meshell
@meshell.bsky.social
Baba jaga in the swamp. I knew you from that other place.
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@meshell.bsky.social
· Sep 6
I just need a really good book. That’ll fix me.
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12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”
I have gotten it into my head that I want to play driving racing games, but that I also need to get a controller appropriate for such a task? And pedals? I'll sleep on it one more night, but it's been a few weeks already. I'm about to just shipit.
December 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
I have gotten it into my head that I want to play driving racing games, but that I also need to get a controller appropriate for such a task? And pedals? I'll sleep on it one more night, but it's been a few weeks already. I'm about to just shipit.
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Would absolutely thrill to see "Police Department loses $1.2 billion" in a headline lol
Republicans want to kill the post office and the media is there for it, which is why you have never seen a news story about how the police department has never turned a profit and is a waste
December 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Would absolutely thrill to see "Police Department loses $1.2 billion" in a headline lol
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To enter with heart and mind into the world of the imagination may be to head deliberately and directly toward, or back toward, engagement with the real world.
December 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
To enter with heart and mind into the world of the imagination may be to head deliberately and directly toward, or back toward, engagement with the real world.
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0.00003 foot tall xmas tree from a Drosophila flight steering muscle 🎄
image by @anne-sustar.bsky.social
image by @anne-sustar.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
0.00003 foot tall xmas tree from a Drosophila flight steering muscle 🎄
image by @anne-sustar.bsky.social
image by @anne-sustar.bsky.social
The gift that keeps on giving. Thank you, magnificent,
Asking questions is not hate, although I can see how you might interpret it that way. No one challenges you on X. Here we do. That must be so hard for someone who has never really been questioned.
December 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The gift that keeps on giving. Thank you, magnificent,
Search your first name and then “glamour shot” And post a photo.
And honestly I couldn’t have found anything more perfect.
And honestly I couldn’t have found anything more perfect.
December 25, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Search your first name and then “glamour shot” And post a photo.
And honestly I couldn’t have found anything more perfect.
And honestly I couldn’t have found anything more perfect.
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CHOTINER: So you're delivering toys to *all* the good boys and girls?
SANTA: Yes, I check the list twice.
CHOTINER: The list...that you make yourself?
SANTA: Yes, I check the list twice.
CHOTINER: The list...that you make yourself?
December 25, 2025 at 3:05 AM
CHOTINER: So you're delivering toys to *all* the good boys and girls?
SANTA: Yes, I check the list twice.
CHOTINER: The list...that you make yourself?
SANTA: Yes, I check the list twice.
CHOTINER: The list...that you make yourself?
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WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...
toronto.citynews.ca
December 23, 2025 at 3:50 AM
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
That feeling when you see an interesting hobby and want to make it your whole personality for a little while. Apparently I can combine my love of tiny things, w/books, and also a pedantic delight in obsessing over tiny details.
Behold, the book nook. There is even a kit called The Owl Library.
Behold, the book nook. There is even a kit called The Owl Library.
December 24, 2025 at 7:52 AM
That feeling when you see an interesting hobby and want to make it your whole personality for a little while. Apparently I can combine my love of tiny things, w/books, and also a pedantic delight in obsessing over tiny details.
Behold, the book nook. There is even a kit called The Owl Library.
Behold, the book nook. There is even a kit called The Owl Library.
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This is the most nakedly oligarch-serving administration in history.
It exists solely to benefit the billionaire class and major corporations. That’s it.
It exists solely to benefit the billionaire class and major corporations. That’s it.
Banks collapse economy
MAGA: Bail them out!
Auto & Airline Industries on brink of bankruptcy
MAGA: Bail them out!
Housing collapse about to wreck economy
MAGA: Bail them out!
Low income students suffer crushing debt
MAGA: Garnish their wages!
MAGAs serve 800 billionaires to destroy 45M students
MAGA: Bail them out!
Auto & Airline Industries on brink of bankruptcy
MAGA: Bail them out!
Housing collapse about to wreck economy
MAGA: Bail them out!
Low income students suffer crushing debt
MAGA: Garnish their wages!
MAGAs serve 800 billionaires to destroy 45M students
December 24, 2025 at 4:39 AM
This is the most nakedly oligarch-serving administration in history.
