meshell
@meshell.bsky.social
Baba jaga in the swamp. I knew you from that other place.
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meshell
@meshell.bsky.social
· Sep 6
I just need a really good book. That’ll fix me.
My word being mortifying is very on brand. Thanks.
Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026.
Let's. Go.
Let's. Go.
January 2, 2026 at 3:21 AM
My word being mortifying is very on brand. Thanks.
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And please, PLEASE let us not forget that time in 2023 when Karen Smith was elected President of the school board in Bucks County, Pa and swore her oath on a stack of banned books. The most gangsta oath ever! Just brilliant. www.edweek.org/leadership/t...
This School Board President Took Her Oath on a Stack of Contested Books. Here's Why
The school board for Central Bucks County, Pa., has been at the center of divisive political debates.
www.edweek.org
January 1, 2026 at 11:21 PM
And please, PLEASE let us not forget that time in 2023 when Karen Smith was elected President of the school board in Bucks County, Pa and swore her oath on a stack of banned books. The most gangsta oath ever! Just brilliant. www.edweek.org/leadership/t...
I love n95s. I haven’t been sick in years. It’s awesome.
Cannot believe some of the sketchy air I’ve breathed in my life. Absolutely not doing that anymore.
Cannot believe some of the sketchy air I’ve breathed in my life. Absolutely not doing that anymore.
December 31, 2025 at 6:06 AM
I love n95s. I haven’t been sick in years. It’s awesome.
Cannot believe some of the sketchy air I’ve breathed in my life. Absolutely not doing that anymore.
Cannot believe some of the sketchy air I’ve breathed in my life. Absolutely not doing that anymore.
1. Perfect just the way they are
2. Vinegar
3. sriracha
2. Vinegar
3. sriracha
ketchup isn’t available, what are you putting on your fries?
December 29, 2025 at 11:18 PM
1. Perfect just the way they are
2. Vinegar
3. sriracha
2. Vinegar
3. sriracha
I have a pretty good toboggan hill in my literal backyard, I think I might be living the dream. Idk. weeeeee.
December 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I have a pretty good toboggan hill in my literal backyard, I think I might be living the dream. Idk. weeeeee.
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Fifteen years ago I felt pretty embarrassed pronouncing a word wrong, but now I’m just boasting like “oh yeah I guess I only know that one from READING it in a BOOK”
December 29, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Fifteen years ago I felt pretty embarrassed pronouncing a word wrong, but now I’m just boasting like “oh yeah I guess I only know that one from READING it in a BOOK”
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Colleagues, in the face of this sort of weaponized mendacity, protecting the lives of disabled people requires that we must take a radically different approach to public health messaging
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
RFK Jr. Claims 'Vaccine Research' Likely Responsible for HIV and the Spanish Flu
Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed vaccine research was responsible for diseases like HIV, RSV, Lyme disease, and the Spanish flu.
www.rollingstone.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Colleagues, in the face of this sort of weaponized mendacity, protecting the lives of disabled people requires that we must take a radically different approach to public health messaging
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
I’m still always amazed at how easily convinced people are that their decisions don’t matter.
Or maybe I’m just amazed at how defensive they are about their choices when they know they *could* make better ones, but decide not to.
Or maybe I’m just amazed at how defensive they are about their choices when they know they *could* make better ones, but decide not to.
December 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I’m still always amazed at how easily convinced people are that their decisions don’t matter.
Or maybe I’m just amazed at how defensive they are about their choices when they know they *could* make better ones, but decide not to.
Or maybe I’m just amazed at how defensive they are about their choices when they know they *could* make better ones, but decide not to.
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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