MC
@crutchingreader.bsky.social
Cranky queer disabled book nerd. My kid and my cat both move faster than me. Avid romance reader. Writer and researcher. Erstwhile historian of modern Russia and the Soviet Union.
Reposted by MC
The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
September 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
Reposted by MC
THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!
The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
November 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!
The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
Reposted by MC
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
I’ll be reading Rebecca Taussig’s We Are The Scrappy Ones today. Alice’s appearances in children’s lit were so powerful for me and for my parenting.
What a privilege it is to be a younger disabled person in a community shaped by Alice Wong. Rest in peace, Alice.
November 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I’ll be reading Rebecca Taussig’s We Are The Scrappy Ones today. Alice’s appearances in children’s lit were so powerful for me and for my parenting.
Reposted by MC
So how are all my former gifted and talented kids who used to read several books a day and now rot their faculties doomscrolling while ignoring a TV show doing tonight
September 13, 2025 at 1:29 AM
So how are all my former gifted and talented kids who used to read several books a day and now rot their faculties doomscrolling while ignoring a TV show doing tonight
Reposted by MC
well I for one am shocked that "every aspect of your life gets worse forever and also look at my marble bathroom" did not turn out to be a winning election strategy
November 5, 2025 at 3:36 AM
well I for one am shocked that "every aspect of your life gets worse forever and also look at my marble bathroom" did not turn out to be a winning election strategy
Aaron Sorkin is a Jeopardy! Category tonight so I just said “shoe money tonight!” to the TV. As one does.
November 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Aaron Sorkin is a Jeopardy! Category tonight so I just said “shoe money tonight!” to the TV. As one does.
Doing anything with customer service in 2025 feels like the 30 Rock episode with Tracy Jordan looking at the flowchart and discovering the Sheinhardt Wig company owns NBC and also has North Korean subsidiaries. Defeating the Chatbot to get to the phone number is basically an extreme sport.
October 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Doing anything with customer service in 2025 feels like the 30 Rock episode with Tracy Jordan looking at the flowchart and discovering the Sheinhardt Wig company owns NBC and also has North Korean subsidiaries. Defeating the Chatbot to get to the phone number is basically an extreme sport.
Reposted by MC
The Democratic Party is out there trying to pick the perfect candidate like they look up the perfect coffee-maker on wirecutter. If they have this doodad and that price point, they’re a winner.
That’s not how politics works. It’s a game we play together, not catalogue shopping.
That’s not how politics works. It’s a game we play together, not catalogue shopping.
October 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The Democratic Party is out there trying to pick the perfect candidate like they look up the perfect coffee-maker on wirecutter. If they have this doodad and that price point, they’re a winner.
That’s not how politics works. It’s a game we play together, not catalogue shopping.
That’s not how politics works. It’s a game we play together, not catalogue shopping.
Reposted by MC
Look I’m not blaming anyone I’m just asking if anyone has checked the British Museum for the Louvre’s jewels
October 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Look I’m not blaming anyone I’m just asking if anyone has checked the British Museum for the Louvre’s jewels
Reposted by MC
“why do wokerati have to make everything about gender?”
Listen, my toddler’s preschool has different lines for girls and boys on the Wheels On The Bus, why the fuck are YOU making everything about gender
Listen, my toddler’s preschool has different lines for girls and boys on the Wheels On The Bus, why the fuck are YOU making everything about gender
October 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
“why do wokerati have to make everything about gender?”
Listen, my toddler’s preschool has different lines for girls and boys on the Wheels On The Bus, why the fuck are YOU making everything about gender
Listen, my toddler’s preschool has different lines for girls and boys on the Wheels On The Bus, why the fuck are YOU making everything about gender
Reposted by MC
Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.
U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says
The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
www.usatoday.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.
Reposted by MC
all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.
October 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.
Reposted by MC
Reposted by MC
If you’re looking for a scary read this Halloween season, my roundup of the best horror lit of the year, w/ @raforall.bsky.social @keithrosson.bsky.social @rachelharrison.bsky.social @ericlarocca.bsky.social @sgj.bsky.social @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/02/h...
Poking around the scary, horrible, disgusting, excellent cauldron of new horror lit
Horror lit is in an unprecedented renaissance right now, driven by a diverse crop of new writers, robust horror sections in bookstores and the spread of horror-only book clubs. But all roads lead b…
www.chicagotribune.com
October 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
If you’re looking for a scary read this Halloween season, my roundup of the best horror lit of the year, w/ @raforall.bsky.social @keithrosson.bsky.social @rachelharrison.bsky.social @ericlarocca.bsky.social @sgj.bsky.social @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/02/h...
Reposted by MC
LAUREN BACALL: you just put your lips together and blow
HUMPHREY BOGART: *holding nintendo cartridge* i know how to get it to work lauren
HUMPHREY BOGART: *holding nintendo cartridge* i know how to get it to work lauren
February 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
LAUREN BACALL: you just put your lips together and blow
HUMPHREY BOGART: *holding nintendo cartridge* i know how to get it to work lauren
HUMPHREY BOGART: *holding nintendo cartridge* i know how to get it to work lauren
Reposted by MC
Sometimes Old Millennial parenting is using YouTube to explain to your kid why you say “Aaron Burr” a lot after someone tries to talk with their mouth full.
September 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Sometimes Old Millennial parenting is using YouTube to explain to your kid why you say “Aaron Burr” a lot after someone tries to talk with their mouth full.
Reposted by MC
Interview with the Vampire but the interviewer is Isaac Chotiner
May 2, 2024 at 2:11 AM
Interview with the Vampire but the interviewer is Isaac Chotiner
There is something very amusing about the new Mountain Goats single coming out the week we’re doing Rapture discourse. Especially since it’s called “Armies of the Lord.”
September 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
There is something very amusing about the new Mountain Goats single coming out the week we’re doing Rapture discourse. Especially since it’s called “Armies of the Lord.”
Reposted by MC
If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
September 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist
Reposted by MC
would anyone like my recommendations of gay romance books i really liked. i have a bunch up my sleeve now, they are pretty much all fairly raunchy historical fiction
September 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
would anyone like my recommendations of gay romance books i really liked. i have a bunch up my sleeve now, they are pretty much all fairly raunchy historical fiction
Reposted by MC
Me: *makes a single small purchase from a brand*
Brand: We are now betrothed
Brand: We are now betrothed
September 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Me: *makes a single small purchase from a brand*
Brand: We are now betrothed
Brand: We are now betrothed
Reposted by MC
I feel like anyone who has dealt with abusers know this: at a certain point, you need to build an impenetrable barrier between your inner world & what they say about you. The more wrapped up you get in their version of events, how they’ve twisted the narrative, etc., the more energy they suck away.
September 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I feel like anyone who has dealt with abusers know this: at a certain point, you need to build an impenetrable barrier between your inner world & what they say about you. The more wrapped up you get in their version of events, how they’ve twisted the narrative, etc., the more energy they suck away.
Sometimes seeing actual commercials during Jeopardy! makes me declare “well, that’s enough gender for one day.” This brought to you by a commercial for a soap brand called Manlandia.
September 10, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Sometimes seeing actual commercials during Jeopardy! makes me declare “well, that’s enough gender for one day.” This brought to you by a commercial for a soap brand called Manlandia.