middle, but like one of those little birds who hangs out on top of a rhinoceros.”

- Gondelman just being the Husband of All time

- acclaimed bitch-knower Marisa Kabas

You can do both!

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Pre-order at not-Amazon! Thinking about how to prioritize our values and how to live them is essential in this moment. Religious beliefs not required!

“Into the Heart of Middle Earth” by Kaitlyn Fascista, a paperback held in from of a fleecy blankie.

Haven’t Tolkien-posted much lately, but my beloved @teawithtolkien.com has a book coming out on the 20th! It’s an earnest exploration of how to bring loving hobbit values into our daily lives, and we NEED more of that

A multicolored quilt made of of scraps with the words WE KNOW WHAT WE SAW staggered down it with a large beautiful eye centered between the words. The eye has a rainbow camera aperture as the iris. It is quilted densely.

Another resistance quilt finished this week. The eye is my own design, the letters are a fpp pattern by QuiltByNight, the rounded corners and black binding are meant to resemble the phones we the people are using to document the horrors and disprove the government’s lies about what they are doing.

i know everybody on bluesky is way too smart to believe

thing is, if you don't believe, tinkerbell dies

it's on all of us

“Non-white Americans are also Americans” has become a political message, so

“Powerful and wealthy people were telling me I was smart and important, and that affected my views in ways I hadn’t realized. I was part of something harmful and now I am taking a hard look at my past behavior.”

It could be that fucking easy. You could stop doubling the fuck down.

“Conversation-ender” but I’m really considering it the other way now

“Powerful men have always been able to abuse pubescent girls, get over it” is just not the conversation-gender you seem to think it is

The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...

This feels like a trap to get white people to make criticisms that are not ours to make

I remember the days when it felt like the small l-libertarian punditry were basically on the same page about racism… but fro here I can hear it, Megan is already flexing her typing fingers

“Here is a black woman who did great things”

“I, a proud member of the Best race and gender, have never done anything to top this; therefore, no she didn’t”

They said “politically correct” bc they thought there was broad understanding that strength in diversity was a lie repeated only to hold onto black votes

Elite journalism: … shit

Yes we are. We’re going to stop them

Mainers, if Chellie Pingree, supposed left-wing rep, can’t call for abolishing ICE with popular support this overwhelming, she needs to go 💔

Call to get her onboard before we have to leave her behind:
207-774-5019

We just have vetted and unvetted channels — why aren’t people simply creating a parallel structure?

Maya Pei Brigade-ass behavior

They Asked for Donations to Buy $10 Burritos. They Raised More Than $10K. - Racket As Operation Metro Surge continues, community-led mutual aid efforts are feeding and housing Minnesotans in need—but there’s a lot of work yet to be done.

I don’t know what the subset of politics are for the people driving these Subarus and minivans because all I need to know is they are bringing food to people, and trying to avoid being followed by armed secret police while they do it. racketmn.com/they-asked-f...

Portland City Council urges Gov. Mills to enact 60-day eviction moratorium The council also authorized Mayor Mark Dion to participate on behalf of the city in litigation against immigration enforcement.

Portland City Council urges Gov. Mills to enact eviction moratorium

The priest at my church got beat up at an anti-ICE protest on the peninsula this week, and when he showed up for Mass today with a black eye all the church ladies swooned like they had seen a Backstreet Boy.

❄️

Deleting Signal now that I know it's compromised. Find me on my Samsung SmartFridge.

Feels weird to describe Andor as a “comfort watch” but I suppose it makes sense, in this moment, for a story about resistance in the face of fascism to be that. And despite taking place inside a cartoon space cowboy universe, it feels as grounded and serious as anything I’ve watched lately.

(If you can’t work with someone because they are incrementally different from your idea of a Real Leftist, people making a difference in the offline world will not really care what you think.)

Some leftist purists gonna be real mad when they find out mutual aid includes bringing meals to the homophobic grandma next door and abolishing prisons means helping people find housing post-incarceration even if they have garbage racist opinions. Meeting people where they are are is hard.