Awww! Long-lost cousins

Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet:
(I took this photo 15 years ago and I'm grateful to say that Moxie and Ella are still here and purring right now)

I know money is tight for so many, but here goes: during Sexual Assault Awareness Month, I am raising money for Callisto, a survivor assistance resource. I almost couldn’t believe it was real when I first researched it. It *is* real & I joined their board. give.projectcallisto.org/fundraiser/7...

Children climb on a large Triceratops statue

For me it may have started with Uncle Beazley, the life-size Triceratops statue kids used to climb on outside the Natural History Museum in DC! (He still exists, just can't climb on him anymore)

Only 6% of us on team Triceratops according to the poll in the OP? Seems low to me.

Saaaaaame.

A light blue graphic featuring a black ink illustration of a perched falcon looking off in the distance, holding a poppy in its beak. Title: “Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza giving circle". Text: Six families are completely starting over—amidst their grief and pain, they have lost their homes, livelihoods, and communities, and must still seek food and shelter. Help them start over and continue to survive this life-and-death situation. Click "weekly"! https://tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle.”

Today, we highlight single mom Mai, who's increasingly struggling to secure food and diapers for her three kids, including her five-month-old baby, due to Gaza being on the brink of famine. Read that back.

Help with nutrition & medicine. Give/find her link here: chuffed.org/project/hope...

White Cat, Black Dog: Stories Stories

Y’all! The White Cat Black Dog ebook is currently 1.99 on all platforms. If you buy from bookshop.org, you can pick which indie bookstore you want your money to go to. 🖤🐈🖤

This poem is so good. L'esprit d'escalier!

Help Jamal’s family leave the war zone and rebuild their life! Hi my loves! My name is Caroline, and I created this fundraiser to help Jamal support his family as they fight to survive the genocide in Gaza, evacuate to safety, and eventually rebuild their lives f...

Surviving the genocide was only the beginning. I am now a stranger in my own city, left without a home or a clear path forward. I am dedicated to rebuilding my life from zero. Your support, no matter how small, is the foundation I need to start over. Thank you all 🫂

chuffed.org/project/1389...

three large fluffy dogs in bowties with a plate of tiny pancakes.

a shaggy black dog eating a tiny pancake.

a golden retriever eating a tiny pancake.

a giant fluffy white dog doing her best lunging shark impression to eat a tiny pancake. no fingers were harmed in the making of this pic. binky is very gentle.

it is once again time to bless your skyline with pics and video of my dogs eating tiny pancakes #PancakesTime

Thank you for sharing my poem published in Uncanny!! I wrote it after reading a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm called "The Blue Light," which is a strange one that does involve peas... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blu...

My dear former student Aphid is fundraising to leave Kansas and move to Colorado.

He is a 100% real trans person in Kansas, I personally know him and vouch for him.

You can make an immediate big difference in someone's life this way!! Please spread the word & contribute if you can!

🚨 LIFE OR LOSS — ODAI CAN’T WAIT!
He’s living in excruciating, nonstop pain that no one should endure. Doctors say every second we lose risks him never walking again. We are so close but still not there. Even $5 or a share could save his life. PLEASE ACT NOW:
tinyurl.com/odai-care 🙏💔

"well it's too late to do it perfectly what do you want me to do"

I want you to fucking try.
To ask for solar power. To build that recycling center. To go to the school board meetings and advocate for trans kids. To give hungry people food. To be loud. And annoying. To feel hopeless and try anyway.

Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia was released from an ICE detention facility in Texas after a year in custody.

The 33-year-old from the occupied West Bank was the last person connected to the Columbia University pro-Palestine protests still held by US immigration authorities.

Notebooked — FEAR NO LIT

Got a stash of gifted notebooks you're afraid to get rid of? Donate them here to be redistributed to youth & writers at community events:

www.fearnolit.com/notebooked

Good riddance to the Lee statue and hope these ingots are turned into something meaningful or useful, unlike that traitor! Cheering y'all on as a former Virginian.

Miiriya’s Mutuals Help someone struggling in the community!

Here’s a list of people who are struggling with overdue bills/rent/evictions in the Black Community. The list shows 2-3 people at a time & is automated, it lets you give aid to someone directly. Once someone reaches their goal another is automatically added. Browse & give someone even $1 if you can.

One year ago, Mahmoud Khalil was taken by ICE. He is now out.

Around the same time, Leqaa Kordia was taken and is still in ICE detention.

Her apparent crime is using America's First Amendment rights to protest for peace.

She is the last Columbia student still in detention, and Khalil wrote to her

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

tell everyone you know

www.freetaxusa.com

EXCLUSIVE: I’m the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Year Don't forget us on International Women's Day, writes Leqaa Kordia.

FREE LEQAA

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. — Assigned A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Ursula K. Le Guin — Nominate a Book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.

Statement from Rep. Ilhan Omar on Trump’s Illegal War on Iran “President Trump is unilaterally dragging this nation into an illegal and unjustified war with Iran without congressional authorization, without a clear objective, and without any imminent threat to the United States. This is a reckless abuse of power that puts both innocent civilians and American lives on the line for a conflict the American people do not want. “As someone who has survived the horrors of war, I know that bombs do not build peace or create stability. Military strikes will not make us safer; they will inflame tensions and push the region further into chaos. When we abandon diplomacy, we choose destruction.

“We know who will bear the cost of this decision: innocent civilians caught in the crossfire and our young service members sent into harm’s way. This is the devastating human toll of another regime-change war. Already, children and families are paying with their lives. There is no moral or strategic justification for this bloodshed. “The American people are exhausted by endless wars built on false promises and paid for with American and foreign lives. Congress must reassert its constitutional authority. We must vote immediately on the War Powers resolution authored by Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie. This unlawful operation must end immediately."

The Death of Mountains | Lethe Press The latest novella by Nebula finalist Jordan Kurella is a moving allegorical tale. As mankind continues to hurt the planet, leaving us with scarred lands, stories like The Death of Mountains are more ...

Nebula nominations close tomorrow!!!!

i'm going to ask again if you would consider my novella, The Death of Mountains (from @lethepress.bsky.social) which is on the Locus Recommended Reading List and is a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize.

it's pocket-sized and has a mountain that talks!

I have a short poem eligible for Nebula & Hugo award nominations - "A Full Belly" published in Uncanny in 2025. Thanks for your consideration if you're reading for either!

Hi everybody - Leqaa Kordia has been in an ICE torture facility for CLOSE TO ONE YEAR after NYPD shared her info with ICE following a protest against Columbia U’s complicity in genocide.

Her family is asking that we demand her release now. Follow freeleqaakordia on IG on ways you can support her.