skies (they/them)

A two-panel Little Bubbie Child comic. Top panel is the little bubbie child asking, "Dad, hwat was it like a livin' in the 90s?" Bottom panel is dad responding, "Sometimes you'd open a can a peanuts and they'd come snakes outta there."

an orange cat is being a really silly guy. he’s half upside down with his head hanging off the radiator cord with one ear bent and some teef showing

I understand I was really disruptive today but in my defense I’m literally a silly little guy

"we're shutting it down for 10 days, oh, no reason"
"ha ha we're open again, no reason!"

what, and I mean, the fuck

okay i gotta calm down and focus on the things i can do and also on getting out of bed

muffling a scream by fucking up my throat!!! hello it is morning! fucking goddamn fascism!!!!!

hi hello

i can fucking do this 😤

i can do this!!!!!!

really wish we didn't all keep being right about the things to come due to knowing a bit of history and paying attention

anyway as always, i want to go back to wondering if i'm overreacting

i genuinely can't trace back which year i had this thought in. we've been dealing with trump for a decade and he's been a fascist the whole time

me over a year ago: i'm ridiculous for thinking about how i might hide someone in my house, right

me now: fuck

awake at 5am because fuck fascism

my takeaways reading about a bunch of horrific shit in history is that the things you want are:
-to have hiding spaces
-to not let the state disarm you (small arms genuinely matter even when artillery exists)
-to maintain access the means of communication
-to build diplomatic ties with outsiders

the deployment of mRNA vaccine technology was a monumental leap in medical advancement and the crowning achievement of Donald Trump's first presidency but now his administration is scuttling it because their political coalition exists in opposition to the concept of expertise

Feet are fucking disgusting and won't exist under feudalism

When you read what Black radicals in the 1880s were saying about the two party system of their time you will realize we have been fighting the same fights for generations!!

build these. i'm not joking. the more I read history the more I read how often hiding spaces save lives.

i also struggle to know how to interact with people with kids. i feel like it's a second tier of adulthood i will never reach and am slightly mystified by

i could really use a 'interacting with friends and family who have kids' guide by and for fellow autistics

literally absurd how many of my cousins have kids - almost all of them - but at least i don't have to feel guilty for not passing on my genes or continuing the family line or whatever

oh lord my babyest cousin is pregnant. like she's a full grown married adult but BABY COUSIN

"Here, finally, is a worthy use of the NIMBY impulse that is so easy to activate for worse reasons." Friends, you can use that. I highly recommend going full Karen for the right reasons.

Across a doorway within an empty pawn shop there stretches a turquoise, pulsing film, through which snow and vines flicker. You smell ozone.

well okay no they also spent time talking to a woman who had once been almost kidnapped in an unrelated case. but that might have been the entertainment news rather than the evening news on cbs, they sort of blur into each other and have a similar quality

it is a particularly, darkly ironic moment for the evening news having spent all its time talking about a specific ten-days-old kidnapping of a white woman

What will those feisty Gen-Zers purchase next? Recklessly splurging on the $1.50 hot dog at Costco? An actual vegetable every other day? Perhaps even a second serving of gruel?

SVG drawing of a slice of scramble-mixed lightish orange and pale yellow cake with cream icing, on a light aqua background.

Let's have this peanut brittle and elderflower cake with buttermilk icing in celebration of terracotta.

Like 75% of the US Olympic curlers are from Minnesota. A lot of them curl out of two clubs in Saint Paul, one club is in Frogtown, a neighborhood that has been very heavily targeted by ICE. These curlers are good neighbors.