how do I explain Mr. Fantasy to my mom
November 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
how do I explain Mr. Fantasy to my mom
I know that Macy’s Thanksgiving parade feels really commercial this year (and every year tbh) but I really love all the diversity that we’ve seen so far, especially in a year where people have been cutting DEI
November 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I know that Macy’s Thanksgiving parade feels really commercial this year (and every year tbh) but I really love all the diversity that we’ve seen so far, especially in a year where people have been cutting DEI
I think labubus are cute but in a way I do not trust, like they’ll help me with household chores during the day but nibble my toes at night.
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I think labubus are cute but in a way I do not trust, like they’ll help me with household chores during the day but nibble my toes at night.
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Today I am thankful I was not raised in a Turkey Trot family.
November 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Today I am thankful I was not raised in a Turkey Trot family.
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if there was a way to power through ME/CFS with exercise, no-one would have ME/CFS. it's the first thing almost anyone tries.
November 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
if there was a way to power through ME/CFS with exercise, no-one would have ME/CFS. it's the first thing almost anyone tries.
still mad that Elmo isn’t on PBS anymore 😭
November 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
still mad that Elmo isn’t on PBS anymore 😭
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I don't want to give a big corp props but the way so many corporations have been folding against DEI and the Macy's Parade is visibly diverse in our modern eco-political zeitgeist feels ... I can't quite parse it.
#MacysThanksgivingDayParade
#MacysThanksgivingDayParade
November 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I don't want to give a big corp props but the way so many corporations have been folding against DEI and the Macy's Parade is visibly diverse in our modern eco-political zeitgeist feels ... I can't quite parse it.
#MacysThanksgivingDayParade
#MacysThanksgivingDayParade
I woke up because I heard Christmas music, one of my cats must’ve stepped on the radio. lol
November 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I woke up because I heard Christmas music, one of my cats must’ve stepped on the radio. lol
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It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
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Again, turkeys are 70-80% off from today onwards and last a year in the freezer.
If you’ve got a chest freezer in the garage that’s good soup, stew, and smoker meat for the whole winter for a really good price.
If you’ve got a chest freezer in the garage that’s good soup, stew, and smoker meat for the whole winter for a really good price.
November 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Again, turkeys are 70-80% off from today onwards and last a year in the freezer.
If you’ve got a chest freezer in the garage that’s good soup, stew, and smoker meat for the whole winter for a really good price.
If you’ve got a chest freezer in the garage that’s good soup, stew, and smoker meat for the whole winter for a really good price.
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Hey, props to writers who got literally anything done this year.
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Hey, props to writers who got literally anything done this year.
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I feel like there need's to be some clarification around use of "harm's way" here... 99.9999 of the time this is a super super super super safe area. The point is there was never a real reason for the National Guard to be here.
Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I feel like there need's to be some clarification around use of "harm's way" here... 99.9999 of the time this is a super super super super safe area. The point is there was never a real reason for the National Guard to be here.
one of my favorite book series almost wasn’t finished because people kept pirating the books, it had a pretty big fandom on tumblr. the author posted a fake link to the pirating website and her sales went up with the next book.
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
one of my favorite book series almost wasn’t finished because people kept pirating the books, it had a pretty big fandom on tumblr. the author posted a fake link to the pirating website and her sales went up with the next book.
It’s actually wild to see people agree with the hive in Pluribus, I think there’s a lot of ways that one can view the show, but to me…that view just doesn’t make sense.
November 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
It’s actually wild to see people agree with the hive in Pluribus, I think there’s a lot of ways that one can view the show, but to me…that view just doesn’t make sense.
I only read one physical book this month and one audiobook 😭
November 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I only read one physical book this month and one audiobook 😭
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
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'To crip something is to bend, compress, twist, subvert, and imbue disabled wisdom into systems, institutions, and cultures. As I’ve done before as a physically disabled person, I will now crip the world ... It takes a tremendous amount of emotional and physical labor to crip the world.'
What ‘Crip Time’ Means to Disabled People Like Me
Becoming a nonspeaking person changed my relationship with time and with other people.
www.teenvogue.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
'To crip something is to bend, compress, twist, subvert, and imbue disabled wisdom into systems, institutions, and cultures. As I’ve done before as a physically disabled person, I will now crip the world ... It takes a tremendous amount of emotional and physical labor to crip the world.'
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Such a beautiful piece by @thrasherxy.bsky.social about the luminous treasure we've lost, Alice Wong.
lithub.com/remembering-...
lithub.com/remembering-...
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
lithub.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Such a beautiful piece by @thrasherxy.bsky.social about the luminous treasure we've lost, Alice Wong.
lithub.com/remembering-...
lithub.com/remembering-...
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Not long before she died, Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social posted a short video of an idle Waymo blocking the curb ramp in a pedestrian crossing, making it impossible for her as a wheelchair user to cross the street safely.
![Pop Crave & @PopCrave • 12h
Waymo co-CEO warns fatal crashes in self-driving cars are coming, and the company is already planning for them:
"We don't say "whether.' We say 'when.' And we plan for [fatal crashes]."
WAYMO](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ymipjgi2ebiptelhrw6zezas/bafkreicjmclzthikst76hsm4ntxz5qc44ixfgkbjlkteua4ld4clmethly@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Not long before she died, Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social posted a short video of an idle Waymo blocking the curb ramp in a pedestrian crossing, making it impossible for her as a wheelchair user to cross the street safely.
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I often think about how I can't safely do protest coverage because what if this happens to me and I can't get my meds.
Freelance photojournalist @davedeckerphoto.bsky.social was arrested while reporting on an immigration protest outside an ICE facility in Miami on Nov. 22.
He was held in custody for 30-plus hours and released with charges of trespassing and resisting an officer.
He was held in custody for 30-plus hours and released with charges of trespassing and resisting an officer.
Photojournalist arrested at Miami immigration protest, gear seized
Freelance photojournalist Dave Decker was arrested by Miami-Dade Sheriff’s deputies while documenting anti-deportation protests outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
pressfreedomtracker.us
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I often think about how I can't safely do protest coverage because what if this happens to me and I can't get my meds.
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Susan Sontag "offered a more apt metaphor than journey, though she ultimately preferred straight, unadorned talk: illness as a place, and often a dark and lonely one, 'the night-side of life' in 'the kingdom of the sick'":
Via @bhanlon15.bsky.social
#LongCOVID
www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/c...
Via @bhanlon15.bsky.social
#LongCOVID
www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/c...
I have long Covid. Don’t call my chronic disease a ‘journey’
A “journey” is something you choose. No one chooses chronic illness.
www.statnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Susan Sontag "offered a more apt metaphor than journey, though she ultimately preferred straight, unadorned talk: illness as a place, and often a dark and lonely one, 'the night-side of life' in 'the kingdom of the sick'":
Via @bhanlon15.bsky.social
#LongCOVID
www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/c...
Via @bhanlon15.bsky.social
#LongCOVID
www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/c...
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they should invent a nap that does your chores
August 21, 2025 at 11:20 PM
they should invent a nap that does your chores