i keep thinking about an iranian girl who was featured in the new york times a few months ago. she said she didn’t know how she would be able to evacuate because she couldn’t carry her cats.

Elementary school homework with the alphabet at the top. The question says: imagine you are a wizard with a magic wand. What kind of spells would you cast? What magical things would you do? A child's handwritten answer: If I was a wizard I would make life easy. because there will be no wars and no crimenals. I will disapear every bad guy in the world so no one will get hurt. There is a drawing of a blue sky, a yellow sun, a black wizard with a wand in his hand, and a crowd of people. There's a caption bubble with the wizard saying no wars, and a caption bubble over the crowd that says everybody cheers

this is my nephew's homework and i'm gonna cry

starting to think blue sky might have a lot of writers on here

This is real

Photo of a black pillow in a black chair. Two slightly angry looking cat eyes stare out from the pillow’s lower half

the vengeful pillow

by Edward Gorey

Cover from Alan Moore's BBC Maestro comics story telling course notes 1.0 It's a large photo of his face, head tilted, dark grey/white long hair, frizzled dirty white beard and dark grey/white moustache, eyes staring through your soul, set deep into a gaunt face, twin bags below both eyes. Brow unforrowed but with the shadow of a thousand furrows scorched deep in to them. There is a large quote over the photo and it says: "This is what a human face looks like after 40 years of writing. I'd like you to think about that..."

Why I love Alan Moore...

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

I gotta keep hanging on to this for my own sanity.

"We die because the people are asleep
And you will die because the people will awaken."

(Carl Sandburg, THE PEOPLE, YES)

💯 They're excellent and good horror repellent.

TODAY'S OBSCURE GRAMMATICAL CHALLENGE

Make a band subjunctive

Would That They Were Giants

The wonders of nature, the little joys in life.

Better than the other option, staring at a wall. I'm still processing this.

I guess that New Year's resolution against doomscrolling is out the window already.

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

In other news, on Day 1 of 2026, AKA the year I will turn 40, I threw out my back while *cooking*...

Auspicious start.

Obviously one was to log back into Bluesky! And to explore making my social media use less passive than it's become. (Fewer reposts and doomscrolling, more sharing of what I'm working on, writing, etc.)

Writing up that long list of resolutions. They might feel arbitrary but I've always liked the exercise of thinking about what to improve and aim for this new year.

Logo for Icarus flying academy in Farmingdale, NY

This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????

a “Space Force”, if you will

a lot of people regretting the 'this shoulda been an email' advice rn lol

Like, if there is a better depiction about the actual relationship between American Christian Nationalism and actual faith in God and Christ, I don't know it. These people would have bombed Bethlehem.

Who's gonna tell this dude that we already have a "cybrary" and it's called a library?

You know the Kelloggs founders are looking down at this scandalized that their anti-masturbation wellness corn flakes have been seized by decadent Italian nut butter merchants

I screamed at the TV when Matt Amodio (I think it was him) answered, "What is New York?"

Fox Mulder from X-Files saying “Hey, you got to stay alive if you want to stick it to the government”

“If you die, you let them off the hook.”

Needed this reminder today.

"WAR DIMS HOPES FOR PEACE" Wisconsin State Journal, December 27, 1965

I am reminded of this classic headline from the Columbia Journalism Review's collections.

My favorite way to travel.

A man holds a sign at a no kings protest. It reads: this is nothing compared to the party we'll have when you die

God damnit, THIS is the sign I wish I was carrying yesterday! #NoKings