french tumblr post anonymous: "why is bread masculine but Baguette is feminine....... is the baguette transgender?" translatingpostsingrench: "i will let the community decide: baguette, a trans icon?" yes: 94.6% no: 5.4%
I'm still eternally thinking about this
Ashley has been instrumental in keeping people alive during the Occupation and even now. There’s no one I’d trust more with my money. Let’s get this done.
Sahan’s analysis of court records and federal deportation data represents the most thorough accounting yet of the Minnesota children detained during Operation Metro Surge.
By @bzosiad.bsky.social and @cynthiatu.bsky.social
As a person who found this particular finale deeply moving and narratively satisfying, it shocked me to discover that some people didn’t like it. The characters all ended up where they needed to be at that moment. Pulling that off is *hard.* Any further “resolution“ would‘ve felt cheap and false.
Reading about Circe and Penelope and all I can think of is
Grounds for an immediate divorce. Also, I got your gift (!!!) and am creating a thank-you card at this very moment. Also, maybe I should set aside my novel and write more Frog and Toad poems?
The Boys Are Back in Town may be my favorite song.
It’s giving Greek goddess, actually
Great start. Now do the rest of ‘em.
What if I just use some of our tax return to get a tattoo that reads “Wizard Buys a Hat.” What then, @dlukenelson.bsky.social?
cc: @themountaingoats.bsky.social
Landlords let some big commercial properties sit empty for ages; the food & drink scene moved elsewhere; smaller businesses couldn’t sustain the loss of foot traffic; crime ticked up. It’s a shell of what it once was. But a Korean cafe & a queer coffee shop recently opened next to Magers & Quinn!
was once New Amsterdam.
Aaliyah is a teen activist from Minnesota whose mother and sister were both deported. This campaign to help her maintain stability has only been able to raise 25% of its goal in the last week. If you can afford to contribute, it is so needed.
Read more about her: www.mprnews.org/story/2023/0...
Anyone have airline miles (or $$) to donate to a family in MN who needs to get back to Ecuador ASAP??
Stephanie! You certainly don’t have to do this. But of course I can’t say no to my very own darling Frog and Toad friends.
It’s a need, not a want
Installing ICE at airports is a grade a level stupid idea but it also advances the larger issue, which is a private, unaccountable army funded by and ideologically loyal to a dictator that spreads militaristic oppression to all forms of public life.
I did not adopt this French bulldog mix puppy with giant bat ears today. I don’t need that kind of chaos. But MY GOD I wanted to.
Still thinking about how Cesar Chavez hurt so many women and girls. And thinking about how @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social says we don’t need heroes; we need caregivers.
“You are an abolitionist, ain’t you?” “As to that, I cannot so readily answer. If by abolitionist you mean a zealot, I am none; but if you mean a man, who, being a man, feels for all men, slaves included, and by any lawful act, opposed to nobody’s interest, and therefore, rousing nobody’s enmity, would willingly abolish suffering (supposing it, in its degree, to exist) from among mankind, irrespective of color, then am I what you say.” “Picked and prudent sentiments. You are the moderate man, the invaluable understrapper of the wicked man. You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong, but are useless for right.”
Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:
I didn’t know she had a relationship with Cesar’s brother and they had four kids together. Jesus Christ. What she had to endure all this time.
It’s 4D chess! It’s 18D chess! They’re playing chess across time and space in such a way that you’d understand if you were an expert at string theory, geopolitics, and chess!
Or they’re very bad, very stupid people. One of the two.
My “this is not stagflation“ tee shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
As long as it doesn’t affect the bottles that my medications— oh. Oh, I see. We won’t be getting our medications because they also go through the Strait.
we are beginning a novel experiment in radical Just Stop Oil praxis and I for one am fascinated and also horrified to see where it takes us
This is one of the saddest things I’ve read in a long time.
I’d been on the fence about pre-ordering your book bc money is tight, but this essay clinched it for me. Ordering now. Thank you for making the decision you did and for putting it into context so clearly.
Sure you could study Buddhism but maybe you just need to listen to this jam on repeat
What a generous offer