It exists solely to benefit the billionaire class and major corporations. That’s it.
It exists solely to benefit the billionaire class and major corporations. That’s it.
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Today is a good day to pick up Micah's book. If you don't already have these skills, let me tell you they are going to be very useful in the near future.
Here's a good book on the skills I think will be useful to journalists and citizen-researchers of the future, written by my colleague @micahflee.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Today is a good day to pick up Micah's book. If you don't already have these skills, let me tell you they are going to be very useful in the near future.
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my unpopular opinion is that #adoption is not an alternative to abortion. And it is certainly not a solution to the lack of access to safe and affordable abortions. Compelling vulnerable people to relinquish their own children by ignoring their material needs is just another way to oppress them.
anyone who positions infant adoption as a poltical “safe zone” in the abortion wars is proposing to find common ground by standing on the necks of vulnerable and desperate pregnant people
December 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
my unpopular opinion is that #adoption is not an alternative to abortion. And it is certainly not a solution to the lack of access to safe and affordable abortions. Compelling vulnerable people to relinquish their own children by ignoring their material needs is just another way to oppress them.
Can anyone recommend me a contemporary doorstopper book (like ~ 500 pages) or something hefty?
I’d like to read something massive (or a few somethings) until the end of the year.
I started looking at old biochem textbooks w/some fondness - please help me replace that with some fiction.
#booksky
I’d like to read something massive (or a few somethings) until the end of the year.
I started looking at old biochem textbooks w/some fondness - please help me replace that with some fiction.
#booksky
December 22, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Can anyone recommend me a contemporary doorstopper book (like ~ 500 pages) or something hefty?
I’d like to read something massive (or a few somethings) until the end of the year.
I started looking at old biochem textbooks w/some fondness - please help me replace that with some fiction.
#booksky
I’d like to read something massive (or a few somethings) until the end of the year.
I started looking at old biochem textbooks w/some fondness - please help me replace that with some fiction.
#booksky
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this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities
if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
December 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM
this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities
if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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According to “medical conservatives”, it’s “political” to criticize Bhattacharya in any way.
December 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
According to “medical conservatives”, it’s “political” to criticize Bhattacharya in any way.
I signed up for Consider This a while ago - it's a local news page that is run by one guy (who is also a professor of e-journalism, and a radio host) and it's often quite interesting to see what's going on.
consider-this.ca/youth-wellne...
consider-this.ca/youth-wellne...
Youth Wellness Hub opens and Nightstop program continues as services expand for young people in Northumberland - Consider This
One year ago, Rebound Youth Services launched a new program for homeless youth called Nightstop. The volunteer-based program
consider-this.ca
December 20, 2025 at 6:40 AM
I signed up for Consider This a while ago - it's a local news page that is run by one guy (who is also a professor of e-journalism, and a radio host) and it's often quite interesting to see what's going on.
consider-this.ca/youth-wellne...
consider-this.ca/youth-wellne...
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i’m honestly surprised some of the weirdos haven’t tried to relegalize indoor smoking
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 20, 2025 at 4:58 AM
i’m honestly surprised some of the weirdos haven’t tried to relegalize indoor smoking
Day 7 of tricking our cat into taking antibiotics - unfortunately he’s wise to me. Not even the churrus are completely doing the job anymore.
December 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Day 7 of tricking our cat into taking antibiotics - unfortunately he’s wise to me. Not even the churrus are completely doing the job anymore.
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You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?"
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
December 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?"
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
Buy now while there’s still money!
As the gift-buying reaches a fever pitch, consider the Southern Reach series for a loved one, friend, or even just the boss you hope to confuse long enough to quit on your own terms. Buy now while there's still money. Intros by Julia Armfield, N.K. Jemisin, Karen Joy Fowler, and Helen Macdonald
December 19, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Buy now while there’s still money!
Churros for hannuakah make a lot of sense and people should embrace that.
December 19, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Churros for hannuakah make a lot of sense and people should embrace that.
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"Died" is such a generic term though
Hear me out: guillotines
Hear me out: guillotines
December 18, 2025 at 5:20 AM
"Died" is such a generic term though
Hear me out: guillotines
Hear me out: guillotines