I've been watching/reading more about labor movements and various rights movements over the years and back in the day everyone had like, a proper club. With like, ice cream socials and stuff

My moral stance is and continues to be anti-consumerist, but going even harder now. It's been hard breaking up with Publix but I'm working on it. It's nice to know I'm not alone!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The fact that Hurricane Helene wiped away my town and side job is really hitting me fresh. I could really use a place to go, see people, get out of my head. I'm trying to just enjoy my work and kitties and spending time with Dade. But I would kill to chat with locals and organize a bookshelf

Last week’s blog post contains some coping strategies for current events and a Wordsworth poem.

actually-i-can.com/weekly-tips/...

If the bird flu actually does turn into a pandemic that KILLS CATS, you will never see my face in person again until this is resolved

I know we all have a lot to worry about but — this bill in Oklahoma is the thin edge of the wedge. In the guise of an “anti child p**n” bill, it actually could outlaw things like romance novels, LGBTQIA books, etc — felonies for not just authors but also booksellers. Straight outta Project 2025.

I got very nostalgic for the aughts today. Never really thought about how that my 00s felt like a big Bowie/Gaga/Scissors Sisters/Rocky Horror dance when I wasn't thinking about all the GWB presidency nonsense. Maybe I need a little more of that subversive gay party vibe back

Okay so from 2016 to 2020 I went through "Am I dying or is it just stress over the geopolitical landscape?" By this time I was 38 and it started to be "Am I dying or is it perimenopause?" Now, ladies and gentlemen, for the first time ever on the same stage...

oh yeah and I also won't be flying anywhere, that's for sure

I had a few Amazon cat food deliveries scheduled because we were having trouble with other deliveries during the hurricane. but I just canceled those. I asked Dade if we could ditch our Amazon Prime subscription and he agrees with me.

My email: "See if your Publix is open"
Me: Wow shit got real in Florida, huh?

Everyone says they're leaving Meta for here but this place doesn't feel conducive to the casual friend chat that Facebook was for. So idk. But I guess I can just blab about whatever and not worry about it

Asheville can finally drink their water & shower & wash dishes, after almost two months, and while I was lucky enough to have water in my town outside, I'm SO happy for everyone I know here!

I've seen a lot of discussion of giving up news and let me suggest reading more history! It gives you a rich context of civics, politics, propaganda, human nature, how people cope with hard times, and helps remove the rose-colored glasses of nostalgia.

The worst is when you're inspired to write but when you go to do it none of your projects actually want to work with you. Like...vibes great, words bad.

I'm reading the Moon Child manga and it is INSANE. Mermaids fly through space to Earth and lay eggs and if the Little Mermaid's child doesn't mate with the right person I guess Chernobyl will happen & the rest uhhh I probably shouldn't even talk about. 80s shoujo is...WILD

I just told someone I would get X done in October "lord willing and the creek don't rise" because after Hurricane Helene that just feels like the best way to plan from now on

I am in the middle of writing 3 books and that's already too many so naturally a 4th idea strolled in today like AREN'T I THE TEMPTRESS?