My arts and crafts projects for the @nj50501.bsky.social No Kings event

An artist friend of mine has been struggling to get back on her feet after leaving an abusive relationship (among other upheavals) and needs help.

Today’s project is sticky note outlines and wow does “Whoaaaaaa, we’re 20% of the way there!” not hit the same as halfway.

Is there a special dog (or cat [or person]) in your life who needs to know what a special good boy (or girl [or person]) they are? If the answer is no, you should go adopt a pet (or person). If the answer is yes, you should check out this shop. #noprime #wasthattrending #didimissit #fuckbezos

You can get your books for #BannedBooksWeek from an independent bookseller—without leaving your house!

Since 2021, nearly 23,000 books have been banned—proof that fear still wields a red pen. They’re trying to erase stories of race, identity, and love because they can’t erase the people who live them.

Read defiantly.
Share loudly.
Rebel with a book.
#BannedBooksWeek

My newest writerly self-sabotage is printing pages single-spaced to save paper and thinking it’ll still be easy to make line edits. #regrats

The world: *is on fire*
Me: … okay, but what if I dye my hair about it?

As a child on car trips, I worked through stacks of Mad Libs books. It occurs to me only now that really, if not for that early indoctrination, I probably wouldn't be an angry leftist. This is why we have to control children's literature. How about some Trad Libs? #thisissarcasm #plsnotradlibs

I feel like we've gotten numb to these threats but it really is something to stack them all next to each other www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

(For the record, in case anyone is using my account alone to keep track of current events, the country is still a disaster, and my adventures in printing do not detract from that. Also you should follow some more accounts.)

*form, to fill out the self-portrait with a typo I notice as soon as I submit

Spent approx. three and a half hours babysitting our poor bottom-of-the-line consumer-grade printer as it chugged out five manuscripts’ worth of pages. That, a cat carrier, and some background Unibroue forms a pretty decent self-portrait, I feel.

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition.

www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

Breaking via Gothamist:

"Nearly a dozen New York elected officials" — including NYC comptroller Brad Lander — "were arrested by Department of Homeland Security officers on Thursday afternoon in a protest at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in Lower Manhattan."

gothamist.com/news/lawmake...

I wanna signal boost this - I am looking to recruit a prospective PhD student to join my Stress and Health Equity lab at the University of Delaware in HDFS. My research concerns biopsychosocial mechanisms of health across the life course with an emphasis on stress and coping.

The most common lie I tell: “I don’t know what the fuck you think you’re doing.”

I almost always know what the fuck you think you’re doing; I’m just disappointed in you for doing it.

Tables turning so fast these days I’m starting to think we’re sitting at a lazy susan …

Meanwhile I’m just writing escapist fantasies about being able to afford half of rent on a one-bedroom apartment while in grad school working only part time. #verisimiliwho?

I keep saying this. The Right fundamentally are *not* hypocrites. They believe in double standards. For them, double standards are correct, inevitable, and desirable, because the idea that certain groups are better than others and should therefore have more rights is the basis of right-wing ideology

The problem with words like "petty" and "childish" is that they minimize the very real, existential threat. That said … petty and childish. Dangerous and scary and embarrassing.

RFK Jr. needs to resign. Now.

For real, though, @scrivenerapp.bsky.social has officially been my novel-writing bestie for 15 years, and if you’re not using it, then what the [56] is wrong with you?

Just finished a first draft. 116,162 words, and only 41 of them are “fuck” (55 if we’re including derivations) Thanks to #scrivener for giving me the data that matters